Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford thinks their recording days are behind them.
He tells Guitar World, “Maybe six or seven years ago…I said, ‘Let’s pick a city or studio, and we’ll book it for one day… Everybody can fly in Friday and Saturday morning; we have an open-ended session with one goal: to make a song and have one demo.’ I don’t even care if Steven [Tyler] just sings…
“I said that, and they just said, ‘Oh, we can’t do that.’ I was in shock; it’s not rocket science for us. It’s not impossible, and we’ve done it before. I don’t care if the song was a piece of [crap]; it was to be an exercise in creativity. But nobody wanted to do it. So I threw my hands up in the air, and that’s where my hands remain to this day.
“I cannot put my finger on it. I guess I’ll call it out-and-out laziness.”
So, if things don’t change, then 2012’s Music from Another Dimension is their final studio album of new material, which doesn’t sit too well with Whitford. He says it was “just a piss-poor record. It’s like…where is that certain something? I guess it got left behind somewhere.”
If Whitford had to choose his favorite album, he says it’s their fourth one, 1976’s Rocks. “I hear that, and having been a part of that and understanding the vibe and the spirit that went into that, I know it’s all in there.
“But that’s me. I don’t know what other people think. Everybody will always have a different opinion, especially the guys in the band. But for me, Rocks is the defining moment for us.”
Aerosmith are biding their time until Tyler’s fractured larynx heals, allowing them to resume their Peace Out farewell tour.
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