A band disagreement led Aerosmith to release a documentary about their 2011 Japan Tour on July 23.
Steven Tyler told Billboard he originally brought Casey Patrick Tebo four years ago to film a day in the life of Tyler on tour.
“There was a lot of shit going on at one point with the band and I got really pissed off and I thought, ‘I need to start filming a day in the life of myself on tour.’ So I brought (Tebo) out . . . he did such a great job he started doing the (video) screens and he started being out videographer on tour,” he said.
Casey thought of the idea to make a full-length featured film after going over the footage from their tour of earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan. Rock for the Rising Sun shows the bands six shows including all the songs they have never played life before such as, “A Lick and a Promise” and “One Way Street.”
The film also includes behind-the-scenes footage, bonus material and if closely watched the arguing that broke up the band a couple years before.
Rolling Stone reports when Tyler fell off the stage while performing in South Dakota and claims no one in the band visited or called him because they thought he was on drugs. Tyler says it was not due to drugs but the weather and “it was a bad night.”
The band was allegedly began looking for a new sing. Tyler then hired his own management team after parting ways with Aerosmith’s.
The band was also not excited about Tyler joining American Idol.
Joe Perry said Idol is “one step above Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . . . I don’t want Aerosmith’s name involved with it. We have nothing to do with it.”
The band claims all of their drama was blown out of proportion and “a lot of things got taken out of context,” but it was the Japan tour that brought them back together.
“The band was getting along better than ever. We’d just broken up for crazy fucking reasons, and I went away to get my head straight again,” Tyler said. “It took going to Japan and playing those shows for the band to realize its own magic again. Somewhere along the line there it got the band happy again.”
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