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  • My Life in and out of Aerosmith
  • Written by: Joe Perry, David Ritz
  • Narrated by: Joe Perry
  • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Rocks

Written by: Joe Perry,David Ritz
Narrated by: Joe Perry
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Publisher's Summary

In the tradition of the megabestseller Life by Keith Richards, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry opens up for the first time about the wild inside story of his life in the legendary band he cofounded in 1970 - which is still going strong today.

In Rocks, Joe Perry exposes his unrepentant, unbridled life as the lead guitarist of Aerosmith. He delves deep into his volatile, profound, and enduring relationship with singer Steve Tyler and reveals the real people behind the larger-than-life rock gods onstage. The nearly five-decade saga of Aerosmith is epic, at once a study in brotherhood and solitude that plays out on the killing fields of rock and roll.

With record-making hits and colossal album sales, Aerosmith has earned their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But theirs is ultimately a story of endurance, and it starts almost half a century ago, with young Perry, the rebel whose loving parents wanted him to assimilate but who quit school because he didn't want to cut his hair. He met Tyler in a restaurant in New Hampshire and swayed him from pop music to rock and roll, and it didn't take long for the "Toxic Twins" to skyrocket into a world of fame and utter excess.

From the megasuccessful song and music video with Run DMC, "Walk This Way", to the realization that he couldn’t pay his room service bill, Perry takes a personal look into the human stories behind Aerosmith, the people who enabled them, the ones who controlled them, and the ones who changed them. In his own words, Rocks is the whole story: "the loner’s story, the band’s story, the recovery story, the cult story, the love story, the success story, the failure story, the rebirth story, the redestruction story, the postdestructive rebirth story".

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2014 Joe Perry and David Ritz (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio

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factual & chronological

a very different book to the ones Tyler & Kramer wrote
this is a man who constantly finds himself enslaved
what a trip

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A better read than Steven Tyler's book

This book is a nice departure from Tyler's who simply covered his drug binges and not much else. Joe Perry is a more fascinating person which surprised me. But having to listen to his monotonous voice was a bit of a struggle at times. Overall story is good and covers all of Aerosmith's eras as well as the Joe Perry project. #audible1

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