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Seattle rock guitarist on touring with Metallica and Aerosmith in the early ’90s
The success of their debut album soon found Peter Klett on the road with two massive bands
Angel’s Punky Meadows on why he didn’t join Kiss or Aerosmith
As the band’s final large-scale tour looms, the Superstrat pioneer looks back on how he got started, why he quit, and why he’s not planning to fall silent again
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Joe Perry on how Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. united rock and rap – and the secret role the Beastie Boys played
Walk This Way was a seminal moment that gave an iconic track a second lease of life as it crossed genres and became one of 1986's most explosive pop-cultural moments
That time Joe Perry had to rescue a broken guitar from Steven Tyler in the middle of an Aerosmith gig
The guitar almost met a gruesome end before Perry stepped in
Joe Perry on the painful memory of selling his ’Burst – and why he’ll never forget the moment it came back to him
The Aerosmith guitarist was forced to sell his most cherished guitar in the late-’70s and spent years trying to get it back, until Slash made the ultimate guitar collector sacrifice
How Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic
Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened
Steven Tyler gatecrashed Jared James Nichols’ jam and invited him to hang out with Aerosmith
Nichols ended up rubbing shoulders with Aerosmith and was even shown some early studio mixes
How the Beastie Boys saved the day on Aerosmith and Run D.M.C.’s Walk This Way
The Def Jam community spirit was alive and well in NYC's Chung King Studios
