Great post and story
Aerosmith has always been my favorite rock group. Likely because I'm a Boston boy and constantly saw teh band members while growing up on the South Shore. Brad and Joe would sometimes show up at Music Unlimited at the Hanover Mall, much to our delight and Barry , the store owner's too!
One day in the late '80's Joe Perry was wailing and a youngster at the store kinda sneered and said " Who does he think he is, Slash?"
Or so the story goes. I was not there for that one.
Still, I cut my teeth on their riffs and still to this day tend to play entire albums on guitar when I get in the mood. It was always a blast listening to LPs and digging through the layers of sound to find the right guitar parts. Everyone I knew had slightly different approaches to a lot of the backing chords and even some of the riffs. It didn't matter though, we all played and really dug having an international rock group in our neighborhoods.
My friend's wife watched Joe Perry's children we all saw Steven Tyler at MR Donuts, I even caught him at Long Pond in Plymouth playing Frisbee and in New Hampshire in my old dormitory , where he was helping a friend move.
I came down to get my mail once in my dorm at Umass Amherst and there was Joe Perry leaning on my mail box!
( Need a Joe Perry sneering face, but I guess Slash will do in the context! ). I asked him "What are you doing here" ' Radio" was all he replied and pointed towards the basement where a student radio station was run. A man of few words in those days of The Joe Perry Project.
I'm glad to see the pics from that stage show and thank you for sharing them. It brought forth a lot of fine memories