“We don’t know what the future holds”: Aerosmith aren’t ruling out new music later down the line following retirement from touring
Earlier this month, Aerosmith announced their immediate retirement from touring and cancelled all of their remaining farewell tour dates. But that’s not to say we might not hear new music from Steven Tyler and co in the future.
The rock heavyweights decided to call it quits after a fractured larynx Tyler suffered in 2023 made continuing touring impossible.
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Now, bassist Tom Hamilton has offered further insight into the band’s decision to call time on the road in a rare email interview provided to Charlie Kendall’s Metalshop, per Blabbermouth.
“First let me start by clearing up some information on Steven’s injury,” he begins. “We were playing the third show of our Peace Out tour last September. During the third song of the set Steven had a fall that resulted in a fracture to his larynx. Somehow he finished the show. Don’t ask me how. It’s a testament to his strength and desire to give the people what they came for.”
Hamilton adds that Tyler has been “healing well” and “working his ass off to get ready to go back out on the road”, but doing so ultimately “wasn’t possible”.
While it’s absolutely nothing concrete, he hints that this isn’t the total end of Aerosmith. “We don’t know what the future holds but it won’t include touring,” he says.
Elsewhere in his statement, Hamilton refutes the idea of Aerosmith continuing to tour with another singer.
“There’s been no talk at all about going on the road with another singer,” he writes. “I can’t imagine it.”
In their original statement announcing that they’d be calling time on touring, Aerosmith noted that Tyler’s voice is “an instrument like no other”, and that he’d spent “months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury”.
“We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side,” the band wrote. “Sadly, it is clear that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible. We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision – as a band of brothers – to retire from the touring stage.”
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