Steven Tyler Threatens Lawsuit If Aerosmith Recruit New Singer

[Refugee 7]

Steven Tyler’s new manager has sent a letter to Aerosmith’s management threatening legal action if the band makes good on their promise to tour with a new singer, Billboard reports. In the letter, manager Skip Miller asserts that Tyler is synonymous with Aerosmith: “Can you imagine the manager of the Rolling Stones calling for the replacement of Mick Jagger?” Miller writes. “Steven is Aerosmith, along with the others. He’s the guy the public knows. He’s the singer.”

As Rolling Stone previously reported, prior to entering rehab for an addiction to prescription pain medicine, Tyler vowed to stay in Aerosmith, saying in a statement, “I wish to set the record straight and say that I have read reports of a rumored two-year hiatus and want to be clear that this is completely false and I will enthusiastically be writing, recording and performing with Aerosmith as soon as things are handled.” Miller’s letter reiterated Tyler’s sentiment, noting, “Steven Tyler does not want lawsuits. We do not want to go in that direction. The direction we want is Aerosmith, with Steven Tyler, touring in Europe, touring Latin America, releasing a new album… This is the direction it’s all intended to go,” Billboard reports.

Tyler has made a few unexpected public appearances while in rehab, first singing at a local pub’s karaoke night and then surprising Home Depot shoppers with an impromptu performance over the hardware store’s loudspeaker system. His bandmates, meanwhile, are rumored to have asked vocalists like Billy Idol, Lenny Kravitz (who declined) and Paul Rodgers to fill in for Tyler on the road while the frontman works on “Brand Tyler.”

Miller has asked for a February 9th meeting to discuss the future of Aerosmith with all five members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band and asserted that their public singer search constitutes “acts and conduct to the harm and detriment of your own client, Aerosmith, and our client who is one of its members.” RS readers picked Buckherry frontman Josh Todd as an appropriate fill-in for Tyler in a poll.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/02/01/steven-tyler-threatens-lawsuit-if-aerosmith-recruits-new-singer/

[nurktwin 2,143]

steven should just give it up, he's been a sore spot for the group for years. drugs, booze and everything else, and at his age still didn't learn shit. someday he'll learn that he had it all, when he sits in an old age home broke and thinking of the past and how his fans are gonna pay taxes to take care of his ass. i have no use for people like that.

[weird monkey 0]

How funny. I read over the weekend that he's been running around Palm Desert/Rancho Mirage (presumably he's a patient at Betty Ford) and even sang into the intercom at Home Depot.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/26/aerosmiths-steven-tyler-serenades-california-home-depot/

[martin03345 167]

Funny that they would ask Paul Rodgers as that's who Queen got years after Freddie's death

[normandi 21]

hmmm.... maybe Mark Wahlberg is available? :003:

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[Refugee 7]

^ LMAOOOOOOOOO!!

OMG! You have NO idea how funny this is to me, Normandi!! I can't tell you how many times I have seen Rock Star on HBO, it's like it's the only movie they play, lol. I had that damn song, All Die Young, stuck in my head for weeks!

[surfnburn 5]

^^LOL......Life imitates art and vise versa...

I hope the band works it out.

[emmie 2]

Ugh I reckon he's senile.

[Echosoftom 3]

^ Yeah something is not right with him.

Normandi, LMAOO! Perfect!

[LizzieB 0]

This band is soooooooo dysfunctional. It's amazing they have stayed together (however loosely) this long. I'm surprised there hasn't been a murder, or at least a stabbing.

But I still love them, lol.