At a recent Aerosmith show in Las Vegas, Steven Tyler was filmed pulling on a fan’s facial hair.
The fan tweeted, “He didn’t grab my phone but he did grab my beard. #AEROPHONEVID.”
Joe Perry told Variety about Aerosmith ‘Deuces Are Wild’ Las Vegas residency, “You can look at it as an opportunity to play a smaller version of your regular show in an intimate seating, or look at it as a way to present the heart and soul of the band’s essence with added elements that you wouldn’t ever have been able to do in a one-night-only setting.
We are choosing to do the latter. When we played seven nights in a row at the Budokan in Tokyo, it took the show to another level. We got so comfortable on the same stage every night, and that was without the extra production a Vegas residency will allow.”
“People are going to feel Joe Perry’s sweat,” Tyler said. “We will be right there within them,” thanks to the ramp that extends into the Park’s floor area. “I just love it. I didn’t like [that intimacy] early on, because truthfully, if you played in a small place, that meant your albums weren’t selling, right?”
But no one will mistake the Park for the clubs Aerosmith was playing from 1970 through ’73. “When people walk in, before we play, there’ll be 45 minutes of an Aerosmith experience from [Hollywood visual-effects house] Pixomondo, which does shows like ‘Game of Thrones’ — they’re gonna be throwing down with Aerosmith.”
He didn’t grab my phone but he did grab my beard. #AEROPHONEVID pic.twitter.com/cYNqdf9z3M
— Brett Fleak (@fleak325) May 28, 2019
