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Joe has Pet
Tarantulas!
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Has three solo
albums (Let the Music Do the Talking, I've got the Rock'n'Rolls Again,
Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker) with the Joe Perry Project
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The album
"Rocks" is dedicated to his father
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His father is
Portuguese and his mother is Italian
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His father was
an accountant and his mother was a P.E. teacher in school and then an
aerobics instructor!
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Used to work at
and ice cream parlor called The Anchorage where Steven used to come in
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He started
playing guitar at age 6 and never had guitar lessons.
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He wrote and
performed the theme music for the TV cartoon "Spider-Man"
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Worst airplane
experience: "A 25 hour flight from Sydney to L.A. with no Grey
Poupon mustard."
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What's always in
his refrigerator: "Hot sauce"
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Favorite item of
clothing: "Pants. Don't leave home without them."
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His specialty in
the kitchen: "Indian curry"
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His first guitar
was a ukulele that his uncle made.
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Also worked as a
janitor in a Boston synagogue.
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Is an amateur
pilot. (and likes to hang out in the cockpit on his flights)
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Joe Perry was in
the band the least amount of time. Although Brad Whitford joined the
group later than Perry, Perry was away longer with his solo project.
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If he couldn't
live in Mass., he'd would live in Maui
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Stupidest thing
he's ever done on stage is strip naked (I've been told it was a g string
and he only changed clothes on stage - not that I personally care..)
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Weirdest place
he's ever been naked is on stage in Lubbock, Texas
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Favorite venue
to play: Orpheum Theater-Boston, MA
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Favorite
Simpsons character: Homer
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Best sight in
Boston: Logan Airport
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Last thing he
does before he goes on stage? "Pee"
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When the Joe
Perry project was over, he considered taking a sideman position with
Alice Cooper
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In 1984, he sued
Leber-Krebs and won
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Has a guitar
shaped pool
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Sings Walk On
Down (off of Get a Grip), Bright Light Fright (off of Draw the Line),
and South Station Blues (off of Pandora's Box - from the Joe Perry
Project) and "Falling off" from "Nine Lives" |
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Was so out of it
that he had no idea that Columbia Records had released Greatest Hits
until a fan approached him in a supermarket and asked him to autograph a
copy.
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Does he like
reading Aerosmith reviews after a show? "Yes, particularly when
they talk about the music."
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The "last
book he read" was Timemaster by Robert Forward
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Favorite restaurant
in the world: Redbones in Somerville, MA
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What would he
have done if he hadn't been in Aerosmith: Be in the Joe Perry Project
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Favorite
designer: "I'm not really attached to any one particular designer.
I'm more into t-shirts and jeans." |
Joe Perry