Perry Joe - Rocks: my life in and out of Aerosmith

by John Bionelli

Aerosmith Studio Albums (with release date s)

Columbia Records:

Aerosmith (January 5, 1973)

Get Your Wings (March 1, 1974)

Toys in the Attic (April 8, 1975)

Rocks (May 3, 1976)

Draw the Line (December 1, 1977)

Night in the Ruts (November 1, 1979)

Rock in a Hard Place (August 1, 1982)

Geffen Records:

Done with Mirrors (October 21, 1985)

Permanent Vacation (August 18, 1987)

Pump (September 12, 1989)

Get a Grip (April 20, 1993)

Columbia Records:

Nine Lives (March 18, 1997)

Just Push Play (March 6, 2001)

Honkin on Bobo (March 30, 2004)

Music from Another Dimension! (November 6, 2012)

Aerosmith Live Albums (with release dates)

Columbia Records:

Live! Bootleg (October 1978)

Classics Live I (April 1986)

Classics Live II (June 1987)

Geffen Records:

A Little South of Sanity (October 20, 1998)

Columbia Records:

Rockin the Joint (October 25, 2005)

Aerosmith Compilation Albums/Box Sets

Columbia Records:

Greatest Hits (October 1980)

Gems (November 1988)

Pandoras Box (November 1991)

Geffen Records:

Big Ones (November 1, 1994)

Columbia Records:

Box of Fire (November 22, 1994)

Geffen Records:

Young Lust (November 20, 2001)

Columbia/Geffen:

Oh Yeah (July 2, 2002)

Columbia/Sony:

Devilss Got a New Disguise (October 17, 2006)

Geffen Records:

Tough Love Ballads (May 10, 2011)

Columbia/Legacy

The Essential Aerosmith (September 13, 2011)

Aerosmith Videography (with release dates)

Aerosmith Video Scrapbook (1987)

Permanent Vacation 3x5 (1988)

Live Texas Jam 78 (April 25, 1989)

Things That Go Pump in the Night (1989)

The Making of Pump (1990)

Big Ones You Can Look At (1994)

You Gotta Move (November 23, 2004)

Rock for the Rising Sun (July 23, 2013)

Joe Perry Solo Albums (with release dates)

Columbia Records:

The Joe Perry Project, Let the Music Do the Talking (March 1980)

The Joe Perry Project, Ive Got the Rock and Rolls Again (1981)

MCA Records:

The Joe Perry Project, Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker (September 1983)

Sony/BMG:

Joe Perry (May 3, 2005)

Roman Records:

Joe Perry, Have Guitar, Will Travel (October 6, 2009)

Notable Aerosmith Bootlegs

New York City, 1975 (Central Park) (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=197508290)

Houston, 1977 (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=197706240)

Landover, MD, 1980 (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=198001250)

Boston, 1984 (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=198412310)

Philadelphia, 1990 (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=199001210)

London, 1990 (Marquee Club) (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=199008200)

Boston, 1994 (Mama Kin) (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=199412190)

Osaka, Japan, 1999 (New Millennium) (http://aerosmithsetlists.com/setlist.php?d=199912310)

Joe Perry Bootlegs

Boston, 1979 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGYVhVkq5PE)

Michigan, 1980 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEQg0Vu7KI)

New York City, 2009 (Fillmore show) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bG29mvuwpk)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perry, Joe, 1950 author.

Rocks : my life in and out of Aerosmith / Joe Perry with David Ritz.

pages cm

1. Perry, Joe, 1950 2. Aerosmith (Musical group) 3. Rock musiciansUnited StatesBiography. I. Ritz, David, author. II. Title.

ML419.P4823A3 2014

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The photo inserts and appendix photos credits appear on pages 416 and should be considered an extension of this copyright page.

I would like to dedicate this book to Billie, my soul mate and wife, without whose help and support I never would have made it this far. And to our amazing boys whose understanding and support of this lifestyle has been a blessing. I love you all.

In loving memory of Tony and Mary Perry

I n July of 1959, a young mother is standing on the shore of Lake Sunapee in the mountainous terrain of New Hampshire. The sky is cloudless and almost blindingly blue. The day is peaceful but the woman is not. Her heart is beating like crazy. Her mouth is dry. With every passing second, she grows increasingly afraid. Her son has disappeared deep into the lake, and she fears he may be drowning. Shes afraid that this time she has let him go too far.

Early that morning he had shown her his makeshift diving rig with a homemade mask, tubes, pulleys, ropes, and cement blocks that would anchor him to the bottom of the lake and allow him to explore the fish life he finds so fascinating. Because she is a gym teacher and swimming instructor, she encourages his physical activities. She knows that, given his shy nature, he is more comfortable under rather than above water. She knows that he is an ingenious child. She likes how he wants to explore. But now this venture has taken an alarming turn. She knows that her son could stay underwater for three to four minutes. But now its minute five. With her own swimming mask in hand, she takes action. Not about to let her kid drown, shes going after him. Shes positioned to take the dive when suddenly he surfaces. Hes breathing heavily, but hes breathing. She sees exhaustion in his eyes but a smile on his face.

It works great, Mom. I can stay down long enough that the fish come out of hiding. Soon as I catch my breath Im going back down.

A lifetime later, Im puzzled by that story of Mom and me. I wonder how that nine-year-old kid, whose burning passion in life was to become a marine biologist and whose idol was Jacques Cousteau, turned into a guitarist. Im puzzled by how someone who grew up in the upper-middle-class New England suburbsborn into a family with virtually no interest in music or artwound up riding the tidal wave of rock and roll. Im also puzzled by how I survived that tidal wave and lived to tell the story.