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Just Push Play and an interview with the band is going to be broadcast on a bunch of radiostations in the US and Canada (most of which are on the net), thursday-monday. Go to www.aeroforceone.com for a listing of the stations and times.

- Sarah Emerson...February 27, 2001:
Aerosmith to Land in Times Square for Virgin Instore
In celebration of the much anticipated release of Just Push Play next Tue (3/6), Aerosmith will greet a limited number of fans at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square at an exclusive instore event.
Like always, Steven Tyler and the band will arrive rock star style (how else could they make their grand entrance?). Preparing the way, an army of robotic women will march down Broadway to a red carpet rolled out in front of the Virgin Megastore Times Square, where the rock ‘n' rollers will drive up in a limo. In the midst of all the glitz and glam the band won't forget their loyal followers, whom they will greet inside the store while autographing copies of their latest album.
In order to meet the rock icons at the event, you better act fast. Beginning at 9am this Fri (3/2), wristbands will be available at the Virgin Megastore Times Square to customers who pre-purchase Aerosmith's latest record.
With the success of the group's 1997 (appropriately titled) album, Nine Lives , fans have proven they're ready and hungry for more. The next 12-track album is the first to be produced by the band, with Tyler and Joe Perry working with Mark Hudson and Marti Frederiksen. As seen and heard on MTV, the latest hit song, “Jaded,” from the boy's upcoming album has whet many appetites for their uninhibited rock return.
Be one of the first to witness it.

the Japanese Jaded single goes on sale tomorrow (Feb. 28th)

I got this in email about a Steven mention on Howard Stern:
Steven and one of the Microsoft hot shots (Steve, I forgot his last name) both went into the bathroom at the same time. Steven was changing clothes and Steve went to piss. Anyway, this girl that was trying to get to talk to Steve the whole time followed him into the bathroom. She totally ignored Steven standing there with his pants down because she was so excited to meetSteve.
Howard quotes Steven, "I never thought I'd see the day where a hot blonde would ignore a rock star over acomputer nerd."

From the Boston Herald: (personally i love this article)
Firehouse visit fires up Tyler clan
by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Monday, February 26, 2001
Aerosmith Bad Boy Steven Tyler and his brood got the 411 on 911 calls to the Cambridge Fire Department's HQ in Harvard Square the other day during an Amazing impromptu visit fueled by Dad's firefighting fans.
``We were driving through Harvard Square and stopped at a red light,'' one Engine Company One cheese told the Track. ``And this guy in the next car rolls down his window and says, `Hey, whassup?' ''
``Someone said, `Aren't you . . .?' and he says, `Yeah, I'm the dude in the rock 'n' roll band' and before you know it, we invited them to the station,'' he said. ``And sure enough, a couple of hours later, they showed up after they got haircuts.''
Of course, because the Tallaricos like Livin' on the Edge, Steven and kids Chelsea and Taj slid down the pole - many times. Mom Teresa took a turn, too. And we're told Dad got to suit up and swing an official department-issued ax.
Well, not only did Dude Look Like A Firefighter, Steven has had to make like one in years past.
Back in 1991, you may remember, the rocker was heralded as a hero for saving the then-pregnant Teresa, toddler Chelsea and the family cat from their burning home in magnif Marshfield Hills.
Tyler, who was pumping iron in an adjacent barn when the fire broke out in the kitchen, made his way through the thick smoke to a second-floor bedroom, where he stuck an emergency ladder out the window helping his family flee to safety.
And ever since then, Tyler has thrown support behind his local fire department by donating autographed Aerosmithobilia to the department's benefit auctions.
Not exactly a Jaded guy, would you say?

aparently there has been a change in plans and Aerosmith has moved back their SNL date. sorry guys :-(

On Saturday, March 10th at 4:30pm MTV is suppose to show Aerosmith's "Making The Album."

on Tuesday, March 6th at 9 pm MuchMoreMusic (Canada) is suppose to show "The Story of... Aerosmith" witha new interview.

on Tuesday, March 6th at 5:30, VH1 is suppose to show "Just Push Play: An Aerosmith Video Collection" hosted by Aerosmith, then at 10:30 "The Making Of Pump."

HAPPY 49th BIRTHDAY BRAD WHITFORD! (2-23-01)

From AF1:
"Jaded" has moved up two more spots to #18 on the Hot 100 singles chart for Billboard issue date March 3, 2001! Aerosmith are also holding steady at the #1 slot on the Mainstream/Rock singles chart!
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Aerosmith just filmed a segment for Top of the Pops UK, the BBC's long running chart television show and CD UK, another music television show. The band performed their current single, "Jaded" to be televised in the UK, however both segments were taped in Boston. Check your local listings for schedule.
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Attention Japanese fans! Look out for the newest issue of Switch magazine as Steven Tyler and Joe Perry grace the cover!

Liv Tyler is going to be on the cover of Jane's April issue.

The new issue of Rollingstone has two pics of the boys and a cartoon of steven plus this story:
Steven Tyler points to what he calls the "delivery room" in his partner Joe Perry's Boneyard Studio. It's not much bigger than an office cubicle, crammed with an equal number of guns and guitars. "We basically sat in this room and didn't leave until we'd write something," says Tyler, 52, of the sessions that led to Aerosmith's thirteenth studio album, Just Push Play. "That was the rule. You could go down the hall to pee, and that's it. We locked ourselves down here with the idea we were gonna write the best album that's ever been written." Tyler doesn't hide his enthusiasm for the way Aerosmith's new record, slated for release March 6th, came together. After twenty-eight years of working -- and fighting -- with the highest-priced producers in the business, this time he and Perry decided to handle the production by themselves.
"When we started to talk about outside producers, my stomach started to curdle," recalls Perry, 50. "To have someone come in, and us turn over control again, it didn't feel right."
As a result, Just Push Play has a rawer, edgier sound than anything Aerosmith have released since 1989's Pump. Gone is the glossy pop of 1997's Nine Lives, co-produced by Glen Ballard, and slick power ballads such as the Diane Warren-penned "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." In their place is a full-frontal guitar assault, bucketfuls of salacious attitude and the enduring Aerosmith mixture of wry turns of phrase paired with insinuating, combustible melodies.
Perry says the band encountered all kinds of skepticism about what became the first Aerosmith project produced mostly on their own: Producers they'd worked with in the past snickered, and Perry notes that some executives at the band's label, Columbia Records, were nervous about the decision. That only fueled the band's determination. "What better fodder for creativity than to prove somebody wrong, when you think you're right?" Tyler says, laughing as he walks from the recording studio on Perry's suburban-Boston estate to the mixing room, which has just been built in an adjacent farmhouse. Tyler had arrived a few minutes earlier in a siren-red VW Beetle, chomping an unlit cigar and looking every bit the professional gym-visiting rock star -- he can still wear the form-fitting T-shirt, still seems at home in the complement of gauze scarves he has favored since the Seventies. "Talk about the mother of invention," he continues. "How about the 'Oh, yeah? I'll show you, motherfucker.'"
And they have: Aerosmith returned to the public eye with a stunning Super Bowl halftime performance of "Walk This Way" with guests 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly. Since then, the first single, "Jaded," has infiltrated rock radio, and the band will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in March.
"Everybody told us we needed experts to do the technical things for us," Perry says. "I think a lot of sound guys are like lawyers: They don't want you to know what they're doing or how easy it is...As artists, we know there's nothing better than the first vocal Steven sings and the first guitar solo I take. I've been pulling guitar solos off demos for years. This way, those inspirations were built into the tracks from the start. So sometimes Joey [drummer Kramer] is just ripping, because he's hearing Steven's voice on there." Though new songs include the inevitable strutting shuffles and piano-based ballads, Tyler, Perry, guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and Kramer have also taken some detours: "Avant Garden" exudes the serene tone of a late-Lennon psychedelic meditation, while "Just Push Play" is one of several tracks that borrow the sonic-collage techniques of modern electronica. "Light Inside" applies the exotic Eastern textures that the band used on "Taste of India," from 1997's Nine Lives, to a beseeching spiritual theme sung in knotted eight-part harmony by Tyler. Says Perry, "You just listen to the voice on that track -- without the band, it's really scary."
Columbia Records president Don Ienner says he and others at the label were not just scared but "blown away" by what they heard coming from the Boneyard: "It sounds like their third record. They're so invigorated. There's a newfound incredible passion that I think came from taking complete creative control themselves." He adds that the fact that they did it at home, at their own pace, was crucial: "They were under no time pressures, no constraints. They were home, and that helped everybody relax. They just had a look in their eyes. I think they should make a shrine out of Joe's studio. . . . This is their statement."
Once the basic tracks were moving along, Aerosmith faced another hurdle: the mix. They didn't want to interrupt the recording process every time one track was ready to mix. So Perry bought the farmhouse next door and within six months converted it into a mixing room. "That let us work on building the tracks over here," he says of the studio, "and have a mix going at the same time."
That's exactly what's happening on this cold winter day: While Tom Hamilton is laying down overdubs, Tyler and one of the band's songwriting collaborators, Mark Hudson, are listening to "Jaded," trying to figure out just how prominent a backing-vocal part should be. It's a tiny thing, the kind of part most people won't even hear. Tyler wants it mysterious but audible. Others think it should be further back in the mix. Eventually they give it the car test: A CD is burned, and the band plays it back at full volume in a rented sport utility vehicle with an ordinary off-the-rack stereo system. They come back to the mixing room, tweak again. Burn another disc. Try it all over again. Eventually, they find the balance they like.
These split hairs and sonic experiments have energized the band. "What we realized, ultimately -- it's all about the little things," Tyler says. "If you're gonna be honest as an artist, you're gonna realize that some of your worst mistakes were your best hits. There you are with Pro Tools, playing around, you've got three times as much fucking up. That equals, if you got the balls, three times as much great stuff. If you have the balls to make a mistake, then you can go somewhere.
"I think I realized this in a tub in a hotel in Hiroshima, the Four Seasons, with one candle going," Tyler adds. "I got a package from the U.S., the Latin Playboys on cassette. I'm listening to it, knowing those guys just turned on the machines and played, and there's a track on there that's got a vibe from hell. If that ain't what it's about for me anymore, then I've sold out. I love all the Number One hits and all that stuff, but there comes a place where if I can't look at Joe and say, 'Fuckin' A, I can't wait to get onstage and play this,' then it's over." He stops for a minute, drops one of his sly grins and adds, "This stuff, I can't wait to get out and play it."

Steven and Joe did not make it to the grammies. there has been no official release as to why but the rumor is that steven was sick.

Liv Tyler Engaged to Rock Singer
by Roger Friedman
Some good news for a change: Sultry actress Liv Tyler is getting hitched. Tyler, who's just finished filming the three-part Lord of the Rings, became engaged on Valentine's Day to Royston Langdon, lead singer and bass player for the group Spacehog.
Tyler, 23, is the daughter of Steve Tyler of Aerosmith and former Ford model, Playboy playmate, and rock singer Bebe Buell. In a strange twist, Tyler was born Liv Rundgren and believed until she was about 10 years old that her father was rocker Todd Rundgren, whom Buell lived with from 1972-78.
Langdon and his brother Antony are two of the founding members of Spacehog, and come from Leeds, England. Tyler and Langdon have been an item since the fall of 1998, after Tyler broke up with actor Joaquin Phoenix.
With this announcement, Tyler may be part of a trend of second-generation celebrities settling down faster than their parents. Recently Goldie Hawn's 21-year-old daughter, Kate Hudson, married Black Crowes leader Chris Robinson — even though Hawn herself has remained in an unmarried state with actor Kurt Russell for nearly 17 years. Tyler's parents were never married either.
Bebe Buell told me over the weekend that she was thrilled for Liv and that all of the families have spent time together over recent holidays, "and get along very well." On a personal note, I've known Liv Tyler since she was a teen model and fledgling movie star; she's one of the great kids, a real person, unaffected and a lot of fun. Congratulations to her and to Royston! This one sounds like a keeper.

Aerosmith's "Angel's Eye" is nominated for 'Single of the Year' at the 14th Boston Music Awards to be held April 19th at the Orpheum Theater.

From NASCAR.com
Aerosmith has reached an agreement with Brewco Motorsports to be an associate sponsor on the No. 27 car in the NAPA 300 Busch Series race Saturday. The band's soon-to-be-released "Just Push Play" album will be featured on the car at select NBS races throughout the year.

There was an interview with Aerosmith on MuchMoreMusic, a Canadian TV station. You can see part of it at their website http://www.muchmoremusic.com/sonicweblog/.

On the Hot 100 Singles Chart Jaded moves up another two spots to # 20, Adult Top 40 Radio Chart it moves up three spots to # 18, Mainstream Rock Radio Chart it holds on at # 1. On the Pop Catalog Album Chart Greatest Hits drops from to # 20.

From AF1:
Many inquires have poured into the AF1 offices asking about Britney's retro top she sported at the Super Bowl E*Trade Halftime Show. The story behind the Aerosmith t-shirt goes a little something like this:
When Britney was asked to join the Boston Bad Boys on stage for sports biggest event, she wanted to pay tribute to Aerosmith by wearing one of their concert t-shirts. Britney's management contacted some folks at the Aero offices and they sent her four or five t-shirts to choose from. Now these weren't just any Aerosmith t-shirts, but one-of-a-kind 70's concert tees. Realizing the uniqueness of these AeroCollectibles, the people at the Aerosmith offices asked that they be returned. Out of the four or five tees sent, Britney picked one she liked and her stylist tailored it to fit the pop princess. A few days after the Super Bowl, Britney kept her promise and sent back the one-of-kind-tee back to the Aerosmith offices, but instead of a whole t-shirt, they got back the made-to-fit-Britney-tee. Finding the t-shirt transformation a bit humorous, Steven claimed the t-shirt and framed it…
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Steven will be in an upcoming issue of W, a magazine featuring the latest in styles and trends in the fashion world. Look out for W on newsstands soon!
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Joe has completed a photo shoot for GQ Europe as he will be featured in an upcoming issue featuring guitar players. Joe will be in a photo shoot spread with the likes of Rolling Stone's Keith Richards, among others. Look out for GQ Europe on newsstands!
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Steven Tyler was recently spotted at an Alan Jackson concert in Boston's Worcester Centrum! Steven, a big country fan? Word around the Tyler household is that Steven's lovely wife, Teresa, is a huge country fan, hailing from Oklahoma!

In the newest issue of US magazine (Temptation Island Cover) on page 12 is a picture of Steven on stage at the SuperBowl.

Jaded premiered on MTV's Making the Video Feb 13. The video is reminicent of the AMA preformance, and features a girl who is in a sort of fairy tale repetitive life and wants to break out. Since it's release it has premiered on TRL has been put into heavey rotation on VH1 and even entered their countdown at #10.

from AF1:
According to www.grammy.com, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are slated to present an award at the 43rd annual Grammy® Awards! The awards presentation will take place on February 21, 2001 with telecast beginning at 8:00 PM ET on CBS. Schedule and appearances subject to change.

go to VH1's 20 greatest and vote for Aerosmith in the "Love Bites" and "Birthday suit" categories. If they make the final cut it'll be on VH1's new show 20 Greatest in the Spring. Keep checking back for other categories and if you have any suggestions for categories (that aero could win hehe) then you can submit them.

Amazon.com has put up the cover art for "Just Push Play" and confirms that the release date is March 6th. You can already go there to order the album.

From CDnow.com:
If you're an Aerosmith fan, Best Buy might be the place to pick up the band's new album, Just Press Play, as the retail electronic giant will be stocking a version of the album which contains an extra track not available elsewhere.
A track titled "Face" will appear on the versions of Just Press Play -- due March 6 on Columbia Records -- stocked at Best Buy. In addition to that version, the album will also be released in a standard version and a limited-edition version, according to the band's official Web site. It was unclear at press time what enhancements the limited-edition version will offer.
Here is the track listing to Just Press Play:
1. "Avant Garden"
2. "Beyond Beautiful"
3. "Drop Dead Gorgeous"
4. "Face" (Best Buy version only)
5. "Fly Away from Here"
6. "Jaded"
7. "Just Press Play"
8. "Light Inside"
9. "Luv Lies"
10. "Outta Your Head"
11. "Sunshine"
12. "Trip Hoppin'"
13. "Under My Skin"
14. "Under My Skin" (Reprise)

Jaded on the Billboard & Radio Charts:
Billboard:
Billboard Hot 100 Singles: #28 was #37
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks: #1 was #4
Radio&Record Online:
Active Rock: #8 was #13
CHR/Pop: #21 was #28
Hot Adult Contemporary: #21(debut)
Rock: #1 was #3

From Aerosmith.com:
"Jaded" CD Single
In Stores 2/20
1. Jaded (Album Version)
2. Jaded (Acoustic Mix)
3. Angel's Eye +
4 Jaded (Stripped Down Mix)
5. Under My Skin (Reprise)
Produced by Tyler, Perry, Hudson & Frederiksen
Mixed by Mike Shipley & The Boneyard Boys*
* The Boneyard Boys are Tyler, Perry, Hudson & Frederiksen
+ Produced by Tyler, Perry Frederiksen

From AF1:
After a very successful performance at the Super Bowl, Aerosmith boarded a plane and headed West! The band is in California putting the finishing touches on the video for "Jaded." MTV is on hand documenting the entire process for Making The Video and will premiere during MTV's new season of the show.
Tune in to MTV on Saturday, February 3 @ 5:30 PM to check out the Making of The Super Bowl Halftime Show! From set up, rehearsal, to breakdown - there was a lot of time, work and effort that Aerosmith, *NSync, the crew and production poured into the ten minute extravaganza! Schedule subject to change without notice.

JADED will be on MTV's Making the Video on Feb. 13 at 10:30 pm est. The video is apparently suppose to have the redhead from That 70's Show and have a set up like at the AMA's.

From the Boston Globe:
Super Bowl XXXV is now history, but Aerosmith is still coming down from Sunday's high-speed, wham-bam halftime performance that included guest shots from 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Nelly, and Mary J. Blige.
''It was a roll of the dice at best, but it worked out fine,'' Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said of the Tampa gig. ''There were 400 people pulling the stage and plugging in the wires - and to watch the stage go up and down in six minutes was amazing.''
The halftime extravaganza cost $3 million to produce, according to Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, who highlighted the short program by belting out ''Walk This Way'' with aid from the guests. Some Aerosmith fans, including late-night sports-talk host J.T. the Brick, have accused the group of selling out because they allowed Spears and 'N Sync to sing on the song, but Tyler has a message for them.
''Lighten up,'' he said. ''Sure, we know that 50 percent of our fans might think it [expletive], but maybe 50 percent of 'N Sync's fans liked seeing them rock out. It doesn't matter. It's all about a good song.''
''It was just entertainment - and a big adventure for us,'' said Perry. ''I remember the '60s, when you'd see Jethro Tull and Sly & the Family Stone on the same show. No one complained about that.''
''Aerosmith has always been about extremes anyway,'' said Tyler, adding that even in its early days, the band was doing very different song styles like ''Dream On'' versus ''Train Kept A-Rollin.'' ''And, hey, rock 'n' roll is supposed to [expletive] people off. If some people were unhappy, that's OK.''
''We wanted to have a mix,'' said Perry. ''We wanted rock and pop and a taste of everything. The hardest part was that we only had six hours to rehearse. The rehearsal went poorly, and the sound was so bad that some of 'N Sync's [microphones] weren't on. But it all came together at the end.''
''We said we wanted 5,000 people in front of the stage and to bring the stage down to just 6 feet tall, which they did,'' said Tyler. ''We thought that would create more excitement.''
Aerosmith also sang its new single, ''Jaded,'' from the forthcoming album, ''Just Push Play,'' which comes out March 20. The album will be followed by a tour that Tyler expects will hit the FleetCenter, the Tweeter Center, and the Worcester Centrum Centre. ''We'll probably play all of those places,'' he said. (No dates are yet available.)
The album release date will come a day after Aerosmith's formal induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Other inductees include Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Queen, Solomon Burke, Ritchie Valens, and the Flamingos.
''The jams should be good,'' Perry said of the event. ''We go way back with Queen, so I'm sure we'll play with them. We're really honored to be getting in.''

I'm going to try and fit most of the news i missed when my comp was down...here goes:

Superbowl:
The performance was: 1st N'sync "Bye Bye Bye", then AEROSMITH "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing", Then N'sync "It's Gotta Be Me" (With Steven singing the last line), then AEROSMITH with "Jaded" and finally "Walk This Way" with Aerosmith, Nsync, Mary J Blige, Britney Spears, and Nelly. (My own thoughts: despite what alot of Aerosmith fans thought about the show, i loved it. The boys looked great, sounded great and most importantly looked VERY happy. I could have done with out Britney Spears being on the stage, but hey, everything has necessary evils).
From USA Today:
'NSync and Aerosmith both said they wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else on Super Bowl Sunday than on the 50-yard line at Raymond James Stadium, guitars blaring, hips gyrating and pyrotechnics blazing.
First and foremost, sharing the halftime bill was a valuable learning experience. For both bands.
"It's incredible, truly incredible," said Justin Timberlake, one of 'NSync's 20-something band members. "I can't tell you how much we've learned. That comes from mileage."
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith's legendary lead singer, shot up out of his chair.
"What are you saying?" the 50-something Tyler asked. "Hey, Lance (Bass). What about those naked surfers you showed us on the Internet? Hey, these guys aren't what they look like on the outside. And that's a good thing."
So, what did Tyler's 20-something actress daughter, Liv, think of about her dear old dad playing at the Super Bowl?
"Well, if I didn't take this gig, she threatened to run the family cat through a blender," Tyler said.
MTV's TRL, the good morning show on CBS, and Access Hollywood showed the boys rehersing before the show and MTV had a small interview where steven said bringing the fans up to the stage was the bands idea.
The halftime show also had the highest ratings of the whole SuperBowl.

Diana Minor (a women's billiards player) is partly sponsored by Billie and Joe Perry. At her website you can see a pic of her and Joe.

New Aerosmith official website...i know i shouldn't be happy about anything that takes visits away from here ;-) but it sounds damn cool!:
Aerosmith Chooses Worlds.com to Provide Exclusive 3D Internet Web Site and to Redesign Official 'Aerosmith.com' Site
OLD GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2001--
AerosmithWorld Interactive Virtual World Planned to be Available on New Aerosmith CD 'Just Push Play" to be Released in March
Worlds.com (OTC/BB:WDDD) today announced that it has signed a revenue sharing agreement with Aerosmith to develop and host a 3D web site to be called AerosmithWorld, utilizing Worlds' three-dimensional (3D) virtual reality Internet technology.
Aerosmith has been one of the top selling and highest grossing musical groups for the past three decades, having surpassed 100 million album sales. The group will also appear live on the CBS Television halftime broadcast of this year's Super Bowl on Sunday, January 28. Their performance will include "Jaded," the first track from the group's forthcoming album, JUST PUSH PLAY, due out in March.
Worlds will also redesign Aerosmith's official web site, currently available at www.Aerosmith.com. The site will be customized, hosted and maintained by Worlds.com.
The Worlds.com creation, AerosmithWorld, will be available for download from Aerosmith.com and is planned to be included on the forthcoming Aerosmith CD where the band kick-starts its own engine and "just pushes play."
Aerosmith World will include 3D environments for Aerosmith fans to enter, explore, meet and greet one another in visually rich 3D environments specially designed for Aerosmith by Worlds.com.
According to Thom Kidrin, president and CEO of Worlds, "For more than 30 years, Aerosmith has been a major international force in music, consistent with and always a part of popular American culture. Our agreement will propel the group to the next level of the Internet with the same creative foresight that the group demonstrated with cutting edge videos for MTV.
"By continuing to establish the continuity among music, videos and online virtual communities," Kidrin said, "Aerosmith will clearly demonstrate its creativity across multiple media platforms. Fans will be able to step into the world of Aerosmith as if they were stepping into their videos."
The group, said, "We've always been in our own world. Now, we get to share it with everybody."

There are 2 more Tribute albums out called "Aerosmithsonian: Aerosmith Tribute" and "Janie's Got A Gun: A Tribute To Aerosmith"

On an MTV Show, 'History Of Sex', there's a little segment that talks about Janie's Got A Gun. It show about 5 clips of Steven and Joe talking about the meaning of the song and it also has other people talking about it. It also shows a good portion of the video.

AMA's, Aerosmith's TV debut of Jaded:
From Af1:
"WOW!" - seems to be the reaction of many fans after seeing Aerosmith perform their new single, "Jaded," at the 28th annual American Music Awards. Aerosmith, recipient of the International Artist Award and introduced by friend, Vincent Pastore and Laura Prepon (That 70's Show), stormed the stage in rock 'n' roll glory complete with circus acrobats, snakes and cigars! Steven, in a white suit, serenaded the acrobats before tossing his jacket to reveal a starry shirt. Serenading turned into screaming and the world heard the band's first single from Just Push Play, "Jaded." Joe crunched the guitar sporting black sunglasses, Tom (with new facial hair), Brad (with short hair and sideburns) and Joey donned themselves in black attire. In just over three minutes, Aerosmith brought the crowd to their feet and received one of the few standing ovations of the night.
Before Aerosmith hit the stage, a video montage from the Boneyard, live performances, videos and interviews depicted the band's international presence and history for the prestigious honor that has been awarded only four times (Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees, Rod Stewart).
Aerosmith vs. Dick Clark
Another innovation by Dick Clark, the Award Of Merit, is given to that performer who went the extra mile in their career. The very first winner was Bing Crosby, back on the debut AMA telecast in 1974, and past winners have included Paul McCartney and Frank Sinatra. This year is no different. The 2001 Award Of Merit will be given to Janet Jackson for her many contributions to music, dance, video and nasty boys.
Then there’s an interesting situation involving Aerosmith. The band was originally slated to receive something called the “Award Of Achievement” at this year’s AMAs for their “rare and distinguished accomplishments.” Three weeks ago, word came down that Aerosmith didn’t like the name of the award and asked Dick Clark to change it. Dick said no, so the band threatened to not do the show at all.
In addition to getting the award in question, Aerosmith was also scheduled to perform their new single, “Jaded” on the show. Reportedly, Dick Clark told anyone who would listen that Aerosmith was off the show because it’s his show and no one can tell him what to do, or what to call an award.
A visit to the official Dick Clark Production Web site reveals that Aerosmith is now getting something called the “International Artist Award,” and they will be performing their new single on the live telecast. Perhaps you can tell Dick Clark what to do … if you’re Aerosmith.

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