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Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith

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by Joe Perry


  Winter, Edgar, 89, 90

  Winter, Johnny, 89, 90

  Witkin, Bruce, 360

  wives/girlfriends, Aerosmith

  Aerosmith members attitudes toward, 320

  at band meetings, 342

  Collins and, 261, 263, 274, 283–84

  psychiatric evaluation of, 287–88

  therapy sessions for, 261, 274

  on tours, 278–79

  at Woodstock, 279

  See also specific person

  “Women in Chains,” 214

  “Wooden Ship,” 346

  woods

  Betsy and Perry’s walk in, 30–31, 43

  and Perry on drugs, 36

  and Perry at Vermont Academy, 30–31, 43

  Perry’s love of, 3–4, 6, 8, 10, 21, 24, 365, 366, 367

  and Perry’s photography hobby, 30–31

  and Perry’s sobriety, 245

  and Sunapee vacations, 19, 36, 296

  and Tyler-Perry cultural bond, 71

  Tyler-Perry walks through, 297, 301

  in Vermont, 365, 366, 367

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 7

  Woodstock Arts and Music Festival, 168, 279–80, 337–38

  Worcester Centrum (Massachusetts): Aerosmith at, 213–14

  World Series of Rock (1979), 196

  Wright, Bill, 22

  “Write Me,” 117

  Y2K: Aerosmith show for, 303

  The Yardbirds

  Aerosmith compared with, 139

  in Blow-Up film, 34

  influence on Aerosmith of, 125

  influence on Perry of, 22, 23

  Kiss compared with, 137

  and Page-Aerosmith show, 259

  and Perry’s views about drugs-music relationship, 47

  “Train Kept a-Rollin’ ” by, 130

  as two-guitar band, 67

  and Tyler-Perry cultural bond, 71

  and Tyler-Perry musical interplay, 53

  Yellow Cow (Boston leather shop), 67, 68

  “You Give Love a Bad Name,” 243, 248

  “You Gotta Move,” 329

  “You See Me Crying,” 234–35

  “Young Lust,” 255

  “Your Momma Wants to Do Me and Your Daddy Wants to Do Me In,” 269

  Zappa, Frank, 216, 256

  ZZ Top, 166, 207, 214, 319, 347, 348, 349

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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 musicians—United States—Biography. I. Ritz, David, author. II. Title.

  ML419.P4823A3 2014

  782.42166092—dc23

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  2014030144

  ISBN 978-1-4767-1454-7

  ISBN 978-1-4767-1460-8 (ebook)

  The photo inserts and appendix photos credits appear on pages 415–416 and should be considered an extension of this copyright page.

 

 

 


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