We know two dads who probably didn't need earplugs at the 'N Sync concert the other night: Aerosmith main men Steven Tyler and Joe Perry! The Bad Boys and their kids were right up front. Natch. Also, New England Revolution kicker cutie Brian Dunseth was there with his little sister, Whitney.

Also there have been over 180000 people to visit Rock This Way so far. There have been over 100000 people here since this day last year. Cool! :)

The cover of the CD has a takeoff on the Aero logo with a nutcracker for the A in the middle of the wings

The Aerosmith tribute will be followed by a series of release parties in the following cities and venues.
New York - August 24th @ The Continental.
Boston - August 25th @ The Middle East.
Detroit - tbd (September)
Los Angeles - tbd (September)

"Right In The Nuts"
a tribute to Aerosmith (double cd)

Hey, just when your thought your were safe from those damn tribute records, we decided to throw one at you. So you want the lowdown...well...take a look at the line-up below and imagine these underground power-houses aggressively kickin' the jams of America's finest rock n roll band. From acid to sludge to funk to punk to blues and beyond...it is all in there. The cover is rendered by the world famous Mark Dancey (Big Chief, Motorbooty Magazine).

Anyway, look for the cd out sometime this summer. You will not be disappointed...this comp rocks for the better part of two hours...and we even made sure that you would not have to sit through "Dream On".

Side 1

Fireball Ministry - Movin Out
Altamont - Make It
Scissorfight - Lick And Promise
Atomic Bitchwax - Combination
Puny Human - Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat)
The Quill - S.O.S. (Too Bad)
Five Horse Johnson - Bright Light Fright
Honky - Adam's Apple
Voltage - Draw The Line
Speedball - Rats in The Cellar
Electric Frankenstein - Sick As A Dog
Drunk Horse - Kings And Queens
The Want - Let The Music Do The Talking
Soul Clique - Last Child
Iron Boss - Train Kept A Rollin'

Vinyl available on Tee Pee Records

01. Same Old Song And Dance - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
02. Train Kept A Rollin' - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
03. Cryin' - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
04. Mama Kin - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
05. One Way Street - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
06. Back In The Saddle - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
07. Sweet Emotion - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
08. Rag Doll - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
09. Last Child - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
10. Rats In The Cellar - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch
11. Dream On - Brent Truitt/Randy Howard/Pat Bergeson/David picher/David Grier/Charlie Cushman/Bob Warren/Robby...
12. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Brent Truitt/Brad Davis/Bryan Sutton/Rob Ickes/Scott Vestal/Tim Crouch/Byron House/Dennis Crouch

July 11, 2000
Steven and Joe Sail Boston
Steven and Joe have been spending brief moments out of the studio to greet the Tall Ships 2000 Race Series that hailed from Bermuda and is making it's way up to Boston! Noted as the largest gathering of Tall Ships ever in the United States, the Tall Ships will descend into Boston Harbor led by the USS Constitution. Although Steven and Joe were on separate boats while indulging in this historic event, they did have cellular phones on hand to communicate with each other - what ever in the world could they be talking about while Tall Ships go sailing by? Getting back into the studio to work on a new track!

July 10, 2000
F1 Boston
Brad's new playground has blasted off to a good start! AF1 members have stopped in to visit F1 Boston in Braintree, MA and have nothing but rockin' things to say about Brad's indoor kart auto racing track! AF1'ers were especially impressed by the real-world parallelism of zooming 'round and 'round the track! Not only do you get to gear up with helmet, neck brace and race wear - your name also appears on a board with the different competitors on the track! Formula One also has a plethora of fun-filled activities for all ages including billiards, game room, store, restaurant and more! Stop by and visit F1 Boston and experience our Boston Bad Boy's other love!

F1 Boston
290 Wood Tree Rd
Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 848-2300

For more information, including hours of operation and local accommodations, visit F1 Boston.

"Various Artists Pickin' On Aerosmith: A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH)
At first, the premise of this album sounds like a joke. A bluegrass tribute to Aerosmith? What's next, an album of Nine Inch Nails songs by Shania Twain? But the only funny thing here is how good some of these bluesgrassed Aerosmith tunes sound. Smartly favoring the group's bluesier tunes, these bluegrass vets take such 'smith classics as "Mama Kin," "Same Old Song And Dance," "Last Child" and "Back In The Saddle" and strip them down to their roots for a sound that's more Charlie Daniels Band than Dukes Of Hazard. Obviously, not all of it works: the power ballad strains of "Cryin'" don't translate well, while the tongue-in-cheek "Rag Doll" ends up sounding like something from a cartoon jamboree. (SEMEL)"

By: Liz Smith
The Rock Scene, De-Glammed

New York- When I attended the Academy Awards several years ago, I sat in front of a very attractive longhaired man who tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I just love you and your column." I was pleased, naturally, but didn't have a clue who he was. Moments later, I saw him agian-onstage- performing in a ring of fire. It was Steven Tyler of Aerosmith! (I remember then that we had run a long column on Tyler's beautiful actress daughter, Liv Tyler-setting some erroneous gossip straight-not long before.)
Now comes a book, "Dream On-Living On The Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith," from Berkley Boulevard Press. Author Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler tells all the inside dish here and includes everybody from Andy Warhol to Al Pacino. There will be 16 pages of never-before-seen photos as well.
Foxe-Tyler begins her book by saying that when she first met Steven Tyler, "He was wearing a long, lacy outfit, and he was coughing up blood." This is an EX-WIFE's -eye view of sex, drugs, rock n' roll and how, "drugs destroyed us all."

(fyi: This solicitation is for a new VH1 show called Rock & Roll Fantasy. We are looking for fans with creative ideas for future episodes, some of whom may be chosen to fulfill their 'rock & roll fantasy.' The pilot episode featuring Gloria Reuben from "ER" as Tina Turner's backup singer can be seen this Thursday night at 7:30 pm EST.)

I spy summer fun

Our spies spied ``The Perfect Storm'' hunk George Clooney - who can't seem to tear himself away from Massachusetts - taking in the play, ``How I Fell In Love,'' in one of the five rows at the very intimate Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

George watched the action alone from Row C.

Coincidentally - not! - the play stars Traylor Howard of ``Me, Myself & Irene'' and ``Two Guys and a Girl'' fame, who George reportedly is dating.

Rhea Perlman, aka Mrs. Danny DeVito, dashed out to grab some popcorn and Cokes at the 7 p.m. showing of ``Chicken Run'' at the new General Cinema in the Fenway the other night.

Speaking of movies, Aerosmith's main man, Steven Tyler; his wife, Teresa; and a dude who looked like songwriter Desmond Child of ``Livin' La Vida Loca'' and ``Dude Looks Like A Lady'' fame took in ``The Perfect Storm'' at the Independence Mall in Kingston.

Perhaps it was a little break from a songwriting session at Steven's South Shore manse. . . .

It is really cool. It has 2 go cart tracks, one being easier than the other. You have to suit up just like a real race car driver, jump suit, helmet, neck brace, the whole nine yards. You have to buy a license to drive. They have different kinds of license's to buy. Annual ones cost $25.00 and then each time you come in you pay either 20 or 25 dollars depending on which track you go on. You get a 5 lap practice run, then you go onto a 10 lap race. They have a score board with everyones name on it, just like a real race track...

The place is really beautiful. It has a resturaunt, game room, pool hall and a full bar. But, they do give you a bracelet when you come in and if you order a drink at the bar they cut it off and you CAN NOT race. Which is a good thing. They even have function halls to rent. In the front lobby they have a full size drag race car, not sure if it was a model or the real thing. Pictures and televisions going with race car stuff. Didn't see any of our favorite guys, but the guy that was telling us the rules for the racing did tell us that Brad and Joe are in there all the time. Any one that comes to visit should go check it out, its not really far from Mount Blue....

"Pretty girl Liv Tyler has ADD (attention deficit disorder) and dyslexia, but says, 'But I was always happy to be in school'."

Is this true? I've never heard this before..

U IS FOR UNDERAGE
When you're a successful rock star, all notions of decency tend to be tossed away like a tv through a hotel window. Rock stars inevitably attarct younger fans, and many don't let something as trivial as morals get in the way of there libido.
One man guilty of just that was Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. According to Stephen Davis's official biography Walk this way, Tyler gave little more than an autograph to a girl who had barely stepped into the spot light of puberty. The year was 1975. 18 mounths of constant road work had elevated (the smiths) into the big league. Back stage at a successful Seattle show the 27 year front mans eye was caught by a 14 year old girl named Diana Hall " a skinny young mall- chick who was beautiful and had more legs than a bucket of chicken". " she was there with a bunch of her girlfriends and they were being bi sexual to get my attention, and I was aroused to no end Tyler told Davis". "Nothing turns me on like being in a room with 2 women. All men think about it but few have done it. It is the most beautiful thing, like being between mothers breasts". The pair fell in love and Tyler moved her into her Boston appartment so that they could be together- but only after Halls parents signed her over to Tyler as her guardian, A costly legal process. unfortunately, there relationship crashed to its end after three years, when Tyler drug addiction took hold and his young consort fell pregnant. they split up shortly after the abortion. "Diana lost her childhood," recounted the singer sadly," and I lost my mind."

W IS FOR WANKING
quote from Steve Tyler
Do you jerk off? Yes, i jerk off like you do man.

(June 27) Vroom, vroom! Rev up your engines AeroFans! Brad's playground, Formula One racetrack, has officially opened! Be sure to stop by if you are in or around Boston!

[`Pickin' On Aerosmith: A Bluegrass Tribute´ on Amazon]