"When asked about the most fun she's had recently, Texas-born Renée Zellweger doesn't mention boyfriend Jim Carrey, her Me, Myself and Irene costar. Instead, she recalls a close encounter with her favorite rock band: "Aerosmith sat two rows away at the Academy Awards. Everyone's like 'It's so amazing to be here,' and I'm thinking, Five years ago I had lousy seats at their concert. Now they're right here. To me, that's making it."

And on page 198 there's an article about the Teen Choice Awards, "Where the Stars Are," and a picture of Steven and Joe with Jennifer Lopez.

[...] After Union's current Scandinavian tour ends, guitarist Bruce Kulick will resume work on his solo album and book. He'll also play guitar on "Lord Of The Thighs," which will appear on his brother Bob's upcoming second Aerosmith tribute album [...]

Aerosmith singer joins Lit
AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler has guested on a new track by Orange County rockers Lit. The song 'Over My Head' is set to the first single and video from the soundtrack to new animated US movie 'Titan AE'.
Lit met Tyler through longtime Aerosmith producer Glen Ballard, who also handled 'Over My Head'. Says Lit bassist Jeremy Popoff: "Ballard showed up at the studio with Steven Tyler - who, to us, is an icon. We've always wanted to meet him. He came down, we ate dinner and chatted about rock'n'roll, drugs and everything else. It was an incredible night. Then he came in and did backing vocals on the song. You can defenitely hear his voice on the track. Especially if you know he's on there. If not, you'd probably think, 'Jeremy's singing really high'!"

Aerosmith are currently in the studio, working on their new, as-yet-untitled album. On the band www.aerosmith.com website, bassist Tom Hamilton says: "We're in full-on production mode and we are aroused, excited and otherwise gushing about what is coming out of the speakers at the moment."
Lit are currently on tour in the US with No Doubt.

Aerosmith at the Circus
It's not as if spotting Aerosmith is like spotting Thomas Pynchon - the dudes do live around these parts and they're not hermits. Still, we'd like to note that singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry were among the throng at last night's Hootie & the Blowfish show at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset. So the Aerosmith guys are fans of Hootie? Dunno, but the opening act, handpicked by the Hooties, is a band called Virgil Cain, and its members are Aerosmith roadies.

Stone Temple Pilots' Robert DeLeo Writing Songs For Ozzy and Aerosmith
(6/23/00, 10 a.m. ET) - "Personally I just got out of the studio a while back just writing some songs with Ozzy Osbourne. So I was just doing that. I've written some songs with Aerosmith and possibly with [Hole's] Courtney Love. . . It's a challenge to be able to write for someone else. It's easy to write for yourself. It's always a challenge to write for somebody else." So says Stone Temple Pilots' bassist Robert DeLeo, who shared with LAUNCH his latest spare-time activity.
DeLeo is carving out quite a niche for himself as a songwriter, believing that there may come a day when Stone Temple Pilots are finished and songwriting could become a great second career.
"I think that's what I see probably happening somewhere down the line," he said. "I hope I'm not always going to try to be in a band and be 50 years old and you know. . . the music business is really fickle."
At press time, possible release dates for DeLeo's Aerosmith and Ozzy tracks were unavailable.
-- Darren Davis and Chad Dougatz, New York

Garson said there was no set criteria in choosing artists. "I was just trying to get the best of the best, and I think I was somewhat successful,"

Garson said he was thoroughly entertained through most of the sessions, and singled out Tyler's recording as one of the standout moments. The Aerosmith singer apparently began making up his own music, and scat-sang the Pope's prayers. "'Has anyone ever sung the works of the Pope?' Steven asked me, and then he went into a two-minute song, totally made up on the spot," Garson said. "After he was finished he said, 'I'll never do that again, but do you think the Pope will like it?'"

Garson said the usually reticent Joe Perry didn't have his axe to hide behind, and instead contributed his rarely heard vocals on the prayer of his choice.

"After each session," he said, "I had each artist sign a card to the Pope, and we plan to all get together and deliver it in person."

-- Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen

On Howard Stern last night John the stutterer (not to be confused with Stuttering John) said people tell him all the time he looks like Steven. Howard and Robin laughed at him and told him he was crazy and said Steven is a good looking guy and very sexy, and John is ugly. John said Steven is ugly. They showed a clip of Steven and Teresa at the Grammy's. It was pretty funny.

This morning on Howard Stern, they were discussing the album of the Pope's prayers. They mentioned Steven and Joe doing one of them. They made a joke about Steven and Joe doing a prayer, when they used to be all about sex and drugs.

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are among the featured artists on the upcoming "World Voice 2000" record on which artists recite prayers written by Pope John Paul II.

"Steven Tyler and Joe Perry [of Aerosmith] were great. They both read a couple of prayers. At one point Steven said, `Has anyone sang any?' and he broke out into song, singing the pope's words."

"World Voice 2000" will be released in September on Columbia Records. The CD will contain about 30 readings, and it will be produced in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Some proceeds from sales of "World Voice 2000" will provide economic assistance for the continuation of the Vatican's International orphanage program.

To read the whole article go to the following URL:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/pope22.html

with Lou Reed, Mick Taylor (Ex Stones)

Visual Radio Television on TV 38
www.vrtv.cjb.net

13. Is there any one person in particular that has been the greatest influence in your life?
Steven Tyler & Jack Lambert (line backer for the Steelers)

Later, during the commercials, there was a clip about the theme of next weekend. They made a mistake. While you saw Joe Perry playing guitar they said: "You can also play along with Slash (from Guns 'n Roses)". Just a small thing but a big mistake.

File photograph by Mike Maple.
Sam Phillips, here with Steven Tyler, is recognized as a legend in the music industry, having recorded such artists as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll airs on A&E tonight

I looked closer and saw that he played slide guitar on the currently unreleased track "Tell Me Something I Didn't Know". Then in the thank you's, keyboardist Jerry Hughes thanked "...,Joe and Billy Perry,..." Then, I knew that it had to be him (even though Billie's name is misspelled). I listened to the song and you can definitely hear Joe's guitar stylings on it. It's just very basic riffs repeated over and over. There are a couple of spots that they let him loose a little bit, and at the very end, you can definitely hear Joe's "voice".

This is from Amazon.com: Yankee Grey, with their layered vocals and tight instrumental approach, can't decide if they want to be Restless Heart, Boston, or Exile, with a Charlie Daniels-like boogie and fiddle flourish. [ Buy This album ]

My opinion, first of all I was surprised that they got Joe to do that, , second of all, for a country song, it actually almost rocks. I know that's hard to say for a long time Aero fan, but Yankee Grey isn't a bad sounding band.



Does anyone know who Jerry Hughes is and what his connection with Joe is (if any)? Please E-mail me if you do!

PopMail.com, Inc. Successfully Completes All Stock Acquisition Of Fan Asylum, Inc.

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2000--

Aerosmith, Boyz II Men, Melissa Etheridge, Whitney Houston, TLC And Matchbox 20 Among Others On Current List Of Client Artists; Revenues Of Approximately $5 Million Reported By Fan Asylum In 1999

PopMail.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:POPM), a leading affinity and permission-based content and e-mail communications company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Fan Asylum, Inc. of San Francisco, California, a privately-held operator and manager of popular fan clubs and official artist Web sites. Since the mid-1980's, Fan Asylum has served dozens of successful entertainers and music groups, including Aerosmith, Boyz II Men, Melissa Etheridge, and Whitney Houston - just to name a few. The terms and conditions of the acquisition provide for PopMail.com to issue the selling shareholders of Fan Asylum 3.6 million restricted common shares, subject to earnout and adjustment, which are further subject to various lock-ups in ranges up to three years. Effective immediately, Fan Asylum will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of PopMail.com, with Tim McQuaid, founder of Fan Asylum, serving as the subsidiary's President.

Stephen King, Chief Executive Officer of PopMail.com, Inc. stated, "PopMail.com has designed a growth strategy that provides for rapid and deep market penetration of four vertical markets - entertainment, broadcast, print and sports. The acquisition of Fan Asylum effectively delivers the Company one of the largest music fan bases in the entertainment industry and a superstar roster of top musical groups and artists. Consequently, we are now firmly entrenched within the entertainment vertical and have the opportunity to significantly leverage Fan Asylum's membership and client base, PopMail's content and technological expertise and our combined industry reputations into new revenue streams for the Company."

Continuing, King added, "With approximately $5 million in reported revenue in 1999 on an unaudited basis, Fan Asylum also provides enhanced fundamental value to PopMail. Furthermore, with offices in the United States, London and Tokyo, Fan Asylum transforms PopMail.com into a global e-enterprise literally overnight and gives us the ability to promote accelerated growth of our affinity-based e-mail products and services to Internet-users all over the world."

About Fan Asylum, Inc.

Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in London, England and Tokyo, Japan, Fan Asylum operates and manages fan clubs and official artist Web sites for some of the entertainment industry's most successful musicians and groups through the use of newsletters, email broadcasts, concert hotlines, and Web page management. Fan Asylum has established itself as an industry leader by providing state-of-the-art, creative, innovative and informative fan club materials and services that reflect the personality of the artist and responds to the desires of the fans. The Company's Web site, www.fanasylum.com, boasts over 20 million hits a month, 4 million page views a month and more than 400,000 unique users per month with average user sessions exceeding 10 minutes. Its current client roster includes the legendary group Aerosmith, as well as Billy Crawford, Boyz II Men, Bree Sharp, Bush, Jordan Knight, Lenny Kravitz, Maxwell, Melissa Etheridge, MYA, Paula Cole, TLC and Whitney Houston.

About PopMail.com, Inc.

PopMail.com, inc. is a "permission marketing" and "affinity-based" e-mail marketing company, serving the needs of individual businesses in a one-on-one relationship with their customers. The Company targets four main vertical markets for its network services: broadcast, media, sports and entertainment industries. Companies in these vertical markets typically have customers with a strong affinity toward their products and services, such as a favorite sports team, radio station or upcoming broadcast or publication. Clients include all NBA teams, all WNBA teams, Stanley Cup Champion Dallas Stars, Ticketmaster, CBS Radio, ZDNet Anchor Desk, New York Post, Radio City Music Hall and Disney. Combining these e-mail services allows companies to cut through the clutter and inefficiencies of traditional marketing and begin promoting and effectively branding the topics and items of interest to their viewers, listeners, fans and customers.

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe-harbor" for forward-looking statements. Certain information included in this press release (as well as information included in oral statements or other written statements made by or to be made by the Company) contains statements that are forward-looking, such as statements relating to plans for future expansion. Such forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future; and accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statement made by or on behalf of the Company. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, completion of definitive purchase agreements, ability to obtain needed capital, ability to attract and retain key and other personnel, those relating to development activities, dependence on existing management, leverage and debt service, domestic or global economic conditions, and changes in customer preferences and attitudes. For more information, review the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Aerosmith main man Steven Tyler, and '60 Minutes II' funnyman Jimmy Tingle - just a couple of guys who have seen the light - brightened up the place the other night at the Victory Program's sold-out fund-raiser at the Sheraton Boston. Tyler not only sang 'Amazing Grace,' but after he heard that his stickman, Joey Kramer, donated $100,000 to the drug and alcohol abuse program's building campaign, the rocker whipped out his checkbook and wrote another $100,000 check. Which everyone thought was totally Amazing. (Herald photo by Michael S. Keegan)

While the other Aerosmithians were delivering $100,000 wet kisses at the Victory Program the other night, axman Joe Perry, wife Billie and the kids were rockin' at the KISS show at the Tweeter Center. But they didn't Rock 'n' Roll All Night. The Perrys left halfway through the show.

This event has April Kramer as one of the chairpersons and the funding is to support substance abuse recovery. It is being held June 13th at 6p. the website for more info is www.vpi.org.

During the advertisement for the fundraiser, Steven gave the phone number and website and added "www.vpi.org (as in gasm)!

(The pictures above were taken from www.vpi.org)

Rockers roll as gig hits sour note
by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Sunday, June 11, 2000

Departing WZLX-FM classic rocker Charles Laquidara almost pulled together the ultimate parting gift for his longtime listeners: a concert featuring Aerosmith, the J. Geils Band and Boston at the FleetCenter.

Laquidara said the star-studded show of local rock legends which he was calling ``Boston Rocks'' would have been a benefit for the Franciscan Children's Hospital, his fave charity.

``It would have been a thank-you show from the groups of Boston to the people of Boston,'' said the DJ who bids aloha to his 'ZLX morning shift this fall. ``And my way of saying thank you.''

And what, pray tell, were you going to bring to the table, Don Ho???

``I was going to emcee it,'' he said.

OK.

Anyway, Charles claims the FleetCenter cheeses agreed to host the bash on June 30 and promoter Don Law agreed to pitch in. And, more importantly, he had scored commitments from the bands.

But of course the whole shebang blew up because - would you believe? - Boston frontman Tom Scholz opted out because he was working on an album.

Excuse us, but isn't Aerosmith working on an album???? Apparently, an Aerosmith/Geils double bill wasn't good enough for Charles!

``I just can't do a show called `Boston Rocks' without (the band) Boston,'' said Laquidara. ``It was so close to being a done deal I could taste it.''

So chew on that.

'We do a version of the old Aerosmith/Run DMC track, Walk This Way, where we dress up in gold chains and stuff. That always goes down a storm.'

Others who has been slaughtered on Pickin' on-albums include Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Santana, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, ZZ Top, Tom Petty, The Beatles and The Grateful Dead

My own opinion:
This is horrible! I went to CDNOW and listened to some of the songs from the other so called "tributes". They have slaughtered songs by Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Clapton, Creedence, ZZ Top, Dylan etc etc.

These things shouldn't be legal! It doesn't sound anything like the real songs. I almost can't even hear that these clips are supposed to be covers of these classic songs... Don't buy this crap whatever you do! I'm one of those who wants to own everything Aerosmith-related but I sure wont buy this shit...

It now says the album will be released on July 11th, 2000 and they have also put up the following track listing:

1. Same Old Song And Dance
2. Train Kept A Rollin'
3. Cryin'
4. Mama Kin
5. One Way Street
6. Back In The Saddle
7. Sweet Emotion
8. Rag Doll
9. Last Child
10. Rats In The Cellar
11. Dream On
12. Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

If Aerosmith gets the most votes a special program with some songs form the Unplugged show and some songs from live shows will be aired...

[ Click here for the voting page ]
The Aerosmith program is the second option ("Pacote Aerosmith: Acústico (92) com Dream On, Love Me Two Times e Alto e Bom Som (98) com Falling in Love e Love in Elevator")

People from any place of the world can vote. The voting ends friday and Metallica is wining so please be quick!! So come on! Help Mário (who asked me to post this) and our other friends in Brazil and VOTE!

We love you,
Cynthia Jimmy and Cristina Crespo