"Walk This Way?"

A lot of music fans don't know that Aerosmith started out right here in New Hampshire-they are known as"The Bad Boys From Boston", but actually began in Sunapee, which is just west of the capitol city of Concord. Steve Tyler and Joe Perry spent their summers at Lake Sunapee, where bassist Tom Hamilton lived year-round. After they eventually drifted together, they went thru a name change or two before becoming Aerosmith. They played at a local venue called The Barn.

Trivia: a friend and I saw the band's first "big" gig, in the Spring of 1976, when they opened in Boston for a drunken Ray Davies and The Kinks. 19 years later, some other friends and I saw Tyler sit in-on drums!- with Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, which on that tour included the late John Entwistle on bass, Grand Funk's Mark Farner on guitar, and the late Billy Preston on organ.

Sad story here:

"Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, a poster boy for rock 'n' roll decadence in the 1970s, has entered a Los Angeles rehab facility after two decades as a passionate advocate of sobriety, according to an report..."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080522/people_nm/aerosmith_dc