Aerosmith gitarist Joe Perry sprak met Guitarworld.com over zijn lang verwachte uitgave: "Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith" dewelke op 7 oktober het daglicht zal zien. David Ritz hielp mee aan de ontwikkeling van het boek.
"It takes more than talent and being in the right place at the right time to keep a band together," zei hij. "It's the reason I wanted to write the book. Not just to talk about how I ended up doing what I do, but also to give people insight into what some of the pressures can be and what has to be done to keep things moving. In spite of the personality crises, you have to learn how to deal with it and keep going. Then you can look back and go, 'You know, we were literally just kids when we started trying to do what 10,000 other kids were trying to do. Now here we are 40 years later and — where's everybody else? [laughs]"
Joe voegde ook nog toe: "AEROSMITH fans will get a kick out of [my memoir], because there's a lot of stuff in the book that may come as a surprise. But what I'm really hoping is that people discover that it deals a lot about human nature and how people get along. You don't necessarily have to be an AEROSMITH fan or a rock and roller to relate to or appreciate some of the situations we found ourselves in — and how we worked them out."
