Why aerosmith broke up

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In Cleveland, Tom and Joe found themselves drawn into the backstage fray when Terry and Elyssa got into an argument that turned nastier than most. So there was this physical confrontation between them before we went on at Cleveland. It was loud. There was yelling, and we could hear it.

No one got hurt, but it was also a reflection of the conflicts going on in the band. The incident, stressed Hamilton, was just one in a series of arguments that unraveled during the tour. Elyssa would take no shit from anybody and got off on being that way. And neither would Terri. Tom was spewing. Total insanity, and no part for me to play in it. Being in Aerosmith was like walking into a dog fight and both dogs bite you. Joe was acting like it was Elyssa's right to do what she did, and he's saying as much while Terri's still in the room.

Didn't care. They were on a near-constant tour that kept them crammed in a bus, hopping from show to show, for over half a decade. Aerosmith was pretty burned out and, according to Ultimate Classic Rock , "instead of taking a vacation, we let loose on each other," said Perry.

Usually, the bandmates stuck to being passive-aggressive, but on the night of July 28, they were ready to explode, and so were their wives. It all started with a little fight in which neither Perry nor Tyler were initially involved. Perry's wife, Elyssa, and bassist Tom Hamilton's wife, Terry, got into a physical altercation that led to an argument between Perry and Tyler. According to the Aerosmith biography Walk This Way , Elyssa and Terry didn't like each other much to begin with, and both of the ladies were very much "take no crap" types of people who shouldn't have been left in the band's dressing room by themselves.

Elyssa claims to have said something sarcastic to Terry. Well, oddly, that's not the case. In fact, as Ultimate Classic Rock tells us, the Toxic Twins did in fact spend a good chunk of what might've been the most fruitful or destructive years of their career apart. In , an escalating series of on-the-road arguments culminated to a backstage fight that led to Tyler drunkenly firing Perry from the band.

While everyone involved retrospectively recognizes Perry's ensuing departure as a bad move, the fans made their feelings clear from the beginning. While the Night in the Ruts album from the same year was a decent success, the band started spiraling soon afterwards, falling out of favor with their label and audiences alike thanks to a dwindling creative spark that gave the world the underwhelming Rock in a Hard Place album.

It didn't help that the band's other guitarist, Brad Whitford, also quit in , and that replacements Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay were unable to fill his and Perry's shoes, at least in the eyes of the world. It wasn't until a surprise backstage encounter between Tyler, Perry, and Whitford in that the old wounds started healing, and the old magic was discovered again. Sometimes, life's biggest tragedies aren't what happens to us, but what we have to witness happening to others.

Perry, who was by no means an abstainer himself at the time, witnessed Thunders' drug addiction and fall from grace at a close distance as the scene legend was scouring the streets, trying to get enough money for the day's fix. You'd hear that he'd tried to clean up, and then he'd be back living on the street again. When one half of the Toxic Twins says you're that low, there's really only one way things can go. In the end, Thunders went out with a tragic mystery for the ages.

Loudwire reports that in , he was found in a "ransacked" New Orleans apartment, with his body twisted oddly out of shape and a significant yet possibly not fatal amount of drugs in his system.

He was also suffering from advanced leukemia. To this day, Perry mourns his late friend to the point that his Hollywood Vampires side project was paying homage to Thunders as recently as Aerosmith has been around since , so a hiccup or two is only to be expected at this stage.

However, when you look at the various things that have derailed the band recently, it seems the bits that aren't hiccups are slowly starting to be in the minority. Rolling Stone writes that in , the band's tour had to be cancelled due to a mysterious Steven Tyler health scare that, according to the man himself, was totally not a heart attack or a seizure. As Blabbermouth reports, Perry's health again drew concerns in , thanks to a winded performance during a concert in Las Vegas.

And according to the Tampa Bay Times , Tyler's Loving Mary Band side project had to pull out from a festival that same year due to "unforeseen circumstances".

With all these cancellations and troubles, there's been speculation that the Toxic Twins are finally starting to feel all those decades of living in the fast lane.

Then again, despite their advanced years and the fact that they announced in that they'd break up after a final farewell tour in , Joe Perry has since stated that the band is planning to hit the road again when the band turns So who knows? When civilization ends and humanity is extinct, maybe these guys will still be jamming with cockroaches and Keith Richards. The tragic death of Johnny Thunders P.