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Rocks

My Life In and Out of Aerosmith

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Written by: Joe Perry, David Ritz
Narrated by: Joe Perry
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Joe Perry’s New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: “An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and roll’s greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in” (Slash).

Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small-town Massachusetts. He idolized Jacques Cousteau and built his own diving rig that he used to explore a local lake. He dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. But Perry’s neighbors had teenage sons, and those sons had electric guitars, and the noise he heard when they started playing would change his life.

The guitar became his passion, an object of lust, an outlet for his restlessness and his rebellious soul. That passion quickly blossomed into an obsession, and he got a band together. One night after a performance he met a brash young musician named Steven Tyler; before long, Aerosmith was born. What happened over the next forty-five years has become the stuff of legend: the knockdown, drag-out, band-splintering fights; the drugs, the booze, the rehab; the packed arenas and timeless hits; the reconciliations and the comebacks.

Rocks is an unusually searching memoir of a life that spans from the top of the world to the bottom of the barrel—several times. It is a study of endurance and brotherhood, with Perry providing remarkable candor about Tyler, as well as new insights into their powerful but troubled relationship. It is an insider’s portrait of the rock and roll family, featuring everyone from Jimmy Page to Alice Cooper, Bette Midler to Chuck Berry, John Belushi to Al Hirschfeld. It takes us behind the scenes at unbelievable moments such as Joe and Steven’s appearance in the movie of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (they act out the murders of Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees).

Full of humor, insight, and brutal honesty about life in and out of one of the biggest bands in the world, Rocks is “well-paced, well-plotted…a mini-masterpiece” (The Boston Globe). Entertainment & Celebrities Music Celebrity Guitar Musician Biography

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a very different book to the ones Tyler & Kramer wrote
this is a man who constantly finds himself enslaved
what a trip

factual & chronological

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Overall the book itself was fantastic, but Joe Perry doing the narration was like nails on a chalkboard. His voice is so monotone that it almost made the stories boring to hear. Really wish he would have hired someone more upbeat and fun to do the narrating!!

Great story...boring narrating

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This book is a nice departure from Tyler's who simply covered his drug binges and not much else. Joe Perry is a more fascinating person which surprised me. But having to listen to his monotonous voice was a bit of a struggle at times. Overall story is good and covers all of Aerosmith's eras as well as the Joe Perry project. #audible1

A better read than Steven Tyler's book

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