Like father, like sons for Aerosmith axman Perry
Boston Herald, MA
March 13, 2007
It’s unusual to see a shiny black stretch limo parked outside the Middle East. The Cambridge rock club doesn’t typically attract much glitz.
It’s even more unusual to find Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry quietly taking in a show at the Mass. Ave. club. But when two of Perry’s sons are making their debut with their new band, limos and guitar gods make sense in Central Square.
About 100 people turned out Sunday to see TAB - a name derived from the first initials of brothers Tony, 20, and Adrian Perry, 25, and drummer Ben Tileston, 20 - play a late night, 45-minute set of quality sludge metal bordering on both heavy blues and punk.
Unlike dad’s relatively clean brand of dirty rock ’n’ roll, bassist/vocalist Adrian and guitarist Tony indulge in messy music mired in dark Deep Purple and Black Sabbath riffs and hip White Stripes and Stooges changes.
Standing in the corner next to stacks of their debut EP, “XMass,” Adrian explained the band’s spontaneous beginnings.
“We’ve only been playing together since December,” he said. “We got together for fun to write some rap songs, but after a while we had like 10 songs written. We recorded them in a week for this EP and plan to do another EP soon and then a full-length album.”
Neither of the Perry boys said they were pushed by their dad to become musicians; they gravitated to it on their own. But it’s clear they’ve inherited some of pop’s talent. It’s also clear the Aerosmith axman is proud of his sons -10 minutes into the show Perry and wife, Billie, snuck in and watched from behind the sound board.
Throughout the noisy fuzz metal of originals “Look Out Your Back” and “Ron Mexico” and creatively covers of Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” and Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” Perry nodded along with an occasional smile.
After the set both parents seemed impressed.
“Tony is light years ahead of where I was at his age,” Dad said.
“And Adrian’s a great guitarist too,” added Billie. “He’s just a better bassist, so it made sense for him to play bass.”
Neither Tony nor Adrian want to use their music industry connections to further their career. They both said they “want to let the music do the talking,” a sly reference to their father’s 1980 solo album.
Adrian, who spent a year working as a talent scout at Epic Records, has one more year at Georgetown University Law School while his little brother is studying the music biz at NYU. Ben, their bud from Duxbury, is enrolled at Boston University where he’s training to be a classical percussionist.
With loads more talent than your average rock star progeny, the promising TAB should do fine without parental interference. However, a tour with America’s greatest rock band couldn’t hurt.
“Hopefully they’ll get a hit record and I won’t ever have to work again,” laughed Perry, during an interview the night before the show.
March 13, 2007
It’s unusual to see a shiny black stretch limo parked outside the Middle East. The Cambridge rock club doesn’t typically attract much glitz.
It’s even more unusual to find Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry quietly taking in a show at the Mass. Ave. club. But when two of Perry’s sons are making their debut with their new band, limos and guitar gods make sense in Central Square.
About 100 people turned out Sunday to see TAB - a name derived from the first initials of brothers Tony, 20, and Adrian Perry, 25, and drummer Ben Tileston, 20 - play a late night, 45-minute set of quality sludge metal bordering on both heavy blues and punk.
Unlike dad’s relatively clean brand of dirty rock ’n’ roll, bassist/vocalist Adrian and guitarist Tony indulge in messy music mired in dark Deep Purple and Black Sabbath riffs and hip White Stripes and Stooges changes.
Standing in the corner next to stacks of their debut EP, “XMass,” Adrian explained the band’s spontaneous beginnings.
“We’ve only been playing together since December,” he said. “We got together for fun to write some rap songs, but after a while we had like 10 songs written. We recorded them in a week for this EP and plan to do another EP soon and then a full-length album.”
Neither of the Perry boys said they were pushed by their dad to become musicians; they gravitated to it on their own. But it’s clear they’ve inherited some of pop’s talent. It’s also clear the Aerosmith axman is proud of his sons -10 minutes into the show Perry and wife, Billie, snuck in and watched from behind the sound board.
Throughout the noisy fuzz metal of originals “Look Out Your Back” and “Ron Mexico” and creatively covers of Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” and Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” Perry nodded along with an occasional smile.
After the set both parents seemed impressed.
“Tony is light years ahead of where I was at his age,” Dad said.
“And Adrian’s a great guitarist too,” added Billie. “He’s just a better bassist, so it made sense for him to play bass.”
Neither Tony nor Adrian want to use their music industry connections to further their career. They both said they “want to let the music do the talking,” a sly reference to their father’s 1980 solo album.
Adrian, who spent a year working as a talent scout at Epic Records, has one more year at Georgetown University Law School while his little brother is studying the music biz at NYU. Ben, their bud from Duxbury, is enrolled at Boston University where he’s training to be a classical percussionist.
With loads more talent than your average rock star progeny, the promising TAB should do fine without parental interference. However, a tour with America’s greatest rock band couldn’t hurt.
“Hopefully they’ll get a hit record and I won’t ever have to work again,” laughed Perry, during an interview the night before the show.
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