Chelsea Lauren; Michael Tran
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry ripped into Kiss in a radio interview with Florida radio station the Bone, calling their former tourmates a “comic book rock band.” After host Cowhead expressed his disappointment in Kiss’ set during a coheadline show with Aerosmith “a couple years ago,” Tyler began to ridicule the flashy rockers. “Kiss is a comic book rock band and they got a couple hits but they’re more of a comic book. You see them in their spackled faces,” remarked Tyler. “It’s theater,” interjected Perry.
“We were always a band that had something to prove we always wanted to blow up whatever band it was and I remember when we went out with Kiss in ’76 or something, one of our roadies got into a knife fight with their guys. So I hated them ever since,” continued Tyler. “It is different: a Kiss lick, a Joe Perry lick – two different worlds, and sometimes depending on the time of day get offended. I hear that and I go, ‘Yeah, that’s alright. Do they really mean it? And what’s this all about?’ And that’s why I think Aerosmith has been around forever, we really do take ourselves seriously.”