I felt like that long before I became a toker, and weed actually gave me energy in my 20s
Undiagnosed ADHD and chronic depression would be my wild guess lol.

 

I still can't unsee Steve Tyler's toes..
https://pics.wikifeet.com/Steven-Tyler-Feet-2955941.jpg

 

We've got speed, we've got weed - we've got everything you need

 

It's Morton's neuroma, they're all wonky
And pretty painful too

 

Wasnt much into the 90s (or 80s) revival years, but man from 73-79 they were something fierce in the rock world. One of the first records I can remember 'being into' was Toys In The Attic, must have been 4 or 5 around the end of the 70s when I discovered it (along with DEVO, Cheap Trick, KISS and The Who). I can still vaguely remember the day I broke my parents 8-track tape from listening to it too much.

They've had a hell of a run, mad respect to em!

 

who?

 

Everyone should give them at least a little respect for their lifetime achievements.
Like 'em or not - well over 50 years with the same line up, give or take a little glitch for a couple of years in the end of 70's and early 80's. Who can beat that?
Talk about brothers

 

hell of a ride, thank you for years of great shows and action listening boys

 

The Other Side

Backflip at the end of the video, lol

 

As a fellow...not quite so old...fart I can relate. I graduated HS in '79 so the boys from Boston
were most definitely gods in my rock pantheon. Neil was right.....Rust never sleeps.

 

Well old fart smells less bad than a new fart

 

Seen this before. the problem is not that he can't sing, but that he can't sing in the same range that he did. I'm betting he could still kick ass if he just came to terms with the fact that the super high pitched vocal days are gone. Happened just the same with chris cornel, albeit some 40 years difference. but you can clearly see chris struggling to get the high pitched vocals of soundgarden's first albums when soundgarden made their comeback after that long long hiatus. they even slapped tons of delay on the vocals to make up for it but it was painfully clear. Even during audioslave. while his lower register was absolutely killing it, at times he'd go for really high pitched vocals and at times screams and you could clearly feel that after those screams there would be a lot of time needed to recover from them. And then came live shows and that's what happened he'd burst in those screams and then the rest of the song would be slightly out of tune.
But hey, happens to everyone. check LiVE SPiRiTS SOUNDTRACK from depeche mode. Dave is never quite on the money. just some semitone, but enough to be unlistenable. anyway, i hope he doesn't call it quits and just rediscovers his new vocal range and work around his limitations. if django had called it quits because he had 3 fingers less than before we'd be losing quite a lot. Tony iommi the same. I'd imagine that will happen eventually to robert plant (if it hasn't already).
it's life man. I used to hit some interesting falsettos some 20 years ago. Now I can't. I've tried but na hu hu. you gotta know your limits and work around that.

 

I hear you man. my left wrist pains like a MF if I play guitar or piano for too long. wasn't like that 15 years ago

 

yeah strings will do that. I was doing a classic guitar shootout to see which one I'd buy and spent 2 hours playing two of them. one had slightly heavier gauge and were carbon with higher tension. 1 week after that there I was in the hospital with a f"#%$ wrist. just because of those 2 hours. I feel your pain man. for tyler to remain in the game he'd have to change his game. but hey, noone wants to see maradona playing the goalie, right? they want to see him scoring goals like in the olden days. so yeah, pretty much a one way street for him now. unless he wants to rebrand himself like johnny cash at the end (though since cash never went for a high register it was a safer range to be in)

 

I really wish the amazing Steven Tyler may have the proper rest that he never could/wanted to give to his vocal chords. I was a chorister for 11 years and one of my colleagues was a speech therapist. I showed her several singers, such as Dickinson, Haggar, Gilan, Dio, Tyler, Coverdale, Dirkschneider, Keifer, among others. She said that, technically, all of these guys were at the limit of serious damage and that they endured years on end because they were really special individuals (just note that some of these guys already had very serious vocal health problems). But she drew my attention to the danger that singers like Haggar, Tyler, Coverdale, Dirkschneider, Keifer, etc who expose themselves by using voice drive. He praised Dickinson, Gilan and Dio for their clarity and good tone, along with better vocal imposition and balanced vocal range.

These days, I worry about Sammy Hagar, who will turn 77 screaming like crazy. I hope he can finish The Best of All Worlds Tour without any injuries!

 

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I watched Kenny Rodgers here in Basel at the Balois Sessions near the end of his life not because I was a fan of his but because I knew he was a great performer. He was old, maybe 80 or so but he was incredible. He had no more power, didn't really move around too much, but what he did that impressed me so was his interpretation of his own songs for the old guy that he had become. His voice was really smooth and he didn't try to power anything out, but instead told his amazing stories set to music with a really fine backing band, slowly without rush and totally wowed the audience from the first song to the last. Tyler could I'm sure do the same as he is a fine artist. When Henri Matisse became too old to stand around and paint for hours at a time, instead he sat down and cut shapes out and pasted them together and created some of the most memorable compositions of work in his long career.

 

Lest we forget - Steven Tyler convinced a 14 year old's parents to give him guardianship and then continued his sexual relationship with her when he was 27. I'm usually for separating the art from the artist, but this one always felt so incredibly predatory that it has been difficult to not think about it.

 

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QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Says AEROSMITH's Retirement Announcement 'Brought A Tear' To His Eye
https://blabbermouth.net/news/queen...rement-announcement-brought-a-tear-to-his-eye

 

First get some facts right... If Julia would've been 14, the year should've been 1971. If Steven was 27, the year would've been 1975.
The Steven's book bio " Does the noise in my head bother you?" draws a very different picture of what went down back in the day.