'This Is Spinal Tap' hit too close to home for Aerosmith's Steven Tyler

‘This Is Spinal Tap’ hit too close to home for Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has recalled his amusement at Steven Tyler’s reaction upon first watching famed mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. “When we watched Spinal...

Nathan Jolly

13.03.2017

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has recalled his amusement at Steven Tyler’s reaction upon first watching famed mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

“When we watched Spinal Tap, my wife and I saw it, and we fell on the floor”, Perry remembers in a recent interview with Loudwire.

“It was great, every bit is brilliant as it was supposed to be, so good. Even then, we had been through it all six times. I told Steven the next day, ‘You’ve got to see this movie! It’s so fucking good. It’s hilarious.'”

Tyler was not amused. “He was squirming and squirming, and he did not laugh the whole time. It was like he took the band’s side on everything. It was like he did not – he didn’t get it. He got indignant. And it was like, I couldn’t believe it. So, my wife and I were cracking up – and we’re watching Steven.”

Perry explains how the band had their own Spinal Tap moment once, having to push their private plane onto the taxiway.

“Some of those little airports, the landing lights – they go on because the guy signals them on the radio,” he explains. “Well, the landing lights went off on the taxiway, and he ran the jet off the tarmac into the mud. So, we all had to get out of the plane and push it back onto the taxiway. You know, it’s not a huge plane, it was 2AM after a show, and we’re, like, you know half in the bag.

“So, we push this thing back onto the tarmac and then we took off. So that’s, like, pretty Spinal Tap right?”