HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — There go those sweet emotions.
It appears that Aerosmith and frontman Steven Tyler have parted ways after several challenging months.
"Steven quit as far as I can tell," the band's lead guitarist, Joe Perry, told the Las Vegas Sun. "I don't know any more than you do about it."
Aerosmith endured an injury-plagued summer tour that saw three different band members get hospitalized, including Tyler, who famously fell off the stage during an August concert in South Dakota.
Tyler is said to have quit after a Nov. 1 concert in Abu Dhabi.
"I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don't know for how long, indefinitely or whatever," Perry told the Sun. "Other than that, I don't know."
Perry said the singer never returns phone calls, making it impossible to get a hold of him.
"He's notorious for that," said Perry. "That's one thing I've learned to live with. I try to overlook it."
Tyler recently caused friction in the band when he revealed plans to embark on a solo career during an interview with the British music magazine Classic Rock.
"Frankly, the last few months I've been wanting not to rock the boat," Perry said. "I don't want him canceling any more gigs. We really wanted to do these last four. We just kind of didn't want to call him out or anything and get him anymore pissed off, for whatever reason. So we just let things lie."
As for whether Aerosmith would carry on with a new singer, Perry said he doesn't know what the future has in store for the band.
"I really don't know what path it's going to take at this point," he said, "but we'll probably find somebody else that will sing in those spots where we need a singer and then we'll be able to move the Aerosmith up a notch, move the vibe up a notch."
Whatever the case, Perry is less than thrilled with how everything has gone down after decades of making music together.
"Obviously he hasn't been giving 100 percent to this thing for a long time," Perry said of Tyler. "He's obviously had this planned for a long time. To disregard his brothers to the point where we have to find out about it on the Internet – it's like, 'See you later, Bud.' I still care for him as a person, or at least the person I used to know. But things change."
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