Why Chris Daughtry Declined Joe Perry’s Offer to Front Aerosmith

The considered Aerosmith working with any singer moreover Steven Tyler could seem unfathomable, however the Boston rockers famously thought of changing the Demon of Screamin’ throughout a extremely publicized tough patch within the late ’00s. The band reportedly thought of a bunch of high-profile singers together with Lenny Kravitz, Paul Rodgers, Chris Cornell, Sammy Hagar — and, apparently, Chris Daughtry.

The namesake Daughtry frontman and American Idol alum mentioned the head-spinning supply he acquired from guitarist Joe Perry in a current interview with The Dave Rickards Podcast. “I get this random name from Joe Perry,” he mentioned. “Joe Perry and Steven have been apparently at odds with one another. It was all within the information, this is not personal info. I believe this was proper when Steven Tyler was happening American Idol they usually weren’t touring collectively. I believe it was like a public breakup type of factor.

“Joe Perry calls me,” he continued. “I am like, ‘To begin with, I did not know Joe Perry had my quantity, that is unbelievable.’ I believed it was a joke at first, however he did not even take time to [say] like, ‘How are you doing?’ He simply went into his motive for calling me: ‘And I do not know what Steven’s doing, however we wanna work. How would you are feeling about hitting the street with us? You’ve got obtained some cool songs we might play, too.’

“And I used to be, like, ‘Uh … .’ I used to be speechless,” Daughtry mentioned. “To begin with, I do not think about myself any caliber of singer that Steven Tyler is so far as I might not be capable of sort out these songs the best way Steven Tyler tackles them. He’s irreplaceable in my thoughts. Moreover, Steven Tyler’s alive! This entire concern of pissing off one in all my heroes was simply looming, and I used to be, like, ‘There is no approach I can do that, Joe.'”

Daughtry admitted that Perry’s supply “was a terrifying idea the second the phrases left his mouth,” however known as it “a narrative that I’ll maintain close to and expensive for the remainder of my life.”

Each events in the end did simply advantageous on their very own. Daughtry’s 2006 self-titled debut album went six occasions platinum in the USA; its 2009 follow-up, Depart This City, topped the chart and bought greater than one million copies, and 2011’s Break the Spell went gold. Aerosmith, in the meantime, kissed and made up with Tyler, launched Music From One other Dimension! in 2012 and continued touring for the subsequent decade. The band will embark on their Peace Out farewell tour with Black Crowes subsequent month.