Aerosmith Declares, “Let Rock Rule!” ~ and Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators Agree!
North American Summer Tour with Special Guest Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Kicks Off July 10 In New York
Tickets on Sale Beginning April 12 Through The Live Nation Mobile App and at LiveNation.com
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Will Release Their Third Studio Album This September
Who better to declare “LET ROCK RULE” than Aerosmith, America’s Greatest Rock Band?
Aerosmith, photo by Ross Halfin
Rock’s favorite and most charismatic, prolific army ~ Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Joey Kramer, Tom Hamilton, and Brad Whitford ~ and special guest Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators will join forces for LET ROCK RULE, this summer’s definitive rock & roll experience.
Promoted exclusively by Live Nation, the LET ROCK RULE tour kicks off on Thursday, July 10 at Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, NY (see full itinerary below). Aerosmith and Slash ~ longtime friends who’ve performed together throughout the years ~ will also take over Boston, MA. (Xfinity Center), Los Angeles, CA (The Forum) and San Francisco, CA (Sleep Train Pavilion) among other cities before wrapping Friday, September 12 in Sydney, NS, Canada (Open Hearth Park).
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, photo by credit: Robert John
This summer’s hottest ticket will go on sale to the general public starting on Saturday, April 12 through the Live Nation mobile app and at livenation.com. The first round of tour dates are below with additional dates for a second leg to be announced shortly.
“Looking forward to inciting a riot and building the tribal bonfire even higher ~ it’s a win win with Slash,” said Steven Tyler.
Agrees Joe Perry, “The writing’s on the wall ~ Aerosmith and Slash. We’re gonna let rock rule this summer. Catch us if you can.”
Slash adds, “Aerosmith is one of my all time favorite bands, and one of the greatest rock ‘n roll bands of all time. It’s an honor for me to go out & tour with them and keep the rock ‘n roll banner flying high.”
The excitement all started when Joe Perry took it to the streets with Risk, the famous graffiti artist, last Thursday night (see our article here) for LET ROCK RULE and things began ramping up mysteriously when the Aerosmith logo and the tour announcement date of 4.8.14 were bombed on various buildings in downtown Los Angeles by Joe Perry and Risk. Following this, Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer stepped up the momentum and went to Downtown Austin with street artist Chunk, to continue the Let Rock Rule tagging. It was all first reported by TMZ ~ and the “bombing” has continued every night.
Slash and Joe Perry
Joe Perry says, “I have always felt that Aerosmith was Americas hometown band and what better way than to take matters into our own hands to spread the word.”
Earlier today (April 8) Steven Tyler and Joe Perry revealed ~ on the Ryan Seacrest radio show ~ that they would perform a free set to announce the LET ROCK RULE tour. Aerosmith, with a special guest appearance by Slash, played a roof-raising set for the assembled crowd at the Whisky A Go Go, the historic Los Angeles venue where they performed their first LA gig in 1973.
Aerosmith’s North American summer dates will follow the band’s overseas dates kicking off May 14 in Istanbul, Turkey and will hit 16 countries including stops in Russia, France, and the U.K. before wrapping July 2 in Kiev, Ukraine.
THE NORTH AMERICAN LET ROCK RULE TOUR DATES FOR AEROSMITH AND SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
DATE CITY VENUE
Thu 7/10 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre
Sun 7/13 Kitchener, ON, Canada McLennan Park
Wed 7/16 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
Sat 7/19 Cadott, WI Rock Fest
Tue 7/22 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
**Fri 7/25 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
**Wed 7/30 Inglewood, CA The Forum
Sat 8/2 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
Fri 8/8 Stateline, NV Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena At Harveys
Wed 8/13 Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion
Sat 8/16 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
Tue 8/19 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Fri 8/22 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Mon 8/25 The Woodlands, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Thu 8/28 Atlanta, GA Phillips Arena
Sun 8/31 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall
Wed 9/3 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
Sat 9/6 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
Tue 9/9 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Fri 9/12 Sydney, NS, Canada Open Hearth Park
“**” are tour dates going on sale Saturday, April 12
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Photo by Kevin Baldes
AEROSMITH’s overseas summer tour dates are as follows:
DATE CITY VENUE
Wed 5/14 Istanbul, Turkey ITU Stadium
Sat 5/17 Sofia, Bulgaria Lokomotiv Stadium
Wed 5/21 Vilnius, Lithuania Siemens Arena
Sat 5/24 Moscow, Russia Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena
Tue 5/27 St. Petersburg, Russia SKK Arena
Fri 5/30 Helsinki, Finland Hartwall Arena
Sun 6/1 Stockholm, Sweden Tele2 Arena
Wed 6/4 Kristiansand, Norway Odderøya Amphitheatre
Fri 6/6 Horsens, Denmark CASA Arena Horsens
Mon 6/9 Berlin, Germany O2 World
Thu 6/12 Lodz, Poland Atlas Arena
Sun 6/15 Derby, United Kingdom Donington Park
Wed 6/18 Oberhausen, Germany Konig – Pilsener Arena
Sat 6/21 Clisson, France Hellfest Grounds
Wed 6/25 Milan, Italy Fiera De Milano
Sat 6/28 Clapham, United Kingdom Clapham Common
Wed 7/2 Kiev, Ukraine National Sportkomplex
AEROSMITH:
aerosmith.com
aeroforceone.com
facebook.com/aerosmith
twitter.com/#!/Aerosmith
youtube.com/theofficialaerosmith
STEVEN TYLER:
twitter.com/IamStevenT
facebook.com/steventyler
Steven and Slash
SLASH featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators:
slashonline.com
twitter.com/#!/slash
facebook.com/Slash
youtube.com/slash
And speaking of Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators…
Slash and his bandmates Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators ~ Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass) and Frank Sidoris (guitar) ~ will return this September with their third studio album, title TBA, which will be the second album with this line-up.
The group is currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on the follow-up to 2012’s Apocalyptic Love which is being helmed by producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Alter Bridge, Falling In Reverse, Incubus). The group is recording a total of 17 songs ~ including one instrumental. “It’s very rock. It’s more up-tempo than the last record was,” states vocalist Kennedy. “Slash has got some really great riffs on this record. Killer stuff…” “The material on this album is more serious and more fun at the same time, which is a tough balance,” adds bassist Todd Kerns. “The songs are sleazier, tougher and more dangerous. We’re all very excited to unleash the monster upon you as soon as we can.”
Slash officially began recording as a solo artist with his self-titled 2010 debut album which employed a different vocalist on each track of his first album including Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie and Myles Kennedy among others. Slash explains, “We’ve worked really well together from the start. I never thought about how it’s progressed. It’s real natural and like any sort of close relationship, we established it early on and now we’re just sort of doing our thing, it’s just a really cool kind of synergy that we’ve got.” Apocalyptic Love earned Slash two first-ever No. 1 U.S. rock radio hits with “You’re A Lie” and “Standing In The Sun.” The album’s third single, “Anastasia,” cracked the Top 10 at Modern and Active Rock and Top Five at Mainstream Rock.
At Rock on the Range
Watch Slash’s “Real To Reel” webisodes happening now in the studio. The innovative online series is documenting the entire in-studio recording process from the first day of recording to the last, the multi-segment fly-on-the wall series follows Slash and The Conspirators from pre-production at NRG Studios in Los Angeles to Studio Barbarossa in Florida, as they write, play, create and record the new album from start to finish.
Following the summer run with Aerosmith (dates above), the group will return to the U.K. and Europe. Expect more shows to be announced shortly.