On the most recent episode of The Dave Rickards Podcast, Chris Daughtry shared a story about how he was almost a member of Aerosmith, well kinda.
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During their conversation, the American Idol alum shared the story with Dave, telling him all about the phone call he received from Aerosmith’s Joe Perry. As he explained, it was during a tough time, when it appeared as though frontman Steven Tyler might leave the band.
“I get this random call from Joe Perry. Joe Perry and Steven were apparently at odds with each other. It was all in the news; this isn’t private information,” Daughtry recalled, adding that Perry called him.
“I’m, like, ‘First of all, I didn’t know Joe Perry had my number. This is incredible.’ I thought it was a joke at first, but he didn’t even take time to, like, ‘How’re you doing?’ He just went into his reason for calling me,” he continued. “'And I don’t know what Steven’s doing, but we wanna work. How would you feel about hitting the road with us? You’ve got some cool songs we could play too.’”
As Daughtry noted, while the offer left him “speechless,” he ultimately declined. “First of all, I don’t consider myself any caliber of singer that Steven Tyler is as far as I would not be able to tackle those songs the way Steven Tyler tackles him,” he said. “He is irreplaceable, in my mind. Furthermore, Steven Tyler’s alive. This whole fear of pissing off one of my heroes was just looming, and I was, like, ‘there’s no way I can do this, Joe.’”
For all that and more, listen to the entire conversation in the podcast episode HERE.
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