On March 21, 2014, in tweets released by Joe Perry, Joey Kramer, and Slash, it was announced that Aerosmith would be touring North America with Slash (along with Myles Kennedy
& the Conspirators) in the summer of 2014. This followed a 17-date
European tour that Aerosmith took from May 14 to July 2. The North
American tour, known as the Let Rock Rule Tour, sent Aerosmith to 21 locations from July 10 to September 12.[220][221]
Asked in May 2014 if Aerosmith will release a sixteenth studio album anytime soon, bassist Tom Hamilton
replied, "I hope soon. But I really don't know what we are doing
because we no longer have a record contract. We are finished with
Columbia. So, there is nothing written in stone. We'll see what the fans
want."[222]
In an interview with Rolling Stone about what the future holds, Joe
Perry admitted that, "I don't even know if making new albums makes sense
anymore. Maybe we'll just release an EP every six months. I don't know
what the future looks like."[223]
On October 7, 2014, Perry released his autobiography Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith, co-written by David Ritz.[224]
Perry promoted the book with a book-signing tour that took him to 14
locations across the United States in the month of October.[225]
On February 26, 2015, Aerosmith premiered the film Aerosmith Rocks Donington in 300 movie theaters across North America; the concert video is from the band's 2014 performance at Download Festival at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. The video is set to be released on DVD/Blu-ray on September 4, 2015
On March 31, 2015, lead singer Steven Tyler stated that he was working on his first solo country album.[226][227] On April 6, it was announced that Tyler signed a record deal with Scott Borchetta's Dot Records (a division of the Big Machine Label Group).[228] On May 13, Tyler released the lead single, "Love is Your Name", from his forthcoming solo debut album. He promoted the song on the Bobby Bones Show, iHeartMedia, CBS This Morning, Entertainment Tonight, and the American Idol season 14 finale.[229]
On June 10, Aerosmith embarked on the Blue Army Tour,
which sent the band to 17 North American locations through August 7,
many of them in smaller venues in secondary markets that the band has
either never performed in or hasn't performed in many years. The band
also played a one-off show in Moscow on September 5. On the tour, the
band played several lesser-known deep cuts.[230][231]
After the tour, Tyler completed work on his solo album, We're All Somebody from Somewhere, which was released on July 15, 2016.[232]
Prior to the album's release, a second single, "Red, White & You",
was released in January 2016, followed by the third single (the title
track) in June 2016.[233][234] Meanwhile, Joe Perry has worked with Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp on the side project Hollywood Vampires, which released their eponymous debut album in September 2015 and performed at the 58th Grammy Awards on February 15, 2016.[235] Brad Whitford re-joined Derek St. Holmes for a handful of tour dates in November 2015 and a new Whitford/St. Holmes album that was made available to fans at their live performances and which is planned for wide release in 2016.[236] Tom Hamilton will be performing with Thin Lizzy on a handful of concert dates in Europe in the summer of 2016.[237]
Tyler, Perry, Whitford, and Hamilton will all be on the road performing
concerts in the summer of 2016 with their respective side projects.
Meanwhile, Joey Kramer has been actively involved in his "Rockin' &
Roastin'" coffee business, which opened a location in Newry, Maine in December 2015 and a second location in North Attleborough, Massachusetts in July 2016.[238][239]
Since December 2015, in various interviews, Whitford, Tyler, and
Perry all discussed the possibility of a farewell tour or "wind-down
tour" slated to start in 2017. Perry has suggested the tour could last
for two years and Tyler said it could potentially last "forever";
Whitford and Tyler also discussed the potential of doing one last studio
album.[240][241][242]
On July 10, 2016, Perry collapsed onstage at a concert he was performing with the Hollywood Vampires on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest, was revived, and rushed to
the hospital, but was quickly upgraded to stable condition later that
night. The Vampires continued the show without Perry that evening and
will continue their tour, but canceled an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Perry is resting and expected to make a full recovery; he is expected to return onstage soon.[243][244]
From September through October 2016 Aerosmith embarked on a 10-date
tour of Latin America preceded by a September 16 performance at the
Kaaboo Festival in San Diego, California.[245]
In November 2016, Aerosmith announced that they would be going on a
"farewell" tour in Europe in the spring of 2017, titled the Aero-Vederci
Baby! tour.[246] According to Brad Whitford, the tour could end anytime from 2017 to the next five years in 2021.[20]
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