by Joe Perry
Winter, Edgar, 89, 90
Winter, Johnny, 89, 90
Witkin, Bruce, 360
wives/girlfriends, Aerosmith
Aerosmith members attitudes toward, 320
at band meetings, 342
Collins and, 261, 263, 274, 283–84
psychiatric evaluation of, 287–88
therapy sessions for, 261, 274
on tours, 278–79
at Woodstock, 279
See also specific person
“Women in Chains,” 214
“Wooden Ship,” 346
woods
Betsy and Perry’s walk in, 30–31, 43
and Perry on drugs, 36
and Perry at Vermont Academy, 30–31, 43
Perry’s love of, 3–4, 6, 8, 10, 21, 24, 365, 366, 367
and Perry’s photography hobby, 30–31
and Perry’s sobriety, 245
and Sunapee vacations, 19, 36, 296
and Tyler-Perry cultural bond, 71
Tyler-Perry walks through, 297, 301
in Vermont, 365, 366, 367
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 7
Woodstock Arts and Music Festival, 168, 279–80, 337–38
Worcester Centrum (Massachusetts): Aerosmith at, 213–14
World Series of Rock (1979), 196
Wright, Bill, 22
“Write Me,” 117
Y2K: Aerosmith show for, 303
The Yardbirds
Aerosmith compared with, 139
in Blow-Up film, 34
influence on Aerosmith of, 125
influence on Perry of, 22, 23
Kiss compared with, 137
and Page-Aerosmith show, 259
and Perry’s views about drugs-music relationship, 47
“Train Kept a-Rollin’ ” by, 130
as two-guitar band, 67
and Tyler-Perry cultural bond, 71
and Tyler-Perry musical interplay, 53
Yellow Cow (Boston leather shop), 67, 68
“You Give Love a Bad Name,” 243, 248
“You Gotta Move,” 329
“You See Me Crying,” 234–35
“Young Lust,” 255
“Your Momma Wants to Do Me and Your Daddy Wants to Do Me In,” 269
Zappa, Frank, 216, 256
ZZ Top, 166, 207, 214, 319, 347, 348, 349
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perry, Joe, 1950– author.
Rocks : my life in and out of Aerosmith / Joe Perry with David Ritz.
pages cm
1. Perry, Joe, 1950– 2. Aerosmith (Musical group) 3. Rock musicians—United States—Biography. I. Ritz, David, author. II. Title.
ML419.P4823A3 2014
782.42166092—dc23
[B]
2014030144
ISBN 978-1-4767-1454-7
ISBN 978-1-4767-1460-8 (ebook)
The photo inserts and appendix photos credits appear on pages 415–416 and should be considered an extension of this copyright page.