Endorsement Guarantees McCain Landslide

ABOVE: Joe Perry, Lifelong Repub


Aerosmith’s guitarist Joe Perry unhooked his respirator long enough to croak out an endorsement of John McCain during an interview with a Boston Herald reporter.

A lifelong Republican, [Perry] said he was inspired to come forward because of ringing McCain endorsements from Rudy Giuliani and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“I’ve been a hardcore Republican my whole life,” he told the Herald. “My mother and father drilled into me from the very start that if you work hard and be positive, you’ll get what you’re working for. I guess I’m living proof of that.”

And what does being a “hardcore Republican my whole life” mean exactly? This:

The last time Joe Perry made a solo record, he was drunk, broke, and hooked on smack. Both his first marriage and his band, Aerosmith, had just broken up–mostly because, well, see above–and Perry’s life had become a string of drug-induced seizures.

Well, at least he wasn’t trolling public toilets for gay sex or having diaper sex with a prostitute, I suppose.

 

Comments: 89

 
 
 

Psst, that’s Steven Tyler’s photo!

 
 

Steven Tyler is above.

Joe Perry.

Steve Perry, lead singer of Journey

 
 

Editorial Note: That’s Steven Tyler pictured.

 
 

Above is Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith and not Joe Perry, guitarist for Aerosmith.

 
 

I wonder if McCain will switch to “Love In An Elevator” as his campaign song?

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

And you shoulda been gone
So long ago, so far away.

Wait, Aerosmith’s guitarist is a plumber?!

 
 

JOE Perry, Clif! I know it’s early but come ON!

 
 

That’s better…

 
 

I wuz the last to see the Steve Tyler photo. You old squares don’t know your 40-year old rock bands!!!

 
 

Yep, that was Tyler. Fixed.

 
 

“My friends, today I met a man named Steve the Rock Guitarist. Just like you, he works really hard, two days a week, from 2pm until 6pm, for a paltry million dollars or so a year. And he approves of my tax plan.”

 
 

True story: I went to see Blue Man Group in Boston with the javafascist family and Joe Perry (not pictured above) was in attendance. He was working hard by stumbling out of a limo and having drinks at the theatre bar.

Incidentally, I recommend fascism over republicanism since we had better seats (courtesy of the Dr. Mrs. Javafascist who has connections (i.e. works for) with that most elite and liberal of Boston Universities.) I gloat at my ability to keep the white male down (myself excluded.)

 
 

..now pictured above

 
 

Why am I not surprised that you “compassionate” liberals are going after him personally?

 
 

What the….? That is TOTALLY Joe Perry, it is NOT Steve Tyler, folks.

 
 

“I actually know how to play five chords.”

 
 

Why am I not surprised that you “compassionate” liberals are going after him personally?

We’re liberal fascists. That’s how we roll.

 
 

They all look more or less the same anyway. Death-valley skeletons in mullet wigs and shades, with twice as much prosthetic skin as they need draped randomly over them. I mean, they’re basically what the living dead would genuinely look like.

And I don’t just mean Aerosmith, I mean Republicans.

 
 

Shut up, Imbecilebeard.

 
 

Yes, but I can’t make up my mind until I hear what the boys from Foghat have to say!

 
 

Yet another reason why Aerosmith sucks.

For my money, I’ve always been much more of a James Montgomery fan when it comes to Boston bands.

I think Aerosmith’s over-rated, and I never liked hair bands anyway. J. Geils is OK, but I think they’ve got some rock-ribbed repubs, too.

Of course, there’s always Jonathan Richman.

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

Speaking of media bias, the caption at Boston Herald on their picture of not-Joe-the-Tiler is:

ROCK ON: Presidential candidate John McCain received a ringing endorsement yesterday from Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry.

RINGING ENDORSEMENT!!!! How enthusiastic is Joe Perry, lifelong Republican, about McCain? From the article:

“We pretty much stay out of it, but seeing so many people come out for Obama, I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side,” Perry said from his Duxbury home.

Wheeee!!! That JiSM3 knows how to fire up the base.

Disclosure: I’m not an Aerosmith fan, and I’m no expert on music or musicians, but I think Joe Perry is a decent guitarist.

 
 

Referring to this specimen of white trash as a ‘musician’ is not dissimilar to referring to Sarah Palin as having ‘executive experience’.

 
 

Well, at least he wasn’t trolling public toilets for gay sex or having diaper sex with a prostitute, I suppose.

…that we know of.

…Perry said from his Duxbury home.

Wonder how many homes Mr. Perry has? Wonder if he knows?

 
 

…Perry said from his Duxbury home.

And what a big beautiful home it is, too.

A co-worker lives in Marshfield, near Duxbury. Steve Tyler and Aerosmith’s drummer live in his ‘neighborhood,’ to the extent that large multi-acre forested lots overlooking the ocean can be considered a neighborhood.

Meanwhile, real musicians are living out of their cars, or depending on the kindness of friends.

Oh, well, folks like Perry usually end up choking on their own vomit, so there’s that, anyway.

 
 

I’m not an Aerosmith fan, and I’m no expert on music or musicians, but I think Joe Perry is a decent guitarist.

He’s OK, though his best work is well behind him now.

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

He’s OK, though his best work is well behind him now.

Well what do you expect of a 58 year old rock guitarist. Also, I’m a bit uncomfortable about poking at his druggie past. He’s been clean for two decades now. Sure it’s a fairly standard GOP tactic, but that only heightens the ick-factor.

 
 

Oh, well, folks like Perry usually end up choking on their own vomit, so there’s that, anyway.

Or someone else’s. You can’t exactly dust for vomit.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

I’m not an Aerosmith fan, and I’m no expert on music or musicians, but I think Joe Perry is a decent guitarist.

Agreed. But I think the whole reason Steven Tyler exists is so that Liv Tyler could.

 
 

It’s never bothered me that great musicians have political beliefs opposite mine.

But when not-so-great musicians like Aerosmith turn out to have political beliefs opposite mine, it’s kind of vindicating.

“Well, yeah, Joe Perry’s a republican. What do you expect, right?”

 
 

I’ve been an Aerosmith fan since “Toys in the Attic” and frankly Joe, I don’t care if you like McCain or not. I don’t ask my favorite musicians if they’re Repubs, or troofers, or Paultards, or who they supported. You don’t ask me my opinion of how many bottles of whiskey you can chug and still stay conscious to do a gram of coke, and I won’t ask you your opinion of politics, OK? Now shut up and play “Sweet Emotion.”

 
 

On a side note, I find it amusing that he’s a repub because his parents were. So let me get this straight.

Parent: Don’t do so many drugs that you age prematurely and you spend all your money and end up broke.
Joe: Phht, what do you geezers know!

Parent: Vote Republican!
Joe: OK, Mom and Dad know best!

Is that pretty much how it went?? Sheesh.

 
 

I believe Messrs. Perry and Tyler have already written a song about the prospects of a McCain presidency.

It was called “Same Old Song and Dance”.

 
 

An endorsement from the guitarist from Amreicas Shitty Version of The Rolling Stones Aerosmith. Whooo! That’s the most I’ve heard from him since he rocked out with that other virtuouso, Sanjaya.

 
 

This makes it much less fun to tell the story about how my wife’s father was in the band that would later become Aerosmith, but quit to go to college. Doh!

 
 

Just more proof the left is a bunch of deadbrained idiots. Go get a job and you would quick become republicans.

 
 

Go get a job and you would quick become republicans.

But you’d forget about adverbs.

Piefilter!

 
 

Aw, come on Suck; the last thing the Repubs need is MORE deadbrained idiots in the party.

 
 

Go get a job and you would quick become republicans.

So Republicanism is a disease you catch from your co-workers?

 
 

“Have you ever snorted a fifth of Chivas Regal through a guitar neck.?”

 
 

“Get a job”? jeebus, the new troll is lamer than Gary!

 
 

I think maybe they’re using Sadly No as a blind audition for trolls. Kind of like a mystery shopper, or something.

 
 

Have you ever snorted a fifth of Chivas Regal through a guitar neck.?

Whoa Nellie, no!

 
 

You don’t ask me my opinion of how many bottles of whiskey you can chug and still stay conscious to do a gram of coke, and I won’t ask you your opinion of politics, OK? Now shut up and play “Sweet Emotion.”

No, sorry; this line doesn’t work on left-leaning celebs, so I won’t let it slide on right-leaning ones, either.

I like Aerosmith OK, liked ’em a lot more when I was a pre-teen and GET A GRIP came out. Now my time with them has passed.

Yes, he was a druggie, but he HAS been clean for 20 years, which is a pretty amazing achievement by anyone’s standards.

It’s perfectly fine to disagree with someone without immediately pulling out the knives. It’s not like he’s out there stumping for McCain.

 
 

joe perry. he’s talkin’ bout things that nobody cares. wearin’ out things that nobody wears.

 
 

I thought ReThug SOP was “shut up and sing”? Naturally, they’ve put out the clarion call to tell Perry to STFU because Hollywood types and druggie rock stars should be heard (playing music) and not heard (giving their worthless political opinions), right?

FWIW, I was watching End of the Century, the Ramones biopic. I’ve been a Ramones fan since ’77 or so, and it’s always been amazing to me how Johnny and Joey could keep going so long being a Winger and a Commie. Funny thing is that Johnny always seems adamant about his right wing views, but never elaborates on them.

 
 

He’s been clean 20 years and he looks like THAT?!? I’ve heard of idol worship, but I’ve never known anybody that wanted to outdo Keith Richards in rotted-corpse chic. Congrats, Joe.

 
 

Well, at least if he’s endorsing Grammpy and the Trailer Queen, he’s not recording mawkish prom rock that makes Van Hagar sound like The Minutemen. Or ripping off The Yardbirds’ “Kept On Strolling” and claiming it as his own…

 
 

It was called “Same Old Song and Dance”.

golf clap. Well played, Sir.
Though I might say Toys in the Attic and Dream On would work fairly well, too.

The last of their best work was fifteen years ago. The best of their best work was fifteen years before that. Why he might be politically relevant is a mystery to me. I’m sure he’ll turn MA red all by himself.

To be fair, I suppose being a Republican in Boston is sort of rebel-y.

And wow, it takes real work to make Tyler look good. That dude looks like he’s been chasing one too many parked cars. Christ, I think he might make Imus look good.

 
 

Ain’t that there Perry feller one o’ them elitist entertainer types? I thought they was just supposed to shut up ’bout politics?

 
 

No, sorry; this line doesn’t work on left-leaning celebs, so I won’t let it slide on right-leaning ones, either.

And why should I care about their opinions on politics any more than I do the average Joe on the street who doesn’t get covered by the press? Being able to sing or act or paint or play a musical instrument doesn’t give you any greater insight into the Iraq war or the pros and cons of a flat tax. I don’t hire a plumber to come to my house to explain how to fix Social Security. I hire him to do something I can’t; stop my toilet from running all night. When I buy an album by Aerosmith I’m not buying because I want them to explain how to deal with Iran but because I want to hear a live version of “Chip Away at the Stone.”

And sorry, but their rampant drug and alcohol use is relevant as it speaks to their judgment. Anyone who thought that blowing a fortune on coke and booze sounded like a great idea gets a big fat * next to their opinion whether they like McCain, Obama or whoever. He’s sober now? Great, good for him. That shows character, but it’s not proof of intelligence or knowledge of current events.

 
 

Certainly when the world seeks out political guidance it turns to musicians, and in particular the saint John Lennon, whose masterpiece “Imagine” sets out a credible social order based on love, peace, freedom and equality.

 
Wingnut Paint Huffer
 

Joe Perry’s okay as a guitarist , but he’s no Ted Nugent.

 
 

“Go get a job and you would quick become republicans.”

We’re in your base quick becoming republicans?

All your republicans are quick becoming ours?

In Soviet Russia, republicans quick become you?

 
 

See, kids – THIS is the REAL reason you shouldn’t do hard drugs & drink too much: eventually you wind up doing REALLY stupid shit like coming out with an endorsement for the most pathetic campaign in living memory, & you haven’t even got enough intact neurons to realize how bad you just screwed up. Sad.

Finally – someone who can appear on stage with McCain & make McCain look like the handsome one!

Aerosmith? Very over-rated. The New York Dolls & The Stooges did it both earlier & much better if you ask me.

 
 

FWIW, I was watching End of the Century, the Ramones biopic. I’ve been a Ramones fan since ‘77 or so, and it’s always been amazing to me how Johnny and Joey could keep going so long being a Winger and a Commie. Funny thing is that Johnny always seems adamant about his right wing views, but never elaborates on them.

And that he was friends with that symp Eddie Vedder.

But it’s no never mind. I just love it somehow that despite Johnny’s obvious iron fisted leadership of the band, and the fact he didn’t talk with Joey for almost 20 or so years, he still played guitar on KKK Took My Baby Away (which Joey wrote after Johnny started nailing Joey’s girlfriend) and was forced to play Bonzo Goes to Bitburg live for over a decade.

What a fucking band.

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

And sorry, but their rampant drug and alcohol use is relevant as it speaks to their judgment. Anyone who thought that blowing a fortune on coke and booze sounded like a great idea gets a big fat * next to their opinion whether they like McCain, Obama or whoever. He’s sober now? Great, good for him. That shows character, but it’s not proof of intelligence or knowledge of current events.

No. See, here’s the thing – people should be judged by who they are, not who they were. The idea that Songbird’s time in POW camp somehow obviates his current campaign of hate is stoopid – and so is saying that Joe Perry is an idiot because he was a major drug abuser back in the 70s and 80s. We all make mistakes, except David Broder, it’s how we respond to those mistakes that’s much more important.

That said, I agree that Joe Perry shows no evidence of intelligence or knowledge of current events. I just want to point out that his former and now renounced drug use is not evidence of a lack of intelligence or judgment – the fact that he’s a lifelong Republican is.

 
 

RB: I see that you, too, spied Teh Phool in the comments recently.

 
 

I thought everything up to “Done With Mirrors” wasn’t too bad. Didn’t much care for what followed it, but that’s just a matter of personal taste. If Joe Perry wants to chime in on politics, whatever. It’s a (supposedly) free country (void where prohibited).

What I don’t like about Aerosmith, and this isn’t necessarily their fault, is that a couple of years back the local “rock” station had this worthless format that played the same bands in a three-hour rotation. If you listened all day at work you heard them at least twice. Into this schedule they would fit in an Aerosmith song at some point every hour. And it was the same 10 or so Aerosmith songs every day. I grew to hate them with an unholy passion, as my co-workers had the radio tuned to that damn station because it was the only “rock” station in range. Five days a week of that, and I can go without hearing any of their music for the rest of my life (same goes for Nickelback). Which is too bad, because Aerosmith has some classic songs in their catalog.

Sorry I had to de-lurk and post that. But reading about Joe Perry brought back all of that Aerosmith trauma, and my therapist says it’s always good to talk out your feelings.

 
 

Weren’t they on Rosanne or something?

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

RB: I see that you, too, spied Teh Phool in the comments recently.

Whoah, recent Fool-ery and I missed it? Quit bogarting the sell-out hippie and give linky – that guy’s fucking hilarious.

 
 

darn I was hoping that every time I came back the photo would change… into some increasingly scary face for Halloween.

 
 

Whoah, recent Fool-ery and I missed it?

Fake I think.

 
 

D-K W: I just remember a fleeting glimpse of a Fool comment here at S,N! recently. Nothing came of it though. Too bad. I could use another laugh-a-rama right about now.

 
 

Even those who arrange and design rockers are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.

 
 

Now hang on one doggone minute here.

In the spring of 1977, hanging out at somebody’s big ol’ house on lake Granbury, making love in the back of my pickup on the shores of Benbrook Reservoir, drinking deep the soft magnolia nights and generalized madness that was central texas at the time, the soundtrack was provided by none other than Aerosmith, particularly “Mama Kin” and “Walkin the Dog”.

It was a moment in time, one of the few periods in my dark and pathetic existence where I found peace, at least for a while.

Like everything else, by june it had all ended, hard and bloody, and my time there was at an end. But I cling to those memories, bitterly, and they are eternally intertwined with Aerosmith.

Let the old wackjob vote McCain. Like all the rest, he’s gonna lose anyway…

mikey

 
 

I have never considered any career in entertainment to be “working hard”. I like the shape of his face, though.

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

I’m a little saddened to know that just about all of the real trolls are gone – a bittersweet moment for sure. Like Jack Sparrow’s observation after finding the dead Kraken – the world’s still the same size, there’s just less in it. Of course one of the pieces of batshit crazy left in this world is Pamela Oshry Geller’s “Malcolm X Love Child Theory” so there’s still plenty of larfs to be had.

 
 

This marks the latest McCain campaign theme: “Joe the Guitarist.” Unlike Joe the Plumber, he makes more than $250,000 a year, so Obama’s tax increase will affect him. Palin should be promoting this in about 10..9..8..7..6…

 
 

I have never considered any career in entertainment to be “working hard”.

Then you’ve never done it yourself.

 
 

Like everything else, by june it had all ended, hard and bloody, and my time there was at an end. But I cling to those memories, bitterly, and they are eternally intertwined with Aerosmith.

I got laid to “Cat Scratch Fever.” I know what you’re going thru.

 
 

In an interview years ago, Bob Seger revealed that a lot of rock stars are Republicans. They sing about rebellion and being oppressed by the Man, etc., but in the end they vote for lower taxes.

Seger also revealed that he voted for Nixon in 1972. He was put off by McGovern calling Nixon a liar, which he thougt was extreme. “Boy, was I wrong,” he said. I always liked the guy, but my respect for him shot up when I read that.

 
 

Finally! An artist with a little more clout than Pat Boone and the Bellamy
Brothers endorsing McCain/Palin.

Possible Aerosmith songs McCain could use for his campaign …

“Crazy”
“Cryin”
“Dream On”
“Dude Looks Like A Lady”
“Jaded”
“Janie’s Got A Gun”
“Rats In The Cellar”
“Same Old Song And Dance”

 
 

I heard that Alice Cooper endorsed McCain, too. Seger’s always been a socialist, dividing the royalties with his sidemen.

 
 

I will vote for McCain if he sings Big Ten Inch to Sara before Tuesday.

 
 

As always, a band’s best songs are rarely the ones that get airplay. Aerosmith’s Combination will be one of my top 50 songs until my dying day, and I don’t believe I ever heard it on the radio. But I don’t listen to much rock anymore – I like the really old (actually, dead) guys like Chopin, Mozart, Bach . . .

I wonder how Mozart would have voted? I’ll get my ouija board and ask him about his endorsement.

Most alt rockers are fairly liberal. Vedder and Tom Morello (incidentally two of teh hawtest musicians alive) come right to mind. I actually care about their opinions because they are actually activists.

 
 

Candy: Mozart lived in a time and place when professional musicians had to suck up to rich, powerful people if they wanted a livelihood. Musicians today are far more independent of politicians.

 
 

He’s sober now? Great, good for him. That shows character, but it’s not proof of intelligence or knowledge of current events.

Seems to me lack of knowledge of current events would be a big help in remaining sober.

 
 

it was a joke, Bitter Scribe, albeit kinda a lame one. I don’t actually believe in communing with spirits, either, or in an afterlife for that matter.

 
 

Fine. F.I.N.E. Fine, to fans.

 
She Said Get Up And Go, So The Goddamn Batman Got Up And Went
 

They did an amazing job–he looks almost lifelike.

 
 

Bitter Scribe, as one who was alive during Watergate,(I knew a guy who had auditioned to be a keyboardist for the “Silver Bullet Band”), it was unheard of for someone to call a sitting President a liar, and the White House tapes came out after the election to demonstrate the truth of McGoverns’ claim.

 
 

Woodrowfan said, October 30, 2008 at 16:30

On a side note, I find it amusing that he’s a repub because his parents were. So let me get this straight.

Parent: Don’t do so many drugs that you age prematurely and you spend all your money and end up broke.
Joe: Phht, what do you geezers know!

Parent: Vote Republican!
Joe: OK, Mom and Dad know best!

Is that pretty much how it went?? Sheesh.

Dreamweasel said, October 30, 2008 at 16:38

I believe Messrs. Perry and Tyler have already written a song about the prospects of a McCain presidency.

It was called “Same Old Song and Dance”.

You guys win the thread!

 
 

I just don’t see how McCain can win.

He has lost his brand as a maverick*; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign.

* Unfortunate anti-pun? Who knows, man, who knows.

 
 

In a six degrees kind of way, the appropriate card to play when the Joe Perry card is played is the Todd Rundgren. Better guitarist, song writer, flaming liberal, step-dad(ish) to Liv Tyler (there’s your degrees) and a man who once wrote a song about fucking Jesse Helms, Tipper Gore (during the record labeling nonsense) and the Pope.

The Todd card is trumped by: Todd who?

 
 

Well, at least he wasn’t trolling public toilets for gay sex or having diaper sex with a prostitute, I suppose.

Yeah, but when you suppose, you make an ass out of you and me. Or something.

 
 

Obama is the tin man, a cold, smooth robot, with hatchet in hand, A man with no heart as he continues to support slaughter of the innocent and raising taxes on the hard working, middle class, small business owner.

Biden, the lion, a coward, lacking the courage to uphold his Catholic pro-life convictions, sucking on his tail and constantly putting his foot in mouth.

But Palin truly is the Dorothy of our day. She loves the truth, knows right from wrong, innocent yet dynamic, unapologetically pro-life and concerned about the needs of all her neighbors no matter their handicap, fighting for truth and justice while battling the wicked left and the media monkeys at every turn.

At the end of the day, she will lead this country back home to our Christian roots, she will expose Barack Hussein Obama for what he really is, a silver tongued liar supported by a media conspiracy who amplified his fraudulent voice across the globe, concealing the truth about the content of his nefarious heart: An anti-American Marxist, Anti-Life Socialist, Friend of Terrorists and a Liar to the core.

America! Awaken your courage, have a heart, and use your brains on Tuesday!

 
 

But Palin truly is the Dorothy of our day.

Says one of the flying monkeys. Throw a bucket of water on her, she’s done: “what a world, what a world…”

 
 

That makes McCain the Scarecrow, right?

Well, that’s a comforting thought.

 
 

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