During a recent appearance on “The Dave Rickards Podcast,” Chris Daughtry revealed that he was actually approached about replacing Steven Tyler in Aerosmith. The apparent offer was made in 2009 while the band were going through a rough patch with Tyler, who was pursuing a solo career following a cancelled tour.
Daughtry said the following:
“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. I think this was right when Steven Tyler was going on ‘American Idol’ and they weren’t touring together. I think it was like a public breakup sort of thing.
Joe Perry calls me. 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. ‘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.’ And I was, like, ‘Uh…’ I was speechless.
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 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.’”
He went on to say that it “was a terrifying concept, the moment the words left [Joe’s] mouth.” However, he did admit that “it is a story that [he] will hold near and dear for the rest of [his] life.”
Daughtry also added the following when asked if he could sing “Dream On”:
“On a good day, where I’m not beat up, I can nail that high part at the end, but that is like one out of every five times. And then there’s other times where I would just bail.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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