Oh, yeah. laughs but his journey to the top was not match for his own personal demons. I have an addictive personality, so i found certain drugs that i loved and i didnt stop, to the point of hurting my children, hurting my family, hurting my life. There was a point where i didnt have a band and i didnt care. But steven fought hard to get clean and clawed his back to the top again, this time, bigger than ever. There isnt a day that i wake up and im not moved to tears that i think how lucky i am to be in this band. This is phenomenal. Steven tyler, the rock star who personifies every stereotype, living the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle, and actually living to tell about it. Hey, steven. Harvey, how be ya . So good to see you. Good to see you, too. Welcome to the digs of all digs. I love these digs. I gotta tell you, steven, you have such a rich life. I wanna learn your life story through objects that you chose to keep over the years that are really important to you, okay . Yeah. Wanna get started . I would love to get started. Harvey lets do it. My mom and dad passed away while i was doing idol, so ive got their wedding rings. And i got my moms wedding ring, and my dads wedding ring. That is so cool. Steven and i wore it every day in the middle of my crow feather. I mean, theyre in me, you know what im saying . To have their ring, what they wore, you know, every day, to me artifacts, i live for that. Im like a hoarder. Okay, Everybody Knows steven tyler. Yeah, all right. Harvey i wanna hear about stevie tallarico. Little stevie tallarico was born up under the piano. My father was from julliard. Well, thats the thing, your dad was from julliard, he played carnegie hall. Steve classical piano. He played carnegie hall, yeah. Harvey and your grandfather was a cellist . He was a cellist. And there was a grand piano upstairs in the living room, and i was put under the piano to fall asleep every night. So i heard bach, brahms, beethoven, debussy. You got relatives who are classical musicians. Why didnt you follow suit . Why did you make a left . Steven well, my father tried to give me piano lessons. And i sat at the piano and i started yawning. And when youre italian, from family, its like whack. You got whacked. What were you into . The drums. My friend down the street had a set of drums. Slingerland drums. I couldnt believe there were such things built that you banged with sticks and made noise. So, my father bought me a set of drums and i wound up playing drums in his band in the summer time. So, it just turned into that music. And i got the blessings of my mom and dad to do rock and roll. They knew i could sing. I went to choir when i was a little boy, and, uh joe perry just left l. A. Harvey hey, joe steven hey, joe harvey chuckles all right, so he left you again. Oh, god. Hes hanging out with johnny depp. What music, what artists influenced you . I gotta say the Everly Brothers because of their harmony. Its the first time i ever felt any kind of sexual feelings from the waist down. Their harmonies together the Everly Brothers, in their harmony lived something i couldnt explain, i didnt understand, but it felt like it didnt feel like sex. It felt like. Something so wonderful that id never heard. Harvey i wanna talk a little bit about your upbringing. You hunted, shotguns. Mmhmm. You were hanging out in the woods. You just dont strike me as a country boy. I still carry a knife everywhere i go. Why . Its to open my fan mail. Um, you know, i dont know why. But you were mostly i had a nice i actually gotta share this with you. Its ridiculous. Its so beautiful. And its such a piece you really do carry a knife its such a well, along with that one and this one. Oh, my god. Its such a piece of art, that, you know, its got a blade, and it flicks out like that. And, you know, thats what you do when youre showing your friends. But if you get in trouble. Oh, my god, i feel like im somebody in a militia. What . What . You know, its just im just showing you how i grew up in the woods. I get it. So, when did you discover girls . Wow. My uncle had an incredible playboy collection, so it was that kinda thing. And i guess 1956, 57 so, you were about nine . Yeah. When did you discover drugs . Wow. When i first heard music. Our era, yours and mine and i dont know whether you admit it on tv or not, but you did some drugs in your time. Youre wrong. Hello . No, youre wrong. Bull bleep . I was totally frightened. You never smoked a joint in your life . No, i did smoke a joint, but i took well, thats no, no, no. But i took a towel, a wet towel, put it under the door to make sure nobody would come in and arrest me. Mmhmm. And thats as much as i did. I was just a paranoid jew. Okay, and i was a paranoid italian. I took you know how a door, when you open a door, you know that thing goes in a door . I drilled through when you turn the doorknob. I drilled through it, and i stuck a nail in there so no one could come in through the bedroom. Because if you got caught with a joint, you got you knew you were going to hell. Did your parents drink . Yeah. Yeah, they did. A lot . My family drank. Im curious about being bullied. Did you kind of drink and smoke just to kind of detach . Steven you could probably say i wanted to be liked, i wanted people to notice me as a teenager, and you dont see how cruel kids are. The whole school was making fun of my lips, you know . I was called the nword lips. I was called bleep lips in school. And i was beaten up. I was beaten up bad. You got thrown out of high school because of what happened in ceramics class. That was for pot. Smoking pot, yeah. Harvey you got prosecuted for that. Steven no, i didnt get prosecuted. I thought the charges were dropped. You know the best news . I got a y. O. Youthful offender. So it kept me out of the draft. Oh, god. Thank you, god. Wait a minute, are these the these are the original working lyrics for. Oh, my god, may i . Toys in the attic. Yeah, you may. This is so fantastic. And this is what you wrote on . Yep, i wrote on that. No more no more, round and round, you see me crying. Sweet emotion i pulled into town in the police car your daddy said i took it just a little too far whyd you wanna become a rock star . I saw janis joplin when i was 15, and i heard her sing, and i couldnt believe she was smoking on stage, she was drinking southern comfort, and she sang like no other. She could sing a song entitled, take a little piece of my heart and deliver it so beautiful. Amazingly. Amazingly. crowd cheering good night god bless you rock and roll harvey i think theres something that attracts people to this. I mean, is it the adulation of the crowd . Is it that you can make a ton of money . Is it just rampant sex, which everybody hears about . Woman you had to get a job. Oh, thats thats one reason. My girlfriends going, you had to get a job. Its gotta be something more than that. Its all i knew how to do. I didnt get it. I didnt know anything but music and nature. You werent immediately successful. You were in some bands that went nowhere. Well, all the bands from 66 to 69, they all it was over. I quit a band that was out of long island. Harvey did you ever give up . Well, i got into a fight with a guitar player. Jumped over my drum set, i was a drummer at the time. Got into a fight with him. I got so pissed off, i went outside and went like this. And back then, you could hitch. I hitched all the way from South Hampton to new york city from new york city all the way to South Hampton, new hampshire. So, i got up there, went to bed crying, woke up the next morning, mowed the lawn like i had for all my life, and up comes joe perry in an mg. Joe perry, hornrimmed glasses with white hair. Said, hey, man. What are you doing up here . I said, i broke up. All my bands are over. He goes, well, you wanna come see mine . Im in a band called the jam band and were playing tonight. Ill come pick you up, and were playing. And i went, yeah. So, i went and sat down, saw them. And they did one song that was so good. It was a song called rattle snake shake. And when they did that, i went. I said, if i can add what i know to him, this is my brother now, joe. Now i got my brother. Now i got my keith richards. I got my paul and john. I got the kinks. So we decided to move to boston, get an apartment together, and, uh. We would Start Playing songs, right . We played clubs, four 45minute sets a night, regardless whether anyone was there. My understanding back then that i said, we can get laid together. We can do drugs together. We can have girlfriends together. We can go to movies together. We live in a house together. We can write songs together. Ahh we can write songs together. And maybe we can have a chance to make it big. Those were the words. Id love to tell you i always knew id make it. You dont know until you write that first song. When i wrote that first song with joe perry, thats when game over. Dream on, dream on dream on, dream on dream on, dream on, dream on yeah yeah harvey you didnt like your voice for a time. Well, dont i was just gonna sing a song, and you were gonna join in, and you said, nah, you dont wanna hear me sing. Because im not gonna sing with steven tyler. So, hold on. Lets thump it back on you. Why not . Because i dont like your voice. No, actually, i like my voice. Nobody else does. Oh, hes good. This guy is good. Uh, you know, and maybe i could say that about mine. I liked my voice, but i thought, no, no. I didnt like my voice. I didnt like it, and so i sang. deep southern accent the whole first album like this. You know . And a get yourself a cooler and lay yourself low normal voice i sang like that. You know, just. Okay, so, i want to talk to you about lsd. Not the drug. Oh. Please, bring it on. Lead singer disorder. Bring it on. Explain it. Well, lead singer disorder is something that other band members like to lay on a singer because hes getting laid more than they are. That is succinct. So its all about sex . It can be sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Its not about not sex. Music is about sex. So there was jealousy in the band . Oh, theres always theres jealousy in every band. Is that what created a lot of the tension . cause there was a lot of tension in aerosmith. If you can play kind of like this, than lets do it. But you didnt say that before. You said you wanted it just like that. And i started to play it like that, and you said, no, i dont want to lock into it like that. So i said, well, then, use the machine. How much plainer can that be, you know . Im not trying to give you a bleep hard time. A lot there is still right now. Did drugs make you better as a singer, as a writer . It certainly got me over hurdles. And it certainly theres songs you know and love that joe and i wrote very high. Harvey would you be successful as the lead singer of aerosmith would aerosmith be successful without drugs . Steven hmm. By 71 to 79, we played every state in america seven times. We couldnt have done it without that peruvian marching powder. Methamphetamine. We just played, and played, and played, and those guys were so good. I love them forever. And just think, that i get to be in this band. There isnt a day that i wake up and im not moved to tears, and i think how lucky i am to be in this band. This is phenomenal. How do you have a meaningful relationship when you have women throwing themselves at you all the time. You cheat. You cheat. You break. You have you just dont youre not true. Youre not faithful. You have you just dont youre not true. And i like to question your im yoevery move. N law. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . That must be why youre always so late. I do not speed. And thats saving me cash with drivewise. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady . [tina] youre an old lady. Lets be honest. Quitting smoking is hard. Like, quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So try making it smaller, and youll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette. Starting small can lead i came across sofi and it was the best decision of my life. I feel cared about as a member. Were getting a super competitive Interest Rate on our money. Were able to invest through the same exact platform. I really liked that they didnt have any hidden or extra fees. Sofi has brought me peace of mind. Truly thank you for helping me prepare for whatever the future has in store. There are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. Powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. To help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. Tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. And a team of experts here for you 24 7. Weve always believed in the power of working together. Thats why, when every connection counts. You can count on us. Me too. Me too. And if youre a small business, were with you. Standing by you every step of the way. Bye bye. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. Because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. Thats really cool. Whatever it is, its really cool. I noticed you dont have her aiming towards the camera, but thats all right. Shes the twoheaded zeus. I dont know what she is. I saw her at my favorite store to shop in called church, and ive had people in my life that for some reason magically had a twin sister, like my first wife and the girls in the choir. And im also into that kind of art. Second floor hardware, childrenswear, ladies lingerie. Oh, good morning, mr. Tyler. Going down . chuckles as a rock star, how easy is it to get laid . Its very easy. In fact, if today was reversed, i could lay hundreds of girls. Theyd try to rape me. If i yelled if they i mean, girls have thrown themselves on me. They do every man thats a rock star. I mean, mick jagger was my god. I was afraid to say that for the first 10 years of being with aerosmith. I thought you actually resented that a lot of people compared you to him. I did. I resented it, but in a stupid way. After ten years later, i went when i got sober, i gotta tell you then i went, wait a minute. I loved him. I wanted to be exactly like him and janis joplin i wanted to be like these people. And, so, when they started writing that i was, you know, a bastard son of mick jagger, i got offended because our music was nothing like the stones. Yet they saw, you know, in that, mick jagger. I see it. Every now and then, ill see myself in that. Harvey i see it. But i was offended. Ooh, yeah. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, baby. Take away the drugs and theres more time for steven howling i think rock stars i felt like i had an obligation to keep that alive. I certainly had my way with women and women had their way with me. You had an obligation to keep it alive . Oh, yeah. Steven oh, yeah. When i get up on stage and i sing a song, i want to deliver it. I want to feel oh, no, no, no. I thought you meant you had an obligation to constantly get laid . Get laid. Yeah. Um, i think that would you sayeth yourself, mr. Cameraman, at 17, you had an obligation to get laid every night . Okay. He said yes. And thats what we do as young men. You didnt push yourself on women. Women threw themselves at you. Yeah, but i couldnt do it if i as horny as i ever, ever was, i could never push myself on a woman that said stop. I just dont have it in me. During the times that you were on stage in concert on tour, you had sex a lot, and at a time when it was dangerous. Mmhmm. Did you ever think that you dodged the bullet of getting aids . By doing drugs. And sex. So many times. I thought people would say, didnt you have this sex and that sex . And werent you there, and this . Yeah, i did. I had a lot. I had lots of remember im from the 70s. It was group sex. You had group gropes. We had lots of sex, and i think that if it wasnt for the fact that i loved getting high as much as i did and spending time with the guys and writing songs, or even with girls and getting high, i might have contracted those things. So youre almost saying drugs saved your life. In a strange kind of way, i am saying that. How do you have a meaningful relationship when you have women throwing themselves at you all the time . You cheat. You cheat. You break. You have you just dont youre not true. Youre not faithful. And i paid dearly for it, you know . I paid dearly for it. Harvey you did cocaine with john belushi. Did it ever shake you where you would say to yourself, god, that could have easily have been me. No, it didnt. Why . I went down the worst path. I went down the rabbit hole. I went chasing alice. Do you miss drugs . Um. I justthat Liberty Mutual customizes your insurance, open road and telling people so you only pay for what you need [squawks] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. And i recently had a heart attack. It changed my life. But im a survivor. After my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. Its for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. Brilinta is taken with a lowdose aspirin. No more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. Brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. In a clinical study, brilinta worked better than plavix. Brilinta reduced the chance of having another heart attack. Or dying from one. Dont stop taking brilinta without talking to your doctor, since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. Brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily, or serious, sometimes fatal bleeding. Dont take brilinta if you have bleeding, like stomach ulcers, a history of bleeding in the brain, or severe liver problems. Slow heart rhythm has been reported. Tell your doctor about bleeding new or unexpected shortness of breath any planned surgery, and all medicines you take. If you recently had a heart attack, ask your doctor if brilinta is right for you. My heart is worth brilinta. If you cant afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. Whit made her feel proud. Na results, they saw us, they recognized us. Ancestry® specifically showed the regions that my family was from. The state of jalisco. The city of guadalajara. The results were a reflection of our family and the results were really human. I feel proud about my identity. Greater details. Richer stories. Get your dna kit today at ancestry. Com. And sometimes, you can find yourself heading in a new direction. But when youre with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, theres nothing to stop you from moving forward. Tell me what that is. Okay. Thats my firstyear chip. Thats the chip you get if you belong to any kind of 12step program, which is, you know, its steps to live by. Which by the way, people should honor that and look into it, because in the future, people will be living by it. You have a bunch of coins. I got a bunch. I got sober in 88, and i fell off the wagon. I put 14 years together, and now i got 8 years again. And i,