Aerosmith Bassist Tom Hamilton Contemplating His Autobiography
When quizzed by Zoiks! Online as to whether or not he would follow in his bandmates’ footsteps with a book of his own, Hamilton said, “I think there probably will be. People have been asking me that. I always thought, ‘OK, if you have two or three band members already having their book out, who wants to read another one?’ I think maybe there is some perspective that I could bring to it that may not have been covered by the other three [Guitarist Joe Perry reportedly started on a book earlier this year].”
Aerosmith have spent a good amount of time on tour in 2012 in support of the ‘Music From Another Dimension‘ album, but the bassist says there’s a break on the horizon that could give him a solid start on the book. “I think we’re going to have a bunch of time, a bunch of down time in the first half of next year,” says Hamilton. “I’ll have to get myself into a disciplined patter of writing every day and I’ll see what I come up with. I do have a lot that I’ve written over the years in terms of journaling.”
Of his source material, Hamilton adds, “There was a period when we first had our website where I did, I guess you’d call it a blog now, I just called it ‘News From the Road.’ I have a ton of that, that I’ve done and piles of notebooks that I need to spend some time with, sitting down, reading and compiling and seeing what’s there and seeing if I can finish it off into something that people would be interested in reading.”
The bassist says he’s gotten more into the idea of writing a book as the question has come up more from fans and interviewers in recent years.
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