I don't fault him at all. Eyeballing an emerging market is a smart business decision, but it's exactly that, a business decision.

Tyler jumping to Country, for the sole purpose of attracting a new audience, doesn't move the genre forward. A lot of which has to contributed to Rock's decline, tired shit piled on an already surplus of tired shit.

"Just released"? One of Bob Dole's bands has already covered it at a gig.

I disagree. If Steven Tyler was all about a "Money Grab", he can go on tour with Aerosmith and earn his share of $1 million per night. Or, he could go back to American Idol and earn $18 million per season.

There's absolutely no guarantee that he'll $10,000 dollars in Country music, let alone millions.

Rock's decline is due to illegal downloading, plain and simple. The industry was bled dry and all the funds that would normally be spend on finding, signing and developing new artists is nowhere to be found.

Country music (Nashville) has never experienced that issue due to the fact that its model is completely different. Outside songwriters account for more than 80% of Country hits. The same producers and players are on nearly every record. Artists are created through slick marketing and song presentation. It's a factory. It's smart business and it's a tough nut to crack but Nashville keeps it going year after year, decade after decade.

Kids today are more interested in pre-fabricated "beats" and EDM than screaming rock guitars and great signing. It's difficult to envision a return to rock's glory days of the 60's through early 90's.

I'll no doubt concede to you on the industry stuff. I just don't see how a guy choosing to get into Country because no one wants to hear a new record from his old band, or a solo blues album from him, does anything for the genre. Unless he's exposing some unknowns or up and comers through some collaborations. But I don't pay much attention to Country so I shouldn't pretend to understand it's dynamics.

He looks like an old lesbian.

Huge Aerosmith fan. I listed to MFAND once. ONCE. It was total crap.

They need to do drugs to make decent music it seems.

Now he has sucked in three genres.... Barf.

The underlined is 100% horseshit. Rocks decline is all about the incredibly poor product they put out. The same exact problem you describe would be hitting what we loosely call Country these days if illegal downloads were the problem. The reality is that Country is now essentially Rock with a bit of twang.

LMAO

Why do you think that the product is so poor? Could it be lack of funding, lack of development? How about the lack of audio engineering and producing experts, all who have left for other fields, whether it's Film/TV mixing and production or Nashville?

Nah, it can't be that!

:facepalm:

Interesting thread to say the least....

If Hootie can do it, Tyler sure as hell can.

Recreating himself at 67, props to him.

So who's the next fading pop/rock star to go country ?


KISS ??

They can paint their faces like farm animals. ;)

Hard luck women with banjos might work.

I've noticed that..but I'm not really quite sure why. I read an article about how country music is growing. Yet, I'm pretty sure the rural country population is rapidly dwindling. And, based on social media and any media in general, country music and the mainly Caucasian rural southern population has the worst stereotypes imaginable. Combine that with the other trends by millennials, I find it very odd country music would grow because almost nobody would really want to associate themselves with that image.