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According to Boston.com, while he waits for his band’s summer tour to start, AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton isn’t sitting on his hands. As usual, Hamilton had a speaking role in the Urban Improv fund-raiser Banned in Boston, and the next night cochaired the YouthCare Spring Gala at the Four Seasons. The event raised $1.1 million for the Mass General Hospital for Children program for children and young adults with Asperger’s syndrome.

In a recent interview with St. Johns, Newfoundland radio station K-Rock 97.5, Tom Hamilton spoke about the band’s appearance on 60 Minutes and also revealed that their long-awaited studio album which has been pushed back to September.

The album would be “just about done” by the time Aerosmith plays the Freshwater Suzuki Salmon Festival in Grand Falls Windsor on July 14th, marking one of the biggest shows in the history of Newfoundland.

“I watched it with trepidation and quite a rapid heart rate,” Hamilton says about the interview with CBS news correspondent Lara Logan. “It was tough to watch. The way they formatted it was very much… they took comments that we made during very deep conversations, actually, that we had during the interview and sort of barraged Steven (Tyler) with them. I thought it was a little brutal the way that did it, but it was the truth. It was everybody speaking what they were feeling. I cringed a little bit, because when we did these interviews, we talked about a lot of things involving anger yet a lot of other things involving love and brotherhood. They used whatever we said about Steven that was negative and just nailed him with it to get his reaction. So he got pissed off and said a couple of things that were demeaning to the rest of us, yet the second that it was over, I texted him and I said, ‘hey, you did a great job.’ He was put in a position where he had to defend himself, and I thought he did it well.”

Check out the K-Rock 97.5 chat below:

Some song titles on the new Aerosmith album include: ‘Legendary Child’, ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Out Go The Lights’. Hamilton says that before the album comes out there will be two singles released. Aerosmith is working with their long-time producer Jack Douglas, who worked on such classic Aerosmith albums as 1974’s Get Your Wings, 1975’s Toys In The Attic, and 1976’s Rocks. He worked with the band on it’s 2004 collection of blues standards, Honkin’ On Bobo.

Aerosmith’s Global Warming Tour will feature CHEAP TRICK and will hit the following markets:

June
16 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
19 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
22 – Chicago, IL – United Center
27 – Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre

July
1 – Uniondale, NY – Nassau Coliseum
3 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
5 – Detroit, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills
7 – Milwaukee, WI – Marcus Amphitheater, Summerfest
10 – Montreal, QC – tba
12 – Quebec City, QC – tba
14 – Grand Falls, Newfoundland – tba
17 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
19 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
24 – East Rutherford, NJ – IZOD Center
26 – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena
28 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
30 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center

August
1 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
4 – Oakland, CA – Oracle Arena
6 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
8 – Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome

Source : Bravewords.com