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Joey's Got A Gun
UPDATE: Aerosmith breaking up? Maybe now Joe Perry will find some more time hunting and fishing. Here's Outdoor Life's one-on-one with Aerosmith's co-founder and lead guitarist.
In a post from the San Franciscon Chronicle's SFGATE Daily Dish: Animal activists at PETA are poking fun at Aerosmith star Joe Perry's manhood after the guitarist boasted about his love of hunting deer in a recent magazine interview. The rocker told Outside Living (sic) magazine he loves nothing better than stalking his prey through the woods near his holiday home in New Hampshire, but his comments have angered animal lovers. Perry, who also reveals he's an avid gun collector, said, "I don't shoot anything that I don't eat. Hunters are conservationists and their heads are in the right place. ... (Hunting) really gives you a great opportunity to keep in touch with reality." PETA's senior vice-president Lisa Lange fires back, "People who take out their aggressions and frustrations on helpless animals are usually compensating for other shortcomings in their life. "We don't know how Joe measures up, but it's interesting that he seems to feel so satisfied when he's handling long phallic-looking weapons."
Editors at Outdoor Life responded with a collective yawn. Though it would have been nice if they could have at least gotten the name of the magazine correct. Here's our interview with Joe in case you missed it...
As co-founder, principal co-songwriter and lead guitarist of Aerosmith, Joe Perry has driven his band to sales of more than 150 million albums and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Outdoor Life recently caught up with Perry to talk about his other passion—the outdoors.
OL: What was your first introduction to guns and hunting? Joe Perry: I had a BB gun when I was 12, and then got a Crosman pellet gun a few years later. Every day after school, I’d walk our 4 or 5 acres with my dog and hunt till it got dark.
OL: Where was that? JP: Well, my family owned some land near Hopedale, Mass. Where Foxboro Stadium is now.
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Great band in the '70's - way too commercial since the late '80's.
I had no idea Joe was so involved with outdoor activities. Just one more reason Aerosmith is the greatest rock band of all time. Hope Steven Tyler gets better so they can get their tour back on track.
I loved Aerosmith when I was in high school in the 70's. I didn't know Steve Perry was a hunter until my print copy of OL arrived in the mail.
I had no idea that he was that into gun collecting. It would be great to have the financial means to go after just that one genre of firearms as Joe does with the air rifles. I like the band even more and ditto to thunderhead in wishing a speed recovery to Steven Tyler. Can't say I would hate having 40 or 50 handguns laying around.
Cool, i'd love to see his collection of guns.
Is it just me...or is at least twice as long as the write up in the printed magazine? Did I miss a page? I'd like to know more about his flintlock interests...primitive long rifle, modern, original antiques. Regardless, a heck of a good story, nice to find out stuff like this about people we admire.
It was a good section in the magazine I enjoyed reading the interview.
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler both have summer houses in my home town and they are more then welcome to come hunting with me anytime. Great band and great people. As for PETA they value animal life over yours and mine. According to the Westchester Update (1997) 123 people a year are killed in animal-related car accidents, and over one billion dollars worth of damages related to this as well. This may not seem like a lot but if you consider the fact that hunter’s harvested over 6,155,188 deer (Deer Hunter Almanac 2007) in the same year the study was conducted. Imagine what the number of animal related car accidents would increase to if the deer population grew by six million deer a year. The death rate would probably double.
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Great band in the '70's - way too commercial since the late '80's.
I had no idea Joe was so involved with outdoor activities. Just one more reason Aerosmith is the greatest rock band of all time. Hope Steven Tyler gets better so they can get their tour back on track.
I loved Aerosmith when I was in high school in the 70's. I didn't know Steve Perry was a hunter until my print copy of OL arrived in the mail.
I had no idea that he was that into gun collecting. It would be great to have the financial means to go after just that one genre of firearms as Joe does with the air rifles. I like the band even more and ditto to thunderhead in wishing a speed recovery to Steven Tyler. Can't say I would hate having 40 or 50 handguns laying around.
Cool, i'd love to see his collection of guns.
Is it just me...or is at least twice as long as the write up in the printed magazine? Did I miss a page? I'd like to know more about his flintlock interests...primitive long rifle, modern, original antiques. Regardless, a heck of a good story, nice to find out stuff like this about people we admire.
It was a good section in the magazine I enjoyed reading the interview.
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler both have summer houses in my home town and they are more then welcome to come hunting with me anytime. Great band and great people. As for PETA they value animal life over yours and mine. According to the Westchester Update (1997) 123 people a year are killed in animal-related car accidents, and over one billion dollars worth of damages related to this as well. This may not seem like a lot but if you consider the fact that hunter’s harvested over 6,155,188 deer (Deer Hunter Almanac 2007) in the same year the study was conducted. Imagine what the number of animal related car accidents would increase to if the deer population grew by six million deer a year. The death rate would probably double.
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