Joe Rogan Experience #1116 - Steven Tyler

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   ... four, three, two,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      ... four, three, two, one, boom.

   2. STSteven Tyler0:05

      Ow!

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:05

      We've done a thousand what? How many podcasts? 1,116. Steven Tyler is the only man to bring a crystal ball.

   4. STSteven Tyler0:14

      Mm.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      You're the first.

   6. STSteven Tyler0:16

      Because you got to bring it with you when you come.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Do you bring that everywhere?

   8. STSteven Tyler0:22

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:23

      (laughs)

   10. STSteven Tyler0:24

       You know, I'll, I'll bring it with me to Maui. I'll bring it w- with me to, to, uh, Europe. Yeah. For the long ones.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       What is the deal? What is it?

   12. STSteven Tyler0:30

       It's just I'm into crystals. I just-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       It's pretty. Very pretty.

   14. STSteven Tyler0:33

       It's got a beautiful occlusion, and when you get the light just right on it, just like me on stage at night when the light is just right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Mm.

   16. STSteven Tyler0:39

       You know what I'm saying?

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       I feel you, I feel you. Dude, you look fucking fantastic for 70.

   18. STSteven Tyler0:43

       Thank you.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       Can I just tell you?

   20. STSteven Tyler0:44

       Thank you.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       I found out you were 70, I was like, "Holy shit. You look really good."

   22. STSteven Tyler0:47

       And here I was gonna-

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       Your skin looks amazing.

   24. STSteven Tyler0:49

       Why, thank you.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       It really does.

   26. STSteven Tyler0:50

       Thanks. And I walk around like this and wonder why everybody's fucking taking pictures and busting my chops. Walking through the airport, I actually have a T-shirt that says, "Go fuck your selfie."

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       Oh.

   28. STSteven Tyler1:02

       'Cause you're walking with the dogs-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Right.

   30. STSteven Tyler1:03

       ... you're walking with a girl, you're wa-... And they come over and wanna stop and take a selfie so I'm like-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   I've never done blow?…

   1. STSteven Tyler15:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      I've never done blow?

   3. STSteven Tyler15:01

      Ever?

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      No, unfortunately.

   5. STSteven Tyler15:02

      You don't drink either?

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:03

      I drink, yeah.

   7. STSteven Tyler15:03

      Okay, cool.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:04

      Yeah. I, when I was growing up, my friend's cousin sold blow and I saw disastrous results.

   9. STSteven Tyler15:10

      Ooh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:10

       And I was scared off of it when I was very young.

   11. STSteven Tyler15:13

       Wow, good for you.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:13

       And then I had some friends that, as I grew older, had blow problems. So I never touched it.

   13. STSteven Tyler15:19

       See, you're one of them, man. That's beautiful.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       Yeah.

   15. STSteven Tyler15:21

       See, you're a normie.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:22

       Normie in some ways, but I've done a lot of different drugs.

   17. STSteven Tyler15:25

       Believe me, like you said in that... in your last, that last documentary, just joking, you are farthest from the normie.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:33

       Well, I'm a normie compared to some people.

   19. STSteven Tyler15:35

       It's smart that you- it's smart that you thought not to do that. Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       It just seems like one that I would like too much.

   21. STSteven Tyler15:40

       Yeah.

   22. NANarrator15:41

       Never mind.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       And that's one of the reasons why I never fucked with speed either.

   24. STSteven Tyler15:43

       Mm-mm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:43

       I feel like I'd be like, "Now I can get things done."

   26. STSteven Tyler15:45

       Yeah, but you drink coffee, don't you?

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       Yeah, but it's mild. The coffee doesn't really... Just-

   28. STSteven Tyler15:49

       That is fucking mild. This man is-

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       It's just mild.

   30. STSteven Tyler15:52

       What is it? Cam- chameleon, which changes your fucking skin into another color.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) …

   1. STSteven Tyler30:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      (laughs)

   3. STSteven Tyler30:00

      (laughs) Holy shit. And a, and a field school.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      Do you rem- do you remember her name?

   5. STSteven Tyler30:02

      Ah, whatever. Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      Isn't it funny? There's always one girl from high school.

   7. STSteven Tyler30:05

      Hah. Jill Ellsworth.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      Ooh.

   9. STSteven Tyler30:07

      That was her.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:08

       Mm.

   11. STSteven Tyler30:08

       And she looked at me, and no one did before. Well, what's... no different than any other human. So then s- '65, '66, '67, Chain Reaction, '68, The Strangers, '69 was Woodstock. I went early and left three days later. I still have a Coca-Cola cooler. We, we... the day it was over, okay, we tried to start up the car and too much water got in the gas. We couldn't, couldn't get lost. And everybody left, and all their tents and all the sleeping bags were just left there-... hundreds of acres of tents. You... there's no pictures of it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       (laughs)

   13. STSteven Tyler30:46

       I walked around, and I thought... You know, so I stole a Coke cooler, and I still have that to this day.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       You still have it?

   15. STSteven Tyler30:51

       Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But it was a great-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       Was it from Coca-Cola? Like it was-

   17. STSteven Tyler30:54

       It was a Coca-Cola cooler-

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       ... something that they left there, they were selling?

   19. STSteven Tyler30:55

       ... that you brought your shit in.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       Oh.

   21. STSteven Tyler30:56

       You just, just, you know.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Right.

   23. STSteven Tyler30:58

       With a opener on the side, you know. But I remember walking down this path, it was called Groovie Way, and I stole, I stole this pa- banner off the trees, which we used for the, for Aerosmith in the beginning. I had these girls duplicate it, so it was, it was two guys looking at each other, you know, smoking a joint, and that was the Aerosmith thing in the beginning. But when I was at Woodstock, I'm walking down Groovie Way, and it was where Ken Kesey and the, the Magic... The Pranksters, they had all their buses. So I'm tripping on acid, and these helicopters are coming by with 500 pounds of hot dogs, and they're dropping them.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:40

       (laughs)

   25. STSteven Tyler31:40

       They're dropping them in a field, and you hear this (banging) . And I shit you not. And then another giant pile of pots and pans to cook the hot dogs. I mean, it was a disaster area. Woodstock. You know this, right?

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:55

       Yeah.

   27. STSteven Tyler31:56

       Anyway, so I grab the pots and pans, and I started (banging) and some other guy walks over, and he's going (tapping) . Another guy comes over, and he starts doing this (tapping) . By the time I was done, an hour later, there was 50 people banging on every pot that was there.

   28. JRJoe Rogan32:19

       (laughs)

   29. STSteven Tyler32:20

       That was a moment. And then when I got up from that, tripping my ass off, I walked down a path, and walking towards me was one guy, and it was Joey Kramer, my drummer, who I knew from high school, but that I met there. Later on, to become... I was the drummer for Aerosmith in the beginning. So move forward now, '60, '70, all the bands have broke up. I went up to Sunapee, I was mowing the lawn at a place called Traurico, my family place, that I did my whole life. It's what I do. I'm a country boy. 360 acres that my Italian family bought that came over from Calabria in 19- 1890, five brothers that were musicians. So they worked in New York City. They made a little money. So for four grand, they bought 300 acres. So every year of my life, when I was born in fucking 1948...

   30. JRJoe Rogan33:14

       (laughs)
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Y- yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      most certainly has a sound. It's like he's expressing himself through that guitar in a very recognizable way. You know?

   2. STSteven Tyler45:08

      Y- yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:08

      You two together, man, what a fucking combination that was with his guitar and your voice, and goddamn.

   4. STSteven Tyler45:13

      But here's, but here's the, and here's the trip. You know, i- in the beginning, you know, the first album people have said, "Who's singing on the second album?" (high voice) "'Cause on the second album I kinda sang like that." (normal voice) And I kinda like that Peewee Herman-

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:25

      Mm.

   6. STSteven Tyler45:26

      ... chocolatey.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:27

      (laughs)

   8. STSteven Tyler45:27

      I kinda fucking, I kinda put that s-

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:29

      What were you doing?

   10. STSteven Tyler45:30

       I, because I wanna sound Black.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       Oh.

   12. STSteven Tyler45:31

       Who, what the fuck? I'm not stupid.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       I get it.

   14. STSteven Tyler45:33

       I wanted to put some fucking-

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:35

       Soul.

   16. STSteven Tyler45:35

       ... soul in my voice. I knew I had it and-

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:39

       So you're trying to force it out like a baby.

   18. STSteven Tyler45:41

       Oh, no, I, uh, I, no, no, what I learned was, you know, like from, uh, uh, Nat King Cole, that's the kinda music I listened to when I was a kid. When I met Natalie I walked up behind her and I went, (singing) "Key-mo, kye-mo, stare, stare, mahi, maho, marum stick, pumpernickel soup, bang nip, cat parliament, cha cameo, I love you." She went, (gasps) "No one has sung that ever to me except my daddy." And it was, his dad passed obviously way before but that's, those are the records I listened to. That was Nat-

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       Mm-hmm.

   20. STSteven Tyler46:11

       ... singing his best shit.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:12

       Right.

   22. STSteven Tyler46:13

       And, um-

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:13

       So you wanted to recreate that-

   24. STSteven Tyler46:14

       ... so I wanted to sound, I just, well here's what I wanted to sound. I wanted to sound more like Joe Perry was playing.

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       Ah.

   26. STSteven Tyler46:20

       And singing really sweet and nice. Listen to Dream On, it's sweet and nice. I kinda, I kinda went there when, we wrote a song on a waterbed, Joe Perry and I. We were sitting around smoking a big fatty, and, um, Mark Lehman was there. He was our road manager, and we s- and Joe goes ... (singing) I'm looking at him, and that was a sentence. He spoke to me.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:58

       Right.

   28. STSteven Tyler46:59

       And I said, (singing) "We all live on the edge of town where we all live ain't a soul around. People stop and come in on the do just to grin. Say we gotta move out cold city moving in." See what I'm saying?

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:13

       Right.

   30. STSteven Tyler47:13

       He sh- it's how he spoke to me.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:11:53

   Right. …

   1. STSteven Tyler1:00:00

      over and the, the boom started going like this, right? And it started getting... And, and they would say, "Number one," 'cause it was in the shot, you know?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

      Right.

   3. STSteven Tyler1:00:09

      (laughs) You know? And then so I would whip out my, a limerick, you know? It was... I'd go, "Time for a limerick!" And stop everybody. Everyone would stop and I'd say something like, you know, uh, I o- once m- met a whore from Dallas.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:24

      (laughs)

   5. STSteven Tyler1:00:24

      She used a dynamite stick for a phallus. They found her vagina in North Carolina and her asshole in Buckingham Palace. And the fucking... You'd see the boom going like this. The place would, it was just enough to bring it up and we'd finish two more and we'd leave. But it was fun like that, and it was a good payday. So when you're asking me do I have a house in Maui, yeah. And I was made fun of for doing that.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:47

      Well, who made fun of you for doing that?

   7. STSteven Tyler1:00:49

      Ah, Joe Perry didn't think it was a smart thing. He said, "That's one step under Ninja Turtles." (vocalizes)

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:54

      (laughs) Is that what you said?

   9. STSteven Tyler1:00:54

      And he's my bro and I read that and I thought, I went, "What the fuck am I doing?"

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       (laughs)

   11. STSteven Tyler1:00:58

       "Joe, keep in mind, when I'm alone by myself," I went-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

       Is he right?

   13. STSteven Tyler1:01:03

       When I thought to myself, "Would Bob Dylan do this?"

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:07

       Ooh.

   15. STSteven Tyler1:01:08

       Yeah, I had those thoughts.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

       Right.

   17. STSteven Tyler1:01:10

       Kinda fucked me up for a minute. But then I went, "Fuck it."

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:13

       Bob Dylan doesn't have a house on Maui, does he?

   19. STSteven Tyler1:01:15

       No, I didn't have one then.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:16

       (laughs)

   21. STSteven Tyler1:01:17

       But I wanted one.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:18

       Got a house...

   23. STSteven Tyler1:01:19

       He's probably, how much, much money that guy's got?

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:21

       I'm sure. He's got a house everywhere.

   25. STSteven Tyler1:01:22

       Anyways, so-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:22

       He's probably got a house on the moon.

   27. STSteven Tyler1:01:23

       So I took Idol and I, you know, I never... I-

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:26

       So you bought a house on Maui with the money from Idol? This is where we-

   29. STSteven Tyler1:01:29

       Well-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       ... we started.

Episode duration: 2:04:38