Quick link to a Rolling Stone exclusive that still sort-of breaks this little born and bred Boston-er’s heart:

Despite [Stephen] Tyler’s onstage insistence [last night] that he isn’t quitting the band, [Joe] Perry says Aerosmith is still considering touring and recording with a new singer. “He wants to take two years off from the band,” Perry says. “The rest of the band wants to keep on working. We have so many different options to fill up that time. Anything is possible at this point. Basically, any communication that we’ve had over the last couple of months has been through managers, so that’s been pretty strange.”

*goes to cry in a corner* I am so doing Aerosmith at tonight’s Kostume Karaoke @ Solly’s.