However, the band dissolved soon after.Īfter Chain Reaction’s demise, Tyler began traveling to different states to watch up-and-coming bands perform. In 1966, the band released a song called "The Sun" / "When I Needed You" that they managed to get playlisted on the jukebox. He was the drummer and back up singer in the group. His interest in music soon became an all-consuming passion- one which would eventually lead him to create Aerosmith.Īs a teen, Tyler was in a band called Chain Reaction that did quite well.
While Tyler went on to graduate from Quintano's School for Young Professionals, education was not something that he took very seriously. In fact, he was kicked out of Roosevelt High School in Yonkers for that exact reason. Like many others who struggle with substance abuse, Tyler began using and abusing drugs at a very young age. While this was mainly for fun, it was Tyler’s first foray into the music world.Īs a teen, Tyler became a huge fan of rock and idolized singers like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. While Tyler was in school, his father formed a band and allowed Tyler to play the drums.
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Growing up, music was Tyler’s main interest.Īnd it’s no wonder why! His father, Victor Tallarico, was a professional classical pianist. He was born as Steven Victor Tallarico on Main Yonkers, New York. Tyler has been creative, passionate, and absolutely wild since the day he was born. However, little did he know that this intervention would be the first of many that would eventually lead him to the light of sobriety. He thought they were hypocritical and that getting sober would cost him his creativity. When Tyler was initially approached by his bandmates about his addiction problem, he didn’t take them seriously.
However, sobriety didn’t come easily or naturally to this infamous rockstar.Īfter decades of heavy drinking and drug abuse, it took him four attempts to finally get a significant amount of sobriety. Tyler, also known as the “Demon of Screamin” and half of the “Toxic Twins” duo, has been sober for just over nine years. The Steven Tyler alive today is very different from the Steven Tyler that rose to fame as lead singer of Aerosmith in the 1970’s. “Not long after that I was walking along the beach, I dropped to my knees, I began crying because I realized that I'd gotten sober.” -Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in my Head Bother You?