Joe Jammer

Joe Jammer Aerosmith Connection

“JOE PERRY: I was hot for her (Elyssa Jerret), but we were just friends. She had this guy Joe Jammer in London, and she was just home for the summer. ELYSSA PERRY: I met a guitar player from Chicago named Joe Jammer, who was managed by Peter Grant, who worked with Led Zeppelin, and we went to dinner at Jimmy Page’s famous house on the Thames at Pangbourne and I met Jeff Beck and I sort of fell in with that whole London scene. ZUNK BUKER: She (Elyssa) was home for the summer and introduced me to her boyfriend, Joe Jammer, this guitar player she had met in London. Next day at The Barn, I heard Aerosmith for the first time. At one point, Joe Jammer jumped up with his guitar and began to play with them. He had a couple of albums out and just was great. Joe Perry-insecure-just laid his guitar on the stage and left. Out of nowhere Brad Whitford picked up Joe’s guitar and starts to play, and soon he’s cutting Joe Jammer! Yeow! Who!! Brad and Joe Jammer, going at it. Steven stands on the side of the stage with his mouth open, harmonica hanging silent at his side. The sun is shining through the cupola of The Barn, bathing everything in bright beams of light. It was a magic moment, the day that Brad became one of them. RAY TABANO: Then at the Savage Beast he (Steven) and Tom got the job of formally telling me I was out of the band. I got mad and went, “FUCK YOU!” But Joe Jammer told Joe Perry that I sucked, and so my career as a musician was over.” -Excerpts from: Walk This Way, The Autobiography Of Aerosmith by Aerosmith with Stephen Davis.