Video: Steven Tyler and Joe Perry reunite onstage in San Francisco

Joe Perry and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith perform at UBS Arena on September 09, 2023 in Elmont, New York
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler together at Aerosmith's final show UBS Arena on September 09, 2023 in Elmont, New York (Image credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have appeared onstage together for the first time since the band's Peace Out... farewell tour was abandoned in September 2023.

The pair took the stage at a private benefit for Tyler’s charitable organization Janie’s Fund in San Francisco last week. Backed by Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt and former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum, they played five Aerosmith classics including Toys in the Attic, Same Old Song and Dance, Sweet Emotion, Dream On and Walk This Way.

Cheap Trick frontman Robin Zander and The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson – who'd both performed earlier in the evening – then joined the party for two songs Aerosmith have covered in the past, Tiny Bradshaw's Train Kept a Rollin' and The BeatlesCome Together. Video shot at the event can be watched below.

Steven Tyler returned to the stage in February for the first time since Aerosmith announced their retirement from touring, at another Janie's Fund event in Hollywood. While a widely reported Aerosmith reunion failed to materialise, bassist Tom Hamilton did join Tyler onstage, with Nuno Bettencourt once again playing guitar.

Tyler's first appearance onstage since suffering the vocal injury that led to the abandonment of the Peace Out... tour was with the Black Crowes in London last year.

Janie's Fund, which was named after Aerosmith's 1989 hit Janie's Got A Gun, was founded by Tyler in 2015 and supports vulnerable girls who've suffered abuse and neglect.

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Fraser Lewry
Online Editor, Classic Rock

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 39 years in music industry, online for 26. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. Once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.