Aerosmith Will Close Out Tonight's MTV VMAs

Aerosmith Will Close Out This Year's MTV VMAs

Aerosmith will close out MTV's 2018 VMAs tonight.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers announced their 50th anniversary residency in Las Vegas last week, and fans are hoping the VMAs performance will include a sneak peak of the unique Deuces Are Wild presentation of the band. 

TMZ notes that the venue for the VMAs, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, is about the same size as the venue for their Vegas residency, MGM's Grand Park Theater.

Still, it's a smaller stage than the stadium spaces Aerosmith is accustomed to rocking. 

Aerosmith officials announced its run of dates in Vegas last Wednesday on NBC's Today show. The band members have teased the residency as a very different experience from a usual Aerosmith show. 

"We want to do a show that still has Aerosmith and all the guts of Aerosmith, but is something you would never see before," said guitarist Joe Perry before the band's two-song Today show set at Rockefeller Plaza. 

"[The residency celebrates] the history behind all our 50 years of being together," drummer Joey Kramer said. "As soon as you walk into the Park Theater, it's going to be all Aerosmith."

The band members have all been careful to qualify their remarks on the residency plans with words like, "genuine" and "honest," as if to assure fans that they aren't jumping the shark, opting for a typical Las Vegas style over substance spectacle.

"We're gonna keep it raw, we're gonna keep it who we are," added frontman Steven Tyler. "...[It's] going to be beautiful and rocked out, and we're going to have special effects that we've never used before."

Aerosmith performed at the VMAs in 1999 alongside Kid Rock and Run-D.M.C.

After concluding its Aero-Vederci Baby! Tour this past March, Aerosmith has kept a light performance schedule.

As news of the 50th anniversary plans began to leak, the band members explained that they've been working hard to craft a unique experience for fans next spring. 


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