Garth Brooks, Steven Tyler, and Billy Joel. Shutterstock (3)
Solely in New York! Garth Brooks shared a wild story about an encounter he had with Steven Tyler whereas performing with Billy Joel.
The nation famous person, 61, recalled the incident throughout the Thursday, Could 18, episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present whereas taking part in a sport of “Rockstar Roulette.” When the wheel landed on Aerosmith and host Kelly Clarkson started detailing her childhood crush on Tyler, 75, Brooks mentioned merely, “I showered with him.”
When the American Idol winner, 41, requested her visitor to elaborate, the “Buddies in Low Locations” crooner defined that he and the Aerosmith frontman had been each performing with Joel, 74, in 2008 for a ultimate run of concert events at New York Metropolis’s Shea Stadium earlier than it was demolished.
“I am going on the market, and I’m late anyway, and so they have simply the baseball showers,” Brooks recalled, explaining that he’d already began to wash when he seen another person within the locker room with him. “I had cleaning soap in my eyes and I go searching, and there’s Steven Tyler and he’s showering too.”
The Oklahoma native went on to notice that he and the rocker exchanged greetings. “It was … ,” Brooks mentioned, trailing off. “How many individuals get to say that?”
Garth Brooks and Kelly Clarkson on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Present.’ Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal
Clarkson then joked that Tyler might have had extra bathe companions than Brooks might have guessed. “Effectively, who is aware of?” she quipped. “He’s rock and roll, I don’t know! You won’t be so particular, Garth.”
The ACM Award winner is gearing up for a Las Vegas residency that kicks off Thursday at Caesars Palace. Forward of opening night time, he introduced plans to increase the gig into subsequent 12 months.
“When the 2023 reveals went on sale, I felt extraordinarily lucky and blessed,” he mentioned in a press release on Thursday. “To even suppose I’d get do that for one more 12 months makes me happier than I can clarify.”
Tyler, for his half, is ready to affix Aerosmith for a farewell tour that begins in Philadelphia in September. The live performance sequence — which commemorates the group’s 50 years as a band — will wrap up in Canada in January 2024.
Earlier this 12 months, Tyler denied claims that he sexually assaulted a minor within the Seventies. In court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly in April, the “Dream On” singer alleged that plaintiff Julia Misley consented to their sexual relationship. The Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer additionally requested that the lawsuit be dismissed fully, alleging that Misley “has not suffered any harm or harm” on account of his actions.
Misley filed a lawsuit towards Tyler in December 2022, accusing him of sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery. In court docket docs obtained by the Los Angeles Occasions, Misley alleged that Tyler persuaded her to get an abortion as an adolescent after she turned pregnant along with his baby.
Misley’s authorized group had a powerful response to Tyler’s request to dismiss the case. “By no means have we encountered a authorized protection as obnoxious and doubtlessly harmful because the one which Tyler and his legal professionals launched this week,” lawyer Jeff Anderson wrote in a press launch in April. “We hope Tyler’s mean-spirited gaslighting will backfire on him.”
