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If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Joe Perry

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Joe Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 10
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Anthony Joseph Pereira
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