Aerosmith News

BOSTON GLOBE
By Mark Shanahan & Paysha Rhone

Relax, all you Aerosmith acolytes, the band is heading back to the studio in October and will hit the road next spring. In the meantime, drummer Joey Kramer is staying busy with bluesman James Montgomery, playing dates as the Kramer/Montgomery Band. "James has been around as long as we have, and we've always talked about playing together," Kramer told us. "He had a few dates and wondered if I'd be into it. I said, 'Sure.' " The gigs are Sept. 12 at the Roxy and Sept. 13 at the Academy of Music in Northampton. (Tickets go on sale today via TicketWeb.) There'll be special guests at both shows, including guitarist J. Geils, harpist James Cotton, the Rolling Stones' Uptown Horns, and Ernie Boch Jr.'s band, the Automatics, with former Boston members Sib Hashian and Barry Goudreau. "It's basically blues," Kramer said. "But we'll do a few Aerosmith tunes, too."