''[I was at] this restaurant, the Anchorage...[and] the French fries were brilliant...crispy, delicious, thick. I asked, 'Who made these?' Well, this guy in the back. I said, 'Can I meet him? Bring him out.' They didn't. So I went back. And there he was. Joe Perry. Short hair -- well, kind of long for the time, but not like I liked it -- black horn-rimmed glasses with tape. '' -- Aerosmith's STEVEN TYLER (right) describing his inauspicious first encounter with bandmate Joe Perry, on MTV.com


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