Joe Perry Buys a Loveless

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I was watching Aerosmith in concert in Japan. Joe Perry was in a shop with loads of knives and asked if they had any Loveless. He ended up buying one.
 
"Why would anyone pay $3,000 for a hunting knife? They say, because my name is on it. I'm carrying an awfully big rep. If I were a gunfighter, I'd be hiding in a cave somewhere. But I wouldn't spend that much money for a knife if it were autographed by Jesus Christ himself!"
 
rpn said:
It's good to be a rock star.

:D
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It's good to be a rock star... and then have your songs featured on Guitar Hero.

Apparently they made more money off the royalties from that video game than any of their albums.
 
MaxFactor said:
It's good to be a rock star... and then have your songs featured on Guitar Hero.

Apparently they made more money off the royalties from that video game than any of their albums.
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Is that true?. Thats crazy if it is.
 
In fact, if there is any apologizing to be done, Loveless figures that it is owed to him by customers who refuse to treat his work as something of utility, who put his knives in cases and "fondle and drool over them."

"Ninety percent of my knives aren't used!" he exclaims. "And, damn it, they should be out working. That's why I make them. When some old cowboy or guide comes back to me with a knife that's worn down to a nub and he says, 'That thing fit my hand better than any knife I'd ever had, and it worked longer, too,' that's fame. That's what I'm on earth for. A knife is a tool, and if we don't treat our tools with a certain familiar contempt, we lose perspective."
 
leghog said:
In fact, if there is any apologizing to be done, Loveless figures that it is owed to him by customers who refuse to treat his work as something of utility, who put his knives in cases and "fondle and drool over them."

"Ninety percent of my knives aren't used!" he exclaims. "And, damn it, they should be out working. That's why I make them. When some old cowboy or guide comes back to me with a knife that's worn down to a nub and he says, 'That thing fit my hand better than any knife I'd ever had, and it worked longer, too,' that's fame. That's what I'm on earth for. A knife is a tool, and if we don't treat our tools with a certain familiar contempt, we lose perspective."
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Great quote. I would have loved to have met him. :)
 
jeepin said:
Is that true?. Thats crazy if it is.
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"The game saw more than $50 million in sales in the first three months following its release... The band itself saw a 40% increase in their catalog sales in the weeks following the game's release. According to Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith has made more money for the band than any sales of their previous albums..."


jeepin said:
Great quote. I would have loved to have met him. :)
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I've seen the last sentence of that quote numerous times but never realized who it was from. To be honest, I don't know much about Bob Loveless or his knives. The Loveless Knives that I've seen have always seemed completely unattainable so they never garnered much attention from me. With that said... I'm off to check out some pics of Loveless' work.

THE PUNISHER said:
He will hang it on a wall.
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Well, pretty sure Mr. Loveless is turning in his grave. If I'm ever lucky enough to get one I'll be sure to use it like it was meant to be used.
 
I was watching the beggining of that documentary the other night. I just went back and watched it. Very cool. My whole family are big Aerosmith fans. I've seen them live a few times too :) Thanks for sharing, i probably would have never known he was into knives :)
 
jeepin said:
Is that true?. Thats crazy if it is.
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It could very well be. Royalties and record contracts are crazy things. Acts like MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, and TLC sold millions of units, yet ended up broke because the record companies took all the cash (plus, bad financial decisions on the artists' parts). Then you look at James Horner, who got $1 for every "Titanic" soundtrack sold. Obviously he made himself a fantastic deal, which allows him to phone in his craptastic, recycled scores for movies for decades to come. It's all in the details of the record deal. Sometimes an act makes very little from actual record sales, but can make a bundle in royalties when a single song is featured in the soundtrack of some popular movie or TV show. Then there's the after-affects. Look at Rick Astley, for example. In the case of Aerosmith, the "Guitar Hero" makers had to pay a royalty to use their song(s). This was likely a different clause in the contract than actual record sales, which netted them a better percentage and a massive number of sales because of the popularity of the game. And then of course there's the boost in record sales (or iTunes or whatever) that they saw afterwards.
 
I'm not a fan of Aerosmith, but I have heard Steven and Joe interviewed and both stated that they hunt and like guns.
 
He likes DDR's too.

[video=youtube;jIgQ_N8Kj28]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgQ_N8Kj28[/video]
 
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