Joe Perry, 'Run Run Rudolph'

A couple weeks ago, Joe Perry released a four song EP called Joe Perry's Merry Christmas. One of the tracks is a cover of the classic Christmas song "Run Run Rudolph." Joe put out a video for the fans for the holiday season and that clip is below.

Comments

[Bob]

I love the instrumental arrangement with the horns. It's too bad that, A. His guitar tone during the solo completely clashes with the feel of the arrangement and B. the dude simply cannot sing. I'm sure this might spark debate given how many people have done this song, but IMHO, the definitive version was done by Dave Edmunds.

[Gary]

Joe Perry will always be the coolest guy on any stage. That being said,I got to agree with Bob on his vocal prowess. Leave the singing to Mr. Tyler Joe. Stick to cranking out the riffs we all grew up with and loved.....

[Jimbo]

Love the upside down Strat..wonder if the is the one he used back in the Joe Perry Project days

[Him]

If he let the music do the talking (that's for you, Jimbo), this might be "meh." As it stands, I think he should stick to the baked beans.

Now, can you figure out a way to stop the endless procession of paint-by-the-pop-numbers songs and albums and get back to doing what you were known for . . . before you were the go-to balladeers for effects-laden summer blockbusters? You've always wanted to do this? Really?!!? Even with Aerosmith? If that's true, I have to take my observations below with a huge grain of salt. I guess you have slowly morphed into one member of the diet-Tonic Twins.

If you can't pick up some of those toys from the glory years, perhaps a permanent vacation (or a solo shot at exercising your frustrations with Tyler) is best. It's a sad shame that Morman died this year (Farren would be okay, and Bell didn't do it for me). But I think he needs an old soul, and not a young gun, to get some sparks flying.

For whatever reason, Tyler has decided to mug for the camera and focus on being a brand, not being _in_ a band. So much more the shame, given that he still could bring it if he wanted to do so.

Sorry if this feels like a digression. But, for the life of me, I can't figure out what it is that makes this man and this band so tone deaf.

[Metalboy!]

Agreed, HIM... and your witty observation that the Toxic Twins have devolved into the Diet Tonic Twins sums up their seemingly self-inflicted conundrum.

Tyler/Perry are more like Tyler Perry, the movie and TV show machine, when it comes to the art of making homogenized pre-packaging pop. And when the Diet Tonic Twins do attempt something different, the result falls way short of spectacular and actually downright odd ("Legendary Child" anyone?).

These guys are either being mishandled or won't listen to their handlers but I speculate it's probably both, which is baffling.

As I said before in Comments on Allyson's other recent post about Perry -- the one showing him fish-out-of-water awkward, disingenuously hawking baked beans on an obscure talk show, I find it hard to believe this is the kind of dubious project Perry (or Tyler) needs to get involved in.

Is this really what he or Tyler have to resort to now in order to make a buck? celebrityworth.com pegs him at $120,000,000 and Tyler at $130,000,000.

As HIM referenced earlier, Joe, "Let The Music Do The Talking", just be damn sure it doesn't sound like this!

p.s. Bob, I like the Dave Edmunds version, for sure, but isn't Kieth Richards' take the definitive version? He can't sing either but, for some reason, he can get away with it, unlike our subject(s) at hand. For more amusement, check out Lemmy, Billy Gibbons and Dave Grohl doing "Run Run Rudolph" from the compilation, "We Wish You A Hairy Christmas" or L.A. Guns' rendition on "Monster Ballads X-Mas".

[Bob]

Mr. Metalboy!, my good sir, I also love the Keith Richards version, and I agree that his substandard voice comes across as somehow cool, unlike a lot of other people who can't sing. For me, what makes the Dave Edmunds version the definitive one is the incessant chugging groove created by Edmunds' rhythm guitar combined with Geraint Watkins' incredible Johnnie Johnson style piano.

[Rita]

After reading the comments, I expected him to sound worse than he does. I have heard worse singers.

He still looks so cool playing guitar though. Too bad all grandpas didn't look this good.