Joe Rogan - Steven Tyler Did American Idol So He Could Buy a House

Well with the band, it's all we all get paid to sing. Right. When I took Idol. Ka-ching. Started making some paper. Get that paper. Fuck. Yeah. Everybody made fun of me. And believe me. Did you do it just for the money? No. But, but... No, you know why I did it? Why? Because I thought nobody knew who I was. Everybody knows this guy. Singing. Nobody knew you as a human. Nobody knew who was this guy. Oh. So you wanted them to know you as a human. My mom's passed away and she said, she said, you know, they need to see that side of you. You as a person. But you decided that American Idol was the best way to show that? I thought that was the first thing was... What else was... I had no managers back then that had the good sense to offer me anything. I got the offer from Marty Fredrickson. How long ago was this? How long have you been on this for? Two thousand... Two thousand... Ten eleven, eleven to twelve. I got to sit next to J.Lo and Randy Jackson, that motherfucker. A beautiful guy. J.Lo. J.Lo's beautiful. You know what us men need, I think what everyone needs is the word called incentive. Right? Is it her ass? It was her ass at the time. I'd look at it all the time, but she'd say you're her assing me and I'd say, who's ass? Her ass. Yeah, I know. The funniest fucking thing is we would do all three of us, and I think that's missing now, but... All three of us... To do American Idol, you got to go to Des Moines, Iowa. And in a gym. And you're all set up with a whole crew and three people with microphones, you know, the 12-foot mics hanging down over your head like this and 12 cameras and hi-def up here at Wazoo. And... But 50, 40 people a day would come through. All these 16-year-old, 17-year-old little trollops with, you know, red lipstick on and push up her eyes and going, to dream the American dream. Get out of here. You know, after the 30th, 40th one, you're sitting there doing this. Right. You know, so you just got to... You have to need that incentive from each other. And sometimes it would get so... It was just... Shit burned out after the 40th person, 50th person. But that's what people like, though. There's something about American Idol. We like really talented people, but we also like people who are delusional. Yeah, and we trust me. It took me about... Two weeks to get into it because I told myself, I am never going to tell some young girl who can't sing, that she can't sing, get the fuck out of here. Right. Like that other guy. You know what? I don't like... That Simon guy? Yeah, Simon. I don't like your music, besides which it's country and I don't like country. I heard him say that. That seems not appropriate. But that's also foolish. He's a weird case, isn't he? Because he's not a singer. Well, you know what? He's whatever he is. I said, I'm singer. How can I say that to a girl? It's going to be... There may be some days breastfeeder baby wants to sing. Maybe she wants to... Her baby's sick and she's sitting on the bed and wants to sing, but J. Lo told her she can't. Right. I didn't have it in me. I'd rather... Well, you shouldn't have it in you. I mean, that's hish-stick, right? Hish-stick is to be a mean guy. Yeah. And people like that. They like that mean guy shit. They would say to me, you gotta be... Come on, man. Take it up a notch. I would say that. The producers? You're kidding? They don't know what the fuck they're doing. They're the ones who... They got me a couple times ago. Did they? Oh, yeah. They got you to turn it up and then you feel bad about it. Disingenuous. Well, you know, I mean like... There would be moments where... I mean, we were burnt. Where, like I said, Iowa or some Texas. I'd look over and... The boom started going like this, right? And it started getting it and they would say, Number one, because it was in the shot, you know? Right. You know, and then so I would whip out my... A limerick, you know. It was... I'd go, time for a limerick and stop everybody. Everyone would stop. I'd say something like... You know, I want some metal whore from Dallas. She used a dynamite stick for a phallus. They found a vagina in North Carolina in her asshole in Buckingham Palace. And the fucking... You'd see the boom going like this. The place was just enough to bring it up and we'd finish two more and we'd leave. But it was fun like that. And it was a good payday. So when you were asking me to have a house for Maui... Yeah. And I was made fun of for doing that. Well, who made fun of you for doing that? Joe Perry didn't think it was a smart thing. He said, that's one step under Ninja Turtles. And he's my bro. And I read that and I thought, what the fuck am I doing? Joe, keep in mind when I'm alone by myself, I went... Is he right? Well, no, I thought to myself, would Bob Dylan do this? Yeah, I had those thoughts. Right. Kind of fucked me up for a minute. But then I went... So Dylan doesn't have a house on Maui, does he? No, I didn't have one then. But I wanted one. Got a house. He's like, how much money that guy's got? I'm sure. He's got a house everywhere. He's probably got a house in the moon. So I took Idol and I... No, I never...