Aerosmith drummer hopes book will help people

Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer is doing more than playing music this summer -- he's also promoting a book. Kramer will publish his autobiography, Hit Hard: A Story Of Hitting Rock Bottom At The Top, on Tuesday (June 30th). The book chronicles his years of drug and alcohol abuse, as well as battles with depression, a dysfunctional relationship with his father and an antagonistic, ''co-dependent'' friendship with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.

Kramer tells us that he hopes readers will learn something from his experiences: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] ''Really my goal is for it to be entertaining but at the same time I think the primary goal that I have is to help people, and that's always been my premise is to help people and to be of service and be entertaining. So as long as I can continue doing what I'm doing I think that writing the book is just another step along the way of helping other people.''

Kramer wrote Hit Hard with William Patrick and Keith Garde. Aerosmith published a band biography, Walk This Way: The Autobiography Of Aerosmith, in 1997. But Kramer isn't the only group member with his own memoir; Steven Tyler is working on Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, which has been moved from an October publication date to the summer of 2010.

Aerosmith is currently on tour with ZZ Top and next performs Friday (June 26th) in Wantagh, N.Y.
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