JOE PERRY PROJECT TAKES OFF

Heaven may not look anything like the darkened, seedy, cement-floored Keystone nightclub in Berkeley, California, but Joe Perry, former lead guitarist and writing force in Aerosmith, isn’t complaining. Slouching down next to his striking wife, Elissa, on a plastic-covered couch in the sparsely furnished Keystone dressing room, Joe peers out from behind long curtains of black hair and there isn’t a trace of the patented Aerosmith scowl or lip pout.