AEROSMITH began work on its first all-new album since 2001 last year, with the rest of the band working on music while singer Steven Tyler made his "American Idol" debut, but bassist Tom Hamilton revealed that the release date of the new CD has been pushed back to September. He also spoke about the way the band was portrayed during a segment that aired on the March 11 edition of "60 Minutes" on CBS news magazine.

When the finished piece aired it appeared that the band was crucifying Tyler, but Hamilton says the reality of the situation was a little different than the way it was presented on TV

He said “It was tough to watch. They took comments that we made during very deep conversations that we had during the interview and sort of barraged Steven with them. I thought it was a little brutal the way that did it, but it was the truth —everybody speaking what they were feeling. I cringed a little bit, because when we did these interviews, we talked about a lot of things involving anger yet a lot of other things involving love and brotherhood. And when they [edited the segment], they used whatever we said about Steven that was negative and just nailed him with it to get his reaction. So he got pissed off and said a couple of things that kind of were demeaning to the rest of us. Yet the second that it was over, I texted him and I said, 'Hey, you did a great job.' 'Cause I thought he was put in a position where he had to defend himself, and I thought he did it well."

and Lara Logan, the correspondent, was down there, and when she came to do the interview, she had a very low-cut top on. So I'm like, 'Ahh, that's how they do it.' They show their boobs and get you to talk about stuff. And then, there you are. . . It works every time."

AEROSMITH recently completed work on a reworked version of its 1991 outtake "Legendary Child" for inclusion in the upcoming summer film "GI Joe: Retaliation", which arrives in theaters in June. The song is also expected to appear on AEROSMITH's long-awaited new studio CD.