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Originally published on June 27, 2001 at LiveDaily.com
MANSFIELD, Mass. — Aerosmith has been hitting cities throughout the U.S. since early June, but only at the Boston-based band’s first Massachusetts stop could you see a fan waving a banner proclaiming that guitar god Joe Perry’s mother “Mary Perry was my gym teacher.”