Dream on: Livin' on the Edge with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith

Fabulous read, could not put it down ! I may be a little biased, as loved everything about Cyrinda Foxe. Only wish a little more was written about early New York years, but still enjoyed it. So sad she did not live to a good age. Rock on forever Cyrinda !

A good portrait of what an unruled life of abuse of drugs mixed with lots of money may be. The author claims she wrote the book because of a law suit against her former husband. As literature is not a good book, strong and colloquial language is used and there is a bit of chronological disorientation, but it transmits what a crazy and sad life these people lived.If you are curious to understand what was like to live with Steven Tyler while he was constantly on drugs, you may find it interesting further than that...it does not provide much more information than the domestic drama this woman went through again and again.

It's said that one should not speak ill of the dead. But "Dream On: Livin' On the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith" might leave you wanting to do just that for Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler, the late ex-wife of Steven Tyler and (by her own admission) a huge pain in the backside. Foxe-Tyler's autobiography is a slow embittered grind that seems less like a recounting of her own life than an endless stream of seedy recountings about just what a jerk her ex is.Born to a moody abusive mother with a penchant for marrying various moody abusive men, Cyrinda (then Kathleen Victoria Hetzekian -- although she refuses to reveal the last, because "I want to leave my father out of this") was a miserable military brat lugged around the globe.Her refuges: rock'n'roll (Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones), light drug use, and sexual experimentation with the boys on base... and pretty soon, her life was all about those three things. Before long, she had left Oklahoma and Texas behind for the bright lights of the big city, namely New York -- courtesy of Lou Reed and a pair of Danish black boots. And despite being "the most naive, cotton-candy-headed being in the world," Cyrinda quickly established herself in Max's Kansas City, NYC's gay underworld, and Andy Warhol.And then after a brief first marriage (her first husband is a faceless footnote), she met, got pregnant by and married Steven Tyler, the volatile and popular singer for the band Aerosmith. But of course passion doesn't last forever, and despite having a beautiful daughter between them, their acrimonious marriage was doomed from the start.There are two kinds of rock wives/paramours: the classy and genuinely intelligent ones like Marianne Faithfull and Bebe Buell, and then there are the Angela Bowie ones who want to shovel dirt on their exes. Cyrinda is solidly in the latter grouping -- "Dream On: Livin' On the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith" seems to exist solely to smack her ex-husband in the head as frequently as possible, and often as tastelessly as possible (the "dive for it" anecdote is revolting).When she isn't heaping dirt on Tyler's head, Cyrinda devotes most of the book to ranting randomly about various topics -- she raves about gays, her hatred of religion, her aversion to getting a job (to the point of sleeping with people for room and board) and how she is cooler and more in tune with young people and sex than her contemporaries. She also seems a bit fixated on her own sexual exploits, ranging from unofficial prostitution to a threesome with David and Angela Bowie to voyeuristic peeking at others having sex.And her embitterment spreads to everything in this book, including other members of Steven Tyler's family --she gets in some digs at his ex-lover Buell and daughter Liv, barely acknowledges his second wife Teresa, and utterly ignores his third and fourth kids.And it's undeniable that Tyler was a drug-addled mess for countless years... and that's just what his friends say. But despite her seedy anecdotes about Tyler, the person who is most degraded in "Dream On" is Cyrinda herself -- she comes across as lazy (how dare her ex not hire a full-time nanny for someone who refuses to get a job!), hypocritical (she demonizes Tyler for abuse, while proudly talking about the gouges she left in his face -- by her own admission not the only ones) and generally deluded about how others see her ("You're too intellectual!"). Not to mention deluded about her own place in life (seeing herself as an "aristocrat" compared to Aerosmith)."Dream On: Livin' On the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith" is a sad memoir of a sad woman, whose bitterness wasn't exorcised until the very end of her life. And that bitterness coats every page of her autobiography, leaving you feeling vaguely unclean.

A very badly written embittered book,full of contradictions,written by an author who manages to come across as nothing more then a gold digger & completely unlikable!It appears the sole purpose Steven tylers late ex wife wrote this book was to paint him as the bad man & her as a saint.That & to boast about her various other conquests & to repeatedly tell the reader how fabulous & beautiful she was in her glory days.I dont think this would be of any interest to anyone expecting an insight into the real Steven tyler or life in a rock n roll marraige & its definitely not worth its current price tag!

「セレブの恋愛ヒストリー」というNYに住む人のブログによると、この本はかなり評判が悪く、スティ-ブンタイラーにも訴えられた程だったそうです。そんな前知識を知った上であえて買ったのは、海外のロックスターは雲の上の存在、でもプライバシーが知りたい、という好奇心でしょう。若かりし７０年代、雑誌ミュージックライフを愛読していた頃、エアロスミスのグラビアページにはしばしばこの著者、シリンダが登場していて、スティーブンの奥さんってきれいだな～デビッドヨハンセンから略奪したんだって、やっぱロックスターってかっこいいな～なんて感心していたもので、そんな彼女のライフストーリーはどんなかな？と。読むと、内容は確かに暴露本ですが、最初の妻として彼女の目から観たスティーブンの姿をいい面も悪い面も包み隠さず綴っており、音楽雑誌等では得られない情報を知らされました。シリンダの生い立ちから、ニューヨークで女優の卵としての活動、デビッドボウイとの恋愛、ドールズのデビッドヨハンセンとの結婚、中盤からは特にスティーブンとの出会い、結婚、、出産、子育て、ドラッグ依存、離婚、シングルマザーとしての生活などが赤裸々に語られていました。彼女はスティーブンの、そして彼女自身も苦しんだドラック依存との戦いや彼との離婚が成立するまでのプロセスにおいて、彼のことをひどくこきおろしています。だから訴えられたのかも？「彼はアルコール依存の会でしらふになってから、私に一度も詫びたことがない。」とか、「私と別れた後は二度と結婚しないと言ってたくせに離婚６か月後に娼婦と再婚した。」など。ただこの本に書かれたことの真偽のほどは知る余地がないです。彼女の個人的な感情が事実を誇張してしまったかもしれません。以前に読んだエアロスミスの自伝本（日本語訳）の内容と矛盾する点もあります。前述の「娼婦と再婚した。」です。再婚したテレサバリックは服飾デザイナーで娼婦というのは違うのではないか？と思うのですが。また、自伝本によると、シリンダは娘ミアの養育権を保持し、毎月、高額の扶養手当を保証された、と書かれていましたが、この本によれば、扶養料のことでかなり揉めたようです。個人的感情が入っていれば真実と違ってくるのは仕方ないのでしょう。自伝本だって事実がきちんと書かれているか証明できないのですから。最後の章では、離婚成立後、「開放されたことは素晴らしいゴールに思える。」と綴り、争いを戦い終えた安堵感が感じられます。スティーブンをサイコ呼ばわりしたり、性生活をあまりにあからさまに描いたり、ひんしゅくを買うような内容も確かにあったかもしれません。が、読み終えてみると、シリンダは強い母であったのだ、というのが率直な感想です。彼女は２００２年に脳腫瘍で５０歳の若さで死去しました。若い頃の数々の苦労が大きなストレスとなったのかもしれません。心よりご冥福を祈ります。

Oh, I loved this book and suffered for her as I read it..It wasa well written profile and character development of an intelligentand special woman who may not have fulfilled her potential exceptin her support of her friends and in the writing of this book.I felt the flavor of her childhood and eventual life in NewYorkCityand elsewhere..I cared about her and for her...It made me thinkand wonder what other autobiographies I could read... She wasnot a groupie...but a wife and mother who happened to lovemusicians and artists and had a gift for working with specialpeople...She was an artist in her own right who should berecognized and admired for her flair and design and aestheticsand love and light...I highly recommend this book...Next I planto read Nora, The real Molly Bloom.By the way, she is an inspiration to my actress daughter for hernew role and I really found Cyrinda Foxe very likeable. Too badI did not get to be her friend....except through her book andher art on ovoworks/smug.mug..

Excellent book!!

There were pages that were folded in & creased at bottom so I'm not sure if it was brand new

I soooo enjoyed the story from her perspective, and I totally loved the read........I could hardly put this book down. I would definately recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about their marriage and some inside information about the band.