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Hey, Upper East Siders… err, Aerosmith fans… Gossip Girl here. Looks like S and Little J (and by that I mean, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) haven’t stopped their feuding yet. Rolling Stone scored an exclusive interview with Perry, in which he makes it known that Tyler isn’t necessarily returning to the band — not matter what Lips has to say about it.

Here’s how Perry tells the story of what went down Tuesday night at his band’s Irving Plaza performance: “There was all this commotion during our encore break and somebody said, ‘Steven is here’… And I was like, ‘What?’” That’s when Tyler asked if it would be cool for him to come onstage with the band for “Walk This Way.” “Being an acquaintance of 40 years, I said, ‘Why not?’ ” Perry told Rolling Stone. “So he came up and sang and that was the last I saw of him.” And, it sounds like, Perry had no idea that Tyler was going to make his much-publicized announcement.

Oh, boy. But the Perry interview does get to the root of the disagreement between Tyler and his bandmates: It’s a timing thing. “He wants to take two years off from the band,” said Perry. “The rest of the band wants to keep on working. We have so many different options to fill up that time. Anything is possible at this point. Basically, any communication that we’ve had over the last couple of months has been through managers, so that’s been pretty strange.” Yeah, I would say so.

What’s interesting here, besides the drama, is where the other members of Aerosmith are in all of this. It sounds like they’re in total agreement with Perry, but we haven’t heard them say anything publicly yet, either. So: Anyone wanna take a stab at guessing what the next installment of Gossip Girl: Aerosmith will bring?