Steven Tyler Demonstrates Mic Stylings to Stephen Colbert: Watch
Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler may have rock's finest microphone game. Over four decades, he's built a repertoire of classic stage moves with his scarf-draped stand, dipping and swiveling as if it's an extra appendage. On Friday, the frontman dropped by The Late Show, where he taught some of that magic to host Stephen Colbert.
"This is my girlfriend that I live vicariously through on-stage," Tyler says in the clip, hauling his stand out to center stage. "I feel like I'm slightly underdressed for this microphone stand right now," Colbert responds. "How do you rock out with a mic? Because I sometimes have to sing with a mic and I don't know what to do. I don't know whether to be rough with it, I don't know whether to treat it like a lady. How do I approach the mic in a way that I can have a relationship with it?"
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