Occasional Aerosmith frontman and new American Idol liability Steven Tyler has addressed those longstanding rumors surrounding his audition for a reunited Led Zeppelin in 2008, saying that he was actually offered the job of filling in for abstaining singer Robert Plant, but that he flatly turned it down. Appearing on Howard Stern’s show, Tyler rejected earlier claims—propagated by his bandmate Joe Perry—that his audition for Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Jason Bonham had been “shambolic,” with Tyler forgetting many of the words and generally embarrassing himself. Instead, Tyler claims the audition was really a hit, with Tyler bringing the sort of infusion of fresh young energy that only a 60-year-old singer could provide, and the whole thing going so well that Page immediately asked him, “You want to make a record with me?” Yet in Tyler’s words, “I looked Jimmy in the eyes… I went, 'No.' I'm in Aerosmith. He's in the biggest band in the world and I'm in a band like that. I have such an allegiance to my band and I love it so much." Ah, well, at least you didn’t waste anyone’s time, then.