Steven Tyler dies in 1969

In keeping with the recent spate of musical what if's:

In 1969 Steven Tyler attended a concert in Sunapee New Hampshire and saw future Aerosmith bandmates Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton. In this TL, Tyler has a few too many drinks during/after the show and wraps his car around a tree later that night.

What are the impacts of music in the 70s, 80s, and beyond if, as a result, Aerosmith never forms?
 
Well then, the bands carrying the torch for Heavy Metal in the New World in the early seventies are reduced to Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and KISS. Without Tyler's Southern connections, the Heavy Metal/Southern Rock links form much later, if at all.

In all likelihood, Tom Petty dosen't record Refuge or You're Jamming Me, and in the highly unlikely event that the same people who formed Pantera still meet and start a band in this TL, they'll sound more like The Fabulous Thunderbirds or ZZ Top than Metalica or Megadeth.
 
Aerosmith also helped bring Rap into the mainstream when they re-recorded Walk This Way with Run DMC. The song and the video arguably helped push Rap into the mainstream quicker.
 

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Aerosmith also helped bring Rap into the mainstream when they re-recorded Walk This Way with Run DMC. The song and the video arguably helped push Rap into the mainstream quicker.


Well, keep Rap out the limelight would be a fair trade for a world with Aerosmith, methinks :p
 
Aerosmith also helped bring Rap into the mainstream when they re-recorded Walk This Way with Run DMC. The song and the video arguably helped push Rap into the mainstream quicker.

...and contributed to the revival of Aerosmith's popularity in the 1980s
 
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