Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said the band is starting auditions to replace lead singer Steven Tyler.
"We'll have found a new singer by the summer and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road," he told Canada's QMI news agency.
Tyler, who is currently in rehab for an addiction to painkillers, insisted in November he was not quitting the band.
But Perry said he thought Tyler would not be available for a while.
