IB on Aerosmith, LaPolt, Green

SWEET EMOTION: With the next Aerosmith album nearing completion, wonderers are wondering what impact Steven Tyler’s high-profile Idol gig will have on sales of the Columbia release. Meanwhile, says our industry insider I.B. Bad, there’s word of increasing drama between band manager Trudy Green and attorney Dina LaPolt, who represents Tyler, over the respective roles of the frontman and guitarist Joe Perry, who have a long history of butting heads over the band’s direction. (5/17a)