Judge Rules Against Aerosmith's Joey Kramer

Joey Kramer is second on the right

Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer probably isn’t feeling any sweet emotions after a judge ruled against him Wednesday, The NY Daily News reports.

The Superior Court judge in Plymouth County, Mass., decided Kramer can’t force his best-selling band to let him perform with the group at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, even after he flew to Los Angeles and was turned away from a practice on Monday.

“Given that Kramer has not played with the band in six months and the dearth of available rehearsal time before the upcoming (Grammy) performances, Kramer has not shown a realistic alternative course of action sufficient to protect the band’s business interests,” Judge Mark Gildea ruled.

“It is hereby ordered that the plaintiff’s request for injunctive relief be denied,” he wrote.

Kramer, 69, sought court intervention in the battle with an emergency legal filing on Friday.

In his paperwork, Kramer said singer Steven Tyler, guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford and bassist Tom Hamilton had no right to block him from rejoining the group when he tried to return to their “lucrative” Las Vegas residency last November.

He said the situation turned “devastating” when he also learned he’d be sidelined during the group’s Grammy honors this month, which include a MusiCares Person of the Year award and a “career-spanning medley” performed live during Sunday night’s show.

His breach of contract complaint asked the judge to step in with an immediate injunction restoring his drummer role.