...hmmmm... the 'Hair Metal' period was VERY dominant, but I'll try to answer.... (70's) - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zep) (80's) - Cum On Feel The Noize (Quiet Riot) ....both tunes DEFINED their decade's genres, sooo, I'll stick with those.... ; )
When I saw the words 'how did a 17 year old write this complex classic,' I knew you were talking about Dream On. I was blown away when I found out how young Steven was when he wrote it; it's so profound and hints at life experience far beyond his years.
I told this story a couple of weeks ago, gonna tell it again: When I was 18 I went to see Aerosmith/Joan Jett with my older sister. A guy in her band owned a music store and Joe Perry and the guitar techs came in that day and bought some things and handed off some great tickets to him as a thank you. We had two incredibly good seats and I noticed about halfway through Aerosmith's set that John Kalodner was literally directly in front of me. He had his wife with him and was taking photos of the band. For those unfamiliar, Kalodner was the A&R director for Geffen Records, and is one of the most powerful men in Rock And Roll history. He was the bearded man in all the Aerosmith videos. When I saw who was literally 12" in front of me I leaned over to my sister and did my best to whisper through the roar of the amps: "Oh shit...that's John Kalodner". She couldn't hear me clearly and responded in a loud voice: "Who the f**k is JOHN COLLANDER?". He immediately wheeled around and gave us both the stare of death. My sister, always quick on her feet leaned over to him and yelled: "Sorry. Didn't recognize you without the wedding dress".
@@allengray5748 as best I can remember he wasn't exactly all smiles. It didn't seem to really matter to her and we were both floored by how incredibly loud and perfect the bottom end of the sound was. If I remember right they were playing "Round And Round" and it was amazing. Bass and bass drum that literally went through you like a shockwave but you could still make out every word Steven Tyler was singing.
Whereas The Stones were popular literally around the entire world. Aerosmith wasn’t a band the UK, Europe, Australia had even heard of during the 70’s, 80’s and much of the 90’s. With more people being online from the 90’s more people outside of the US started hearing about them but sadly they really cracked it outside if the US
Would The Eagles be America's "Beatles"? IMHO Aerosmith is the great American Rock band...rock band being key word. there are others to consider of course, Eagles, Allman bros and one of the closest competitors for that title, Van Halen. I would put Eagles in a different category, as not quite rock, call Allman bros Southern rock and say Van Halen was a touch less successful, probably chalk that up to turmoil within the band.
Back when Steven Tyler was an "American Idol" judge, I used to get to chat with him backstage after almost every episode. He was like Forrest Gump's proverbial box of chocolates... you never knew what you were going to get! Sometimes, he'd be completely serious about what had happened on that night's episode. Sometimes, he'd go off on some completely random tangent. And sometimes, he'd turn things around and start to ask me and my producing partner questions. It was never a dull moment with him, and I have great memories of them all!
I don't know if you actually covered these stories about Aerosmith, but here's a few fun ones: -The money with which Steven bought the piano that he used to record Dream On belonged to the mafia. -A song from Rock In A Hard Place called Push Comes To Shove is a diss track. Steven is dissing Joe and his Joe Perry Project. -The intro to the song Blind Man features a switchblade knife opening. -The 4 snare beats at the fake ending in Livin' On The Edge are played by Steven on a snare drum that he stole from his high school back when he was a student. -They wanted to call Get A Grip, Pitbulls On Crack. -Joanie's Butterfly is about a dream that Steven had while he was on drugs. -Pink was supposed to be called Kink -The drum solo at the end of the song Crash features Steven banging on a trash can. -Aerosmith almost bought the plane that claimed the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but it was deemed unsafe. -The first digital track on the internet was their song Head First. -They made the first interactive webcast in 1998. People who watched the stream could choose between different cameras to create their own experience. The concert is up on UA-cam but the quality is not up to today's standards.
As someone who grew up with Aerosmith playing during Mom and Dads party days in the 80s! Anything from Toys in the Attic gets a vote from me! The title track and big 10 inch record were two of my faves! Ultimately I would probably agree with your pics!
Living in the Boston area, Aerosmith has always been one of my favorite bands. I have seen them many times in concert, including a couple of times when they used to do their incredible New Year's Eve concerts at Boston Garden. I couldn't believe when he was in his late 50s still doing those back-flips! Living south of Boston, I was even lucky to see Steven a few times when he lived in the area. I still laugh that the first time was buying things in a garden center, last place I would expect to see him. 😁 I was watching my little niece while her mom bought some plants, and I told her there was Steven Tyler. She said "Who is that?" Her nanny had a poster of Bon Jovi on the wall, so for relevance to a 4-year old, I told her he was in a band like Bon Jovi. What was funny was that months later, she saw an Aerosmith video on MTV and got excited amazingly remembering and pointing out that "It's Stevie Tyler!" LOL
I could fill up the comment section with both my direct and indirect experiences of each Aerosmith Evolution pick. They've basically framed the entire GenX soundtrack without trying. Great video!
Their live shows around the Pump era were awesome, (I didn't see them prior) the way Steven would cartwheel from off stage to centre stage to the opening beat and nail the vocal left a big impression on what a rock show could/ should be. I also remember being close enough that the stage volume was louder than the Front-of-House volume, not something I've really heard since at arena type gigs, these days probably never again with in ears and silent stages... Also I think Brad is a very underrated guitar player and part of that Aerosmith sound.
I saw them on that tour. Steven Tyler climber about 15 feet up the 40 ft. tall curtains at the edge of the stage like a spider monkey and crawled back down them upside down like Linda Blair or something. After their encore (I think "Draw The Line" was the second and final encore) he turned to go backstage and yelled over his shoulder into the microphone: "Goodnight Birmingham...don't let your meat loaf".
Already an afficionado of "classic rock" at the time, I remember watching in absolute disbelief when Run DMC debuted the "Walk This Way" collaboration. The first time I saw it (on Canada's MuchMusic video network, I think), I remember literally jumping out of my chair in excitement when I realized that it was actually Aerosmith in the "studio next door" in the video. I KNEW at that moment that the Bad Boys from Boston were making a comeback. Their next two albums would prove me MORE than right, seemingly effortlessly outperforming everything they had ever done previously.
I bought their first album before there was any radio airplay. Recorded it to cassette, gave it to my buddy. He said this group sucks. About six months latter, WMMS Cleveland started playing "Dream On" just before the 2nd Aerosmith album was released. Then, they became my buddies favorite band. Sad, that some people don't know what's good music without a radio station telling them.
Tyler leaves it all at the microphone. As a band, they simply refused to quit and fade away, even with their demons, pop music style changes, age, band fights and any other excuses. Thanks Adam.
I was born near Boston in 1967 and moved to Southern California in October of 1973. I remember vacationing in Cape Cod that summer, not knowing I would be leaving that fall. Riding the streets on my Big Wheel with my older brother on his ten-speed, a transistor radio hung from his handlebars, I heard, for the first time, “Boston’s own Aerosmith with Dream On!” Life was beyond good. I will never forget that moment.
In the 90s I knew a studio musician. He was really reclusive, but we struck up a friendship and he told me how he had done work for Aerosmith a couple times. He had Steven Tyler’s and Tom Hamilton’s phone numbers. At first I didn’t believe him, but he first called Tom Hamilton, then Steven Tyler. I got to have a nice 30-45 minute conversation with each of them. They had so much good to say about my friend, Scott, who everybody called Mouse because he was so tiny. Mouse was an amazing musician. He could play just about any instrument. That was back in the days where he had to burn his music onto a CD and send it through the mail or UPS. He didn’t play in any Aerosmith albums, but Steven Tyler said he helped Joe Perry work on some solos. Mouse moved away and then I moved and lost track of him. I often wonder what happened to him.
Worked with this band in the 70’s They are still my friends, been 50 years now Our country’s best kick ass rock band. Saw them in Pittsburgh on the last tour before Stevens injury and they hadn’t missed a beat.
Last Child, Same Old Song and Dance, and their covers of Train Kept A-Rollin’, Big Ten Inch Record, Remember (Walking in the Sand), and Come Together, are all great songs not mentioned in this video.
I've argued with more than one person that Rocks is their best album. Bought it the first week it was out, listened to nothing else for the rest of the week - before that, it was Get Your Wings - honesty their first 4 albums are almost flawless
I'm convinced that "Nobody's Fault" is the most important song of the 1970s in terms of the evolution of hard rock. The sound originated right there, on that song.
I really enjoy your channel POR. You're teaching old guys like me new stuff about the great music of our youth! Thanks for that. Really loving these 5 song series that give a lot of insight to the truth & inspiration behind the lyrics and a lot of the pain and infighting that our favorite bands websites to gain success. I guess they figured it was better to tolerate each other rather than give it all up and get a"real" job! While Dream On is a great Aerosmith tune, the one that geabbed me by the throat and pulled me in was Train Kept a Rollin off their first self titlef album. The vocals were amaxing and Joe Perry's guitar work was among some of the best ever recorded. His solos were mind blowing and face melting. I can still remember the first time I heard it and how amazing it was! I still get chills down my spine and perk right up when I hear it today!
I remember being in a bar hearing a woman say "Aerosmith" when a sing came in the jukebox. Her daughter was surprised her mother knew who they were. The mother saying theve been around sunce she was a teen and the daughter claiming they were a new band. I went over to the jukebox and played Back In The Saddle and Walk This Way, so she could hear it for herself.
I always wondered if the "sweathog" reference was tied into the Gabe Kaplan sitcom, "Welcome Back, Kotter," which debuted around the same time. Kaplan played a high school teacher who returned to his old high school and mentor a group of "losers" that were known as "Sweathogs." John Travolta was a sweathog in the role that first brought him to national prominence, and John Sebastian wrote a hit song for the opening sequence, "Welcome Back."
Even if Crazy-Amazing-Cryin' isn't considered high art for the band I would like any expanded list to include Amazing as its lyrically about fighting back from drug addiction which is the only way the group had its successful 2nd act and as you said greatest success. "I was so sick and tired of living a lie....Oh its Amazing when the moment arrives you finally see the light, yeah its amazing when you know you'll be alright....and I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate heart tonight." Many people fight a persistent daemon that keeps them from their best life, drug abuse and otherwise. That makes it a song for everyone.
The most recognizable lyric change in Janie’s got a gun is between the album version and the radio edit. In the album, the lyric says she put a bullet in his brain. In the radio edit the lyrics say she left him in the pouring rain.
A guy on our high school basketball team would blast "Dream On" in the locker room before every game to pump us all up. That song really demonstrated Tyler's incredible sonic capabilities...
21:00 I had the Pump CD that had a leather cover. Anyone remember that??? I’m pretty sure it was pump. It sadly got stolen. It was a limited number of copies sold. I wish I still had it. Not the best album but that leather cover made it really cool.
You're right, Professor on the fact that the Aerosmith/Run DMC colab opened the doors for different genre crossovers. Just loo at Nelly's Over And Over Again with Tim McGraw.
If you want dramatic Robin Williams... Awakenings, Dead Poets Society, Fisher King are some great choices. If you want the Comedic side of him... Mrs Doubtfire, Jumanji. Survivers, etc. If you want creepy, suspense... One Hour Photo, Insomnia, etc. He was a speedy minded comedian who truly had sooo many sides to him. His stand up act was always amazing!❤ I owned one of his older Comedic live albums "Reality, What A Concept" for many years. I wish I knew what happened to it😢
For the 18th birthday of radio station WBCN, the band threw a concert where the only way to go was win the tickets by calling in as caller # 6, 10 etc. This was in March of 1986 at the Worcester Centrum
Sweet Emotion and Janie’s Got A Gun ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Dream On I remember on the AM radio in the late 1970s (1976-1979) as a little boy Angel in 1988 - I had a crush on a girl that year in high school and that rock ballad reminded me of her 😊 I grew up with Aerosmith songs 🎉
Years ago I had a bicycle shop in small town Arizona. My phone was connected through my computer. I had no on hold music at the time and my customers and friends said maybe I should have some elevator music for when I had to put folks on hold. My elevator music was Love in an Elevator. People would call and ask to be put on hold after that. 😂
I love all of these videos where you feature 5 or more songs. We've been getting a lot more of them lately, so YEAH!!! I especially love the redux. I'd love to see a lot more of them from 1978-1990. 😉
Walk This Way was my introduction to Aerosmith as a teen in the mid-to-late 1970s. It was a little time later I heard Sweet Emotion and Dream On. That's three instant classic songs in a 4-year span. I love the Toys In The Attic album, by far their best IMO. Uncle Salty should be considered an all-time classic and I love Toys In the Attic and the cheeky, not-so-subtle Ten-Inch Record.
I took my neighbor's daughter when she was a teenager to see them. This was after Get a Grip was released. Our seats were actually behind the stage, which made for very interesting viewing. 😁 Such a great show!
If you do a 2nd Evolution, I think you really need to focus on the massive impact that the trilogy of the Alicia Silverstone/Liv Tyler videos had on Aerosmith's career. Honestly, all their late 80s and 90s videos were amazing (pun intended) and were about the only things along with Tom Petty forcing MTV to keep playing music videos. I can't really think of a band that had more important music videos to their career than them outside of Whitesnake which was about 99% Tawny and 1% the band and songs.
@@dustybrand I'm youngish Gen X so I absolutely knew that. If it hadn't been Charlies Angels existing, she would have been my entire 5th grade's first crush.
So thrilled you’ve done The Boys from Boston finally! My husband has seen them live over 56 times since his first concert, the famed 1978 concert in Philly where the bottle was thrown ( and broken) on stage ❤
70's: "Stargazer" - Rainbow (Sweet's B-side "Burnin'", Shooting Star's "Last Chance", "Feel Like...." - Bad Company, UFO's "Too Hot To Handle", "Long Time" / "More Than A Feeling" - Boston, Lucifer's Friend anthem "Warriors", and SEVERAL different KANSAS songs all RIGHT behind it); 80's, "The Zoo" - Scorpions (beating out any of "Livin' After Midnight", "Hot Rockin" & "Freewheel Burning" - Priest; Dio-era Sabbath's "Neon Knights", Maiden's "Ides Of March" / "Wrathchild" combo & Queen Of The Reich" - Queensryche by JUST a BIT.....)
I love learning these detailed stories. Sweet Emotion is probably my fav but it's a tough one. So many good ones from differnt decades! Janie's Got a Gun is a great one too. 🎸🎶 Love Joe Perry
Thank You & Happy New Year Adam!! Thanks to my older brother, I learned to love Aerosmith rather quickly and I wasn't a great lover of metal rock. However, it's hard to ignore these guys are / were actually talented. .... and YES!!! Steven Tyler was a great front man. I remember well when Aerosmith did the collab with RUN DMC!! Here in NYC we all thought it was BRILLIANT idea!!! BTW Steven Tyler has 2 daughters Liev Tyler [actor] and Alicia Silverstone, [actor & also appeared in one of the Aerosmith's music videos on MTV ] Cheers from NYC!!!
The father in the “Janie’s Got a Gun” video is Nicholas Guest! Who played Todd Chester (Julia Louise-Dreyfuss’s husband) in the Christmas Vacation film (And I guess I'll quote the film, "why is the carpet all wet, *Todd*?“ "I Don’t Know, Margo”) He's also an accomplished voice actor (mostly in the ADR world) and has done a lot voice-over work for so many films and TV, never knew that till I was doing some research on the video about a decade ago. He’s also the brother of Christopher Guest (The star of This Is Spinal Tap and Jamie Lee Curtis’s Husband)
What?!? No mention of "You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died?" I had to ask my older brother what that actually meant. Was a real eye opener. LOL!
@@badgerpa9 Heck, *I* didn't get it! And that was back in the early 1980's. But i get it. Kids today also don't know what an audio cassette is, and why a pencil was important either. ^-^
Another great video covering an amazing band! Saw them in hmmm 2005 I think it was, Lenny Cravitz opening for them. Amazing show! Had floor seats a couple rows off the end of one of the runways. A hell of a show!
Aerosmith is one of two bands I love that just refused to die. They did it by collaborating with a rap / hip hop artist and breaking down racial barriers, while the Allman Brothers Band overcame the deaths of bandleader Duane Allman and phenomenal bassist Berry Oakley. Both bands were inspired by legendary blues artists and they each rocked in their own way. But they never gave up and revived careers that should have ended, giving us more great music along the way.
I have discs of Toys in the Attic and Rocks in quad 4.0 format . Some of the extra recorded items really stand out and make these versions very very interesting !
At our high school in 1986 you were a "Popper" (Madonna, MJ, Phil Collins etc), a "Rockers" (lots of disagreement between Rockers with the endless duscussion, what is Metal and what is not) and you had the "Rappers". At that time Run DMC was one of the leaders of Rap music, while Aerosmith was on a low. We knew Van Halen, Motley Crue, Kiss, AC/DC. And when the "Rappers" were playing Walk this way and we heard it for the first time, it was mind blowing and somehow it helped us opening our minds on other musical tastes.
I remember going to play basketball during the summer at an HS gym just before my senior year began. Much of the team was there, including many players that would be on the JV team. On the way there, "Walk This Way" (original version) came on the radio. The car with a number of the sophs drove next us blaring the song, when one of the sophs hung out of the car and started screaming the lyrics at our car. Ah, good times!
1976 was when i attended my first rock concert and it featured Aerosmith. A friend invited me. It was quite the experience for a naive 18 year-old girl. We then graduated high school and three of us moved into an efficiency apt. That friend had Toys in the Attic album which she played nightly.
As a teenager I always came home from school and turned on the radio. I can't remember why I twisted the dial that day, but I landed on KGON, a rock radio station, and I heard the beginning of, and then listened to, "Last Child." I never changed the station again. I had just enough money to buy a record or maybe two, and convinced my stepmom to take me down to the record store where I bought rocks and toys in the Attic... My first full albums... My turntable had only seen 45s 😂
“Toys in the Attic” was one of the first albums of eight for a penny. Yeah, I got into the trap until my parents found out 😂 I literally wore them out. My favorite songs of Aerosmith are Dream on, Sweet Emotion, Janie’s gotta gun, and Walk this way. Thank you for your session. Have a great weekend
not sure if if it was because of living in MA but all my middle school dances in the early 80s had Dream On. My friends and I once saw Hamilton at the local Ren Faire but we left him alone as he was with his family.
What many don’t remember is that during this time in rock history, disco was climbing in popularity and much of AM radio was playing sappy love songs from the likes of Captain and Tennille. So when an Aerosmith song came on the radio? CRANK IT UP!
It’s so hard to believe that Dream On and Sweet Emotion didn’t reach number 1. Seriously!!! Such epic songs! The collaboration with Run DMC was genius. Gave new life the Walk This Way, and to the band! And, Janie’s Got a Gun….. such an emotional song!!! It was a story that needed to be told. Absolutely amazing!!!! I have to strongly agree, Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is absolutely awful! 😆
Dream on is a bald of the ages. Very few songs reach such depths. Dream on, stairway to heaven,.and dust in the wind are ethereal and express the human experience in a way that so few can. They move the soul.
The great thing about Aerosmith is that they never let people label them. With the release of Permanent Vacation, they were almost pushed in the Hair Metal category, and then they come up with Pump, with Janie's Got a Gun, touching such a serious issue, and that not every girl's life is about party everday and rock and roll all night.
I was a fan of Aerosmith during the 70's and 80's but by the 90's and later in the 2000's I slowly stopped listening to them but I still listen to their songs from the 70's and 80's Thanks for another great episode about them and have a nice weekend Thanks Professor.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons is an understatement. The same can be said of any of a plethora of acts, past and present, ie GnR, The Who, Ozzie, etc. But some great music along the way, so there's that. The Rock and Roll life is not for the faint of heart and far too many succumb to the temptations that ultimately become their undoing.
I saw Aerosmith at a bar in 1972 I believe. It was in Atlanta Georgia. I remember it was a 5$ cover. The whole place ended up standing on their tables. Alex Cooley Electric Ballroom.
Five dollar cover that was not cheap in 72. Although for you to see them in 1972 was like the birth of them! In the late 70's I got to see some classic bands in big venues for around $7 or $7.50 I believe! Thanks for the story!
Being a teen in the early 1970s, in NW Tennessee, was becoming Rock for the older teens and their twenties thanks to having FM stations starting. My older friends were into harder rock than I was. Then I heard 'Dream On' being how I really liked songs not keeping the same tone from start to finish. I thought this was a soft rock and more what I liked though my friends had not heard of the song or Aerosmith being played more during the day than later at night, when most of my friends would listen. They did not like 'Dream On'. 'Sweet Emotion' was another favorite for me. 'Toys in the Attic' got my friends attention some. They thought of Aerosmith a band wanting to be 'Rolling Stones' and Steve Tyler trying to be like Mick Jagger. 'Janie's Got a Gun' would be what turned them into going back listening to their albums accepting them as a Rock and Roll band. Aerosmith has been one of my favorite bands for decades. Their earlier work I enjoyed the most.
Woohoo I'm Like #101😮 So grew up in Hawaii and came to Oregon in "75" and never heard of Aerosmith until "76". Their first album was the first Real album I bought. The first being K-TELL's Mind Bender. Didn't mention that Steve wrote DREAM ON at age 14!! Composed at 16!! Amazing! Steve said he wrote it reflecting when he use to lay underneath his father's piano while he played. His father was Classically trained! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼
here 7 11 sometimes had ktel woolworth always had the latest think original.price sticker woolworths on the shrink of power hits was 2.99 i got at neighbors sale
I was a freshman in college when I first heard Aerosmith. Dream on was great but as an 18 year old kid I my favorite songs to crank up in my dorm were “Mama Kin” and “My Bid 10 Inch.”
Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL SONG of the 70s and 80s?
AC/DC- Back In Black
2112
Metal Health
Ace Of Spades
It’s So Easy
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Master Of Puppets - Metallica
...hmmmm... the 'Hair Metal' period was VERY dominant, but I'll try to answer....
(70's) - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zep)
(80's) - Cum On Feel The Noize (Quiet Riot)
....both tunes DEFINED their decade's genres, sooo, I'll stick with those.... ; )
Master of puppets
When I saw the words 'how did a 17 year old write this complex classic,' I knew you were talking about Dream On. I was blown away when I found out how young Steven was when he wrote it; it's so profound and hints at life experience far beyond his years.
I told this story a couple of weeks ago, gonna tell it again: When I was 18 I went to see Aerosmith/Joan Jett with my older sister. A guy in her band owned a music store and Joe Perry and the guitar techs came in that day and bought some things and handed off some great tickets to him as a thank you. We had two incredibly good seats and I noticed about halfway through Aerosmith's set that John Kalodner was literally directly in front of me. He had his wife with him and was taking photos of the band. For those unfamiliar, Kalodner was the A&R director for Geffen Records, and is one of the most powerful men in Rock And Roll history. He was the bearded man in all the Aerosmith videos.
When I saw who was literally 12" in front of me I leaned over to my sister and did my best to whisper through the roar of the amps: "Oh shit...that's John Kalodner". She couldn't hear me clearly and responded in a loud voice: "Who the f**k is JOHN COLLANDER?". He immediately wheeled around and gave us both the stare of death. My sister, always quick on her feet leaned over to him and yelled: "Sorry. Didn't recognize you without the wedding dress".
😂😂😂
That's comedy right there. Smart lady.
That's on hell of a save and turn around!👏👏👏❤️
@@dustybrand That's awesome and a awesome sister! What was his response?? ☮️
@@allengray5748 as best I can remember he wasn't exactly all smiles. It didn't seem to really matter to her and we were both floored by how incredibly loud and perfect the bottom end of the sound was. If I remember right they were playing "Round And Round" and it was amazing. Bass and bass drum that literally went through you like a shockwave but you could still make out every word Steven Tyler was singing.
Wayne’s World on SNL, Mike Myers told them they are Americas “Rolling Stones.” I couldn’t agree more.
Yes he did!
....I'VE BEEN CALLIN' THEM THAT! ...Since 1985! ...ha-HAA!
Whereas The Stones were popular literally around the entire world. Aerosmith wasn’t a band the UK, Europe, Australia had even heard of during the 70’s, 80’s and much of the 90’s. With more people being online from the 90’s more people outside of the US started hearing about them but sadly they really cracked it outside if the US
Would The Eagles be America's "Beatles"? IMHO Aerosmith is the great American Rock band...rock band being key word. there are others to consider of course, Eagles, Allman bros and one of the closest competitors for that title, Van Halen. I would put Eagles in a different category, as not quite rock, call Allman bros Southern rock and say Van Halen was a touch less successful, probably chalk that up to turmoil within the band.
I saw Aerosmith when they were still playing in bars and small clubs. My wife saw them when they performed a concert at her high school!
Saw them at my college in 1972.
Back when Steven Tyler was an "American Idol" judge, I used to get to chat with him backstage after almost every episode. He was like Forrest Gump's proverbial box of chocolates... you never knew what you were going to get! Sometimes, he'd be completely serious about what had happened on that night's episode. Sometimes, he'd go off on some completely random tangent. And sometimes, he'd turn things around and start to ask me and my producing partner questions. It was never a dull moment with him, and I have great memories of them all!
YES!! Aerosmith Evolution Pt 2 is a *must*, PLEASE do it!! 🙏🙏🙏
I don't know if you actually covered these stories about Aerosmith, but here's a few fun ones:
-The money with which Steven bought the piano that he used to record Dream On belonged to the mafia.
-A song from Rock In A Hard Place called Push Comes To Shove is a diss track. Steven is dissing Joe and his Joe Perry Project.
-The intro to the song Blind Man features a switchblade knife opening.
-The 4 snare beats at the fake ending in Livin' On The Edge are played by Steven on a snare drum that he stole from his high school back when he was a student.
-They wanted to call Get A Grip, Pitbulls On Crack.
-Joanie's Butterfly is about a dream that Steven had while he was on drugs.
-Pink was supposed to be called Kink
-The drum solo at the end of the song Crash features Steven banging on a trash can.
-Aerosmith almost bought the plane that claimed the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but it was deemed unsafe.
-The first digital track on the internet was their song Head First.
-They made the first interactive webcast in 1998. People who watched the stream could choose between different cameras to create their own experience. The concert is up on UA-cam but the quality is not up to today's standards.
Thanks for your facts!
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They almost bought Skynyrds plane before the crash, i assume? As in it was almost their tragedy? Spooky ....
@@cwaynehauck3593yep. A couple other bands who I can’t think of offhand wouldn’t fly on it either.
@@cwaynehauck3593 in addition to the questions about the safety of the airplane, someone in Aerosmith's crew spotted the two pilots drinking booze
As someone who grew up with Aerosmith playing during Mom and Dads party days in the 80s! Anything from Toys in the Attic gets a vote from me! The title track and big 10 inch record were two of my faves! Ultimately I would probably agree with your pics!
Living in the Boston area, Aerosmith has always been one of my favorite bands. I have seen them many times in concert, including a couple of times when they used to do their incredible New Year's Eve concerts at Boston Garden. I couldn't believe when he was in his late 50s still doing those back-flips! Living south of Boston, I was even lucky to see Steven a few times when he lived in the area. I still laugh that the first time was buying things in a garden center, last place I would expect to see him. 😁 I was watching my little niece while her mom bought some plants, and I told her there was Steven Tyler. She said "Who is that?" Her nanny had a poster of Bon Jovi on the wall, so for relevance to a 4-year old, I told her he was in a band like Bon Jovi. What was funny was that months later, she saw an Aerosmith video on MTV and got excited amazingly remembering and pointing out that "It's Stevie Tyler!" LOL
I could fill up the comment section with both my direct and indirect experiences of each Aerosmith Evolution pick. They've basically framed the entire GenX soundtrack without trying. Great video!
That's awesome!
Absolutely have to do a part 2!
Their live shows around the Pump era were awesome, (I didn't see them prior) the way Steven would cartwheel from off stage to centre stage to the opening beat and nail the vocal left a big impression on what a rock show could/ should be.
I also remember being close enough that the stage volume was louder than the Front-of-House volume, not something I've really heard since at arena type gigs, these days probably never again with in ears and silent stages...
Also I think Brad is a very underrated guitar player and part of that Aerosmith sound.
I saw them on that tour. Steven Tyler climber about 15 feet up the 40 ft. tall curtains at the edge of the stage like a spider monkey and crawled back down them upside down like Linda Blair or something. After their encore (I think "Draw The Line" was the second and final encore) he turned to go backstage and yelled over his shoulder into the microphone: "Goodnight Birmingham...don't let your meat loaf".
Already an afficionado of "classic rock" at the time, I remember watching in absolute disbelief when Run DMC debuted the "Walk This Way" collaboration. The first time I saw it (on Canada's MuchMusic video network, I think), I remember literally jumping out of my chair in excitement when I realized that it was actually Aerosmith in the "studio next door" in the video. I KNEW at that moment that the Bad Boys from Boston were making a comeback. Their next two albums would prove me MORE than right, seemingly effortlessly outperforming everything they had ever done previously.
I bought their first album before there was any radio airplay. Recorded it to cassette, gave it to my buddy. He said this group sucks.
About six months latter, WMMS Cleveland started playing "Dream On" just before the 2nd Aerosmith album was released. Then, they became my buddies favorite band.
Sad, that some people don't know what's good music without a radio station telling them.
Tyler leaves it all at the microphone. As a band, they simply refused to quit and fade away, even with their demons, pop music style changes, age, band fights and any other excuses. Thanks Adam.
So true!
And he still sings as hard as he ever has sung.
I was born near Boston in 1967 and moved to Southern California in October of 1973.
I remember vacationing in Cape Cod that summer, not knowing I would be leaving that fall. Riding the streets on my Big Wheel with my older brother on his ten-speed, a transistor radio hung from his handlebars, I heard, for the first time, “Boston’s own Aerosmith with Dream On!” Life was beyond good. I will never forget that moment.
Thanks for sharing!
You got here too late
@ I left California in 1995. Too much communism. I'm hoping it’s all a plot to make enough people leave to return it to its former glory.
In the 90s I knew a studio musician. He was really reclusive, but we struck up a friendship and he told me how he had done work for Aerosmith a couple times. He had Steven Tyler’s and Tom Hamilton’s phone numbers. At first I didn’t believe him, but he first called Tom Hamilton, then Steven Tyler. I got to have a nice 30-45 minute conversation with each of them. They had so much good to say about my friend, Scott, who everybody called Mouse because he was so tiny. Mouse was an amazing musician. He could play just about any instrument. That was back in the days where he had to burn his music onto a CD and send it through the mail or UPS. He didn’t play in any Aerosmith albums, but Steven Tyler said he helped Joe Perry work on some solos. Mouse moved away and then I moved and lost track of him. I often wonder what happened to him.
Studio musicians are often the unsung heroes of the music business. Mouse sounds like a solid dude.
I love this and thank you for sharing a part of Mouse's story with us here!🙂🧡
Worked with this band in the 70’s
They are still my friends, been 50 years now
Our country’s best kick ass rock band.
Saw them in Pittsburgh on the last tour before Stevens injury and they hadn’t missed a beat.
Still rootin' for taters.
Last Child, Same Old Song and Dance, and their covers of Train Kept A-Rollin’, Big Ten Inch Record, Remember (Walking in the Sand), and Come Together, are all great songs not mentioned in this video.
Love the lyrics to Same old Song and Dance
Yes I want a part 2. They are one of the greatest bands of all time.
"Rocks" is underrated", is an understatement.
I've argued with more than one person that Rocks is their best album. Bought it the first week it was out, listened to nothing else for the rest of the week - before that, it was Get Your Wings - honesty their first 4 albums are almost flawless
I'm convinced that "Nobody's Fault" is the most important song of the 1970s in terms of the evolution of hard rock. The sound originated right there, on that song.
@@SubtextMining Rocks has always been number one. They were at their peak.
I like Aerosmith’s music, a lot is tongue in cheek, but “Dream On” is harmonious marriage of classic and hard rock. It’ll always be a favorite.
So true. Thanks Christine!
It’s one of the greatest songs ever.
I really enjoy your channel POR. You're teaching old guys like me new stuff about the great music of our youth! Thanks for that. Really loving these 5 song series that give a lot of insight to the truth & inspiration behind the lyrics and a lot of the pain and infighting that our favorite bands websites to gain success. I guess they figured it was better to tolerate each other rather than give it all up and get a"real" job! While Dream On is a great Aerosmith tune, the one that geabbed me by the throat and pulled me in was Train Kept a Rollin off their first self titlef album. The vocals were amaxing and Joe Perry's guitar work was among some of the best ever recorded. His solos were mind blowing and face melting. I can still remember the first time I heard it and how amazing it was! I still get chills down my spine and perk right up when I hear it today!
I remember being in a bar hearing a woman say "Aerosmith" when a sing came in the jukebox. Her daughter was surprised her mother knew who they were. The mother saying theve been around sunce she was a teen and the daughter claiming they were a new band.
I went over to the jukebox and played Back In The Saddle and Walk This Way, so she could hear it for herself.
I was at the video shoot for Let the Music do the Talking, 2 amazing nights
I always wondered if the "sweathog" reference was tied into the Gabe Kaplan sitcom, "Welcome Back, Kotter," which debuted around the same time. Kaplan played a high school teacher who returned to his old high school and mentor a group of "losers" that were known as "Sweathogs." John Travolta was a sweathog in the role that first brought him to national prominence, and John Sebastian wrote a hit song for the opening sequence, "Welcome Back."
Not a lot of bands kept their original lineup in tact (largely) for that long from beginning to end.
Dream On live on MTV 10 is probably one of the best performances of all-time! Blows me away every time I watch it. Nice work, Professor. 🤘
Aerosmith part 2 PLEASE!
Even if Crazy-Amazing-Cryin' isn't considered high art for the band I would like any expanded list to include Amazing as its lyrically about fighting back from drug addiction which is the only way the group had its successful 2nd act and as you said greatest success.
"I was so sick and tired of living a lie....Oh its Amazing when the moment arrives you finally see the light, yeah its amazing when you know you'll be alright....and I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate heart tonight."
Many people fight a persistent daemon that keeps them from their best life, drug abuse and otherwise. That makes it a song for everyone.
The bass line on WTW CANNOT be overstated. It pulls and pulls and pulls.
Tom Hamilton never disappoints. An absolute hoss.
That HUGE Tom bang in the intro really grabs you
Genius. I imagine it has blown more than a few speakers.
The most recognizable lyric change in Janie’s got a gun is between the album version and the radio edit. In the album, the lyric says she put a bullet in his brain. In the radio edit the lyrics say she left him in the pouring rain.
True.
Huh.
A guy on our high school basketball team would blast "Dream On" in the locker room before every game to pump us all up. That song really demonstrated Tyler's incredible sonic capabilities...
Very cool! Great motivator!
ha we had toys in thr attic and and get your wings 8 tracks locker room
My movement teacher in acting school used it for our warm-up set list. So good!
It’s a scorcher.
@marktait2371 that's a great album!
This song to me IS the Aerosmith signature song. From the killer bass intro to the way it builds into the first verse. It's a winner in every way.
21:00 I had the Pump CD that had a leather cover. Anyone remember that??? I’m pretty sure it was pump. It sadly got stolen. It was a limited number of copies sold. I wish I still had it. Not the best album but that leather cover made it really cool.
❤
Sweet Emotion is a great song. And drama with Aerosmith?? Say it isn't so. Huh.
Thanks for this episode Professor. Everyone have a great weekend. 🎉
You do the very same Roger!
Roger! How are ya?
You and your animals have a great one!
Yeah I’m shocked, I tell you!
You're right, Professor on the fact that the Aerosmith/Run DMC colab opened the doors for different genre crossovers.
Just loo at Nelly's Over And Over Again with Tim McGraw.
If you want dramatic Robin Williams... Awakenings, Dead Poets Society, Fisher King are some great choices. If you want the Comedic side of him... Mrs Doubtfire, Jumanji. Survivers, etc. If you want creepy, suspense... One Hour Photo, Insomnia, etc. He was a speedy minded comedian who truly had sooo many sides to him. His stand up act was always amazing!❤
I owned one of his older Comedic live albums "Reality, What A Concept" for many years. I wish I knew what happened to it😢
For the 18th birthday of radio station WBCN, the band threw a concert where the only way to go was win the tickets by calling in as caller # 6, 10 etc. This was in March of 1986 at the Worcester Centrum
"We're doing this rap baby can't you tell cause me and my friends can't sing so well"
Drop the Run DMC and put in Livin on the Edge.
I remember the high school "uniform" being skinny jeans and a black Aerosmith t-shirt. Those were the days!
Sweet Emotion and Janie’s Got A Gun ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Dream On I remember on the AM radio in the late 1970s (1976-1979) as a little boy
Angel in 1988 - I had a crush on a girl that year in high school and that rock ballad reminded me of her 😊
I grew up with Aerosmith songs 🎉
I did too! Such memories!
Years ago I had a bicycle shop in small town Arizona. My phone was connected through my computer. I had no on hold music at the time and my customers and friends said maybe I should have some elevator music for when I had to put folks on hold. My elevator music was Love in an Elevator. People would call and ask to be put on hold after that. 😂
I love all of these videos where you feature 5 or more songs. We've been getting a lot more of them lately, so YEAH!!! I especially love the redux. I'd love to see a lot more of them from 1978-1990. 😉
...I love 'em too.....but, I can't give CHARTS! ..is Prof. tryin to TELL me sumpthin'!? ...ha-HAAA!
More to come!
@@ProfessorofRock 😎
@@RBS_ No! That's not me!
@@ProfessorofRock ...WHEW! ...ha-HAAA!
Walk This Way was my introduction to Aerosmith as a teen in the mid-to-late 1970s. It was a little time later I heard Sweet Emotion and Dream On. That's three instant classic songs in a 4-year span. I love the Toys In The Attic album, by far their best IMO. Uncle Salty should be considered an all-time classic and I love Toys In the Attic and the cheeky, not-so-subtle Ten-Inch Record.
That was a theme song at the late 70s parties I went to.
@@carolharris2357 Ten-Inch Record was the theme of those parties, Carol? Must have been amazing 'get-togethers'. :)
I took my neighbor's daughter when she was a teenager to see them. This was after Get a Grip was released. Our seats were actually behind the stage, which made for very interesting viewing. 😁 Such a great show!
Everything they did was amazing. AS A SUPERFAN I'm obligated to say that. They truly are great.
If you do a 2nd Evolution, I think you really need to focus on the massive impact that the trilogy of the Alicia Silverstone/Liv Tyler videos had on Aerosmith's career. Honestly, all their late 80s and 90s videos were amazing (pun intended) and were about the only things along with Tom Petty forcing MTV to keep playing music videos. I can't really think of a band that had more important music videos to their career than them outside of Whitesnake which was about 99% Tawny and 1% the band and songs.
Tawny was an absolute UNIT back in 1984. She was on the cover of Ratt's "Out Of The Cellar" and was in Bachelor Party.
@@dustybrand I'm youngish Gen X so I absolutely knew that. If it hadn't been Charlies Angels existing, she would have been my entire 5th grade's first crush.
Definitely part 2 is in order😊
So thrilled you’ve done The Boys from Boston finally! My husband has seen them live over 56 times since his first concert, the famed 1978 concert in Philly where the bottle was thrown ( and broken) on stage ❤
70's: "Stargazer" - Rainbow (Sweet's B-side "Burnin'", Shooting Star's "Last Chance", "Feel Like...." - Bad Company, UFO's "Too Hot To Handle", "Long Time" / "More Than A Feeling" - Boston, Lucifer's Friend anthem "Warriors", and SEVERAL different KANSAS songs all RIGHT behind it); 80's, "The Zoo" - Scorpions (beating out any of "Livin' After Midnight", "Hot Rockin" & "Freewheel Burning" - Priest; Dio-era Sabbath's "Neon Knights", Maiden's "Ides Of March" / "Wrathchild" combo & Queen Of The Reich" - Queensryche by JUST a BIT.....)
Aerosmith was my first ever concert, Pump Tour @ The Spectrum in Philly w/Skid Row.
I love learning these detailed stories. Sweet Emotion is probably my fav but it's a tough one. So many good ones from differnt decades! Janie's Got a Gun is a great one too. 🎸🎶 Love Joe Perry
Agreed!
Thank You & Happy New Year Adam!! Thanks to my older brother, I learned to love Aerosmith rather quickly and I wasn't a great lover of metal rock. However, it's hard to ignore these guys are / were actually talented. .... and YES!!! Steven Tyler was a great front man. I remember well when Aerosmith did the collab with RUN DMC!! Here in NYC we all thought it was BRILLIANT idea!!! BTW Steven Tyler has 2 daughters Liev Tyler [actor] and Alicia Silverstone, [actor & also appeared in one of the Aerosmith's music videos on MTV ] Cheers from NYC!!!
👍 Saw a good docu here on YT years ago that showed Tyler jamming in the studio / coming up with the intro sound riff for Janie.
The father in the “Janie’s Got a Gun” video is Nicholas Guest! Who played Todd Chester (Julia Louise-Dreyfuss’s husband) in the Christmas Vacation film (And I guess I'll quote the film, "why is the carpet all wet, *Todd*?“ "I Don’t Know, Margo”) He's also an accomplished voice actor (mostly in the ADR world) and has done a lot voice-over work for so many films and TV, never knew that till I was doing some research on the video about a decade ago. He’s also the brother of Christopher Guest (The star of This Is Spinal Tap and Jamie Lee Curtis’s Husband)
Ha ha! Yep! Good call.
Leslie Ann Warren played the mother, video was directed by David Fincher
@@robpaxson4455 That's right!
I never knew that!
What?!? No mention of "You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died?" I had to ask my older brother what that actually meant. Was a real eye opener. LOL!
Kids now days will not get that.
@@badgerpa9 Heck, *I* didn't get it! And that was back in the early 1980's.
But i get it. Kids today also don't know what an audio cassette is, and why a pencil was important either. ^-^
Lol explain please
@@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasin Pregnancy test used a rabbit egg, lady was pregnant if the rabbit egg died
@@youknow2469MitakuyeOyasin I explained it but my comment was deleted, did you see it?
OMG! Is that a Pablo Cruise album on your rack?! I loved that album as a teen.
Another great video covering an amazing band! Saw them in hmmm 2005 I think it was, Lenny Cravitz opening for them. Amazing show! Had floor seats a couple rows off the end of one of the runways. A hell of a show!
Aerosmith is one of two bands I love that just refused to die. They did it by collaborating with a rap / hip hop artist and breaking down racial barriers, while the Allman Brothers Band overcame the deaths of bandleader Duane Allman and phenomenal bassist Berry Oakley. Both bands were inspired by legendary blues artists and they each rocked in their own way. But they never gave up and revived careers that should have ended, giving us more great music along the way.
I have discs of Toys in the Attic and Rocks in quad 4.0 format . Some of the extra recorded items really stand out and make these versions very very interesting !
"Living on the Edge" always sounds new.
I've never been able to see the comparison with the Rolling Stones.
At our high school in 1986 you were a "Popper" (Madonna, MJ, Phil Collins etc), a "Rockers" (lots of disagreement between Rockers with the endless duscussion, what is Metal and what is not) and you had the "Rappers". At that time Run DMC was one of the leaders of Rap music, while Aerosmith was on a low. We knew Van Halen, Motley Crue, Kiss, AC/DC. And when the "Rappers" were playing Walk this way and we heard it for the first time, it was mind blowing and somehow it helped us opening our minds on other musical tastes.
Last child from rocks my go to !
I remember going to play basketball during the summer at an HS gym just before my senior year began. Much of the team was there, including many players that would be on the JV team. On the way there, "Walk This Way" (original version) came on the radio. The car with a number of the sophs drove next us blaring the song, when one of the sophs hung out of the car and started screaming the lyrics at our car. Ah, good times!
Thanks Greg.
Yes,please. Do a part 2!
1976 was when i attended my first rock concert and it featured Aerosmith. A friend invited me. It was quite the experience for a naive 18 year-old girl. We then graduated high school and three of us moved into an efficiency apt. That friend had Toys in the Attic album which she played nightly.
I lived above some young ladies that tended to play the same album for hours as they got ready on Friday and Saturday night to go out.
As a teenager I always came home from school and turned on the radio. I can't remember why I twisted the dial that day, but I landed on KGON, a rock radio station, and I heard the beginning of, and then listened to, "Last Child." I never changed the station again. I had just enough money to buy a record or maybe two, and convinced my stepmom to take me down to the record store where I bought rocks and toys in the Attic... My first full albums... My turntable had only seen 45s 😂
Thanks!
“Toys in the Attic” was one of the first albums of eight for a penny. Yeah, I got into the trap until my parents found out 😂 I literally wore them out. My favorite songs of Aerosmith are Dream on, Sweet Emotion, Janie’s gotta gun, and Walk this way. Thank you for your session. Have a great weekend
Cool!
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
Out of the hospital again too naturally, I hope, CISC?
yes indeed !!!!
😂😂😂
You got your wish: a shoutout and the song 😂
Did you hear my shout out!
.....an EXTREMELY-underrated song of theirs is from Night In The Ruts - "Bone To Bone (Coney Island Whitefish)".....
not sure if if it was because of living in MA but all my middle school dances in the early 80s had Dream On. My friends and I once saw Hamilton at the local Ren Faire but we left him alone as he was with his family.
One of my favs is Monkey On My Back from Pump. Love the guitar and the lyrics ❤
Amazing band. Amazing tracks.
Saw them Friday, April 12, 1974, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium opening for Mott the Hoople.
What many don’t remember is that during this time in rock history, disco was climbing in popularity and much of AM radio was playing sappy love songs from the likes of Captain and Tennille. So when an Aerosmith song came on the radio? CRANK IT UP!
You are Great!! Keep up the great work.
It’s so hard to believe that Dream On and Sweet Emotion didn’t reach number 1. Seriously!!! Such epic songs! The collaboration with Run DMC was genius. Gave new life the Walk This Way, and to the band! And, Janie’s Got a Gun….. such an emotional song!!! It was a story that needed to be told. Absolutely amazing!!!! I have to strongly agree, Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is absolutely awful! 😆
NO kidding. Certainly deserving!
..they WOULD'VE, if the 'Modern Rock' charts didn't start until 1980! ...CLAPTON'S "I can't Stand It" was the 1st #1 on that chart......
@@RBS_Clapton sucks
@@chrisunjnown ...weeeell, I dig his MUSIC, but I plead the 5th on him, as a Person....ha-HAA!
always figured dream on would have been no.1 that clapton song i camt stand it cant figure how that gpt to be no.1 boring song
Back in the Saddle is the best song for stepping up to the plate! ⚾⚾
Dream on is a bald of the ages. Very few songs reach such depths. Dream on, stairway to heaven,.and dust in the wind are ethereal and express the human experience in a way that so few can. They move the soul.
Loved playing "Risk".
The great thing about Aerosmith is that they never let people label them. With the release of Permanent Vacation, they were almost pushed in the Hair Metal category, and then they come up with Pump, with Janie's Got a Gun, touching such a serious issue, and that not every girl's life is about party everday and rock and roll all night.
Toys in the Attic and Get Your Wings are 2 of my favorite albums. Permanent Vacation and Pump are great too
I was a fan of Aerosmith during the 70's and 80's but by the 90's and later in the 2000's I slowly stopped listening to them but I still listen to their songs
from the 70's and 80's Thanks for another great episode about them and
have a nice weekend Thanks Professor.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Thanks Roger!
same last summer i bought ultimate collection 2 cd set at thrift listened to 1 in the car no need to put in cd 2
Agree completely. Train kept a rolling. Was my and my girlfriends anthem
I can't believe that you never mentioned "Big Ten Inch Record". Obviously it's one of their finest tracks. 😁
It's not their original. It's a cover of Bull Moose Jackson.
Always been a Joe Perry fangirl 💕💕🤙
Grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons is an understatement. The same can be said of any of a plethora of acts, past and present, ie GnR, The Who, Ozzie, etc. But some great music along the way, so there's that. The Rock and Roll life is not for the faint of heart and far too many succumb to the temptations that ultimately become their undoing.
so true!
Despite the song that shall not be named,Aerosmith had some solid stuff in the 90s.
My favorite band of all time. I have all the LPs through Pump including the individual break up albums.
I saw Aerosmith at a bar in 1972 I believe. It was in Atlanta Georgia. I remember it was a 5$ cover. The whole place ended up standing on their tables. Alex Cooley Electric Ballroom.
Five dollar cover that was not cheap in 72. Although for you to see them in 1972 was like the birth of them! In the late 70's I got to see some classic bands in big venues for around $7 or $7.50 I believe! Thanks for the story!
@@skythelimit8316 It was after their first album. So it must have been in the fall of 73.
Being a teen in the early 1970s, in NW Tennessee, was becoming Rock for the older teens and their twenties thanks to having FM stations starting. My older friends were into harder rock than I was. Then I heard 'Dream On' being how I really liked songs not keeping the same tone from start to finish. I thought this was a soft rock and more what I liked though my friends had not heard of the song or Aerosmith being played more during the day than later at night, when most of my friends would listen. They did not like 'Dream On'. 'Sweet Emotion' was another favorite for me. 'Toys in the Attic' got my friends attention some. They thought of Aerosmith a band wanting to be 'Rolling Stones' and Steve Tyler trying to be like Mick Jagger. 'Janie's Got a Gun' would be what turned them into going back listening to their albums accepting them as a Rock and Roll band. Aerosmith has been one of my favorite bands for decades. Their earlier work I enjoyed the most.
Living on the edge is one of my favorite songs by this band. Of curse about everything they did I like...:)
The music videos were always amazing, particularly ones starring Alicia Silverstone, who was basically an unofficial member.
Crazy Amazing CRAZY!
And you only looked at the videos to see how hot she was.
Woohoo I'm Like #101😮 So grew up in Hawaii and came to Oregon in "75" and never heard of Aerosmith until "76". Their first album was the first Real album I bought. The first being K-TELL's Mind Bender. Didn't mention that Steve wrote DREAM ON at age 14!! Composed at 16!! Amazing! Steve said he wrote it reflecting when he use to lay underneath his father's piano while he played. His father was Classically trained! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼
Thanks Allen!
yeh mind bender we had that one our 7 11 sold them couple of bucks i have 4 ktels today 3 pop rock and country crossover 83
@marktait2371 7-11's ?? None of our 7-11's sold albums here in Oregon! ☮️
here 7 11 sometimes had ktel woolworth always had the latest think original.price sticker woolworths on the shrink of power hits was 2.99 i got at neighbors sale
@marktait2371 Nice! I miss Woolworths!! Still amazing Sears is gone! ☮️
I was a freshman in college when I first heard Aerosmith. Dream on was great but as an 18 year old kid I my favorite songs to crank up in my dorm were “Mama Kin” and “My Bid 10 Inch.”
Steve Tyler is a great singer, I've seen Aerosmith twice in concert, Walk this way is 1 of my favorite songs from them.
what happened to song "we are neuron, shuffling crew, line of women starts in the other room"?