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Pump by Aerosmith is a thumbs up three dimensional hard rock masterpiece, with the legendary band’s deepest well of songwriting, blistering performance chops, and the most innovative production of any hard rock album to date courtesy of the late Bruce Fairbairn. Regardless of the metric you choose to measure Pump‘s greatness, it’s blazing energy […]
The second jewel in Aerosmith‘s comeback triple crown, Pump thirty years ago somehow managed to equal or better on the Eighties’ hard rock masterpiece two years earlier, Permanent Vacation. The band’s all here for the stories behind a near-perfect album containing “Young Lust”,”F.I.N.E.”, the playful and outrageously true “Love in an Elevator“, the rehab rocker […]
Revving you up for the Aerosmith Pump thirtieth anniversary coming in a few weeks. Proof positive that on Halloween night 1993, there was not a band on the planet better than Aerosmith in concert. Exhibit A is this sizzling live version of Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator”. –Redbeard
Forty-fifth anniversary of Aerosmith “Get Your Wings”.
The only kind of “Fever” that’s actually good for anyone is the musical one that is symptomatic of the rockin’ pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu. Aerosmith was running a high “Fever” on Halloween night in 1993 in Brussels here. –Redbeard
“Livin’ on the Edge”, “Cryin’”,”Eat the Rich”, “Fever”,”Line Up”,”Amazing” …any wonder that this is Aerosmith‘s biggest-selling album worldwide at over twenty million copies? The entire band sat down with me In the Studio to get a handle on Get a Grip at the twenty-five year mark. The song sources from which to choose for Get […]
In their long illustrious career as America’s premiere hard rock band, no Aerosmith album ever sold more than Spring 1993’s Get a Grip, and the band toured in support of it the world over. Case in point, listen to Steven Tyler, Joe Perry & Co. power Aerosmith through a live version of the megahit “Cryin’ […]
This interview is a real treat because you will hear Aerosmith lifers Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Tom Hamilton reminiscing about pre-Aerosmith hopes and dreams forty-five years ago on the eve of their debut release; not fitting in and “feeling like an outcast”; playing in rival bands, digging on English British Invasion bands like the […]
The fact that you think you know the story behind Aerosmith‘s fabled phoenix-like resurrection thirty years ago with Permanent Vacation is due in great part to several things, 1) the zealous publicity from then-new manager Tim Collins utilizing the clout of music mogul David Geffen’s record label, plus 2) the prime years of MTV. But […]
This is not the first time in the band’s forty-five years that Aerosmith has been on hiatus, so I found co-leader guitarist/songwriter Joe Perry in his Boneyard Studio for this classic rock interview to discuss the challenges of maintaining the same personnel over the long career arc of this seminal American band. Redbeard: Joe, there […]