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Aerosmith- Pump- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer

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 and cinematic presentation, combined with unforgettable songs to result in one of their biggest sellers (over 7 + million), Aerosmith’s first Grammy award (“Janie’s Got a Gun”), and their first album to spawn three Top 10 Billboard  hits (“Janie”,”Love in an Elevator”,”What It Takes”). But the power of Pump   lies in its pounds per square inch of  album tracks,”Young Lust”, “F.I.N.E. (I’m Ready)”,”Monkey on My Back”,”The Other Side”,”My Girl”, and Don’t Get Mad, Get Even”.

Pump  was the second jewel in Aerosmith’s triple crown of multi-platinum post-recovery albums, following the superb 1987 head turner Permanent Vacation   and preceding the equally popular Get a Grip,  a creative era that has kept the band as America’s hard rock champions. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer pay at the Pump  by joining me for this classic rock interview In the Studio . – Redbeard