They were all white generic sleeves. The Japan version had an OBI strip, lyric insert and a full color poster from their appearance on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert along with a generic sleeve. Japanese vinyl, you can't beat it.
Just like "Drama" is one of my favorite Yes albums, "Rock In A Hard Place" is one of my favorite Aerosmith albums. Temporary replacements in the band, but so what? The album rocks.
Aerosmith was my first concert, I was 11 years old and they were on tour for Nine Lives. First time I smelt the aroma of burning cannabis in the air as well. He was a hell of a vocalist in his day.
Hi. My name is Eliot from NYC. All the Columbia Records/Sony titles are now reissued through Universal Capitol Records. I was at their last show at the UBS Arena in Elmont, NY. Steven Tyler's voice was perfect! I believe he sang his ass off for that performance, and realized that he blew his voice at the end of the show. At the end, they rolled out a Birthday cake for Joe Perry and the whole Arena sang Happy Birthday. The Record Company should release the last show on Vinyl, CD and DVD/Blu Ray. Most of the show was the Classic songs from The Columbia/Sony Years. The last song on the album should be the Happy Birthday Joe Perry, and fade it out at the end. What are your thoughts?
I liked Aerosmith in the 1970’s and 1986 thru 1994. My favorite Aerosmith songs are “Dream On”, “Sweet Emotions”, “Walk This Way”, “Same Old Song and Dance”, “Back in the Saddle Again “, “Love in an Elevator”, “Rag Doll “, “Living on the Edge”, “Amazing”, and “What It Takes”. I like their Columbia and Geffen years. I stopped liking new Aerosmith music when they did that song for the “Armageddon” movie.
Pandoras Box is a cool thing to have, as is Bootleg.. really like the James Brown moments in the clubs. Among my favorite Aerosmith tracks that are less known are.. Adam's Apple, Lick and a Promise and No Surprize.
Aloha Robert, thanks for sharing your part 1 of your Aerosmith records. AEROSMITH !! Thank you for all these memories. Your music will live on forever! I was blessed to see Aerosmith twice, here in Honolulu Hawaii once in December 1974 as Opening band for headliner Guess Who, then again in July 1975 as the Headliner. ___________________ AEROSMITH!!! HONOLULU. In the summer of 1974, KIKI (AM 830) disc jockey Steven B. Williams wanted to shake up the soft rock- Cecilio & Kapono, Kalapana, Loggins & Messina, etc.- popular in the Islands at the time, so he went to the alphabetized album racks in search of a new rock band. In the A’s he found Aerosmith’s second album Get Your Wings. He liked their bad boy look, so he previewed about 30 seconds of “Same Old Song and Dance,” said “wow” to that riff, and played the record on the air.And that was the start of Aerosmithmania in Hawaii. They’re in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now, but in the summer of ’74, Aerosmith was known in only two places: their hometown of Boston and the Hawaiian Islands, 6,000 miles away. That’s because KIKI was a rare AM station that had no playlist. Steven B. went deeper on Wings, with “Train Kept a Rollin’” the song of the summer, followed by “Lord of the Thighs,” “Seasons of Whither” and “S.O.S. (Too Bad).” Other stations added Aerosmith and the bar bands covered them in clubs, with scarves on the mic-stands. On the Mainland, Get Your Wings was not a hit, peaking at no. 74 on the LP sales charts. But it was the best-selling record in Hawaii. The band’s self-titled first album had been completely ignored, but such tracks as “Dream On,” “Walkin’ the Dog” and “Mama Kin” were there to keep the band fresh in the ears of Hawaiians. Charting the Aerosmith LP sales- about 120 a day during the peak at D.J.’s Sound City in the Ala Moana Shopping Center- Columbia realized it had a potential monster band in its stable so they rereleased Aerosmith and gave “Dream On” another shot at being a hit single. The band’s first show in the Islands was opening for the Guess Who at the 8,500-capacity Honolulu International Center in December 1974. The concert sold out in days, but only about 200 people were left in the stands at the end of Guess Who’s set. Aerosmith was all they wanted. “Dream On,” re-released that month, would rise up the Billboard Hot 100 until it peaked at No. 6 in April. The band was well on its way to international superstardom when they returned to Honolulu in July 1975. In appreciation of the store that sold more Aerosmith records than any other (with Records Hawaii a close second), the band did an in-store appearance at D.J.’s the day of the concert. The limo pulled up to a delirious crowd of about 2,000 fans in front of the jampacked record store. It was crazy. This was what Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer dreamed of when they were woodshedding in a New Hampshire farmhouse just four years earlier.They had become rock stars! Aerosmith could’ve sold out the HIC three nights, but did only one on their working vacation, then it was back to the Mainland to grind it out on the road. You have to wonder if Aerosmith would’ve forged on without the boost from Steven B. Williams and the fanaticism it created. They were on their way to being dropped by Columbia, which was going all-in on Bruce Springsteen at the time. AM radio was all-powerful in Hawaii, having turned the Young Rascals (pronounced “Rack-sals” by the locals) into arena-packing superstars in the ‘60s. But they had already had hit singles before KPOI made them a pet band. Aerosmith had been unknown and uncharted when they created pandemonium on “The Rock.” It was an amazing scene to be part of, centered around KIKI.
Great video! Love all of those albums (even Night In The Ruts). random thoughts: Pandora's Box is an essential box set if you love the band. Live Bootleg also came with a poster inside! Love the story about the disastrous '84 concert. I think every used car sold in the '80s came equipped with the "Greatest Hits" cassette, ha ha!
Back in the day, Aerosmith shows were one of the most bootlegged concerts. I remember seeing guys at the Toys in the Attic and Rocks tours carrying huge boom boxes recording the shows. I guess you could say that Aerosmith "Beat them at their own damn game," when they released Live! Bootleg. I was an early fan and loved their first five albums. Even in the early days, they had that rock 'n roll attitude. They did an excellent job capturing that on vinyl. When Live! Bootleg came out, everyone was putting out live albums, KISS and Frampton come to mind amoung others. They would then take them to the studio and remix them. Aerosmith was the only band that said "F*ck that, what you hear is what you get."
"Live Bootleg" did feature a few vintage recordings. While most of the performances were drawn from concerts in 1977 and 1978, "I Ain't Got You" and "Mother Popcorn" were taken from a radio broadcast of a Boston performance on March 20, 1973.
Draw the Line , I along with many others did not like it much for a long time but I made a total 180 , it is really good and Milk Cow Blues is a great banger for the ending ..
Great video man. "Rocks" is my favorite of the first five albums. Got burned out on Toy's. Everyone had that one. Couldn't go hang out at McDonalds with out someone playin' it. Lol. Thanks again man !
Only 2 songs feature other guitarists on "Get Your Wings". Steve Hunter - lead guitar on "Train Kept a Rollin'" (first half) Dick Wagner - lead guitar on "Train Kept a Rollin'" (second half) and "Same Old Song and Dance"
I dig Aerosmith's cover of Walking the Dig...the Rufus Thomas version is my fave, but their cover of that tune and cool stuff like Train Kept Rolling were part of what made them hard rocking fun.
Cockney Rejects retired from touring now too, shame, it's always sad when legends and icons retire, and it's not like there's anyone to replace them today, it's all crap today, long live the rock and roll legends ❤❤
Pre-crack crack is called free-basing. Richard Prior was big into free-basing. Maybe Tyler was free-basing. I think crack was created circa 81/82 maybe. Someone named Nino Brown.
Sir, on “WINGS” nuthin’ was mentioned of Seasons of Wither IMO THE Best track on the album It’s all chilly Appreciate U takin’ the time to this vid Americans Greatest Rock N Roll After “TOYS” “ROCKS” “DTL” are all sledgehammers
Hi. It's Eliot. Aerosmith was one of the few bands that actually put out 2 really good albums without their star Guitar player. The 2 albums I'm talking about is Night In the Ruts, and Rock in a Hard Place. There's No Replacing Joe Perry, but I did think Jimmy Crespo was doing a great job with those 2 albums. My favorite track on Night In the Ruts is NO SURPRIZE!!!, and my favorite track on Rock in a Hard Place is LIGHTNIN STRIKES!!! It's Amazing how they held it together for those 2 albums!
Hey Robert!! Both Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter were on Lou Reed's live album, "Rock n Roll Animal", which has Sweet Jane with the amazing instrumental intro. Thank you for mentioning the 93 CD's. I wish more people would point out which CD versions sound better. Thank you, Charles
Great episode. Very informative. When I'm having my morning coffee, I'll look for a Robert Fithen video. (Or one from my favorite wrestling channel) If you're not on there I'll turn off RUclips and watch the stupid news. Thank you, brother. Keep it up!
I'm only about 7 minutes into the video but wanted to mention this. Aerosmith recently switched over to Capitol Records and Capitol Records reissued I'm pretty sure all of aerosmith's catalog. I went ahead and bought one of the LPs when the new reissued campaign started and was blown away by how good it sounded. I wound up buying each of the bands reissued, and remastered, LPs up through 1980 or maybe 1982. I didn't have a snap, crackle, or pop on any of those Capitol Records reissues. And the prices weren't bad either. I paid between about $20 and maybe $26 when each one came out. Not all of them were perfect in the remastering sound but the majority of them really surprised me at how great they sounded. Aerosmith is one band I never did get to see live unfortunately. I was too young to go and see them when they were playing the music I liked live. And by the time I could go see them, they were playing the music I didn't like. I really didn't care for their music after they sort of broke apart and came back together. I think they had some good songs mixed in with their lighter music but I'm definitely in the earlier music Aerosmith camp. Anyhow, I just wanted to mention how Capital Records definitely knocked the ball out of the park on these reissues in recent years. Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Oh man, I would have loved to have seen the July of '84 show you described. Having never seen Aerosmith, and having nothing to compare it to, this one may have been the most dramatic and probably the most original. The only thing I've seen close to an Aerosmith concert is a Liv Tyler movie. Didn't she think Todd Rundgren was her dad for a while? It seems I remember reading that. I'm too lazy to look it up. Thanks for the rundown, look forward to part due.
I grew up with 70s Aerosmith, and I am still fine with that. Didn't hear the box set until last summer. Totally forgot about the different songs on it, as the box set was a friends copy that we listened to at a party. I keep meaning to read Walk This Way again. It's their autobiography. Written much like The Dirt where you got to go back a page or two, just to see the "who said that?" part. But just like The Dirt. You open the book to any page and cocaine and pills fall out of the book like it's a slot machine hitting the jackpot. My favorite part is during the Toys era. Where they recorded the album in a nun's house, or nunary, or whatever they called it. Keep in mind, this could be any memeber. But has anyone seen (i think) Joe? And then they eventually find him passed out in the gun range they set up in the attic (hence the album title) and there he is. Passed out on ground with a fully loaded machine gun in his hands. That's rock and roll baby! Another funny eye opener story is the real reason why Steve had all those scarfs on his mic stand. That way he can pop pills right onstage. And that's why I should read it again. Notice how the "rocks" on Rocks are blue? Well, there's a story behind that about a dealer dropping off a suitcase of stash, but Steve sees this, and then somehow runs out and grabs the suitcase off the porch, or trunk of the dealers car. Takes it and stashes it inside. And then plays all duh when the dealer is like, someone stole my stash. Joey Kramer's autobiography is pretty decent as well. But it was more about being the family man and trying not to party as much. But cocaine will definitely fall out of the book when you open it. But more like he knocked over Joe's salt shaker, maybe more then just a few times. So glad I never seen them in concert. Especially now. I was never a fan of them in the 80s. And see, that's what happens to bands. They clean themselves up and have a hit record. And then they got to milk that cow until it keels over.
I've recently been enjoying "Done with Mirrors." It's not a masterpiece or anything like Rocks or Toys but i think it's good. fav songs: Let the music do the talking Sheila She's on Fire Shame on You My fist Your Face
@@RobertFithen looking forward to it. Aerosmith is not one of my personal favs, even if we are just talking American bands, but one should admire their longevity, having hits in the 70s, late 80s, 90s, and early 00's (i think, when was Jaded?). They swallowed their pride in the late 80's and brought on board outside songwriters and it paid off. I don't think that move necessarily added to their legend but it did add to their bank accounts and longevity, and i can respect that.
Saw them on their debut UK tour back in ‘76 at Birmingham Odeon. They played to a nigh on half empty house as at that time the band were virtually unknown in the UK. Put on a great show though.
The Live Bootleg this was not great packaging. I imagine Columbia was quick to slap a hype sticker on that sucker. Cant wait til you get to Done With Mirrors.😀
When the Lightning Strikes got a ton of airplay on Connecticut radio stations in 82. I got the vinyl many years later for free, and had totally forgotten how much i loved that song. It seems like they hyped the crap out of "done with mirrors", which was mediocre, while Rock and a Hard Place should have been hyped
I was in high school and would say the same thing with my buddy we all live at the edge of town ! Loved movin out I read the book walk this way .. Steven Tyler loved the shangra las and was his idea for them to cover it Interesting you mention the Springfield stage fall off show , I watched a video on RUclips with bloody f mess he has a story where he goes to that show and mentions how Steven fell off the stage into his friends lap basically and how the band were jabbing Steven for being so messed up Me and my friend joke about the title krawwhitham instrumental track off Pandora’s box Great video man
I saw Aerosmith live in January 1980 on the horrible Night in the Ruts tour. A half empty Nassau Coliseum and a stoned, bad band. Tyler didn't fall off the stage, but he was staggering and clearly plastered. Although I was only 16 years old, I left early and went home. Yes, that bad.
First, I heard them was love in an elevator, which I think is case for many this side of pond. Apparently, the first charting album in UK was Permanent Vacation .weird, not sure why they didn't catch on in 70's. Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter also played with both Alice Cooper group ( behind the scenes) and Alice solo.
It must have been 84 when I saw them last. Steven sounded wasted, he kicked his monitors off the stage. I also saw them a few years earlier, they were great.
Do you know if there's any truth in this story I heard? They wanted to change up the set list at one of their concerts and decided to play the last song first. They play that one song and Steven Tyler says "thanks very much, goodnight!" and walks off, thinking that's the end of the show.
I saw Aerosmith around eleven times. During the Draw The Line tour of 1977, Joe Perry's monitor kept cutting out and he got so frustrated that he took off his guitar, threw it straight up into the air, and walked off stage. End of concert. Their opening band, The Rockets, came back out and played their set again. This was a few months after the m80 incident and drugs were taking over the band.
Joanie’s Butterfly is my favorite from RIAHP! It started out as an instrumental written by Jimmy Crespo. Steven heard it and liked it so much that he said he had to write lyrics to it. But I wonder, if Jimmy had stayed in the band, would they have made more songs like that?
Weird how Aerosmith and Springsteen's debuts came out on the same day and label-AND neither was an immediate success! And you are right, their albums are always trashed! That's why the only one I currently have is a clean (quadraphonic) Toys In The Attic. It is one of the few clean ones I have found in the wild. Did not know that about Wagner and Hunter on Get Your Wings. Then again, they seemed to be on everything around that time.
I’m pretty sure Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter only played some solos and maybe some other parts on Train. As far as I’ve ever read/heard, every other track on Wings only features Perry and Whitford.
I saw them at Alpine Valley in 85ish. Maybe on the Done With Mirrors tour. He fell off the stage there too. They were the opening act for Sweaty Teddy Nugget. Both sucked
joe perry is born from a portuguese family from madeira island.. his portuguese name suposed to be José Pereira.. also Steve Perry is born of portuguese parents from azores islands.. suposed to be Steve Pereira... And Nuno Bettencourt also from Terceira Island, praia da vitoria city, my home town (ye I know you hate extreme... fuk...)
still have my orig pressingz. my highz cool buddies were playing hockey on a frozen toxic swamp, next to a little ratrod custom rodder shop. they were playing Dream on on the radio. when we got back to our band pad, we called WABX in Detroit and CJOM in Windsor, and requestwd Dream On. unfortunately both stations played the shit out of it. took me forty years and Guinness beers to start breakin' out those slbs 0 wax, 'n' get back ito the 1st 2 Aero lpz. just saw the American Pickers episode. where they found the original divco van that theyntoured New dngland in before they were signed. great episode Robert. i'm sure that you've seen it . Great vid. Slainte from SpoCanada'
Love the first 5 Aerosmith albums. One of the defining bands of the 70's. Great radio 📻 memories.
Seriously they are in the top ten highest selling bands ever yet you never really hear about them being talked about
Scorpions had 7 farewell tours
Thats sune . SCORPIONS STILL BRING THE FIRE
I bought Toys brand new in the early summer of 75, and it was a plain white inner.
Same
They were all white generic sleeves. The Japan version had an OBI strip, lyric insert and a full color poster from their appearance on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert along with a generic sleeve.
Japanese vinyl, you can't beat it.
Just like "Drama" is one of my favorite Yes albums, "Rock In A Hard Place" is one of my favorite Aerosmith albums. Temporary replacements in the band, but so what? The album rocks.
Aerosmith was my first concert, I was 11 years old and they were on tour for Nine Lives. First time I smelt the aroma of burning cannabis in the air as well. He was a hell of a vocalist in his day.
Hi. My name is Eliot from NYC. All the Columbia Records/Sony titles are now reissued through Universal Capitol Records. I was at their last show at the UBS Arena in Elmont, NY. Steven Tyler's voice was perfect! I believe he sang his ass off for that performance, and realized that he blew his voice at the end of the show. At the end, they rolled out a Birthday cake for Joe Perry and the whole Arena sang Happy Birthday. The Record Company should release the last show on Vinyl, CD and DVD/Blu Ray. Most of the show was the Classic songs from The Columbia/Sony Years. The last song on the album should be the Happy Birthday Joe Perry, and fade it out at the end. What are your thoughts?
They should definitely do that. Most concerts these days, it's standard to have a video/audio recording of it.
Both Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter were part of Alice Cooper’s band for the Welcome To My Nightmare tour
Never heard of them. Cool
Wait! I do know the Run Dmc song Aerosmith covered. Walk like that way
I liked Aerosmith in the 1970’s and 1986 thru 1994. My favorite Aerosmith songs are “Dream On”, “Sweet Emotions”, “Walk This Way”, “Same Old Song and Dance”, “Back in the Saddle Again “, “Love in an Elevator”, “Rag Doll “, “Living on the Edge”, “Amazing”, and “What It Takes”. I like their Columbia and Geffen years.
I stopped liking new Aerosmith music when they did that song for the “Armageddon” movie.
I was not a fan of that song either.
Colombia albums are my favorite albums. Can't wait part II
Pandoras Box is a cool thing to have, as is Bootleg.. really like the James Brown moments in the clubs.
Among my favorite Aerosmith tracks that are less known are..
Adam's Apple, Lick and a Promise and No Surprize.
All great
Aloha Robert, thanks for sharing your part 1 of your Aerosmith records.
AEROSMITH !!
Thank you for all these memories.
Your music will live on forever!
I was blessed to see Aerosmith twice, here in Honolulu Hawaii once in December 1974 as Opening band for headliner Guess Who, then again in July 1975 as the Headliner.
___________________
AEROSMITH!!!
HONOLULU. In the summer of 1974, KIKI (AM 830) disc jockey Steven B. Williams wanted to shake up the soft rock- Cecilio & Kapono, Kalapana, Loggins & Messina, etc.- popular in the Islands at the time, so he went to the alphabetized album racks in search of a new rock band. In the A’s he found Aerosmith’s second album Get Your Wings. He liked their bad boy look, so he previewed about 30 seconds of “Same Old Song and Dance,” said “wow” to that riff, and played the record on the air.And that was the start of Aerosmithmania in Hawaii. They’re in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now, but in the summer of ’74, Aerosmith was known in only two places: their hometown of Boston and the Hawaiian Islands, 6,000 miles away.
That’s because KIKI was a rare AM station that had no playlist. Steven B. went deeper on Wings, with “Train Kept a Rollin’” the song of the summer, followed by “Lord of the Thighs,” “Seasons of Whither” and “S.O.S. (Too Bad).” Other stations added Aerosmith and the bar bands covered them in clubs, with scarves on the mic-stands. On the Mainland, Get Your Wings was not a hit, peaking at no. 74 on the LP sales charts. But it was the best-selling record in Hawaii.
The band’s self-titled first album had been completely ignored, but such tracks as “Dream On,” “Walkin’ the Dog” and “Mama Kin” were there to keep the band fresh in the ears of Hawaiians. Charting the Aerosmith LP sales- about 120 a day during the peak at D.J.’s Sound City in the Ala Moana Shopping Center- Columbia realized it had a potential monster band in its stable so they rereleased Aerosmith and gave “Dream On” another shot at being a hit single.
The band’s first show in the Islands was opening for the Guess Who at the 8,500-capacity Honolulu International Center in December 1974. The concert sold out in days, but only about 200 people were left in the stands at the end of Guess Who’s set. Aerosmith was all they wanted. “Dream On,” re-released that month, would rise up the Billboard Hot 100 until it peaked at No. 6 in April.
The band was well on its way to international superstardom when they returned to Honolulu in July 1975. In appreciation of the store that sold more Aerosmith records than any other (with Records Hawaii a close second), the band did an in-store appearance at D.J.’s the day of the concert. The limo pulled up to a delirious crowd of about 2,000 fans in front of the jampacked record store. It was crazy. This was what Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer dreamed of when they were woodshedding in a New Hampshire farmhouse just four years earlier.They had become rock stars! Aerosmith could’ve sold out the HIC three nights, but did only one on their working vacation, then it was back to the Mainland to grind it out on the road.
You have to wonder if Aerosmith would’ve forged on without the boost from Steven B. Williams and the fanaticism it created. They were on their way to being dropped by Columbia, which was going all-in on Bruce Springsteen at the time.
AM radio was all-powerful in Hawaii, having turned the Young Rascals (pronounced “Rack-sals” by the locals) into arena-packing superstars in the ‘60s. But they had already had hit singles before KPOI made them a pet band. Aerosmith had been unknown and uncharted when they created pandemonium on “The Rock.” It was an amazing scene to be part of, centered around KIKI.
Great video! Love all of those albums (even Night In The Ruts). random thoughts: Pandora's Box is an essential box set if you love the band. Live Bootleg also came with a poster inside! Love the story about the disastrous '84 concert. I think every used car sold in the '80s came equipped with the "Greatest Hits" cassette, ha ha!
I remember seeing the news as a kid and it was the last 30 seconds of good news squeezed in there at the end of the local news.
Yeah, my local news always did these last 30 second stories with things like a dog riding a skateboard or something.
Back in the day, Aerosmith shows were one of the most bootlegged concerts. I remember seeing guys at the Toys in the Attic and Rocks tours carrying huge boom boxes recording the shows.
I guess you could say that Aerosmith "Beat them at their own damn game," when they released Live! Bootleg.
I was an early fan and loved their first five albums. Even in the early days, they had that rock 'n roll attitude. They did an excellent job capturing that on vinyl.
When Live! Bootleg came out, everyone was putting out live albums, KISS and Frampton come to mind amoung others. They would then take them to the studio and remix them.
Aerosmith was the only band that said "F*ck that, what you hear is what you get."
"Live Bootleg" did feature a few vintage recordings. While most of the performances were drawn from concerts in 1977 and 1978, "I Ain't Got You" and "Mother Popcorn" were taken from a radio broadcast of a Boston performance on March 20, 1973.
That's my favorite part of the album.
Draw the Line , I along with many others did not like it much for a long time but I made a total 180 , it is really good and Milk Cow Blues is a great banger for the ending ..
Well, what seventeen year old male is going to go around singing "Can't Get It Up?"
@@tonystephens6858 I don't know and have not been counting the stats but they should check out the album
There used to be a RUclips clip of Aerosmith playing “Milk Cow Blues” live with Ted Nugent and it was apocalyptic, it hit so hard.
@@reprintranch Ill chek,,thanx
You can hear the quad versions of these albums if you have Apple Music. The horses on “Back in the Saddle” sound really cool.
Thanks for the info!
I have Apple Music and did not know this! Could you tell me where to access them? Thank you!
@@RickyD.03 If you have a surround setup, just play the regular albums for the first four and they should play in quad. They do for me.
Great video man. "Rocks" is my favorite of the first five albums. Got burned out on Toy's. Everyone had that one. Couldn't go hang out at McDonalds with out someone playin' it. Lol. Thanks again man !
Thanks for another great video, Robert! Nostalgia + Night in the Ruts = Good Times!
Hi Robert! Glad to see you're better.
Thanks!!
Pandora’s box was the first Aerosmith release I bought when I was 13. Awesome set
Only 2 songs feature other guitarists on "Get Your Wings". Steve Hunter - lead guitar on "Train Kept a Rollin'" (first half)
Dick Wagner - lead guitar on "Train Kept a Rollin'" (second half) and "Same Old Song and Dance"
Glad someone else pointed that out! Although, I always thought it was only Train that featured them. Didn’t know about Same Old!
I dig Aerosmith's cover of Walking the Dig...the Rufus Thomas version is my fave, but their cover of that tune and cool stuff like Train Kept Rolling were part of what made them hard rocking fun.
Cockney Rejects retired from touring now too, shame, it's always sad when legends and icons retire, and it's not like there's anyone to replace them today, it's all crap today, long live the rock and roll legends ❤❤
This is a great Aerosmith retrospective. Not a fan of the band but your descriptions are Gold!
Thanks!!
Pre-crack crack is called free-basing. Richard Prior was big into free-basing. Maybe Tyler was free-basing. I think crack was created circa 81/82 maybe. Someone named Nino Brown.
Ringo Starr was also a big free baser. Rumour is he took the Thomas the Tank Engine job because he could relate to the steam engines.
Sir, on “WINGS” nuthin’ was mentioned of Seasons of Wither
IMO THE Best track on the album It’s all chilly
Appreciate U takin’ the time to this vid
Americans Greatest Rock N Roll
After “TOYS” “ROCKS” “DTL” are all sledgehammers
Night in the Rutts was a great record if you were a hard-core Aerosmith fan. Also drive the line in no way is to decline of early Aerosmith.
Hi. It's Eliot. Aerosmith was one of the few bands that actually put out 2 really good albums without their star Guitar player. The 2 albums I'm talking about is Night In the Ruts, and Rock in a Hard Place. There's No Replacing Joe Perry, but I did think Jimmy Crespo was doing a great job with those 2 albums. My favorite track on Night In the Ruts is NO SURPRIZE!!!, and my favorite track on Rock in a Hard Place is LIGHTNIN STRIKES!!! It's Amazing how they held it together for those 2 albums!
Hey Robert!! Both Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter were on Lou Reed's live album, "Rock n Roll Animal", which has Sweet Jane with the amazing instrumental intro.
Thank you for mentioning the 93 CD's. I wish more people would point out which CD versions sound better. Thank you, Charles
Thanks
Seen Aerosmith a few times.....
Excellent shows.
Then came the Night in the Ruts tour.
Stumbling fumbling , definitely no acrobatics.
Somewhere Mike is hollering out, "Kim!! Get in here! This ol boy found our Arrow Smiff record! Let's get it back!!"
Great episode. Very informative. When I'm having my morning coffee, I'll look for a Robert Fithen video. (Or one from my favorite wrestling channel) If you're not on there I'll turn off RUclips and watch the stupid news. Thank you, brother. Keep it up!
Thanks! I appreciate that!
I'm only about 7 minutes into the video but wanted to mention this. Aerosmith recently switched over to Capitol Records and Capitol Records reissued I'm pretty sure all of aerosmith's catalog. I went ahead and bought one of the LPs when the new reissued campaign started and was blown away by how good it sounded. I wound up buying each of the bands reissued, and remastered, LPs up through 1980 or maybe 1982. I didn't have a snap, crackle, or pop on any of those Capitol Records reissues. And the prices weren't bad either. I paid between about $20 and maybe $26 when each one came out. Not all of them were perfect in the remastering sound but the majority of them really surprised me at how great they sounded.
Aerosmith is one band I never did get to see live unfortunately. I was too young to go and see them when they were playing the music I liked live. And by the time I could go see them, they were playing the music I didn't like. I really didn't care for their music after they sort of broke apart and came back together. I think they had some good songs mixed in with their lighter music but I'm definitely in the earlier music Aerosmith camp.
Anyhow, I just wanted to mention how Capital Records definitely knocked the ball out of the park on these reissues in recent years.
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Thanks for the info. I might have to get the reisue of Get Your Wings
Oh man, I would have loved to have seen the July of '84 show you described. Having never seen Aerosmith, and having nothing to compare it to, this one may have been the most dramatic and probably the most original. The only thing I've seen close to an Aerosmith concert is a Liv Tyler movie. Didn't she think Todd Rundgren was her dad for a while? It seems I remember reading that. I'm too lazy to look it up. Thanks for the rundown, look forward to part due.
I remember hearing about that, too.
I grew up with 70s Aerosmith, and I am still fine with that. Didn't hear the box set until last summer. Totally forgot about the different songs on it, as the box set was a friends copy that we listened to at a party.
I keep meaning to read Walk This Way again. It's their autobiography. Written much like The Dirt where you got to go back a page or two, just to see the "who said that?" part. But just like The Dirt. You open the book to any page and cocaine and pills fall out of the book like it's a slot machine hitting the jackpot. My favorite part is during the Toys era. Where they recorded the album in a nun's house, or nunary, or whatever they called it. Keep in mind, this could be any memeber. But has anyone seen (i think) Joe? And then they eventually find him passed out in the gun range they set up in the attic (hence the album title) and there he is. Passed out on ground with a fully loaded machine gun in his hands. That's rock and roll baby!
Another funny eye opener story is the real reason why Steve had all those scarfs on his mic stand. That way he can pop pills right onstage.
And that's why I should read it again. Notice how the "rocks" on Rocks are blue? Well, there's a story behind that about a dealer dropping off a suitcase of stash, but Steve sees this, and then somehow runs out and grabs the suitcase off the porch, or trunk of the dealers car. Takes it and stashes it inside. And then plays all duh when the dealer is like, someone stole my stash.
Joey Kramer's autobiography is pretty decent as well. But it was more about being the family man and trying not to party as much. But cocaine will definitely fall out of the book when you open it. But more like he knocked over Joe's salt shaker, maybe more then just a few times.
So glad I never seen them in concert. Especially now. I was never a fan of them in the 80s. And see, that's what happens to bands. They clean themselves up and have a hit record. And then they got to milk that cow until it keels over.
I need tonread "Walk Thus Way". The only Aerosmith-related book I've read is the Steven Tyler autobiography. A lot of cocaine in that one, too.
I've recently been enjoying "Done with Mirrors." It's not a masterpiece or anything like Rocks or Toys but i think it's good.
fav songs:
Let the music do the talking
Sheila
She's on Fire
Shame on You
My fist Your Face
I'll talk about in the next video. A decent album hampered by bad promotion.
@@RobertFithen looking forward to it. Aerosmith is not one of my personal favs, even if we are just talking American bands, but one should admire their longevity, having hits in the 70s, late 80s, 90s, and early 00's (i think, when was Jaded?). They swallowed their pride in the late 80's and brought on board outside songwriters and it paid off. I don't think that move necessarily added to their legend but it did add to their bank accounts and longevity, and i can respect that.
nice timing to up this vid Rob. just bought japanese OG LPs of permanent vac and night in the ruts
I definitely need to get a different copy of Permanent Vacation
Steve Hunter played the fantastic acoustic on Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill.
Saw them on their debut UK tour back in ‘76 at Birmingham Odeon. They played to a nigh on half empty house as at that time the band were virtually unknown in the UK. Put on a great show though.
I'm pretty sure wagner & hunter only play on 2 tracks. Train & same old. Aerosmith in the 70's are pure gold.
Haha now when a band really is serious about their farewell you won’t believe it. Its the band that cried wolf quandary
The Live Bootleg this was not great packaging. I imagine Columbia was quick to slap a hype sticker on that sucker. Cant wait til you get to Done With Mirrors.😀
When the Lightning Strikes got a ton of airplay on Connecticut radio stations in 82. I got the vinyl many years later for free, and had totally forgotten how much i loved that song. It seems like they hyped the crap out of "done with mirrors", which was mediocre, while Rock and a Hard Place should have been hyped
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Andy also I mean rovert Robert also i cut my wrist when my family was sleeping ❤😊
I was in high school and would say the same thing with my buddy we all live at the edge of town ! Loved movin out
I read the book walk this way .. Steven Tyler loved the shangra las and was his idea for them to cover it
Interesting you mention the Springfield stage fall off show , I watched a video on RUclips with bloody f mess he has a story where he goes to that show and mentions how Steven fell off the stage into his friends lap basically and how the band were jabbing Steven for being so messed up
Me and my friend joke about the title krawwhitham instrumental track off Pandora’s box
Great video man
Thanks! I didn't know there was a video about that incident. I'll have to check it out.
@@RobertFithen bloody f mess official Steven Tyler stage fall off 1984
Wait a year from now and then they will tour again you wait and see they will be back
I saw Aerosmith live in January 1980 on the horrible Night in the Ruts tour. A half empty Nassau Coliseum and a stoned, bad band. Tyler didn't fall off the stage, but he was staggering and clearly plastered. Although I was only 16 years old, I left early and went home. Yes, that bad.
Anything Aerosmith did in the 70's was stellar...drugs included....
First, I heard them was love in an elevator, which I think is case for many this side of pond.
Apparently, the first charting album in UK was Permanent Vacation .weird, not sure why they didn't catch on in 70's.
Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter also played with both Alice Cooper group ( behind the scenes) and Alice solo.
It must have been 84 when I saw them last. Steven sounded wasted, he kicked his monitors off the stage. I also saw them a few years earlier, they were great.
Do you know if there's any truth in this story I heard? They wanted to change up the set list at one of their concerts and decided to play the last song first. They play that one song and Steven Tyler says "thanks very much, goodnight!" and walks off, thinking that's the end of the show.
That's hilarious. I hope it's true.
I saw Aerosmith around eleven times. During the Draw The Line tour of 1977, Joe Perry's monitor kept cutting out and he got so frustrated that he took off his guitar, threw it straight up into the air, and walked off stage. End of concert. Their opening band, The Rockets, came back out and played their set again.
This was a few months after the m80 incident and drugs were taking over the band.
I have the ROCKS quad. Side note when Rolling Stone reviewed it, the album cover was shown upside down.
Good ol' Roling Stone.
Joanie’s Butterfly is my favorite from RIAHP! It started out as an instrumental written by Jimmy Crespo. Steven heard it and liked it so much that he said he had to write lyrics to it. But I wonder, if Jimmy had stayed in the band, would they have made more songs like that?
Great song
I used to have several Aerosmith lp's back in the day and used to watch their Mtv videos, but I really don't listen to them anymore
Draw the Line is for Martin Popof the best rock song ever. The live bootleg album is really great.
Toys on 8 track was the only Aerosmith I had till probably the mid 80’s
Forgot to add I have that Pandora’s Box on cassettes
One of the few 8 tracks where they didn't have to fade out and back in a song.
Weird how Aerosmith and Springsteen's debuts came out on the same day and label-AND neither was an immediate success!
And you are right, their albums are always trashed! That's why the only one I currently have is a clean (quadraphonic) Toys In The Attic. It is one of the few clean ones I have found in the wild.
Did not know that about Wagner and Hunter on Get Your Wings. Then again, they seemed to be on everything around that time.
I’m pretty sure Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter only played some solos and maybe some other parts on Train. As far as I’ve ever read/heard, every other track on Wings only features Perry and Whitford.
I was one of those who didn't buy the 'bootleg' because I thought it would be a bootleg.
The early days of WQLZ were great, today not so good!!
Yeah, that's what I've heard.
The World Famous As It Should Be Studios is a "Rats in the Cellar" market!
It was never on the radio here.
@@RobertFithen I've never heard it on the radio at all, just love that song more. But I'm also a Rocks over Toys guy.
Rob did you miss 'done w/mirrors?" Or is that covered in part 2
It's in Part 2
@@RobertFithen thanks!
I saw them at Alpine Valley in 85ish. Maybe on the Done With Mirrors tour. He fell off the stage there too. They were the opening act for Sweaty Teddy Nugget. Both sucked
Not a great era for Aerosmith live and Steven Tyler remaing upright on stage.
joe perry is born from a portuguese family from madeira island.. his portuguese name suposed to be José Pereira..
also Steve Perry is born of portuguese parents from azores islands.. suposed to be Steve Pereira...
And Nuno Bettencourt also from Terceira Island, praia da vitoria city, my home town (ye I know you hate extreme... fuk...)
Dick wagner.....Alice Cooper
Spoonerisms are named after Reverend W. A. Spooner (1844-1930), an English scholar who reputedly made such errors in speaking.
That makes sense
still have my orig pressingz. my highz cool buddies were playing hockey on a frozen toxic swamp, next to a little ratrod custom rodder shop. they were playing Dream on on the radio. when we got back to our band pad, we called WABX in Detroit and CJOM in Windsor, and requestwd Dream On. unfortunately both stations played the shit out of it. took me forty years and Guinness beers to start breakin' out those slbs 0 wax, 'n' get back ito the 1st 2 Aero lpz. just saw the American Pickers episode. where they found the original divco van that theyntoured New dngland in before they were signed. great episode Robert. i'm sure that you've seen it . Great vid. Slainte from SpoCanada'
I saw that episode, too. It's one of only about 3 episodes that I've seen of that show.
I saw them once in concert in the 80’s. Two songs in and Steve passed out on stage. They announced the show was over 😤
Did you at least get a refund or free record?
@@RobertFithen Nope, nothing but disappointment