Aerosmith

Aerosmith on The Midnight Special
Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry

The most successful and influential American rock band to rise to prominence in the 1970s, Aerosmith applied and stylistically broadened the hard rock format to almost unparalleled artistic success. Incorporating blues, R&B, folk, and funk influences consistently, the group also established the “power ballad” (with the best intentions) as a viable approach and ensured rock’s commercial endurance in the decade amidst disparate musical trends. Spiritual descendants of The Yardbirds, the five men more than acquitted themselves as natural successors and, appropriately, went on to dominate popular music with a distinctive sound often imitated but never matched.

 

Peter Green in Concert, Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac’s “Rattlesnake Shake”

Released on Fleetwood Mac’s seminal Then Play On in autumn 1969, “Rattlesnake Shake“–a Peter Green ode–instantly took its place as ...
Aerosmith Live in 1973

Aerosmith’s “Movin’ Out”

The first song that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry wrote together (while sitting on a water bed at the band’s ...
Aerosmith 1979 Live

Reviewing Aerosmith’s Tumultuous 1979

AEROSMITH 1979 The Aerosmith that shipped off to tour North America in early 1979 represented, more so than a reinvigorated, ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer In Concert

Spotlight on Live Albums

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s In Concert (1979): Overshadowed by 1974’s Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends…Ladies ...

 

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