Hello everyone....
"The bad boys from boston" are here on Rockonomy...
we are talking about Aerosmith, an American hard rock band formed in 1970 in boston,US.
They have been called been called America's greatest rock band as they outperformed everyone else when it came to Rock n Roll ( actually it's my personal view considering their early albums)...
Their music is an interesting blend of blues and pop elements in rock and heavy metal....
Talking about the band history and early days...
Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton formed a band JAM BAND...which eventually evolved into Aerosmith when Steven Tyler and Ray Tabano joined in...
Ray Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford in next year....
The band formation story becomes even more interesting by the facts that Steven Tyler played with a series of unsuccessful bands before joining into Aerosmith...and Joe Perry...he washed dishes when he was in JAM Band....
The band became quite popular from the very beginning attracting a huge number of crowd in their live shows...they performed in various places under various popular covers...
Their first album was AEROSMITH....selling over 2 million copies,the album was a huge hit....and achieved gold status quite early which later on transformed to double platinum status!!!!!!...it showed the blues rock magic of Aerosmith...
In the period of 1973-1980..they launched their four new studio albums...Get Your Wings..Toys in Attic..Rocks..Draw the Line and Night In The Ruts....all of them topped the billboard and were sold like hot cakes.....
This was the period when Aerosmith showed some of its hard rock magic over blues and pop rock....
The band was an inspiration for bands like Guns n Roses and Metallica...
But after the release of these albums...Aerosmith suffered two back to back blows...
Joe Perry and Brad Whitford departed from the band citing the problems like Drug issues and differences with Steven Tyler...
they were replaced by Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay....
But in 1984..an interesting turn came when Aerosmith was performing on a tour....the band reunited and Perry and Brad whitford returned to the band....
The summary of band members is like this...:
Current members
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, piano, harmonica, percussion (1970–present)
Joe Perry - lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1970–1979; 1984–present)
Brad Whitford - rhythm and lead guitar (1971–1981; 1984–present)
Tom Hamilton - bass guitar, backing vocals (1970–present)
Joey Kramer - drums, percussion (1970–present)
Former members
Ray Tabano - rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals (1970–1971)
Jimmy Crespo - lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1979–1984)
Rick Dufay - rhythm and lead guitar (1981–1984)
The band went under drug rehab program which was quite successful....
When they reunited..Steven Tyler quoted-
"You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move."
They again started creating their trademark music and rock after reuniting releasing some of some awesome albums like....Rock in Hard Place..Done with Mirrors...Pump( 7x platinum)..Get a Rip( 7x platinum)..Nine Lives..etc...
They toured again like they did earlier....also featured in Guitar Hero tour
Aerosmith has given some of the wonderful singles like...Sweet Emotion..Dream On...Walk this way...Rag Doll...Love in Elevator which are just amazing and its shown in their billboard positions...
To mention about the awards and achievements...Aerosmith won their first Grammy award, for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal went on to win a total of four such awards (all of them in the 1990s) for "Janie's Got a Gun", "Livin' on the Edge", "Crazy", and "Pink".
Aerosmith is also the all-time leader in the categories Best Rock Video (with four such awards) and Viewer's Choice (with three such awards)
Aerosmith has also collected seven American Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, two People's Choice Awards, sixteen Boston Music Awards
Aerosmith music is something different as you can sense i their albums...even the album like Nine Lives(1997)...it contains some awesome and wonderful tracks like...Something Gotta Give and Ain't That a Bitch..with some extraordinary lyrics and brilliant licks....
Well talking about the first album Aerosmith..which is available here for you for free...the album made Aerosmith so popular that they started hitting top of the charts from the very beginning..tracks and singles like..Dream On and Mama Kin received a lot of appreciation and are extraordinary pieces of music....
The album as before mentioned gives a rocking blend of blues with rock....
So go on and download the album to feel the essence of Aerosmith in you:
The album and article brought to you exclusively by Rockonomy.....
p.s:This is not done with the legendary AEROSMITH,Rockonomy will return with some more albums by this great band with a new article,till then keep rocking with Rockonomy....
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