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And the lyric was very descriptive of our life, what was going on for us.
That was the first Aerosmith song that we wrote. RB: To prove to you that blues is the musical ground that Aerosmith sprang from, and is rooted into this day, recall the very first song you ever wrote with Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler almost 50 years ago.
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Once you hear it, you don’t have to talk about it anymore.” And then the new guys are, ya know, Johnny Lang and somewhat new guy is Robert Cray. There are a lot of people that hear blues and they think BB King, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy and that’s it. S Aerosmith just wanted to, to kind of honor that and then put our own stamp on those kind of tunes. I mean all of our pop music that we listen to now comes from the blues. I mean we’re a rock band and we have been influenced by the blues. And I just wanted to make that clear that we don’t and didn’t and don’t feel like we wouldn’t put ourselves in that driver’s seat. And we don’t consider Aerosmith as blues players so to speak. Whereas Tom and I were more into the crunchy guitar stuff and to us singing was just something to take up space between guitar solos !There are a lot of people that make a living at reproducing ,or trying to reproduce, the old classics. So they were able to sing more of that kind of pop harmony- driven kind of thing. So they were able to cover Beatles songs and Steve Miller songs and Byrds songs. They, they had two or three guys that could sing and sing really strong harmony. ‘Cause Steven’s band was a little more vocal heavy. And then when you got down to it, the more songs that you knew in common defined what kind of taste you had, and kind of put you in the running to join the band or form a band with these other guys. If it was somebody that you were basically looking for a guitar player or a drummer, you’d first start talking to them and kind of see where they’re at, if you got along, and you had some common interest, then obviously you talk about music. JP: “That was kind of traditional in the way bands ( like Aerosmith ) got together. RB: By listening to Yardbird songs from England, even though the song was written by African-Americans, blues was then and is now a common language between musical strangers. And I don’t think we realized it at that point, how important it was to us.” If you listen to the Tiny Bradshaw version with all the answer backs and the callin’, it was all like kinda swingy and big band-y and the blues was definitely this kind of thing beneath it all. And you’re right, it is a blues song, and as we kinda learned who did it, and then we listened back and it was actually not even a blues song, in the form that basically the Yardbirds took. So the song that we had in common (with Steven Tyler) was this song called “Train Kept A’Rollin’ “. But we liked the energy and the excitement of the rock. So we weren’t really like blues fanatics, I mean we knew where it came from and we were inspired by it. And at that point he left and stayed up in the woods, up in New Hampshire, and Tom and I went down to Boston to seek our fortunes. We said, ‘”No, we want to wear white Capezios and play some big amps and wear tight pants. He really wanted to wear baggy jeans and be barefoot and just play Howlin’ Wolf songs and Muddy Waters songs, just the way that they did it. In fact in our band, Tom Hamilton and I had a guy named John McGuire, and he really wanted to play blues. I mean I knew people that were these blues players. But the blues in the English form of the word, ya know, the blues that had been already taken and redefined by the English bands. Joe Perry: “I think it was “Train Kept a Rollin’ “. Redbeard: Joe, there was one song some fifty years ago that was on the set list for both Steven Tyler’s New York City high school band, which played the Lake Sunapee NH resort clubs in the summer, and the garage band that you and New Hampshire bass player Tom Hamilton had. From the Jackie & Gary Runyon Collection Main Attraction Mecum Gallery Exposition Sale Main Attraction From the Michael Fux Collection Main Attraction The John Justo Collection Main Attraction The Gary Thomas Collection Main Attraction The Shelton Collection Main Attraction From The Jerry Brewis Estate Collection Main Attraction The Al Berman Collection Main Attraction The Don Salmon Collection Main Attraction The Paul Mazze Sr.This is not the first time in the band’s almost fifty years that Aerosmith has been on hiatus, Joe Perry took time for this classic rock interview to discuss the challenges of maintaining the same personnel over the long career arc of this seminal American band.