Label signing
Clive Davis signs Aerosmith to Columbia Records after a performance at Max’s Kansas City in New York City.
We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet, the greatest rock band that ever was. We just wanted everything. We just wanted it all.
Dream On
The band releases their song, Dream On, from their self titled album. Tyler:
It’s about the hunger to be somebody: Dream until your dreams come true. This song sums up the s–t you put up with when you’re in a new band. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. That’s a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. Dream On came of me playing the piano when I was about 17 or 18, and I didn’t know anything about writing a song. It was just this little sonnet that I started playing one day. I never thought that it would end up being a real song.
Same Old Song and Dance
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Train Kept a Rollin’
The band releases their song, Train Kept a Rollin’, from their album, Get Your Wings. The song started out as a Big Band tune originally recorded by Tiny Bradshaw’s Big Band in 1951.
Toys in the Attic
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Sweet Emotion
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Walk This Way
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Last Child
The band releases their song, Last Child, from their album, Rocks. Whitford:
After rehearsal one day, I played this riff and Steven yells, ‘I love it!’ and started playing drums; he plays very different from Joey (Kramer) with a more jazzy approach, fun to work with. Joe (Perry) threw in a couple of chord changes, a D chord to an A, and then spiced up the chord a little.
Rats in the Cellar
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Back in the Saddle
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Draw the Line
The band releases their song, Draw The Line, from their album with the same name. Tyler explains the line from the song, “she was a wet nap winner”:
A wet-nap is something that you wipe babies’ asses with. Back in the day, if you were lucky enough to grab a stewardess on a plane and you came out of the bathroom, all you had to clean up with was a wet-nap. The best lyrics are like the scrambled eggs you have in your head about a situation. And I’ve got this uncanny way of weaving s–t together.
No Surprize
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Lightning Strikes
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Let The Music Do The Talking
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Angel
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Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
The band releases, Dude (Looks Like A Lady), from their album, Permanent Vacation. Co-writer, Desmond Child:
Joe (Perry) stepped in and said, ‘I don’t want to insult the gay community.’ I said, ‘Okay, I’m gay, and I’m not insulted. Let’s write this song.’ So I talked them into the whole scenario of a guy that walks into a strip joint and falls in love with the stripper on stage, goes backstage and finds out it’s a guy. But besides that, he’s gonna go with it. He says, ‘My funky lady, I like it, like it, like it like that.’ And so he doesn’t run out of there, he stays.
Love in an Elevator
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Janie’s Got A Gun
The band releases, Janie’s Got A Gun, from their album, Pump. Tyler:
That song is about a girl getting raped and pillaged by her father. It’s about incest, something that happens to a lot of kids who don’t even find out about it until they find themselves trying to work through some major f–king neuroses.
