JUST LISTENED TO ...AEROSMITH ROCKS AND TOYS IN THE ATTIC...

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The tracks you don't hear every day, those..

I heard Uncle Salty and Lick and a Promise rotate thru my iPhone. Great building blocks of rock and roll music. Not in a bad way, but in the solid foundation sort of thinking

But then I like some old Thin Lizzy for great stripped down essential elements rock and roll too.
 
bbaug14":1u78qmrz said:
Joe Perry's rhythm tone on Sweet Emotion is possibly one of the greatest guitar tones ever, IMHO. I can't get enough of it.
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I know they had some sit in guitar players for some the early hits.
 
I gotta whip out my big ten inch.....record and give them another spin :)

Two classic albums for sure. I am surprised that the classic albums series has not done an episode on one of the albums.
 
LP Freak":4ywzabp9 said:
bbaug14":4ywzabp9 said:
Joe Perry's rhythm tone on Sweet Emotion is possibly one of the greatest guitar tones ever, IMHO. I can't get enough of it.
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I know they had some sit in guitar players for some the early hits.
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Bob Ezrin, who was the executive producer on Get Your Wings, brought in session guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter to perform the dueling solos on Train Kept A Rollin. Ezrin used Wagner and Hunter on some tracks with Alice Cooper, including Billion Dollar Babies.

Wagner, Hunter, and Huff. The three musketeers of studio guitarists, making good bands sound great.

I have heard Huff put out some teaching material. Would love to get it if anyone has any info.
 
The 'Hokin on Bobo' album was recorded old school in Joe Perry's basement. Guitars panned hard left and right, guys playing at the same time in the same room (there's a concept!). All covers except for one or two, but great tunes and vibe going on there. I so wish the new album was going to be an extension of Bobo, but sadly it is not.
 
Aerosmith "Rocks" is one of the best rock and roll albums of all time imo
 
Heritage Softail":8yieka17 said:
LP Freak":8yieka17 said:
bbaug14":8yieka17 said:
Joe Perry's rhythm tone on Sweet Emotion is possibly one of the greatest guitar tones ever, IMHO. I can't get enough of it.
Click to expand...
I know they had some sit in guitar players for some the early hits.
Click to expand...



Bob Ezrin, who was the executive producer on Get Your Wings, brought in session guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter to perform the dueling solos on Train Kept A Rollin. Ezrin used Wagner and Hunter on some tracks with Alice Cooper, including Billion Dollar Babies.

Wagner, Hunter, and Huff. The three musketeers of studio guitarists, making good bands sound great.

I have heard Huff put out some teaching material. Would love to get it if anyone has any info.
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This is interesting .... I had heard these peoples names but not very familiar with exactly what they had done.
......Lick and a Promise I learned when I was 17... what a great song.

I met Bob Ezrin about ten years ago & talked with him about a hour. Very nice person in my experience.
 
stephen sawall":2wpjihn3 said:
Heritage Softail":2wpjihn3 said:
LP Freak":2wpjihn3 said:
bbaug14":2wpjihn3 said:
Joe Perry's rhythm tone on Sweet Emotion is possibly one of the greatest guitar tones ever, IMHO. I can't get enough of it.
Click to expand...
I know they had some sit in guitar players for some the early hits.
Click to expand...



Bob Ezrin, who was the executive producer on Get Your Wings, brought in session guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter to perform the dueling solos on Train Kept A Rollin. Ezrin used Wagner and Hunter on some tracks with Alice Cooper, including Billion Dollar Babies.

Wagner, Hunter, and Huff. The three musketeers of studio guitarists, making good bands sound great.

I have heard Huff put out some teaching material. Would love to get it if anyone has any info.
Click to expand...
This is interesting .... I had heard these peoples names but not very familiar with exactly what they had done.
......Lick and a Promise I learned when I was 17... what a great song.

I met Bob Ezrin about ten years ago & talked with him about a hour. Very nice person in my experience.
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You are the man Stephen!
 
Heritage Softail":185401jn said:
stephen sawall":185401jn said:
Heritage Softail":185401jn said:
LP Freak":185401jn said:
bbaug14":185401jn said:
Joe Perry's rhythm tone on Sweet Emotion is possibly one of the greatest guitar tones ever, IMHO. I can't get enough of it.
Click to expand...
I know they had some sit in guitar players for some the early hits.
Click to expand...



Bob Ezrin, who was the executive producer on Get Your Wings, brought in session guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter to perform the dueling solos on Train Kept A Rollin. Ezrin used Wagner and Hunter on some tracks with Alice Cooper, including Billion Dollar Babies.

Wagner, Hunter, and Huff. The three musketeers of studio guitarists, making good bands sound great.

I have heard Huff put out some teaching material. Would love to get it if anyone has any info.
Click to expand...
This is interesting .... I had heard these peoples names but not very familiar with exactly what they had done.
......Lick and a Promise I learned when I was 17... what a great song.

I met Bob Ezrin about ten years ago & talked with him about a hour. Very nice person in my experience.
Click to expand...

You are the man Stephen!
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BE was doing these free clinics around the country ... only a few people showed up so it was like hanging out with him. I was asking a bunch of questions about Hendrix, Cooper, Floyd, etc ....Very interesting experience. I would really like to meet George Martin.
 
I met Joe Perry at a Tampa club back in 1981. He was drunk as hell, and wanted to play "The Jack" with the house band! :lol: :LOL:
 
Kings and Queens and Back in the Saddle started me on this long road...
 
I love early aerosmith but i can listen to all albums except rock in a hard place and done with mirrors.
I been listening to them alot in the last 2 weeks, i been playing the 70s stuff in my rotation.
 
Nobody's Fault and Combination were the high point of Aerosmith for me. Great tunes! :thumbsup:
 
Splinterhead":2rbxqprd said:
Nobody's Fault and Combination were the high point of Aerosmith for me. Great tunes! :thumbsup:
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i hear that.i love those tunes.
 
Nice guitar textures on those ... especially Toys in the Attic. And Tyler's voice. Wow. Just wow.
 
Aerosmith 'Rocks' was the album that completely changed the face of American rock music IMO. To this day I have heard nothing that carries as much 'musical weight' as Rats In The Cellar, Nobody's Fault, and Combination. I recall reading a 1976 promo review on Rocks, and it was the first time I had ever heard the term 'heavy metal' used.

(They tuned 1/2 step down for that one album, so I've always wondered if Jack Douglas merely dropped the pitch of the master recording?)

Joe Perry in a 1980 interview said that he had become jaded over the musical direction the band had taken. He mentioned humbucker pickups, excessive distortion, power-chords...etc. I never understood that because 'Combination' is arguably the heaviest track on the Rocks album, and that is a Joe Perry composition!

He penned 'Shooting Star' mocking the sound the band had become known for... Ironically it's one of the coolest tracks on the album. :lol: :LOL:
 
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Pretty sure Aerosmith was using Music Man amps for Toys & Rocks, Clapton was as well in the day.

Toys & Rocks are my favorite smith albums in that order.
 
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