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Post by anaix3l on Jan 18, 2016 17:51:18 GMT -5
I was watching the Motörhead: the Guts and the Glory documentary again tonight and in the part about the Bastards album, Phil says he says he felt they should have sold the song I'm Your Man to Aerosmith, starts doing the beginning in Walk This Way style and goes on about how he can imagine Steven "swinging around his Tourette's... no, they're not called that"
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Post by AeroCooper on Jul 19, 2016 16:34:54 GMT -5
On Q106 this morning they were playing a game where they would give a topic and the listener/caller would have to name 5 things in that category. For one topic they said "Name 5 drummers". I can't remember all 5 that the caller said, but he listed 4 including Neil Peart and Lars Ulrich...the DJ said, "That's 4 we need one more" and the caller was like "UH!...UH!.....JOEY KRAMER!!" He won tickets to see Foreigner.
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Post by anaix3l on Jul 20, 2016 16:27:15 GMT -5
I see it's been uploaded a few days ago. Wonder what gave them the idea for this list. Yes, Joe is on it. Not with what happened this month. With an older "stunt" during an Aerosmith show at the end of Draw the Line.
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Post by black911 on Aug 7, 2016 2:06:03 GMT -5
Someone posted a Boston video on FB and to my surprise after hearing every Boston song every 30 minutes on the radio for 15 years I found I could listen to their music again and like it. So I hunted down videos and read wiki and came across this.
In the late 1960s, Tom Scholz began attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he first began writing music.[2] After graduating with a master's degree, he began working for the Polaroid Corporation in the product development division.[3] By night, he played keyboards for bands in the Boston bar and club scene, where he collaborated with keyboardist/drummer Jim Masdea.[4] The two—who shared a concept of the perfect rock band, one "with crystal-clear vocals and bone-crunching guitars"—viewed themselves as only part-time musicians.[3] Despite this, the duo built a small studio near Watertown, Massachusetts to record ideas. Scholz recorded for hours on end, often re-recording, erasing and discarding tapes in an effort to create "a perfect song."[3] Both musicians later joined Mother's Milk, a band featuring guitarist Barry Goudreau, that vied for recognition in the Boston music scene. Scholz quickly went from keyboardist to lead songwriter, and the band went through dozens of lead vocalists before Brad Delp auditioned.[3] Delp, a former factory worker at a Danvers electric coil company, spent much of his weekends in cover bands. Delp drove to Revere Beach, where the three-piece were performing at a club named Jojo's.[3] Delp was impressed that the band had recorded a demo tape and were still recording, and earned his position in the band after auditioning the Joe Walsh song "Rocky Mountain Way". Mother's Milk became an early version of Boston, with Goudreau on lead guitar.[3]
By 1973, the band had a six-song demo tape ready for mailing, and Scholz and his wife Cindy sent copies to every record company they could find. The group received rejection slips from several labels—RCA, Capitol, Atlantic and Elektra among the most notable—and Epic Records rejected the tape flatly with a "very insulting letter" signed by company head Lennie Petze that opined the band "offered nothing new."[3][5] The tape that received the most attention contained embryonic renditions of future songs that would appear on Boston's debut album. Financial reality encroached the dream for Delp, who departed shortly thereafter because "there just wasn't any money coming in."[3] By 1975, Tom Scholz was finished with the club scene, concentrating exclusively on the demo tapes he recorded at home in his basement. Scholz was renting the house and spent much of his funds on recording equipment; at one point, he spent the money he had saved for a down payment on a future home on a Scully 8-track.[3] He called Delp to provide vocals, remarking, "If you can't really afford to join the band or if you don't want to join the band, maybe you'd just want to come down to the studio and sing on some of these tapes for me." Scholz had given the Mother's Milk demo to a Polaroid co-worker whose cousin worked at ABC Records (who had signed one of Scholz's favorite bands, the James Gang). The employee forgot to mail the tape out and it sat in his desk for months until Columbia began contacting Scholz, after which he sent the tape to ABC.[3][4]
Charles McKenzie, a New England representative for ABC Records, first overheard the tape in a co-worker's office.[3][6] He called Paul Ahern, an independent record promoter in California, with whom he held a gentleman's agreement that if either heard anything interesting, they would inform the other.[4] Ahern had connections with Petze at Epic and informed him—even though Petze had passed on the original Mother's Milk demos. Epic contacted Scholz and offered a contract that first required the group to perform in a showcase for CBS representatives, as the label felt curious that the "band" was in reality a "mad genius at work in a basement."[3][6] Masdea had started to lose interest in the project by this time, and Scholz called Goudreau and two other performers who had recorded on the early demos, bass player Fran Sheehan and drummer Dave Currier, to complete the lineup. In November 1975, the group performed for the executives in a Boston warehouse that doubled as Aerosmith's practice facility.[3][4] Mother's Milk was signed by CBS Records one month later in a contract that required 10 albums over six years. Currier quit before he knew the band passed the audition, and Scholz recruited drummer Sib Hashian in his place. Epic had signed an agreement with NABET, the union representing electrical and broadcast engineers, which specified that any recording done outside of a Columbia-owned studio but within a 250-mile radius of one of those studios required that a paid union engineer be present.[6] As such, the label wanted the band to travel to Los Angeles and re-record their songs with a different producer. Scholz was unhappy with being unable to be in charge, and John Boylan, a friend of a friend of Ahern, came on board the project.[6] Boylan's duty was to "run interference for the label and keep them happy," and made a crucial suggestion: that the band change their name to Boston.[3][4]
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Post by AeroCooper on Aug 7, 2016 6:49:59 GMT -5
^ I love Boston.
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Post by anaix3l on Aug 9, 2016 12:04:49 GMT -5
@9:45
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Post by AeroCooper on Sept 2, 2016 10:46:13 GMT -5
A commercial for a local sport store was on the radio, and as usual I was not really listening to it. Slowly though the song playing in the background began to grab my attention but it was playing so subtlety that I couldn't place it right away. I could hear slide guitars and what sounded like Steven singing "bop doo wop, doo wop doo wop, doo oh..." Finally I was able to grasp that it was Line Up.
Now, I seriously doubt this little shop has permission to play an Aerosmith song, so maybe that's why they chose such an obscure one.
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Post by anaix3l on Sept 10, 2016 10:36:54 GMT -5
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Post by AeroCooper on Sept 10, 2016 14:50:16 GMT -5
Not really a mention, but listening to the radio contest yesterday where the caller has to name 4 songs played from the beginning in 60 seconds...the first song was Chip Away The Stone, caller: "Pass" Second song was whatever. Third song was Last Child, caller: "Pass" He didn't end up winning, so at least there was a happy ending.
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Post by anaix3l on Sept 10, 2016 17:58:27 GMT -5
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Post by AeroCooper on Sept 18, 2016 17:09:45 GMT -5
On another forum I belong to, which has nothing to do with Aerosmith, in a thread that had nothing to do with Aerosmith, someone randomly posted this video. Although it is not hard to find, I'm reposting it because the pro-shot video is a genuine pleasure to watch, something that rarely gets seen.
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Post by anaix3l on Sept 19, 2016 10:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by petertherock on Sept 20, 2016 13:19:55 GMT -5
I remember this from way back in the day...Lindsay Lohan is the female version of Steven Tyler...although...I think Steven has her beat in the drug usage department...seriously...I am glad it didn't take Lindsay as long as it took Steven to get clean because I don't think Lindsay would have lasted much longer if she didn't clean up her act...
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Post by AeroCooper on Sept 25, 2016 16:38:27 GMT -5
Watching 'New Girl' just now, and this random scene came up with these random people who are not even part of the show:
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Post by anaix3l on Sept 26, 2016 12:00:00 GMT -5
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