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Post by nipmuchigh on Oct 29, 2014 17:21:18 GMT -5
I have to disagree on a few things...back in the '70's, Steven was the driving force of the band, a band that couldn't even tune their own guitars, couldn't read or write music etc, but back then he appeared to listen to all input from everyone and then {perfect?} it?
Steven's father did all the first lot of transposing for songs like 'Dream On'. This is non sensical garbage. Brad Whitford was a trained musician and Joe Perry might not have been polished yet but was damn good. Know your history. They were all writing music back then. It may not have been Mozart but music none the less. They were all the driving force which is what made it successful. It was NOT Steven and the other 4. It was Aerosmith.
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Post by Zen on Oct 30, 2014 23:02:30 GMT -5
I have to disagree on a few things...back in the '70's, Steven was the driving force of the band, a band that couldn't even tune their own guitars, couldn't read or write music etc, but back then he appeared to listen to all input from everyone and then {perfect?} it?
Steven's father did all the first lot of transposing for songs like 'Dream On'. This is non sensical garbage. Brad Whitford was a trained musician and Joe Perry might not have been polished yet but was damn good. Know your history. They were all writing music back then. It may not have been Mozart but music none the less. They were all the driving force which is what made it successful. It was NOT Steven and the other 4. It was Aerosmith. In "Walk This Way" the book, it says they couldn't tune their guitars and there is a photo of Steven tuning Joes guitar. All the early Aerosmith sheet music I have says as transposed by Victor Tallarico. Steven may not have been the driving force per se but the rest is fact. Also their is a difference between composing a song and actually writing the notes to it down, I was surprised after reading lots of Aerosmith books that neither Brad nor Joey who had both been properly trained and been to music school couldn't read or write sheet music.
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Post by lin on Oct 31, 2014 6:29:12 GMT -5
This is non sensical garbage. Brad Whitford was a trained musician and Joe Perry might not have been polished yet but was damn good. Know your history. They were all writing music back then. It may not have been Mozart but music none the less. They were all the driving force which is what made it successful. It was NOT Steven and the other 4. It was Aerosmith. In "Walk This Way" the book, it says they couldn't tune their guitars and there is a photo of Steven tuning Joes guitar. All the early Aerosmith sheet music I have says as transposed by Victor Tallarico. Steven may not have been the driving force per se but the rest is fact. Also their is a difference between composing a song and actually writing the notes to it down, I was surprised after reading lots of Aerosmith books that neither Brad nor Joey who had both been properly trained and been to music school couldn't read or write sheet music.Yes.. Steven knew music. Joe brought the energy and the fire and they've often said it was like the peanut butter and the chocolate. It was the synergy of the two of them that drove the band initially. Steven, with all his talents, couldn't do it with his other bands and Joe hadn't really done too much before that. And not to forget the other three. They all brought greater dimension to the band. But yes, Steven could tune a guitar and his father was a composer. I think there's even a picture of the sheet music for Movin Out in either Steven's book or WTW showing that he transposed the music for them.
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Post by bartman2001 on Oct 31, 2014 7:34:02 GMT -5
There are so so many rock and pop musicians a like who cannot read or write sheet music. The ratio of can to cannots is overwhelmingly in favor of the cannots from the Missisippi delta blues thru today so that isn't much of an argument for anything. Also note the early sheet music was transposed by Steven's father.
It's obvious when the band started Steven was more further along than the others and Brad second. Thats the beauty of the progression and growth the band took in there early years that made the band interesting as they got better.
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