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Post by cmac on Jun 24, 2020 18:52:06 GMT -5
What song hooked you onto Aerosmith?
For me, it was Janies Got a Gun. The first time I’d heard it was in 1989 when the video was in the MTV video countdown show. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before.
So, I got Pump and the rest is history.
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Post by tomhamilton on Jun 24, 2020 22:20:55 GMT -5
I started paying attention to them when the Pink video came out, but when I bought Nine Lives and heard those cat-like yells at the beginning and then that blasting drums and bass, MAAAAAN, i couldn't believe my ears. Been a fan ever since, 22 years now.
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Post by AeroCooper on Jun 25, 2020 6:12:18 GMT -5
The one-two punch of WTW and Sweet Emotion put them on my radar back in '75, but I didn't give them particular attention until a friend bought Night in The Ruts a few years later. After that, somehow it came back to YSMC, which we would listen to every single day before the bus came. And finally, when I discovered drugs (a light habit that is long past now) I really started to get into the nasty side of Aerosmith, and never looked back.
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Post by AeroCooper on Jun 25, 2020 8:16:16 GMT -5
And I wore out my cassette copy of this little gem, with its hacked up versions of their early hits.
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Post by bartman2001 on Jun 25, 2020 8:55:06 GMT -5
The riff to Walk This Way. But my earliest memories are of digging in to my brothers Toys album. Toys, Adam's Apple, and WTW just grooving to them. Saddle came in a bit later and the rest as they say is history. On a side not I'm still disappointed in my younger self for skipping over Uncle Salty don't know the reason why. I did however rectify that when I bought my cassette copy of Toys right after Done With Mirrors came out.
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Post by tomass on Jun 25, 2020 9:17:37 GMT -5
PV came out when I was in middle school and I was really getting big on hard rock and played that a lot. Then I got the greatest hits and felt like I knew all the songs somehow.. Was so weird... It was like a blast of nostalgia. I was hooked then and wore that shit out.. Gems may have been next.. I met my biological mother a couple years after who I has actually lived with til I was like 5 years old. Turns out she was a HUGE Aerosmith fan from the very beginning until the day she died. As in first album beginning since she lived in the area and went to school with Brads brother. I was born in 1974 so I was listening to them from when I was in the womb.. Train Kept A Rolling was in my baby book as a song released the year I was born. That explained the nostalgia feeling when hearing all those classic songs for what I thought was the first time. She went on to show me songs like One Way Street, Movin Out, Thighs and Seasons.. She would transcribe the meanings of lines in songs like "Goin under, skin is turning yellow" from Rats.. She was a junkie herself....
The old shit is what hooked me..
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Post by VoodooMedicineMan on Jun 25, 2020 23:35:57 GMT -5
Being born in 1980, their music was in heavy rotation my whole life, so I didn't really have that single moment. I remember my father driving me to school when I was in the first grade and hearing Hangman Jury on the radio and really liking it. I didn't really associate bands with songs at that point though. It probably wasn't until I saw them on the Simpsons that I started to associate the band with their songs and paid closer attention to them.
Around that time one of my friends had a birthday party at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston and I remember hearing Magic Touch and really liking it. I knew I had heard the song before and that it was Aerosmith(not sure exactly where I heard it, but I suspect during Boston Bruins Games on NESN where I heard the riff more than a few times since), I didn't know the title and that would remain a mystery for a few years. I tried finding it at a Papa Ginos juke box and unsuccessfully guessed a few songs by Aerosmith that re-affirmed I liked their sound. Bit of a tangent here, but this past weekend I showed my 9 year old niece the old Married with Children episode where Al tries to track down a song he heard on the radio but didn't know the name of (Ana, Go to Him), to demonstrate what it was like finding a song you heard on the radio before the internet and 'Alexa'. She's actually a big Aerosmith fan too who got hooked after going on the Rockin Roller Coaster in Disney World.
Anyhow, Get a Grip came out when I was in the 6th grade and that's when everyone seemed to be getting CD players. People at school were always talking about them and my family just got one, so I started thinking about getting something to play in it.
I first heard Eat the Rich on the radio and it grabbed my attention. Then I remember seeing the video of Livin' on the Edge while watching Beavis and Butthead and realizing I needed to buy that CD. I listened to it a ton, then went through my parents record collection and found Get Your Wings which to this day is my favorite album by any band. Next I got a 3 pack of CDs from BJs Wholesale Club consisting of Classics Live, Aerosmith and Greatest Hits. Soon after was the 3 previous Geffen albums when I signed up for BMG. So while the exact moment is unclear it's safe to say I was hooked by then.
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Post by jj on Jun 27, 2020 10:33:54 GMT -5
The Toys album in '75. My cousins visited from Oregon and brought several albums with them. This one knocked me out. Fan ever since.
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Post by whatashame on Jul 1, 2020 12:48:54 GMT -5
for me it was Cryin' but it was in 1993 and I was 6 years old. The bungee scene blew my mind and then it started
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Post by tedz on Jul 2, 2020 18:35:58 GMT -5
Probably Walk This Way, the Live! Bootleg version. I then received the Greatest Hits album for Christmas in 1980 and subsequently got into the studio version as well.
Ted
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Post by Alicanto on Jul 3, 2020 17:50:28 GMT -5
I first heard Dream On but it wasn't really my cup of tea. I then checked out their Greatest Hits album and absolutely fell in love with Same Old Song and Dance. After that, it was Walk This Way, then Sweet Emotion... I just fell deeper and deeper in love with the band.
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Post by 4bits4licks76 on Jul 4, 2020 8:17:56 GMT -5
I don’t recall it being any one song. I recall getting into hard rock at a real early age, like around 11-12 years old, friends were into Kiss, Sabbath, Zeppelin etc, then I met this kid a few years older than me who was an Aerosmith addict and he introduced me to all the songs and albums, I vividly remember him saying DTL had just come out so this must have been the summer of 1977, so I was 10 actually. I remember I had my sister draw the Aerosmith logo on neon paper and my 5th grade teacher hung it in class. RIP Mrs.Gibson( I assume she’s passed) But once I discovered Rocks there was no going back. Fuck, that album along with their then mystical outlaw persona was so captivating especially for a 10 year old boy. My brother is 9 years older than me, and when he told me he saw Aerosmith at Canobie Lake Amusement Park in 1972 at a battle of the bands, he remembers them playing dream on, I was blown away. He would break balls telling me they weren’t that big and only well known in New England.
Once I hit middle school, 6th grade, I had discovered this awesome thing called weed. It was then that I knew I had one thing in common with Aerosmith lol. So may joints smoked to many Aerosmith songs. And remember kids, this is back when a joint was a dollar! Ahh, times I can reminisce....
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Post by jupey on Jul 5, 2020 12:21:21 GMT -5
Possibly Cryin or Crazy. If I remember correctly they used to on MTV a lot (when MTV was decent and not full of crap shows) My first album was Big Ones and that was when I really got into them so much more.
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Post by nevada5 on Jul 5, 2020 12:45:25 GMT -5
Walk This Way, and then the rebirth in the late 80's. After moving from Florida to Nevada in 1999, I had the chance to see Aerosmith more and that sealed the deal. I've seen them 19 times since 2001. Going to get girly here, but they brought joy and something familiar after moving to someplace where I didn't know a soul. The excitement of being at a concert is so much better than living your real life and for just a few hours, you can escape.
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Post by aerozhul on Jul 5, 2020 21:41:37 GMT -5
Cryin’ hooked me when it came out, summer of ‘93, also - Alicia Silverstone video. I was 15, soon to turn 16. I already had Pump in my small CD collection, but hadn’t really listened to it. I then purchased GAG and PV, and those 3 albums got heavy rotation in my car stereo - I had just started driving. Then someone told me that Aero had a whole slew of ‘70s stuff. I was shocked, and immediately got Greatest Hits and Rocks, then eventually Box of Fire so I had it all.
More than a few of my friends have told me that in those high school years, I absolutely ruined Aerosmith for them by playing it so much - whatever. Aero was my gateway into rock music in general, still love it all today, but they are still my all-time favorite band.
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