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Post by AeroCooper on Apr 3, 2014 20:31:55 GMT -5
Aerosmith-Get Your Wings 40th-Steven Tyler,Joe Perry,Tom Hamilton,Joey Kramer,Brad Whitford AllMusic.com‘s Stephen Thomas Erlwine is so right when he opines, “This is when Aerosmith became Aerosmith.”
After a promising but raw first album, Get Your Wings in Spring 1974 soared with more memorable Steven Tyler/ Joe Perry songs fully the equal of the debut’s material, but now framed by new producer Jack Douglas‘ crystal clear production. The Aerosmith duo may have had admittedly a Rolling Stones fascination with their visual cues, but the sound on Get Your Wings owed much more to the Yardbirds, with Brad Whitford‘s second lead guitar weaving three dimensionally around Perry’s stiletto licks on ” Same Old Song and Dance”, “Lord of the Thighs”,”S.O.S. (Too Bad)”,”Seasons of Wither”, “Pandora’s Box“, and the all-important matrix that gave New Yorker Tyler common ground with New Hampshire boys Perry & Tom Hamilton,”Train Kept a Rollin’ “. – Redbeard www.inthestudio.net/online-only-interviews/aerosmith-get-wings-40th-steven-tyler-joe-perry-tom-hamilton/
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Post by sickasadog on Apr 3, 2014 22:39:36 GMT -5
40 years old?! This next to Rocks is defiantly their best album in my opinion, just classic after classic
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Post by AeroCooper on Apr 4, 2014 5:05:26 GMT -5
I'm one of the few that actually prefers Wings to Rocks, but truthfully they are both great albums. Not a miss on either one.
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Post by jj on Apr 6, 2014 0:32:23 GMT -5
The 1, 2, 3 punch of Wings, Toys and Rocks is simply unprecedented in Rock. Amazing albums. Wings sounds just as good today as it did when I got it in '75 (yes, i know it was released in '74). Now if we could just get Spaced and Women of the World in the set list! Oh, yeah--the cover is awesome, too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2014 0:42:09 GMT -5
The 1, 2, 3 punch of Wings, Toys and Rocks is simply unprecedented in Rock. Amazing albums. Wings sounds just as good today as it did when I got it in '75 (yes, i know it was released in '74). Now if we could just get Spaced and Women of the World in the set list! Oh, yeah--the cover is awesome, too. Absolutely. Spaced and Woman of the World easily in my top 5 Aerosmith songs. I assume you have seen the 45 second WotW on youtube.
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Post by AeroCooper on Apr 6, 2014 6:20:34 GMT -5
The 1, 2, 3 punch of Wings, Toys and Rocks is simply unprecedented in Rock. Amazing albums. Wings sounds just as good today as it did when I got it in '75 (yes, i know it was released in '74). Now if we could just get Spaced and Women of the World in the set list! Oh, yeah--the cover is awesome, too. Absolutely. Spaced and Woman of the World easily in my top 5 Aerosmith songs. I assume you have seen the 45 second WotW on youtube. Hopefully WOTW makes the cut on this tour. That tease was heartbreaking. Definitely it is in my top 10 Aero songs.
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Post by clanfraser on Apr 6, 2014 7:08:58 GMT -5
I grew up in Cleveland but spent a good deal of my summer with family up in New Hampshire. I was just learning to play the guitar in the early-70's (although I don't pick it up as much as I used to, I guess you're ALWAYS learning, no matter how long you play) and was turned on to Aerosmith by friends/family up in the Boston/N.H. area. (I've always taken credit (tongue in cheek) for bringing Aerosmith to Cleveland - and Cleveland certainly still loves 'Smith.)
Seriously, what allowed these guys to put together such great songs in the early days? Not to say that some of the later stuff isn't good - but it just ain't up there with the raw emotion/power of the early cuts.
Youth? Ambition? Something to Prove? (A bit of alcohol and a smattering of some 'other stuff' to get the creative juices flowing?)
I've never been able to figure it out - guess if I could then I could bottle it and sell it.
Anyway, Get Your Wings, what a great album. If it was the only thing that they ever recorded it would be a classic in and of itself.
Just MHO.....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2014 19:34:30 GMT -5
Sooooo. Coincidence some other Aerosmith site just started pushing for Woman of the World to be played this tour?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2014 19:40:47 GMT -5
That songs been getting pushed longer than that. They teased it in Jersey last year with just a snippet.
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Post by aerozhul on Apr 8, 2014 11:54:50 GMT -5
I also prefer Wings over Rocks, and consider it to be my favorite album, though Toys is a very close second...
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Post by Eiresmith on Apr 12, 2014 15:59:35 GMT -5
Love it....great album. Quantum leap from the debut both in songwriting and production. It really is unbelievable to think this was only 12 months after the release of the first album ! Has Spaced ever been played live....? I would consider that song THE deepest cut in entire back catalogue.
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Post by tomass on Apr 12, 2014 17:58:32 GMT -5
I am on the GYW is better than Rocks train...
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Post by livebootleg on Apr 12, 2014 18:25:10 GMT -5
Anybody know what Tyler has inside of that tie he is wearing on the cover? I will give you two guesses but you probably won't need both!
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Post by tomass on Apr 12, 2014 19:36:09 GMT -5
Anybody know what Tyler has inside of that tie he is wearing on the cover? I will give you two guesses but you probably won't need both! Queludes?
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Post by livebootleg on Apr 12, 2014 19:49:15 GMT -5
That is correct Tomass!
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