i see them july 3rd

They sure sound good. I've never seen Aerosmith live. Maybe I'll finally get around to it this time!

Let's see when Stven Tyler falls of stage....

to my knowledge, the longest-running group featuring all the original members (albeit with a couple of interruptions)

I saw these guys in 1978 in Detroit (openers were AC DC on their Powerage tour) . i think the aeroheads were pretty buzzed by this career point and I don't think perry and tyler were getting along all that great by this time either. but they rocked good as they stumbled around. saw them again at a summer festival in 2007; i didn't expect much because I am not a big fan of all their interim hokey balladry and song docterin' etc and prefer their first four records, but the show was great. they leaned on the older stuff. looked like the veterans they are who still put on a good rock show. i was happily surprised.

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to my knowledge, the longest-running group featuring all the original members (albeit with a couple of interruptions)

WRONG.



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I saw them in 2010 and they blew me away. My friend was dying to go and I reluctantly went with the lowest of expectations. I kept telling him "This is going to ruin your vision of your favorite band. They haven't been good in years." But I'm a fan so I was hopeful. And the show was fantastic. A bit short at only an hour and 50 minutes, but they really did look like they were playing their heart out and its a very enjoyable show with a pretty good (if not a bit heavy on the 80s/90s ballads) setlist. Its expensive also, but luckily my friend hooked us up with free tickets so that definitely made a difference.

However, I would almost go solely on the fact of seeing them open with Draw The Line. My favorite Aerosmith song and I would get a real big kick out of that. Loved seeing it close the main set when I saw them in 2010.

******I would almost go solely on the fact of seeing them open with Draw The Line. My favorite Aerosmith song*******

- - sorry about the asteriks but i dont know how to copy people's quotes on this thing. i aint no computer wizard. but anyways, hey interesting you say that; i like all the early aerosmith stuff but draw the line wasn't one of my favs. i mean i can kind of dig it but i thought it was a little pedestrian, evern for aerosmith, lol. but from that album what i did like was 'hand that feeds,' 'sight for sore eyes,' and 'i wanna now why.' 'milk cow blues' was ok too, they'd been playing that as a band since day 1. some ferocious guitar in that one. wheni saw them in 2007 i was blown away by how good perry and whitford still were.

i saw Aerosmith twice in 1993,EX shows back then,but after that i got really bored with MTV ballads,just plain boring music since 1993,and they´ve done donthing interesting since.

i am going almost solely based on cheap trick opening

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to my knowledge, the longest-running group featuring all the original members (albeit with a couple of interruptions)

WRONG.

But that isn't the original lineup. [en.wikipedia.org]

Original or not, it has been the line-up since their first record, good enough for me!

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Original or not, it has been the line-up since their first record, good enough for me!

Wrong. Five years with another line up: [en.wikipedia.org]

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Original or not, it has been the line-up since their first record, good enough for me!

Wrong. Five years with another line up: [en.wikipedia.org]

they were talking about zz top not aerosmith

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Original or not, it has been the line-up since their first record, good enough for me!

Wrong. Five years with another line up: [en.wikipedia.org]

they were talking about zz top not aerosmith

Sorry, my bad - didn't see the wiki-link

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to my knowledge, the longest-running group featuring all the original members (albeit with a couple of interruptions)

WRONG.

But that isn't the original lineup. [en.wikipedia.org]

Neither is Aerosmith's current line up the original one.

Goin July 28th, Dallas

Just like in 2007 I do not appreciate this Steven and Joe + their backing band thing.
The stage extension is too big and splits the band IMHO

The way they use it gives a different impression than when the Stones, Metallica or ACDC use this kind of stage

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Just like in 2007 I do not appreciate this Steven and Joe + their backing band thing.
The stage extension is too big and splits the band IMHO

The way they use it gives a different impression than when the Stones, Metallica or ACDC use this kind of stage

Exactly what I felt when I saw them in 2010. I was three meters from the stage and I thought what a great spot I had. Then Steven spent like 80 percent of the show on the pier and so the whole FOS saw only his back and Joe also spent more time on the pier than on the main stage. It felt strange.

But except of that I have to say the show was great, that was the ony time I saw them, and if they played Prague again, I would probably go.

'Toys' 1975





from 'Video Scrapbook'

probably my favorite Aerosmith vid

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'Toys' 1975





from 'Video Scrapbook'

probably my favorite Aerosmith vid

Yup. That's what they looked and sounded like back then.

In 1975 I was working at single location, hippie/headshop record store in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Aerosmith was huge there, early on. We'd sold boatloads of the first two albums as our store and Aerosmith both shared that all important "underground cred'. Consequently, Aerosmith management and Columbia got together and decided to use Toledo, and our store, as ground zero for the launch of "Toys In The Attic."

In those days there was no established Tuesday new release day and big albums often came out on Thursdays in anticipation of weekend shoppers. Aerosmith management put a show on sale at the Toledo Sports Arena for the Friday of release week and promptly sold it out.They added a second show on the Wednesday before and almost sold that one out as well. On the Thursday in-between "Toys'" hit our shelves and promptly flew out the door by the dozens in LP. eight-track and, to a lesser degree, cassettes.

Road manager Tim Collins spiffed us with the usual stickers, t-shirts and tickets but best of all, he brought members of the band to the store to watch the flurry of sales from spaces in the barn-wood wall separating the office from the store itself. It was quite a sight to see Joe Perry and Brad Whitford peaking through cracks in a wall, their jaws agape, watching their new album take flight. You have to understand, the first two albums caught on slowly eventually becoming 'must-haves' but "Toys'" was their first album to explode out of the box. They were blown away.

I saw both the Wednesday and Friday shows and I'm pretty sure Tyler wore the striped outfit, seen in the video above, on one of the nights. After the second show my date and I were invited to the home of the music director of the local rock FM station who played the hell out of Aerosmith and as a consequence was in with the "in crowd." It was rumored that members of the band (including Tyler who never came to our store on release day) would be in attendance. Sure enough, after about an hour of waiting, the doors opened, the seas parted and over the threshold first stepped Tim Collins followed by Tom Hamilton and finally (gasp) Steven Tyler in all of his rubber-lipped, scarved and still wearing a gaudy stage costume glory.

Both were introduced around the room and when they got to my date and me Tim, or the host (I've forgotten which), said, "Steven, this is R___ ____ from ____ Records. They're the ones who have sold 600 copies of "Toys'," out of one store, since yesterday." Tyler looked at me, gave me a limp handshake and sneered, "Oh yeah, _____ Records. I've heard a lot about you, most of it good. Don't change my mind." He then turned on his heel and went to a back bedroom with some hangers-on where I'm told they did blow and got their knobs polished all night. Now, I'd not met many rock stars at that point but I still thought, "God, what an a--hole."

Shortly thereafter my date and I left. As we were walking to my car a carload of beautiful young women hailed us. They'd been driving up and down the street trying to find the party we'd just left. They excitedly asked, "Is that where the party is? The party with Steven Tyler?" I paused a moment and then said, "No. There's no party. Not in that house, anyway." They drove off and I felt a small modicum of satisfaction.



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seeing them in NJ!


video if another new song debuted live....a bit stonesy???

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hey man thanks for the story! interesting and also hilarious! typical rock star ego trippin!

Saw them on their final show in 2010 in Vancouver and was underwhelmed. Tyler was good but Joe Perry looked like he couldn't wait for the show to end, just going through the motions. Joan Jett was opening. Saw them a couple years prior with Motley Crue opening and that was more like it. I think I've seen them in Vancouver 6 times now, first being in 87.

Just checked on a recent setlist. 20 songs that's it. With several new ones nobody's heard yet. Eh,I'll pass. Rather see Cheap Trick in a small venue by themselves.

Is 20 songs not enough? Anyway, they are one of my favourite bands, but blow hot and cold live. First saw them in 89 I think in Birmingham, Eng. They had a huge red curtain concealing the whole stage when they started. They were playing Rats in the cellar, and at a key moment the curtain dropped revealing the group in full flight. Utterly amazing. the played a club in Livingston a couple of nights later, and were Crap. couldn't be bothered. they have been hit and miss the other times since. often infuriating - playing the intro to Hangman Jury at a festival in Germany, then not doing the rest of the song. Announcing " it's time to let the music do the talking" at Donington before playing Janies got a gun. Anyway, I hope the new album is good, but I fear the worst. oh, and I thought Just Push Play had some great moments, so I'm not just an old timer.

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