Aerosmith On 60 Minutes

[elduave]

Good piece.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7401716n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox

[bubs_42]

Enjoyed it, man it is really hard to believe they are still together. If and when they tour i'll be there because the music is just that good.

[cmatthes]

As many times as I've seen that band, they do still deliver.

They've really started to show their age in the last 5 years though...

[proxmax]

many thanks for sharing.

my all time fav band!

[Crimsontider]

Not knowing them personally, I can say that I used to love their music before their Glam Metal comeback. They inspired a lot of musicians and bands, that's for sure.

Tyler did Oprah, I missed that too!

[kizanski]

Watching that Sunday night, I was reminded why I walked out on them in '78.

[DaveL]

60 minutes? what did they do? money laundering? racketeering?

or was it something really bad, like tryin to pick up young chicks

when your 60?

[princeofdarkness56]

Must be a good paying job but the work environment has to suck.

[diablo175]

As many times as I've seen that band, they do still deliver.

They've really started to show their age in the last 5 years though...

Is any wonder? With the level of partying and substance abuse, coupled with the rigors of the road from the 70's & early 80's, it's amazing they hung on as long as they have. Kudos to Joe and Steven for scaling back on or eliminating the drugs and booze and working out.

[BTMN]

Those guys struggle with sobriety and anger/"domestic" type issues. I see they work hard at it too and I wish them nothing but well in doing so. They still swing really hard in the live arena when all are 100%. Seen them in Tampa last Summer and they were getting it done well. Cant wait to see them again. Next time is #55.

[cynic]

Next time is #55.

#55, as in you've seen them 54 times? I don't think I've evened listen to a full recording of a particular band 54 times.

Speaking of walking out on them.....had I not been as messed up as they were when I saw them in the late 70s I'd have walked out too. They were too fucked up to perform, and even the guitars were slurred.

At the time I chalked it up as "rock-star" which in my young mind made it all the more cool.

[BTMN]

First time September 1975 Columbus, Ohio. Last Time Tampa Last August. many good shows and a few meh shows. More good than bad for me at least. St. Paul in the October of '77 and October of '78 were wild shows. London in November of 1989 was FANTASTIC!!!

Columbus, Ohio 2005

[Crimsontider]

Next time is #55.

#55, as in you've seen them 54 times? I don't think I've evened listen to a full recording of a particular band 54 times.

Speaking of walking out on them.....had I not been as messed up as they were when I saw them in the late 70s I'd have walked out too. They were too fucked up to perform, and even the guitars were slurred.

At the time I chalked it up as "rock-star" which in my young mind made it all the more cool.

Chalk up another trait picked up by "The Crue". I watched 30 minutes of Mic Mars with a totally out of tune G string before bailing out in the 90's. Their biggest influence.......Aerosmith lol.

Imo, a sad truth is that some of the greatest albums of all time were made during the early heavy drug influenced phase of a bands career, and this is no exception with Aerosmith. They were better live after they cleaned up, but they were using during their creative peak....imo.

[Turdus]

Hated Dream On when I first heard it, and still hate it today. However, Toys + Rocks are still in heavy Turdus rotation today. Here's to hoping that the new album sounds like those two.

[kizanski]

Speaking of walking out on them.....had I not been as messed up as they were when I saw them in the late 70s I'd have walked out too. They were too fucked up to perform, and even the guitars were slurred.

I just never (even to this day) liked their music very much, aside from a song or two.

Tyler's insufferable persona is magnified by a factor of ten if you're already not digging the music.

They were headlining the performance I walked out on, which was a mistake (them headlining, I mean), because they followed Frank Marino, a positively incendiary Neal Schon with Journey, and Ted Fucking Nugent.

After all of that, their sloppy, stoned asses spilled out on stage and, even at 12 years old, I knew when I had seen enough.

[Rodan]

...and at the end of the piece, backstage stories with the reporter online, "sponsored by Pfizer".

Another clever edit was the shot of a huge stage extension, after Tyler talked about keeping the band going as an art...

Maybe I'm just twitchy about supposed intersections of Art and Commerce...on that scale.

[Brooks]

Imo, a sad truth is that some of the greatest albums of all time were made during the early heavy drug influenced phase of a bands career, and this is no exception with Aerosmith. They were better live after they cleaned up, but they were using during their creative peak....imo.

so true. same w/ most rawk bands too (stones/kiss/VH/etc).

[zenmindbeginner]

Mind altered states facilitate creativity for many humans, it's a well documented fact.

Shamans use drugs for visionquests and healing.

Brain waves must be at a certain place for creativity to take place... some artists have bizarre chemistry and can achieve those brain waves much easier through a drug induced altered state.

It's just how it is.

[elduave]

Mind altered states facilitate creativity for many humans.

+1.

[Crimsontider]

I know that I didn't 100% connect with Hendrix and his Wah Wah Pedal until listening under similar conditions . The connection stayed.

[cmatthes]

After all of that, their sloppy, stoned asses spilled out on stage and, even at 12 years old, I knew when I had seen enough.

You sure it wasn't because Mom said you had better be in that station wagon by 9:30pm, because it was a school night?

(I keeeeeeed)

[kizanski]

After all of that, their sloppy, stoned asses spilled out on stage and, even at 12 years old, I knew when I had seen enough.

You sure it wasn't because Mom said you had better be in that station wagon by 9:30pm, because it was a school night?

(I keeeeeeed)

lol nope!

It was a rainy August day.

...and I was home in time to watch "Cal Jam II" footage on TV that evening.

[MCChris]

I know that I didn't 100% connect with Hendrix and his Wah Wah Pedal until listening under similar conditions . The connection stayed.

First time I ever got stoned I ended up face down on the floor with my ear right next to a stereo speaker with "Manic Depression" wafting out of it. I will never forget how great that guitar solo sounded as it swirled through my altered brain.

[MCChris]

Here's to hoping that the new album sounds like those two.

It won't.

Only Aerosmith album I own (and have ever owned) is the Crespo/Dufay release Aside from that album they just never latched onto my pleasure centers.

[Brooks]

Only Aerosmith album I own (and have ever owned) is the Crespo/Dufay release Aside from that album they just never latched onto my pleasure centers.

thats the 1st a'smith show i saw, rock in a hard place tour. great show until tylers mic went out, so he left the stage for a long time. dufay & crespo ran around shredding and putting on a great show. i presume tyler left to go shoot up, because he was a zombie when he came back; he leaned on crespo w/ his arm around him to share the mic, and fuckin' NODDED OUT WHILE SINGING, so crespo started singing the lead vox!!! tyler staggered off and we could see him throwing up behind the PA stacks from our side stage seats. although the last 3rd of the show was an unproffesional mess, it was kinda entertaining in a rubbernecking-at-a-car-crash kinda way.

saw 'em at the texas jam a few years later when joe & brad came back, then ~10 years ago w/ kiss, much more together but not as interesting. not my fave band, but i do love ROCKS, what a great album.