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Bought it first day on the street. Original cover.
Bought it first day on the street. Original cover.
Aerosmith Announces Farewell Tour
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yup. gonna have to frame that poster soon, the original cover ROCKS!...and it's bigger than an LP cover!
Yeah man, it is a real bummer that Joey Kramer will not participate, but I assume at the level they are it, lawyers are in charge.
I saw Aerosmith one time, 1991 Cow Palace, Skid Row opened for them, awesome, and then Aerosmith played. One of the best shows I ever went to, I was single, there where chicks everywhere and well, had a great time.
I saw Aerosmith one time, 1991 Cow Palace, Skid Row opened for them, awesome, and then Aerosmith played. One of the best shows I ever went to, I was single, there where chicks everywhere and well, had a great time.
I think it was either 1979 or 1980. Wings Stadium Kalamazoo. Exile opened ( one hit pop music wonder --booed off the stage ---not a good pairing ). Aerosmith came on like an hour late. They were all fucked up on something or somethings. The music was extremely loud. Terrible audio mix. It actually was not a very good show
I don’t follow the behind the scenes dealings. I assumed Joey had health issues. Drums are so physically demanding. Is that not the case?
The only time I "attempted" to see Aerosmith was 1984 in Springfield, Illinois. It was a total disaster. I knew Tyler was wasted, but my seats were much further away than this guy. See what he says about it. The only think I do not agree with was his last statement. I can promise you, it was a total crowd meltdown. Outside the arena all the fans were throwing objects at the glass door entrance and smashing glass....I was scared for my life!
I saw Steven Tyler, wasted, fall off the stage. What is your best "wasted celebrity" moment?
I attended Aerosmith's Back in the Saddle tour in 1984 in my hometown of Springfield, Illinois. I was 16 years old and super excited because I had 4th row center stage tickets. The best seats I have ever had before or since then. Here is what I witnessed:
The band is a bit late to the stage...not that big of a deal. They start to play. I'm all pumped up and not really caring too much at first, but then I start to notice that Steven Tyler is not really singing words that you can understand.
By the end of the first song I can tell that he is pretty ripped. He has a harmonica that he seems to be have quite a bit of trouble playing.
This is the 80s, so Tyler is wearing spandex pants with leg warmers around his ankles, which somehow did not seem all that weird in the 80s. He gets done playing his harmonica, and sticks it in the waist band of his spandex pants. I am close enough to the stage that I can actually see the harmonica slip down his pants leg and stop at the top of the leg warmer. In a wasted, absolute stupor, Tyler sits down on the front of the stage and starts fumbling with the leg warmer, trying to get the harmonica out. That was some funny shit.
He fails to get the harmonica out, stumbles back up, and makes his way over to Joe Perry looking for some help or advice. The band is playing at this point with no vocals, and they are all kind of giving Tyler disgusted looks. As Tyler starts pawing at Joe Perry for help, Perry jabs him in the gut with his guitar! No shit. He poked him hard enough that Tyler walked off stage holding his gut. They band stops playing, and announces they were taking a break. This was halfway through the second song.
They come back on stage in a bit, and Tyler's hair is dripping wet. They apparently dunked his head in some water in an effort to sober him up. Again they start to play, and for about 30 seconds, I thought he might come around and actually sing. Nope. He tried to sing for a bit, but ultimately started stumbling and falling down. Gets back up, starts an epic stumbling/fall that lasted about 15-20 seconds and ends with him falling off the front of the stage into the security barriers. He literally fell about 4 feet onto the concrete floor.
That was the end of the show. The lights went up and the guards started making people leave. I can't believe we didn't burn that place down, but everyone left pretty quietly -probably all too stunned by what we just saw.
I saw Steven Tyler, wasted, fall off the stage. What is your best "wasted celebrity" moment?
I attended Aerosmith's Back in the Saddle tour in 1984 in my hometown of Springfield, Illinois. I was 16 years old and super excited because I had 4th row center stage tickets. The best seats I have ever had before or since then. Here is what I witnessed:
The band is a bit late to the stage...not that big of a deal. They start to play. I'm all pumped up and not really caring too much at first, but then I start to notice that Steven Tyler is not really singing words that you can understand.
By the end of the first song I can tell that he is pretty ripped. He has a harmonica that he seems to be have quite a bit of trouble playing.
This is the 80s, so Tyler is wearing spandex pants with leg warmers around his ankles, which somehow did not seem all that weird in the 80s. He gets done playing his harmonica, and sticks it in the waist band of his spandex pants. I am close enough to the stage that I can actually see the harmonica slip down his pants leg and stop at the top of the leg warmer. In a wasted, absolute stupor, Tyler sits down on the front of the stage and starts fumbling with the leg warmer, trying to get the harmonica out. That was some funny shit.
He fails to get the harmonica out, stumbles back up, and makes his way over to Joe Perry looking for some help or advice. The band is playing at this point with no vocals, and they are all kind of giving Tyler disgusted looks. As Tyler starts pawing at Joe Perry for help, Perry jabs him in the gut with his guitar! No shit. He poked him hard enough that Tyler walked off stage holding his gut. They band stops playing, and announces they were taking a break. This was halfway through the second song.
They come back on stage in a bit, and Tyler's hair is dripping wet. They apparently dunked his head in some water in an effort to sober him up. Again they start to play, and for about 30 seconds, I thought he might come around and actually sing. Nope. He tried to sing for a bit, but ultimately started stumbling and falling down. Gets back up, starts an epic stumbling/fall that lasted about 15-20 seconds and ends with him falling off the front of the stage into the security barriers. He literally fell about 4 feet onto the concrete floor.
That was the end of the show. The lights went up and the guards started making people leave. I can't believe we didn't burn that place down, but everyone left pretty quietly -probably all too stunned by what we just saw.
One of the reasons I never saw them back in the day. Their reputation was that they sucked live because they were so wasted. My prime concert years started in '77 and by then it was pretty common knowledge. I imagine they may have been pretty decent live when they first started (or maybe not). There were so many bands that I wanted to see and only so many $$$, so why would I want to go see a disaster?
The56Kid
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Saw Aerosmith in 1976 in Greensboro, NC and they were great. But I haven’t really dug anything by them since Draw The Line and I wouldn’t attend a farewell tour by them if they paid me.
This one article spans Joey Kramer from joint pain-to legal issues.
https://blabbermouth.net/news/joe-p...er-wont-take-part-in-aerosmiths-farewell-tour
My daughter and I are fans so in 2015 when they came to the Amphitheater in Ridgefield ,Washington she surprised me with real good seats for my birthday so I snapped a couple pics they sounded really good they must have been sober.
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1987's Permanent Vacation, was there first release as a total band, Clean & Sober.
And, other than the content being quite a bit different than we remember from the 70's output, what a homerun of an album. Used to play the hell out of that one.
Aerosmith coming close to me in December. Hmm, maybe I will go. Both venues really bother my ears. They are a must earplug venues for me.
James_in_VA
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I love that '97-99 era too. The live shows were great! I agree that they haven't topped Nine Lives since it came out. I'd say the closest they've come since then is Music From Another Dimension.
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