Their third album “Toys In The Attic” would take them from a jobbing but talented rock band to global megastars on par with Zeppelin and The Stones.Įver since then they’ve been legendary for all the right reasons. That’s where their career stayed for the next couple of years, their raucous Blues-rock cutting out a fine niche for them and their live shows were as unmissable as they ever would be. Pretty much immediately they gained a devoted following with a strong album and a decent sized hit with their single “Dream On”. January 1973 saw the release of their self-titled debut album. By 1971, they’d finalised the line up with the addition of Brad Whitford on the rhythm guitar, and the following year, by playing a gig in the presence of the head of Columbia Records Clive Davis, they got themselves a record deal. By October 1970, the band had moved in together, Monkees style, and started writing music and rehearsing for future shows. Tyler wanted to combine the two bands and after talking it over, that’s exactly what he got. In 1970 the two bands played together on the same bill, and Tyler was completely taken with Perry’s band, which already contained future Aerosmith rhythm section Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on bass and drums respectively. The band began with The Toxic Twins themselves, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, fronting their own bands, called Chain Reaction and The Jam Band respectively. Put simply, Aerosmith are still a bunch of badasses 45 years into their career, and they won’t be stopping any time soon. Aerosmith are timeless, they’re cool whatever your surroundings and when you look at them today, you still feel the kind of thrill you get when the most dangerous person you know winks at you. This means that it’s difficult for a modern day audience to read about what made last generation’s parents get up in arms about and truly understand why it was so shocking at the time.
That, and the fact that as time goes on we get other bands and artists being ever more outrageous in what they do and say. No-one can keep up a hell-raising reputation after they’ve passed the age where they would normally have kids and those that try are utterly hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Most legendary bands should descend into a kind of caricature in their third decade of being a band.
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