Nine Lives Tourbook
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BRAD WHITFORD Guitar Acoustic Guitar |
JOEY KRAMER Drums |
TOM HAMILTON Bass Chapman Stick |
| JOE PERRY Guitar, Dulcimer, Slide Guitar, Background Vocals |
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| STEVEN TYLER Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Piano, Hammer Dulcimer, Percussion, Hand Organ, Harmonica |
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NiNe LiVes Tour
| 1973 AEROSMITH Columbia Make It Somebody Dream On One Way Street Mama Kin Write Me Movin' Out Walkin' The Dog  |
 1974 GET YOUR WINGS Columbia Same Old Song And Dance Lord Of The Thighs Spaced Woman Of The World S.O.S. (Too Bad) Train Kept A Rollin' Seasons Of Wither Pandora's Box |
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| Hi-amped guitars snarl, a cat growls, thundering drums and bass kick in, and then one of the unmistakable voices in rock history intones: "There's a new cool!" It's Nine Lives, the title track of Aerosmith's 12th studio album. New cool, indeed. And very true cool - for it's been the pleasure of this powerhouse quintet, ever since their white-hot advent 25 years ago, to deliver music that's written one of the most glorious chapters in American rock 'n' roll. Nine Lives has it all - Joe Perry's Gibson gunslinger attack, Brad Whitford's incendiary rhythm, the paired dynamite of drummer Joey Kramer and bassist Tom Hamilton. And then there's singer supreme Steven Tyler, Shakespeare of the salacious, turning in trademark randy wordplay ("I want to be your lover/I want to wrap you in rubber/As pink as the sheets that we lay on/Pink, it's my favorite crayon" - "Pink") and also waxing genuinely poetic with depth and style (In a daze/In the throws of emotion/You see God in the devil's eyes/Then you fall so far from Grace/You wouldn't know a kiss/If it was on your face - "Ain't That A Bitch"). This is Aerosmith, faithful as ever to their rock 'n' roll roots, yet ripe, hot and ready for the next century. |  |
1975 TOYS IN THE ATTIC Columbia Toys In The Attic Uncle Salty Adam's Apple Walk This Way Big Ten Inch Record Sweet Emotion No More No More Round And Round You See Me Crying |
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1976 ROCKS Columbia Back In The Saddle Last Child Rats In The Cellar Combination Sick As A Dog Nobody's Fault Get The Lead Out Lick And A Promise Home Tonight |
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As befits a band with an epic legacy (over 70 million albums sold worldwide, America's "Favorite Musical Group" - People's Choice Awards, 1994, 1995), Nine Lives is massive in its scope. There's the mystic fire of "Taste of India," heavy on Eastern percussion and entrancing drone; there's flat out Aerosmith rocking aplenty ("Crash", "9 Lives", "The Farm", "Attitude Adjustment", "Something's Gotta Give"); stately mid-tempo grandeur ("Hole in My Soul", "Ain't That A Bitch"), and wide-screen cinematic atmospherics ("Fallen Angels"). With Tyler, Perry and an ensemble of some of today's best songwriters (Marti Frederiksen, Desmond Child, Mark Hudson and Glen Ballard, among others) woodshedding together, the idea was, as always, to come up with a superabundance of material - and sift through for the gems. As Tyler says: "We start with a skeleton that makes it on its own, a dancing skeleton, no skin. It's got the chorus from Hell - and then we build from there." | ||
 1977 DRAW THE LINE Columbia |
Draw The Line I Wanna Know Why Critical Mass Get It Up Bright Light Fright Kings And Queens The Hand That Feeds Sight For Sore Eyes Milk Cow Blues |
 1978 LIVE! BOOTLEG Columbia |
Back In The Saddle Sweet Emotion Lord Of The Thighs Toys In The Attic Last Child Come Together Walk This Way Sick As A Dog Dream On Chip Away The Stone Sight For Sore Eyes Mama Kin S.O.S. I Ain't Got You Mother Popcorn Train Kept A Rollin'/ Strangers In The Night |
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| Perry amplifies: "We have loads of demos and that's without songs we've never released from a couple of albums ago. We have 15 songs left over from Get A Grip. That's what it takes to get something as good as we want. One of the things that bugs me about records is that there are very few that you can listen to all the way through. Generally, it's just two or three good songs, and then it's like, why bother? That seems self-indulgent. We're constantly pushing ourselves harder, constantly putting ourselves on the line." Tom Hamilton concurs; "We're still wedded to what it's all about - which is the songs. It's about wanting to present songs to the public and have them love them as much as we do. We still have this insatiable drive to show people what we can do. And that's about those little four-minute moments called songs - the way they tap into people's emotions." On board during the creative process as well was long-time secret weapon, John Kalodner. Helping to shape the fine points of the band's vision, he may also be their biggest fan: "To me, they're the most talented band in the world. When it comes to making albums, Steven and Joe and the rest of the band are unparalleled in terms of creativity. The new album is their best - combining the cohesiveness of Pump with the universal appeal of Get a Grip. |  |
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 1979 NIGHT IN THE RUTS Columbia |
No Surprize Chiquita Remember (Walking In The Sand) Cheese Cake Three Mile Smile Reefer Head Woman Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) Think About It Mia |
 1982 ROCK IN A HARD PLACE Columbia |
Jailbait Lightning Strikes Bitch's Brew Bolivian Ragamuffin Cry Me A River Prelude To Joanie Joanie's Butterfly Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat) Jig Is Up Push Comes To Shove |
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Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Draw the Line, Night in the Ruts, Rock In A Hard Place, Done with Mirrors, Permanent Vacation, Pump, Get a Grip - this is a band with a history. A legend great enough for two stellar compilations, Greatest Hits, Big Ones, and two boxed sets, Pandora's Box and Box of Fire - and that's not counting a host of live and other assorted recordings. Yet the landmark albums are only part of the story. There are also the mammoth tours, (for the 20 month Get a Grip extrava- ganza alone, Joe, Tom and Brad packed 59 guitars among them and tore through 96,450 guitar strings!). Relentless road animals, this band has proved itself in the smoke of clubs and the fire of stadiums. Steven Tyler, showman without peer, conveys the excitement: "The feeling that you get when you're dropped from a cliff, the feeling in your chest? I get that if I just think about being on stage. It's a pure shot of adrenaline. If someone said, 'You're addicted to adrenaline,' I'd probably think, 'Wow,' I understand." |
 1985 DONE WITH MIRRORS Geffen Let The Music Do The Talking My Fist Your Face Shame On You The Reason A Dog Shela Gypsy Boots She's On Fire The Hop Darkness  1986 CLASSICS LIVE! Columbia Train Kept A Rollin' Kings And Queens Sweet Emotion Dream On Mama Kin Three Mile Smile/ Reefer Head Woman Lord Of The Thighs Major Barbra |
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Add to the live shows the pathfinding videos ("Cryin', voted #1 "All Time Favorite Video" on MTV), a band autobiography (with best-selling writer Stephen Davis) in the works, a video arcade game, the Boston nightclub Mama Kin, a "virtual music" CD ROM, a CD-ROM adventure game entitled '9', which was a joint venture with Robert De Niro's company, 'Tribeca Interactive', their groundbreaking rap/rock alliance with Run/DMC ("Walk this Way"), and Aerosmith can truly be seen as a fully dimensional wonder - a rock 'n' roll state of mind. At the center of the whirlwind? Five dedicated musicians. Says Brad Whitford: "You can't put it in a box or a glass or a bottle. It happens because the five of us get together and do what we do. You can't change the formula. And, to me, we are the biggest fans of what it is. So we just keep going to the show." Joey Kramer adds: "Everybody's willing to cooperate, and there's real creative juice in the nucleus of what we do. Nobody's ever satisfied." | |
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1987 PERMANENT VACATION Geffen Heart's Done Time Magic Touch Rag Doll Simoriah Dud (Looks Like A Lady) St. John Hangman Jury Girl Keeps Coming Apart Angel Permanent Vacation I'm Down The Movie |
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| Nine Lives is the latest stellar product of the band's constant evolution. A labor of love, sweat and ingenuity (Joey Kramer aptly terms it "a traditional Aerosmith album, with a very '90's feel"). The album was crafted to its final glisten by producer Kevin Shirley (Silverchair, Journey). Tom Hamilton explains: "Kevin likes to record in a organic way, with the full band in the studio, using as much of the take as possible." With Shirley winning a big thumb's-up from the boys in the band (Perry: "Kevin is a rocker, man. He's the only producer I've worked with who stands at the back of the board while we're playing with a guitar in his hands, playing air guitar." Tyler: "Kevin goes right ahead and gets it. It's a breath of fresh air"), the album accurately reflects the innovative sensibility of Aerosmith 1997. |  |
1987 CLASSICS LIVE! II Columbia Back In The Saddle Walk This Way Movin' Out Draw The Line Same Old Song And Dance Last Child Let The Music Do The Talking Toys In The Attic |
| Joe's guitar work, particularly on slide, is singularly intense: Steven's ultra-dramatic delivery has never been sharper ("I hit a new limit in my vocal range just last week - really high. And not just a squeak," he laughs, "an actual note!"). Mood-enhancing embellishments (the antique hand organ on the end of "Circle," the sarangi on "Taste of India," expertly deployed strings on selected cuts) meet the undiluted strength of the Hamilton/Kramer rhythm section and Whitford's simmering guitar ("On some tracks, I used a baritone guitar," he says. "It really thickened the over-all sound"). | ||
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| Back on Columbia, the label they started with during their Boston beginnings, the band is pumped again with new energy (Tyler: "Everybody at Columbia is such a big Aerosmith fan. They're there. And that takes things out of the cold, corporate world"). Perry, too, senses the heat: "Everybody's really pushing their edge. Steven's got a whole new part of his range. I'm getting better tone than I've ever gotten. There's no laying back. We push ourselves so hard that we don't really have a chance to be pushed. We're two steps ahead, then we look back and the people who support us say, 'O.K.., keep going guys.' At this point, the band is closer than we've ever been. Everything in our lives finds its way into the texture of what we're doing. And we keep discovering new things." |  |
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 1988 GEMS Columbia |
Rats In The Cellar Lick And A Promise Chip Away The STone No Surprize Mama Kin Adam's Apple Nobody's Fault Round And Round Critical Mass Lord Of The Thighs Jailbait Train Kept A Rollin' |
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New things that are destined to become classics. Nine Lives, after all, is 100 percent unadulterated Aerosmith. "Very melodic, strangely lyrical, a little weird, very compelling and with choruses that you could hang your hat on the first time you hear them - that's what we do" summarizes Steven Tyler. Often imitated, never duplicated, it's a formula for greatness. Aerosmith embodies it - and then lets the music do the talking. | ||
 1989 PUMP Geffen |
Young Lust F.I.N.E. Going Down/ Love In An Elevator Monkey On My Back Water Song/ Janie's Got A Gun Dulcimer Stomp/ The Other Side My Girl Don't Get Mad, Get Even Hoodoo/ Voodoo Medicine Man What It Takes |
 1993 GET A GRIP Geffen |
Intro Eat The Rich Get A Grip Fever Livin' On The Edge Flesh Walk On Down Shut Up And Dance Cryin' Gotta Love It Crazy Line Up Amazing Boogie Man |
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 1980 GREATEST HITS Columbia Dream On Same Old Song And Dance Sweet Emotion Walk This Way Last Child Back In The Saddle Draw The Line Kings And Queens Come Together Remember (Walking In The Sand) |
1991 PANDORA'S BOX Columbia 51 Track Box Set Includes: One Way Street Mama Kin Seasons Of Wither Dream On Toys In The Attic Walk This Way Big Ten Inch Record Last Child Draw The Line Kings And Queens Chip Away The Stone  |
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 1994 BIG ONES Geffen |
Walk On Water Love In An Elevator Rag Doll What It Takes Dude (Looks Like A Lady) Janie's Got A Gun Cryin' Amazing Blind Man Deuces Are Wild The Other Side Crazy Eat The Rich Angel Livin' On The Edge |
 1997 NINE LIVES Colombia |
Nine Lives Falling In Love Hole In My Soul Tast Of India Full Circle Something's Gotta Give Ain't That A Bitch The Farm Crash Kiss Your Past Goodbye Pink Attitude Adjustment Fallen Angels |
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