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I respect the hell out of these guys, sooooo much. It's well documented that Perry and Tyler have been butting heads forever, but somehow, someway, 42 years later, they're still together. I applaud this band for ensuring that the music is bigger than they are. I'm also very proud that the greatest American Rock and Roll band in history are all Boston boys.

Enigma869 wrote:I respect the hell out of these guys, sooooo much. It's well documented that Perry and Tyler have been butting heads forever, but somehow, someway, 42 years later, they're still together. I applaud this band for ensuring that the music is bigger than they are. I'm also very proud that the greatest American Rock and Roll band in history are all Boston boys.

Could not agree more..very cool to see them this morning on the Today Show,
I could never see acceptance of anyone else fronting that band
and I think they would never do that to their fans....rock on boys!

While "Get a Grip", "Pump" has their moments, Aerosmith hasn't made a great record as a whole since "Draw the Line", "Night in the ruts" era. Saying "Were

bringing Jack Douglas back to produce", was ruse. It was an illusion to fans who had hope of a bluesy/rock 70's vibe to it. What do we get? "Can't stop loving

you", "What could have been love", "Another last good-bye", "Closer", "Beautiful", "Tell me", all ballads hoping for a top 40 hit, yet again. Remember when "Get
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you wings", "Rocks", "Toys in the Attic", Draw the Line" came out? They weren't written with having a top 40 tune in mind. Band's that are still around from the

70's make mostly ALL their money from touring these days and thats a fact. Aerosmith has sold out to the masses yet again for another last shot at the top of

the pops. At least Kiss, and I didn't care for their latest release and didn't buy it, put out a straight, in your face ROCK cd. Aerosmith has gone so soft I wipe my

ass with them now.

I would tend to agree that Aerosmith are a mere shadow of the great rock and roll band they once were. For me, Permanent Vacation was the last good album they releasedl. Even on that record there were signs of the demise to come. Shame really. Aerosmith "Bootleg" is probably still one of the best live rock and roll albums ever recorded. Such raw energy on that, but that has been gone from the band for a long, long time now.