LaDiablo wrote:
Livincr wrote:
while we're at it Aerosmith is playing Costa Rica next month...
if you can't make that show try this gig...should be a great show, in a great place, with a great beantown crowd
http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/p ... pid/302766tyler just made the cut from what i understand. haven't had too much interest in recent years but the first four albums match up as some of the greatest blues/hard rock records ever recorded JMHO

You got that right. After the first five or so albums, Aerosmith did in fact go downhill. May have been caused by their heavy drug usage in that time. They were not known as the 'Toxic Twins' during that time period for nothing. They did come back strong with the 'Pump' album, but other than that, their output pretty much sucked. It was interesting how Joe Perry and the rest of the band threatened to tour without Tyler, after his falling off the stage at the bike rally in South Dakota. What a mistake that would have been! Sort of like when they broke up in the eighties, and the Joe Perry Project produced an album, and Brad Whitford created his own band as well.
'Old timer'...well, as I stated in another thread, I find in extremely difficult and rather pointless to discuss rock music with most anyone under the age of 47 or so, as their frame of reference is somewhat limited. I mean, for example, how do you convey how great and influential the Beatles were to someone who was not 'of age' (or even born) to appreciate their music, to say nothing of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Who, etc.? Sure, one can recognize the genuis of the music, but to fully appreciate the impact, you 'had to be there'!