Aerosmith Fan Club

After the release of the hugely successful “Permanent Vacation” album, Aerosmith again went on tour;  This time with the hard rock band, Guns and Roses.  Guns and Roses were always a big fan of Aerosmith and have cited the band as having a huge musical influence on their own music.

The members of Aerosmith had  one big obstacle in touring with Guns & Roses however, and that was the rampant drug use amongst the band.  Aerosmith was newly drug free and did not want to be drawn back into the drug scene.  Fearing  the temptation of easy drugs, Aerosmith reportedly forbade Guns & Roses from doing drugs or drinking alcohol in their presence.  The penalty for not complying would be the departure of Guns & Roses from the tour.  No incidents involving drugs were reported during the tour which ended in success for both bands.

Once the tour was over, Aerosmith got back in the recording studio to begin work on their next album.  No one would have guessed that their next album could equal  the success of Permanent Vacation, let alone supersede it’s predecessor, but the impossible came to fruition with the release of “Pump” in 1989.  The album turned out such hits as “Janie’s Got a Gun”, “What It Takes”, and “Love in an Elevator”.  The album quickly went platinum and would eventually sell over 7 million copies.

The success of “Pump” further catapulted Aerosmith into main stream music stardom, earning them top ratings from major music magazines.   It also won the band it’s  first Grammy Award for the smash hit Janie’s Got a Gun.   Janie’s Got a Gun won  Best Rock Performance by a Duo or a group.

The making of “Pump was documented on video while the band was on tour in 1990. The “Making of Pump” was  released on DVD in November of 1997.

With the successful release of “Pump”, came a subsequent tour in support of the album.  The tour ended in October of 1990 with the band’s first concert in Australia.

Unlike the disasterous year of 1980, 1990 brought many positives for Aerosmith.  Apart from the very successful tour, The band also appeared on the Saturday Night Live television program, and was inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk.

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After the highly successful Toys in the Attic album of 1975, came Rocks.  Rocks was a highly awaited album because of the success of Toys in the Attic.  In 1976, Aerosmith was on top of the world as were their fans. Many Aerosmith fans waited outside the record store before it opened on the day that the Rocks album was set to be released.  In some cities, lineups of Aerosmith fans had formed outside the record stores which only heightened the buzz surrounding the Rock Band.    Most of those people today, will tell you that they were not disappointed with the Rocks Album, and some would even swear that Aerosmith’s Rocks Album was their best creation to date.

The album consists of nine songs 1. Back In The Saddle    2. Last Child    3. Rats In The Cellar 4. Combination  5. Sick As A Dog     6. Nobody’s Fault 7. Get The Lead Out 8. Lick And A Promise and 9. Home Tonight.  Last Child and Back in the Saddle were immediate FM hits.  Home Tonight was a ballad that also made the charts.

The Rocks album was very influential to many musicians from popular bands who came along after Aerosmith.Members of Guns and Roses, Motley Crue and Metallica have cited this album as leaving a major musical impression on them, and influencing their musical styles.

With the overwhelming success of Rocks came more and more concert tours.  Each time, the stadiums were getting bigger to accommodate the rapidly growing numbers of Aerosmith fans.  The concerts were loud and always filled with non stop energy, leaving concert goers tired and breathless once the concert had ended.

Aerosmith’s next album came out in 1977.  Draw the Line was also highly anticipated, but was not as successful as Aerosmith’s previous two albums.  At this point, drug addiction was starting to catch up to the hard rock band, and it showed in the music that Aerosmith was putting out. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry came to be known as the Toxic Twins during this time because of their drug use on and off the stage.

The band continued to tour and also continued to indulge themselves in the life of a Rock and Roll superstar.  During the same time they were touring, Aerosmith had acted in the movie version of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Aerosmith’s cover of  The Beatles ‘Come Together’ song which was released on the movie’s soundtrack album would be their  last top 40 hit for nearly a decade.