GOT ME THE STRANGEST WOMAN,
BELIEVE THIS CHICKS NO CLINCH
BUT I REALLY GET HER GOING
WHEN I WHIP OUT
MY BIG TEN INCH...
DOUBLE SHOT OF
AEROSMITH
HERE IS
TOYS IN THE ATTIC
and
NIGHT IN THE RUTS
Toys in the Attic
is the third
studio album
by American
Rock band
Aerosmith
released on
April 8, 1975,
by Columbia Records.
Its first single,
"Sweet Emotion",
was released on
May 19
and the
original version of
"Walk This Way"
followed on
August 28
in the same year.
The album is the
band's most
commercially successful
studio LP
in the
United States,
with nine million
copies sold,
according to the RIAA.
In 2003,
the album was
ranked No. 228
on
Rolling Stone's
list of The
500 Greatest Albums
of All Time.
The album's title track
and their collaboration
with
Run-DMC
on a cover version
of
"Walk This Way"
are included on
the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame
list of the
"500 Songs that
Shaped Rock and Roll".
Background
For Aerosmith's previous album,
Get Your Wings,
the band had begun
working with
record producer
Jack Douglas,
who co-produced
that album with
Ray Colcord.
In the liner notes
to the 1993 reissue
of
Greatest Hits,
it was said by an
unnamed member
of the group
that they
"nailed"
the album.
According to Douglas,
"Aerosmith was a
different band
when we started
the third album.
They'd been playing
Get Your Wings
on the road for
a year and had
become better players
- different.
It showed in the
riffs that Joe
[Perry]
and Brad
[Whitford]
brought back from
the road for
the next album.
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Night in the Ruts
is the sixth
studio album
by American
Rock band
AEROSMITH
released on
November 16, 1979,
by Columbia Records.
Guitarist
Joe Perry
left the band
midway through
the album's recording.
Guitar parts
for the remaining songs
were recorded by
Brad Whitford,
Richie Supa,
Neil Thompson,
and
Jimmy Crespo.
The last became Perry's
official replacement
from 1979 to 1984
Perry's last session
with the band
was on
May 30, 1979
The album was
initially produced
at the band's
Warehouse rehearsal space
by Jack Douglas,
who'd produced
Aerosmith's previous
four albums,
but later
Columbia Records
brought in
Gary Lyons
to replace
Douglas as producer.
Background
Recording of the album
began in the spring
of 1979,
but right from
the beginning
there were delays.
Hampered by
rampant drug use,
vocalist
Steven Tyler
had difficulty
completing lyrics
and vocals.
Bassist
Tom Hamilton recalled:
"We worked on the album,
but we couldn't finish it.
It was supposed to
come out in June
and be called
Off Your Rocker,
but there were
no lyrics.
It was a big crisis.
"The band members
were also in
dire financial straits,
with guitarist
Joe Perry owing the band
$80,000
for room service,
which he planned to
repay by recording
a solo album.
The relationship
between Aerosmith
and
Jack Douglas
also became
frosty and unstable
when the producer
divorced his wife,
whom the
band had liked.
With This,
combined with
weak sales of
Draw the Line,
led to Columbia
stepping in,
with Douglas
reflecting in the
band memoir
Walk This Way,
"The label finally put
a lot of pressure
on them.
It was:
"Look at these sales numbers.
Come up with another hit
or there's going to be trouble.'
David
(Krebs, Aerosmith's manager)
thought I no longer
exercised control
over the band,
which was true.
No one did."
With the album still unfinished,
the band was sent on tour
to generate revenue,
as they had burned
through the
budget allotment.
This premature outing
during the
summer months
pushed the album's
release to
later in the year.
"Our management
booked a tour,"
Hamilton noted,
"leaving us just
enough time to
make the record,
based on how long
it'd taken us
in the past,
but we actually
needed much more time.
So we had to go
on tour before
the vocals
were finished,
and it was dragging
on and on.
Everyone was
super-frustrated by it.
It's ironic,
because we were out
on the road,
playing stadiums
to huge amounts
of people,
and yet the band
was getting
ready to die."
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