Say it isn’t so, Tyler!
Say it isn’t so, Tyler! by Roxanne McDonald
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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler leaving the band? Tyler leaving a rumor? |
He wears Bavarian ceremonial fur-lined coats and dresses his mic stands in scarves.
He has superstitions enough that he will only enter a chauffeured car only from the passenger side (TMZ.com).
And reportedly, he has added another quirk—getting worn out by the autograph hounds and the mistreatment by fellow Aerosmiths (New York Post Online and Levine Breaking News). This is what the 58-year-old frontman’s daughter, Liv Tyler, had been telling people in her sphere.
Aerosmith Bio(s)
Aerosmith Bio(s) by Roxanne McDonald
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Not one of the “Bad Boys from Boston” is actually from Beantown. They put the band together and based it from Boston outward, but the members are from neighboring states. |
Steve Tyler
Front man dynamo and dreamboat to millions, Tyler was born Steven Victor Tallarico in New York, New York, on March 26, 1948. Happy birthday, Aries Steven! Tyler (Tallarico, then) began not as a lead singer but as a little drummer boy. He changed up his ambitions from drumming to singing when he heard the Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds, and other rockers. He moved to Boston in the late 60s.
Joe Perry
With the band during its inception and early growth years, from 1970 to 1979, Perry the Virgo was born Anthony Joseph Perry in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on November 9, 1950.
Joey Kramer
With Aerosmith from the start, Joseph Michael Kramer came to us by way of a New York, New York hospital, on June 21, 1950. He also brought his experience as a Berklee College of Music [dropout].
Tom Hamilton
With Tyler and Kramer, Hamilton is the third to be with the band from its start. From Colorado Springs, on December 12, 1951, then New London, New Hampshire, where Hamilton was living when he met the other original band members, we get one of the finest bassists to ever grace our listening.
Brad Whitford
1971 to 1980 is as long as Whitford stayed with Aerosmith. But thanks to his coming into the part of the world known as Amherst, Massachusetts (right down the road a piece from Boston), on February 23, 1952, we have an Aerosmith that started with a rocking rhythm guitar lead that hasn’t stopped even though Whitford has.
Aerosmith Discography
Aerosmith Discography by Roxanne McDonald
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First they were influenced, now they influence–with twenty-one albums (and counting)…. |
Aerosmith is in many circles the best American rock band of all time. The evidence is in their having sold over 67 million albums here in the United States and over 150 million albums worldwide. Further testimony, however is in the success of those albums: as the best-selling American rock band of all time, Aerosmith also has bragging rights to being the American band which has earned the most gold, platinum, and multi-platinum albums.
Aerosmith (1973)
…with the brilliant launching number, “Dream On,” which on its reissue in 1976 hit #6 on the charts.
Get Your Wings (1974)
Toys in the Attic (1975)
…featuring “Sweet Emotion,” which made it to #36 on the charts.
Rocks (1976)
…featuring top hits such as “Last Child,” which was at #21 in 1976; and “Back in the Saddle,” which made it to #38 in 1977.
Draw the Line (1977)
Aerosmith Live Bootleg (1978)
…featured “Walk This Way,” at #10 in 1977; and “Come Together,” at #23 in 1978.
Aerosmith Still Rocks and We’re Still Not Worthy
Aerosmith Still Rocks and We’re Still Not Worthy by Roxanne McDonald
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If you are an Aerosmith fan, you understand why everyone from Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar to your mother are driven so mental they come near to stalking the best American Rock band of all time. |
In fact, your mother is maybe even more likely to be turned the stalker type, as she was just coming of age as Aerosmith was coming onto the rock and roll scene.
She was walking on her belled pantleg hems, wearing peace signs and paisley, and she was likely letting her grow long and letting it all hang out and all that good wild and rebellious stuff of the seventies. And she was playing over and over and over the 33LP with the now infamous now classic “Dream On,” savoring every intro lick, singing along to the lines about lines—in the mirror, on [her] face.
When she read the liner notes and pulled the pictures, she fell in love. Because they were rockers, because they were from her home turf, because they struck her teenage soul with savage heart sounds that spun ballads into breakout ballsy bravado, that turned notes into epic movements, that took singing into scream.
Friends were hooked, too, on “Walkin’ the Dog,” then on “Train Kept a Rollin’,” on “Toys in the Attic,” and “Back in the Saddle [Again].” They were bonging and head-banging and falling in love, too.