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@@jessewolf7649 The 60's was the birth of heavy rock. The 70's refined and perfected it. The 80's ruined it and made it hacky and commercial. (im talking about hair bands, not early metal and punk) IN MY OPINION
Yup. Rock was at its best right before it splintered off into a bunch of siloed off subgenres. Sure, there were lots of different rock genres in the early 70s (metal, prog, glam, etc.) but the lines were blurrier, and you had more artists who would straddle two or more genres at once.
It’s really Aerosmith mentor and instructor Klaus Nomi that’s responsible for all great bands of the70s and 80s. His pen was in every song all of the big bands wrote . He deserves all the credit for their success. And he reviewed.and ok”d every thing.any of the guys wrote. After he left Aerosmith cuz of Tyler’s sexual behavior and advances they went downhill. He trained Joe on how to play . Randy Rhodes, Jimi James Hendrix,,, all Klaus Nomis pupils. Klaus Nomi was a master. Aerosmith,Kiss , Iron Maiden , even Queen nd the Stones are all his work. His video of his hit Total Eclipse shows his mastery and shows clearly where They all got their style , mannerisms and talent
They play that song better today than they did on this special. The performance isn't very good at all, and is surpassed by so many performances of the same song.
I watched some of the tapes from their recent Vegas residency (man, that does make then sound like a bunch of aspiring MDs), and I think yours would very much be a minority opinion about end stage Aero being > than early era Aero. I believe that Rocks is is one of the finest albums ever released by any band. A lot fell apart after that. It is amazing that they remained intact (Kramer’s health challenges notwithstanding) for a half century. One of the few bands where I can name every member.
@@jaykeehan5813 They sound better here in Vegas: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X8A6JT1ToIA.html&ab_channel=gooddogs74 . This from 1974 performance is sloppy, slower and they're using bad sound equipment.
I saw them at least 15 times prior to releasing their 1st album and multiple times following. They were always a core rock n roll band. Upper New England is very proud of their success and their music lives on !!
Agreed, many people don't know that Perry & Whitford were too lame to play the hot solos that are on the album. Also a little tidbit is that on the Get Your Wings version the "live" part contains audience from The Concert For Bangladesh. I read that in in bio their book.
This is excellent. A young and fame hungry band delivers a perfect performance. Imagine how it must have been to see them live at the Anaheim stadium in 1976 when they played this with the late Jeff Beck.
@@jonnuanez7183 Actually Hammer was playing with Beck that tour(supporting their Live album). There was a 4th act though: The Stu Day (Daye?) Band. Some Mott/Dylan knockoff that wasn't very interesting.
Aaahhhh the 70's! Followed by the 80's then the 90's. Lucky for me I got to participate in all three! Still going obviously but those three decades were memorable to say the least!
@exmarine268 If I had a dollar for every time I've played/listened to GET YOUR WINGS, I'd be a wealthy man. Just curious your thoughts on GET A GRIP? Those two are my favorites.
@@eldoabrahamson I think the comparison isn't about "true vs false" it's about hard rock 70's Aerosmith vs soft rock/pop mid to late 80's Aerosmith. That's how I read it.
I saw them at least 15 times prior to releasing their 1st album and multiple times following. They were always a core rock n roll band. Upper New England is very proud of their success and their music lives on !!
Have you picked up Julian Gill’s book ‘Aerosmith On Tour 1973-85’? It covers all those early gigs (actually dating back to 1970) setlists, headliners, openers, reviews. It’s a great historic document of the band.
Get your Wings is my all time favorite Aerosmith album. Of course I like Rocks and Toys too. Probably because Wings was first album I ever heard of their's in its entirety. Every song on it is great. Steven was sure cute then, but I was only 8 years old when they did this performance.
@@planomathandscience And they were still kicking ass in their live shows in 2014. 40 yrs after the Midnight Special broadcast. I've seen video of them in 2022-23. Still amazingly tight and energetic. I was approx. 11 years old when this was broadcast. Please go sell craaaazy somewhere else.
@@stuartgoodloe9537 Amen brother 🙏 To come through all that and release Pump - a killer from start to finish - shows the true nature of their talent and commitment.
I must agree. I had those 5 albums as well, as far as I was concerned they went to sh*t after Rocks. Rocks kicked a$$, and imo, everything after that sucked. I saw the Rocks tour in '77, which wasn't that remarkable. Then I saw them again in '91 on whatever p.o.s. album they were touring and they flat out sucked.
Joe Perry left Aerosmith in 1979 , Brad Whitford left in 1981 , they both returned in 1984. On the current farewell tour Joey Kramer is not playing drums , he's been replaced by his former drum tech John Douglas who filled in for Joey in 2019 when Joey injured his foot & again in 2022 when Joey took time off to be with his family & focus on his health 3 months after the passing of his wife Linda.
Amen! I love most of Aerosmith's 70s music (and a little bit of their 80s stuff), and what people my age refer to as Classic Rock--I'm 54 so I think I can really appreciate the rawness of live recordings, especially the unpredictability of tv performances of the 50s - 80s artists, and I know that this was the height of their heroin addictions, but this is...shockingly bad, wow. Obviously, good music producers, both studio and live, were worth their weight in gold. I've learned that many of my memories of my younger years (music, films, tv, comic books, etc) are evidently better off as memories without documentation.
@@mcfarlanejb19 Lol no...The serious drug problems were 3/4 years down the road. Whitford(criminally underrated overall) and especially Perry just were not great guitar players at this point. Sad thing is after all the years since get your wings they have never been able to replicate that original blistering Steve Hunter guitar work.
@@billsouza4457 As a guitarist in a cover band, I can tell you it's really hard duplicating another guitarist's leads (especially when he's a better guitarist). I clicked this video just to see what Joe Perry would do, and I was pleasantly surprised. I can imagine when Perry first that recording and thought "I have to play that live?!"
@@kilroy2517 I did the same thing , i had to see if Perry even came close. Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner made it hard for Perry as they played cleaner lines. Perry was always a little sloppy.
@@Earlvis Nope they are the greatest. Based on the 70s alone. But if you add their comeback in the 80s and 90s there's really no debate. They influenced so many other great bands that were supposed to replace them but Aerosmith outlived them all.
@@MrGenexxx Listen to the Allman Brothers Band “Live at the Fillmore East” record and you’ll hear the greatest rock band ever. Duane and Dickey were way ahead of Brad and Joe and then add in the dual-drummers and Gregg Allman’s Hammond B-3 work. It’s not even close. Molly Hatchett also blew Aerosmith off the stage.
In the liner notes for this DVD, it says that because they recorded this at around 10am, the boys in the band had to start drinking at 6am to get their usual feel just right
Love this. This was 8 years before MTV and Midnight Special and Don Kirschners Rock Concert were one of the few ways to see performances of bands on tv. I would stay up every weekend for this.
When you went to see these guys at the Boston Garden in the 70s, it was dangerous. Every leather jacket dude from every high school in Massachusetts in one place. Wild.
I wish Van Halen had the opportunity to play on this show. This is some of the most incredibly well-preserved (in terms of fidelity and quality) music-television I have ever seen from this period.
@@PatchworkAndNuance Right? Its a shame they didn't really get noticed right away. Of course, I think this show wasn't airing at the time of Van Halen I in 1978, so the literally JUST missed out!
This appearence was Aerosmith's first big exsporure in America. Perhaps even saved their career. Their first album didn't sell at all and "Get Your Wings" (released March 15, 1974) was selling slowly at the time. This appeaence may have been the turning point.
I had "Get Your Wings" and "Toys in the Attic" @ 13....memorized it from front to back. Got to see AC/DC open for Aerosmith in '77....Tyler mooned the audience
At the time of this appearance Dream On had been re-released and became a hit so that led to them playing Midnight Special and their 2 previous albums being rediscovered
@@jennifersman7990 Dream On wasn't reissued until January 1976 after the success of Toys In The Attic and Walk This Way. Peaking at #6. Though it was a regional hit in the Boston area in 1973.
Loved get your wings The first 4 albums were vintage Aerosmith then they went in a commercial direction and changed their style Never followed them afterwards
The urban dictionary can help define the meaning of this song. This is classic blues. Why can't we have something like The Midnight Special or In Concert these days? There are plenty of talented live musicians out there even today.
CMU hosted some pretty good shows back then. I saw BTO and Dave Mason there as I recall. Was going to Ferris State at the time which is about 45 minutes to the west. At Ferris I saw Blue Oyster Cult, Ted Nugent, Bob Segar & the Silver Bullet Band, Rick Wakeman, James Gang (post Joe Walsh), J Geils Band, and King Crimson. Can you imagine that happening these days? I can’t. I’m 70 years old now and those days can never be replicated. What a time to be growing up and seem so long ago.
Grew up in Boston, still a huge fan of everything up to "Rock in a Hard Place(which is half freakin' awesome), saw 'em live plenty in the late 70s, remember staying up late to watch this...but, all that sed, it's just kind of funny seeing Joe struggle to mimim the Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner leads from the studio version. Those guys were utterly so special and brilliant bringing their pin-point musicality to ripping classic 70s tracks(Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Aerosmith, more...)...but Joe just can't begin to hold a candle to them but it's kind of amusing here seeing him try. (btw, the first solo and first section of the second solo in the studio version was only Steve Hunter's second pass, he was just warming up and Jack Douglas told, "Yr all good..thanks!".)
I saw them in San Diego around 1988. Right about when they made their big comeback with hits on MTV. They sounded way better than I expected. Really professional and great stage presence.
I saw them in the 90s in Germany and they were ok-ish musically but way too loud. Steven however put on a show that i have never seen before and that i will never forget. Absolutely insane stage presence!
With a heave and a ho...Aerosmith is a great way to start the week! This is one of my favorites of theirs! Fire performance! 🔥 Wish I could have seen them live back then. 🙌💜
Not only was there no lip syncing and no auto-tune, except for the flange effect on the snare in the middle, there's no basic effects on the Steven's voice nor Joe's guitar! No reverb. No delay. Zero. They just raw dogged it.
Joe Perry is the man and machine 🎸, love him, great performance here! 🤘🤘🤘 My favorite album of theirs is “Toys in the Attic”, my older brother introduced me to the band. I loved having three older sibs and their musical tastes, filtering on down to me~the youngest.
I heard Aerosmith pretty early on due to older siblings also. I was only about 9 or 10 when I first heard them in the mid 70s. I can listen to Get your Wings, Rocks, and Toys in the attic in their entirety Love every song on them, especially Wings. Rocks and Toys are tied for 2nd. But I also enjoyed some of their music from Pump etc, but 70s Aerosmith is the best.
@johnstrong3824 Mine too. It usually doesn't seem to get much love. I don't know why. I love every song on it. Especially Train, Seasons of wither, and spaced. Woman of the world is great also. I like Toys and Rocks too, but Wings is my absolute favorite.
Props to the Special for having real playing. It makes things so much more valuable from an historical perspective. Shows like Soul Train were good if you wanted to see what the performers looked like, but pretty uninteresting otherwise.
As is the case with every real band to this day. You say it like you think every group is The Backstreet Boys. If I could have just shaken my ass like a queer on stage and not worried about playing or singing properly in any of my touring bands, I'd have just done that. Probably less embarrassing than fucking up a guitar solo in front of a crowd or some such lol 😅
Studio musicians are brought in on many songs for many groups. Perry & Witford are excellent guitarists. Ive listened to very early live Aerosmith shows plus seen then every year since 74. They rock hard!
The 60's and 70's was the Pinnacle of Pop music. Today any one with a laptop can download beats and rap over it and be popular, no talent needed. There is talent out there today but they aren't really appreciated.
There was still a probability to catch them sober during this time. That probability turned to zero when they finished their first Japan tour and stopped in Hawaii for "team building".
Well this same show at the same performance, they also did Dream On (This midnight special, they did 2 songs, I'm not sure which one they did first though) and during Dream On, Steven seems like he is maybe on something during parts of his performance. I've seen it on RU-vid. From reading his book, sounds like he took a lot of downers around this time. He didn't get into the super hard drugs until about 2 years after this.
