Another Reason To Visit Las Vegas This Summer

If my travel budget for the year wasn't already completely busted and out of control...but man, I'd love to see Aerosmith again. I was seriously considering the random casino show they are doing at the beginning of the summer but the MGM Grand is way better. We'll see I guess.

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[Ace Steele]

Well, if you show up, Welcome to my city.
Word of warning. Last year, when Aerosmith was on tour, their show @ MGM was far & away the most expensive ticket on the tour. With the virtual sales failure of "Music From Another Dimension", Aerosmith have resigned themselves that they aren't going to make much money from CD sales, so they are jacking up the cost of tickets to their concerts. Sorry boys, but you just aren't worth $250-$350 a ticket.

[toddwiggy]

I agree with Ace...no band is worth paying $200 or more for a ticket... aC/DC included... Funny though, sometimes I get rocked more by seeing a band for $5 or 10 bucks.

[Darktown]

Agree, it's a shame that I supported all these bands, albums, t-shirts, concerts, memorabilia etc for like 20-30 years and get rewarded by basically f***ing me into paying $300-$400 for a decent ticket??? Sorry guys not gonna happen!!

[Metalboy!]

Yeah, but the reason Aerosmith didn't make any money on album sales with their last release is the fact that it s*cked, no matter how hard I tried to like it.

Here's one of THE Greatest Hard Rock Bands of All Time and they mail in a lackluster affair.

Tyler's getting soft. That's not the Tyler we used to know. The smartest thing they could do is get back in the studio with Kolodner. Or that dude from "Whiplash"! If they don't they're gonna wind up going the way of Cal Ripkin!

[Darktown]

Saw Aerosmith a few years back, wasn't impressed at all and vow to not spend anymore money on them. Between the phoning it in and all the ballads, it just ruined the whole thing for me.

[GNR]

Saw them last when they played Toys in the Attic album front to back. That was fantastic, because of the nostalgia of it. They need more of that !!

I don't want the AOR songs, I want rockin' A-E-R-O-S-M-I-T-H !!

[Metalboy!]

Wow, GNR... I was thinking how Aerosmith is kinda Metal. I not Metal, how about American Glam Hard Rock...

Then again, listen to "Round And Round" off that album. TIME magazine referred to that song as Metal and at the time, Aerosmith clocked in as the loudest decibel performance in history when they played Detroit in 1975 or around then.

[Him]

The problem with Aerosmith is (to me) fairly simple (to borrow from my Coverdale post): they have nothing left to prove . . . and prove it with each and every soggy release since they got back together.

For as bad as people's reactions were to _Done With Mirrors_, it certainly hinted at something greater than what came next, and then next, and then next. Is it any coincidence that the closest they got to capturing their glory days sound was their cover of the JPP? Methinks not.

Train barely rollin' . . .

[Metalboy!]

Hear, hear, HIM! Probably the worst thing that happened to those guys is getting hooked up with John Kolodner but if they did reunite with him, at least they MIGHT get SOMETHING out of it! p.s.

HIM... There are only two songs that are decent after "Let The Music Do The Talking"... "Shut Up And Dance" (written by that dude from Night Ranger, I think) and "Jaded"...

Kolodner seems like someone who could fill the order at this point, "Get another 'Rocks' out of us." but they would have to show utter conviction to it and all involved would have to have self-bullsh*t detectors on to pull it off.

Though the result would not be on the level of "Rocks" by any means, I do believe they could deliver something 2/3rds almost as good with 1/3 ballads, the latter to pay for all the studio time it will take them to get anything decent in the other 2/3rds time spent.

[bkallday]

Aerosmith has been a joke since Pump came out, let's be real. Unless you prefer their pop infused bubble gum crapola, that is. They should've retired long ago but their legacy is what it is now. Oh yeah, ive seen over 50 shows and Aerosmith is easily the worst headliner ive ever witnessed. Absolutely zero energy as a live band.

[Metalboy!]

Hahaha!!! I saw 'em twice in '75, once in '76, once in '79, once in '82 and then, once in 2007! BK! they went frickin' CRAZY every time!

Even in 2007, I was watchin' Aerosmith from the 4th row with Perry rollin' around the stage covered in gold glitter, the glitter sticking to his naked back, while donning snakeskin hip huggers, crankin' out an extended solo on his gold top '59 Les Paul as they cranked out the song "Toys In The Attic"!

In 1979, at Monster's Of Rock in Oakland, I watched 'em practically kill each other without missing a note, verbally insulting one another all the way, playin' pissed off and mean!

In 1982, with Jimmy Krespo replacing Perry, they tore up Capital Centre in D.C.! "Lightning Strikes", baby!

In '76, right off "Rocks", they totally killed it with Tyler throwin' a fan into the audience (No, I mean an ACTUAL fan... A giant GE fan on a 5 ft. stand!) and Perry in head to toe black leather, playin' out of his gourd!

The two shows in '75, they were runnin' around with their heads cut off... You gotta realize, they were in their early 20's! Unbelievable!

p.s. I thought "Pump" s*cked!, BK! I told you, man... Only two good songs since "Done With Mirrors"! "Shut Up And Dance" and "Jaded"!

[Him]

Well, this is odd. I agree with both Metalboy! (not that odd, really) and bkallday (also not really that odd, but considering all the tussles . . .).

They have phoned it in since before _Pump_ on records, but still seem capable of bringing it live. Problem is, their fan base is such a swamp bog of middle-of-the-roads, rabidly loyals, classics-only diehards, and "isn't that from some film" passerbys. In a sense that is a testament to their staying power, regardless the quality of the output. Like a wrinkled Dyson, they still suck up a range of fans.

But they are veering dangerously close to pricing a lot of those fans out of the seats that they rely on to pay for the new pools, the forays into coffee roasting and sauces, etc. I doubt they hurt for money. But where is the ethos anymore? A sense that they actually care about their history?

Who will be left if they keep playing to price points and trends? As it is with many of the hard rock curios--The Eagles and The Stones come to mind--that wander the Earth like dinosaurs, a bunch of rich people that now see the music of their youth as a passionate affectation to be housed in amber like some fossil. I don't begrudge the rich being rich. I do question rock music--rock music especially--when it becomes an acquisition balanced upon current trends and marketing assumptions. At that point, fans in the seats aren't there to see you, Aerosmith. They are there to see each other.

Still, they might want to consider taking on someone like Eddie Kramer (though long in the tooth) instead of Douglas, who only seems capable of bending to their whims, not playing to their strengths. And they need that sort of outside ear to guide them. Left to their own devices (or surrounded by "yes" men), they can't do their back catalog justice. Shame of it all, they still could.

[Metalboy!]

Answer: Kolodner

[GNR]

They should do two sets - one for people that want to rock out and one for the mtv Alicia Silverstone crowd. That way I'll know when to go get a beer or two or three...