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May232012
Aerosmith Performs on 'American Idol' Finale
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 10:42PM
Finally, Aerosmith perform on American Idol! The band performed "Legendary Child" and "Walk This Way." Shortly after the performance, it was announced that Aerosmith's new album will be out August 28 and be called Music From Another Dimension.You can pre-order the new album now on iTunes.
Reader Comments (15)
Hey, if your gonna cop riffs, even lyrical content and vocal style, you might as well lift the stuff from the best, including yourself.
I'll give them this, though, at least "Legendary Child" has Perry and Whitford doing the heavy lifting again, for a change. No matter how weird or pseudo psychedelic parts of the song may sound, it's a welcome, long overdue return to the Aerosmith signature dual guitar approach, rather than the usual overproduced piano, horns and string arrangements that plagued so much of their output over the last two and a half decades.
Let's hope the rest of the album keeps the guitars out front, but I'm not holding my breath. Yet, even if Perry gets half of his wish for another "Rocks", I'll be happy, especially if the material is less derivative than this advance single.
At least Della Reese is playing guitar for them now. Classes the whole thing up just a touch.
I kid, Metalboy!, I kid. But I think derivative is all you are going to get. If it is VH-style derivation, that could be enough.
We'll have to wait until the end of August to know for sure, but the song titles look pretty good!
p.s. HIM -- Hysterically funny! "Della Reese on Guitar"! I nearly needed the Kleenex on that one! Snot out comedy!
And Brad? Maybe next time you could actually stand all the way ON the stage instead of off to the side of it?
(I swear to Gawd Brad's a dead ringer for L.A. guitar legend Brian Peacock.)
Who knows, if Della actually came back from the dead and actually replaced Perry, even she probably woulda sounded better.
p.s. Just watched your video of Actress doin' a scorching version of "Rock And Roll All Nite" on Halloween at The Whisky in 1990! Wish I had been there but I was marching in the Halloween Parade in NYC dressed as Nikki Sixx, hahaha!!! While I was pretending you were livin' the dream! I like how ya picked up the pace with your version. Smokin'!
And if you saw that video, you saw him. He's the guy that pretty much shares my microphone for that song.
(for anyone that cares to see it, the video's on YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2xzejyxYU )
"Currently residing w/ Spinal Tap in the "Where Are They Now?" file, Brian "The Biscuit" Peacock, aka Britt Harlowe, aka G.B. Dyamond, is/was the other guitarist in the very first original version of Actress. He's also a shit-hot guitarist, having been a student of George Lynch's, back when George gave lessons while he was in X-Citer, pre-Dokken. If you mixed Lynch w/ Kix's Bryan Forsythe, you've got a good estimate of his guitar style. Aside from his time in Actress, he also did time in a band called "Soul Machine" that did some touring w/ Bang Tango back in the early 90's. For a while he left music behind to concentrate on a career in graphic arts, working on album covers & stuff for Peter Criss & many others.
He's also been my lifelong best friend for the last 40 years or so. And we've always teased him about looking like Brad Whitford's illegitimate son. ;) Wanna see him? Here he is.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz14/acesteele1/actress/Vguitars.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz14/acesteele1/actress/Actress-Tony-Xmaspic.jpg
Yes,it is I the elusive, reclusive Britt Harlowe aka Brian Peacock,long time reader (I told my BFF, Ace about the site and look what I started!! LOL) and VERY occasional poster on Bring Back Glam! (Ace has a LOT more time for Bringin Back Glam at work than I do..hee hee)
BTW - Ace you are DEFINITELY hired as my publicist!! Ha ha
And of course MUCH love to Aly for BBG!!!
Here's sumthin' crazy -- I got the first X-Citer CD when it came out, listened to it a few times and then it wound up in storage. Recently I have become a Lynch freak, having caught him both on The Monsters of Rock Cruise and at M3. What a Monster! Oddly, having put that X-Citer CD in storage over 6 years ago, I never made the connection that Lynch was X-Citer's guitarist. Astounding!
I would love to track down Actress and Soul Machine tapes or CDs, if either of you guys can put me on the right track!
Rock On!
Lynch was an incredible player, even back then. Heck, even before that, when we first saw him in the band, "The Boyz" when they opened for the Runaways. Later on, that original version of Actress shared rehearsal space for a while with X-Citer & Circus Circus, which later became W.A.S.P. That early 80's scene was incredible in that there was so much world class talent around. Not only those bands, but Nikki Sixx's pre- Motley band, LONDON and the Randy Rhoads led version of Quiet Riot. Amazing times!
The song doesn't sound like 70's Aerosmith to me, it sounds exactly like early 90's Aerosmith (which makes sense since this is apperantly a remake of a song originally written in 1992. They probably left it out of the album in the first place because it was too similar in style to "Get a Grip").
Still, this song rocks more than 99.9% of whats out there today, and I really like it!
Metalboy! nailed it, it's because they put the guitars in the front again. Looking forward to the rest of the album.