Aerosmith - Pandora's Box (1991) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "These are just some of the songs that tell the story of the band. We always tried to tell the truth, even when it wasn't pretty. Whenever I got real personal, I got a good lyric out of it. Maybe that's the secret." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing CD 1 1) When I Needed You (Tyler) 2:35 2) Make It (Tyler) 3:45 3) Movin' Out (Tyler, Perry) 5:41 4) One Way Street (Tyler) 7:00 5) One The Road Again (unknown) 3:35 6) Mama Kin (Tyler) 4:25 7) Same Old Song And Dance (Tyler, Perry) 3:52 8) Train Kept A Rollin' (T. Bradshaw, L. Mann, H. Kay) 5:33 9) Seasons Of Wither (Tyler) 5:38 10) Write Me A Letter (Tyler) 4:17 11) Dream On (Tyler) 4:25 12) Pandora's Box (Tyler, Kramer) 5:42 13) Rattlesnake Shake (Griffith, Gilmore) 10:28 14) Walkin' The Dog (Rufus Thomas) 3:13 15) Lord Of The Thighs (Tyler) 7:12 CD 2 1) Toys In The Attic (Tyler, Perry) 3:06 2) Round And Round (Tyler, Whitford) 5:02 3) Krawhitham (Kramer, Whitford, Hamilton) 3:58 4) You See Me Crying (Tyler, D. Solomon) 5:12 5) Sweet Emotion (Tyler, Hamilton) 4:34 6) No More No More (Tyler, Perry) 4:32 7) Walk This Way (Tyler, Perry) 3:39 8) I Wanna Know Why (Tyler, Perry) 3:04 9) Big Ten-Inch Record (F. Weismantel) 4:00 10) Rats In The Cellar (Tyler, Perry) 4:05 11) Last Child (Tyler, Whitford) 3:52 12) All Your Love (Otis Rush) 5:27 13) Soul Saver (Tyler, Whitford) 0:52 14) Nobody's Fault (Tyler, Whitford) 4:21 15) Lick And A Promise (Tyler, Perry) 3:04 16) Adam's Apple (Tyler) 4:48 17) Draw The Line (Tyler, Perry) 3:42 18) Critical Mass (Tyler, Perry, Jack Douglas) 4:51 CD 3 1) Kings And Queens (Hamilton, Kramer, Tyler, Whitford, Jack Douglas) 5:32 2) Milkcow Blues (K. Arnold) 4:13 3) I Live In Connecticut (Tyler, Perry) 0:55 4) Three Mile Smile (Tyler, Perry) 3:44 5) Let It Slide (Tyler, Perry) 2:53 6) Cheese Cake (Tyler, Perry) 4:14 7) Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) (Tyler, Perry) 2:59 8) No Surprize (Tyler, Perry) 4:25 9) Come Together (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 3:44 10) Downtown Charlie (Aerosmith) 2:32 11) Sharpshooter (Whitford, Derek St. Holmes) 5:30 13) South Station Blues (Perry) 4:09 14) Riff & Roll (Tyler, Crespo) 3:16 15) Jailbait (Tyler, Crespo) 4:38 16) Major Barbara (Tyler) 5:04 17) Chip Away The Stone (Richie Supa) 4:05 18) Helter Skelter (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 3:14 19) Back In The Saddle (Tyler, Perry) 4:39 20) Back In The Saddle Again (Tyler, Perry) 3:44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 1 1) When I Needed You (Tyler) 2:35 Recorded by the group Chain Reaction. Recorded at CBS Studios, NYC, 10/05/66. Produced by Weiss and Gottehrer. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. "I can't ever forget how excited I was about being in an actual recording band. It was a total dream come true. The other side of it is that it's a pretty lame song. I never got a cent. So that was my first taste of 'shysterism'." Steven Tyler (CO9O323) When I needed you To be my girl When I needed you To give me a world Chorus: When I wanted all you had And what you gave me turned out all bad I needed all your love When I wanted you all for my own When I wanted you But you just left me alone Chorus Chorus (2) I needed all your love ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Make It (Tyler) 3:45 (from "Aerosmith" (1973)) "Our first song from our first album, and for a long time it was our show opener. Just a great way to get things going." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Movin' Out (Tyler, Perry) 5:41 Previously Unreleased Alternate Version Recorded at Intermedia Studios, Boston, 1972. Produced by Adrian Barber. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Lead Vocals, Harmonica, Wood Flute; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "We wrote that sitting on Mark Lehman's waterbed at 1325 (Commonwealth Avenue)." Joe Perry "It's the first song we ever wrote together." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) One Way Street (Tyler) 7:00 (from "Aerosmith" (1973)) "I can remember Tom and me drillin' on the 'one way street shuffle' until we drove the old lady downstairs crazy. Tom on his bass and me on a kitchen chair and a pedal on a cardboard box." Joey Kramer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) One The Road Again (unknown) 3:35 Unreleased Rehearsal Pre-Production Jam Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "This was one of the first songs that we learned. We played it at clubs and high school dances, and other than that, I have no recollection of the recording of it. Needless to say where I was at the time." Joey Kramer Yeah, woke up one mornin' I'm a ram up for walls Somethin' told my baby You can have it all Jump trough the window Look my life in the den Look out pretty mama I'm On The Road Again Chorus: I'm on the road again And you can do what you want I'm on the road again And you can do what you want Yeah, I came home last night To get my dinner hot Went to the door But the door was locked Jump through the window And believe me or not She hadn't even Put my dinner into the pot Chorus Yeah, never been evil And I've never been shy Every down a champ And I'm a time by Down un winner With my apple in bed Look out pretty mama I'm On The Road Again Chorus Yeah, never been evil And I've never been sly Every down a champ And I'm a time by Down in the window With my apple in bed Look out pretty mama I'm On The Road Again ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Mama Kin (Tyler) 4:25 (from "Aerosmith" (1973)) "This was one Steven brought with him from before Aerosmith. Steven obviously loved that one - I mean, he did have it tattooed on his arm. But when I first heard it I was afraid that the chords were too simple. But inevitably the best ones are the easy ones." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Same Old Song And Dance (Tyler, Perry) 3:52 (from "Get Your Wings" (1974)) "I remember we were all living together again for a summer, and that was one of the songs we came up with. I remember sitting on an amp in the living room of our place, and coming up with the riff for that one, and then Steven came up with the bridge." Joe Perry "Great horns! Just a great groove song. I'm always on the lookout for the song that grooves out. A real classic Joe Perry riff - I just filled in the blanks. I hate to spell things out too much, but that was about one girl who was pulling on my guitar player's balls. But that's not important." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Train Kept A Rollin' (T. Bradshaw, L. Mann, H. Kay) 5:33 (from "Get Your Wings" (1974)) "This one was a standard. All of us loved the Yardbirds' version. This song was part of a common ground. We all knew it and had played it before we got together. Our version was pretty sterile on the album, but it was a great song for us to play, more our kind of thing than something like 'Roll Over Beethoven'." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Seasons Of Wither (Tyler) 5:38 (from "Get Your Wings" (1974)) "Of all the ballads, this is one I really like. Stven does them really well, but I never really liked us doing ballads at all. I didn't want anything wussy on our records. I always figured the only thing worth playing slow was a slow blues." Joe Perry "You know what Tuinals and Seconal are? Well, I was eating those at the time, big time. I was living with Joey Kramer near a chicken farm. It was Halloween and I was really down. So I went down to the basement, burned some incense, and picked up that guitar that Joey had found in a dumpster somewhere. It was fretted pretty fucked, and it had a special tone to it. And that tuning forced that song right out. I love that song. The other day I was coming out of Mann's Theater in Los Angeles after a movie and on the curb there's a guy playing 'Seasons Of Wither' note for note. What a trip." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Write Me A Letter (Tyler) 4:17 Unreleased Live Version Recorded on tour in Boston, November, 1976. Producer unknown. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "We arranged this one in the old Celtics locker room in the Boston Garden." Brad Whitford ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Dream On (Tyler) 4:25 (from "Aerosmith" (1973)) "For me this song sums up the shit that you put up with when you're in a new band. Only one in fifty people who write about you pick up on the music. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we ripping off the Stones. And I think 'Dream On' is a great song, but it was two or three years before people really got a chance to hear it. That's a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. 'Dream On' came of me playing piano when I was about seventeen or eighteen, and I didn't know anything about writing a song. It was just this little ... sonnet that I started playing one day. I never thought then it would end up being a real song or anything." Steven Tyler "When we were all living together mine was the only room with a piano in it. I remember waking up and hearing Steven playing this song over and over again. It probably pissed me off then, but now I'm sure glad he kept playing". Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) Pandora's Box (Tyler, Kramer) 5:42 (from "Get Your Wings" (1974)) "We were reahearsing up in New Hempshire, and I was living in Vermont. I had this old piece of shit acoustic guitar that I've found in the trash years before, and Icame up with the riff on that. I played it for Steven, and he went to work. This one was a thrill for me because it was the first one I'd ever written." Joey Kramer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) Rattlesnake Shake (Griffith, Gilmore) 10:28 (from Omar & Howlers "Wall Of Pride") Live Radio Broadcast WKRQ, Cincinatti Recorded at Counterpart Studios, 1971. Produced by Aerosmith. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "This is just of the defining songs in Aerosmith history. That song, and our version of it, sort of put together the sound that all of us love to play." Tom Hamilton "If there was a song that got me to play with Joe Perry - this is the song. And the story goes... I had it up to my earlobes playing with these various bar bands from New York City. It just didn't make it and I couldn't take it, so I jumped up from behind the drums, strangled the quitar player and hitchhiked to New Hampshire where I saw Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton playing in a club I had played so many times before with bands that just didn't have the groove that the Jam Band had that night. The club was a.b.y.o.b. called The Barn. They were there - the Jam Band so out of tune, not really very good players, but the groove was so good that therein laid the magic. You didn't have to be the greatest player - you just needed to have the groove and the attitude - they said it all in that one song - the attitude and the humor." Steven Tyler Well, if you wanna rock I got to be your rockin' horse And if you wanna roll Lord, I could blow you right out the door Yes I could We'll shake the world When it's time to crash But when I get home tonight Lord, I guess I got to shake myself A-look a-here You need some lovin' You must have the blues You fucked your mind baby Now that's a good thing to do Now do the shake The rattlesnake shake Now do the, do the shake Yeah, chuck away 'em blues You need some lovin' You must have the blues You fucked your mind, baby That's a good thing to do Do the shake The rattlesnake shake Chuck away... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) Walkin' The Dog (Rufus Thomas) 3:13 Live Radio Broadcast WKRQ, Cincinatti Recorded at Counterpart Studios, 1971. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Lead Vocals, Harmonica; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "One of the tunes we played in clubs. It was on a lot of early set lists, and it still finds its way to one of our set lists sometimes now." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15) Lord Of The Thighs (Tyler) 7:12 "Texxas Jam" Live Recording Recorded on tour at the Cottonbowl, Dallas, Tx, 7/4/78. Produced by Jack Douglas. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm and Lead Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "This song was ahead of its time. It sounds as good to me now as it did then, if not better." Joe Perry "I remember we needed one more song for Get Your Wings and we needed it fast. We locked ourselves in Studio C at the Record Plant for the night. And this is what we came up with. I remember Steven was really psyched and I think that it shows." Tom Hamilton "Was I the Lord of the Thighs? Fuck yeah." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 2 1) Toys In The Attic (Tyler, Perry) 3:06 (from "Toys In The Attic" (1975)) "A benchmark rock'n'roll song for Aerosmith - that kind of fast tune that was always a favorite of mine. This was sort of the first one. There were many more to follow." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Round And Round (Tyler, Whitford) 5:02 (from "Toys In The Attic" (1975)) "I don't remember a whole lot about this one. I just remember being in the Record Plant, and I had the main riff of that song. It was one of those riffs that everybody said, 'We've got to do something with that.' It turned into quite a production." Brad Whitford ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Krawhitham (Kramer, Whitford, Hamilton) 3:58 Previously Unreleased Instrumental Recorded at The Cenacle, Armonk, NY, 5/2/77. Produced by Jack Douglas. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Brad Whitford - Guitars; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "That's the sound of Joey, Tom, and I, entertaining ourselves during the Draw The Line sessions while we were waiting for Steven and Joe to wake up and get their shit together." Brad Whitford "Usually those who didn't even come down from upstairs. So we drive our Ferraris around Armonk, New York, for a while, then jam and record. We had a good time, but then again we didn't." Tom Hamilton "Unlike Tom and Brad, I'm a little confused over exactly when we recorded this. But then it was a pretty confused time." Joey Kramer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) You See Me Crying (Tyler, D. Solomon) 5:12 (from "Toys In The Attic" (1975)) "The majority of the song was constructed at the Record Plant in New York City. Many long hours." Brad Whitford ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Sweet Emotion (Tyler, Hamilton) 4:34 (from "Toys In The Attic" (1975)) "A lot of stuff I wrote in the old days just came out of anger. 'Sweet Emotion' was about how pissed off I was at Joe's ex-wife, and all the other frustrations of the time. I could never get through to him. To this day, he wears a lot of armor, but the music was always the saving grace. And if that's the way he chooses to let me in, that's fine. I just need to keep coming up with my own passwords to get in there." Steven Tyler "This one came at the very end of the Toys In The Attic sessions. I had my part, but I was too shy to say, hey, let's work on it. But somehow we had an extra day at the end, and Jack said, 'Anyone have anything we can jam on?' And so this one made it at the last minute. I remember showing Steven this riff a couple of times during the Get Your Wings sessions and he just didn't like it. My immediate reaction was just to forget it. But one day we started the riff at a different point, and it shed a whole new light on it. But nothing happened with it till the next album, Toys In The Attic. The rest is history. It's still a song I'm very proud of." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) No More No More (Tyler, Perry) 4:32 (from "Toys In The Attic" (1975)) "This is one of the songs that I really liked where Steven does his little storytelling but about life within the band. It's him talking honestly about an interesting slice of the Aerosmith story." Brad Whitford "I still love this song because of Steven's lyrics. It's not of those stupid, generic 'I love rock'n'roll songs' that some bands do. It's a real song about rock'n'roll lifestyle, or our rock'n'roll lifestyle. I don't know if it's the difinitive song about life on the road, and I don't even care. It's like a page from our diary." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Walk This Way (Tyler, Perry) 3:39 (from "Toys In The Attic" (1975)) "We were rehearsing that riff, and I don't think Steven was even around that day as we practiced it and arranged it. And that night we went with Jack Douglas to the movies and saw Young Frankenstein. There's that part in the movie when Igor says, 'walk this way,' and the other guy walks the same way with the hump and everything. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd even seen in our lives. So we told Steven, the name of this song has got to be 'Walk This Way,' and he took it from there." Tom Hamilton "I remember reading in a newspaper, in like 1976, and there's this article in there about how disgusting rock lyrics are, and he used 'Walk This Way' as an example of how lyrics should be nice and wholesome. I couldn't believe it. Obviously, they didn't get the meaning of 'you ain't see nothin' till you're down on the muffin'." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) I Wanna Know Why (Tyler, Perry) 3:04 "Texxas Jam" Live Recording Recorded on tour at the Cottonbowl, Dallas, Tx, 7/4/78. Produced by Jack Douglas. Mixed by David Thoener and Brad Whitford. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm and Lead Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "We were going down to the wire of Draw The Line and a lot of stuff was coming down on Steven. I always thought this song was Steven's reaction to all the shit he was getting into at the time." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Big Ten-Inch Record (F. Weismantel) 4:00 "Texxas Jam" Live Recording Recorded on tour at the Cottonbowl, Dallas, Tx, 7/4/78. Produced by Jack Douglas. Mixed by David Thoener. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "I was listening to a tape of Dr. Demento given me by an old friend of ours called Zonk, and I heard this song, which is originally from like 1936. The big rumor is that I say, 'Suck on on my big 10 inch' on the record. I don't. I'm saying 'cept' - as in except - not 'suck'. But no one in the whole world believes me." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Rats In The Cellar (Tyler, Perry) 4:05 (from "Rocks" (1976)) "We needed an answer to Toys In The Attic. We were getting lower and more down and dirty. So the cellar seemed like a good place to go." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Last Child (Tyler, Whitford) 3:52 Remix of original version from "Rocks" (1976) "I remember putting it together in the Wherehouse. It was a big room with a high ceiling. We hung up all this drapes. We were basically like a bunch of kids building forts." Tom Hamilton "This is an example of Aerosmith at our most funky. I remember we were listening to stuff like the Meters." Joe Perry "I always loved this one. Just a little ditty that Brad brought in that became a hit." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) All Your Love (Otis Rush) 5:27 (from Otis Rush "Cobra Recordings (1956-58)") Previously Unreleased Recorded at The Cenacle, Armonk, NY, May, 1977. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocal; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "We weren't into covering like the hits of the day - we were just choosing the songs that we loved. That's just a typical electric blues sort of things from the Sixties. We were formulating our style by who we covered." Tom Hamilton "This was one of those songs we all played in bands before we played together. There were only a handful, because like Steven were playing the Abbey Road album while Tom and I were doing the MC5. But we both were into ones like this and 'Train Kept A Rollin'." Joe Perry All your love I miss lovin' N'all your kiss I miss kissin' N'all your love I miss lovin' N'all your kiss I miss kissin' Ever since I left you, baby I never knew what I'm missin' N'all your love I miss lovin' N'all your kiss I miss kissin' N'all your love I miss lovin' N'all your kiss I miss kissin' Ever since I left you, baby I never knew what I was missin' All your lovin', pretty baby Well I had in store for you All your lovin', pretty baby Well I had in store for you All your lovin', pretty baby What can a poor boy do? All your lovin', pretty baby N'all your lovin', pretty baby N'all your lovin', all your lovin, all your lovin' All your lovin', all your lovin', all your love, Lord All your lovin', pretty baby What can a poor boy do? All your lovin', pretty baby Well, all your kiss I miss kissin' All the lovin' you gave me, pretty baby All your kiss I miss kissin' Ever since I left you, baby N' I never never never never knew what I was missin' Ow! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) Soul Saver (Tyler, Whitford) 0:52 Previously Unreleased Rehearsal Recorded at Record Plant Studios, NYC, February, 1975. Produced by Jack Douglas. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards; Joe Perry - Guitars, Vocals; Brad Whitford - Guitars; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion. "The beginnings of 'Nobody's Fault.' When you really listen to each other, and have a little perseverance, even a really shitty riff can become a great song." Steven Tyler. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) Nobody's Fault (Tyler, Whitford) 4:21 (from "Rocks" (1976)) "One of a long string of Brad Whitford songs in the key of F-sharp." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15) Lick And A Promise (Tyler, Perry) 3:04 (from "Rocks" (1976)) "This is one about going out and winning an audience. It's a tough thing to do. It's one of our songs that's just a real moment in time." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16) Adam's Apple (Tyler) 4:48 Unreleased Live Version Recorded on tour in Indianapolis, IN, 7/4/77. Producer unknown. Steven Tyler - Vocal; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "One of the greatest put together songs that Aerosmith ever did. Those were my thoughts of UFOs, the theory of evolution, the monkey, and Adam and Eve. How incredibly naive to think that there were just those two people just buzzing around the woods naked, having a blast." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17) Draw The Line (Tyler, Perry) 3:42 Remix of the original version from "Draw The Line" (1977) Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards; Joe Perry - Guitars, Vocals; Brad Whitford - Guitars; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion. "One of my favorite riffs that I ever wrote. It's a simple thing, but so are most of the ones that stick to you." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18) Critical Mass (Tyler, Perry, Jack Douglas) 4:51 (from "Draw The Line" (1977)) "I remember writing it on the bass like 'Sweet Emotion,' then writing a guitar part around it. In those days we'd always record the basic track without any idea what the song was about. And I thought the song was bizzare at first, but I came to really like it. It's like a chant with a great production." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 3 1) Kings And Queens (Hamilton, Kramer, Tyler, Whitford, Jack Douglas) 5:32 Unrelased Live Version Recorded live on tour in Boston, 3/28/78. Producer unknown. Steven Tyler - Vocal; Joe Perry - Rhythm Guitar; Brad Whitford - Lead Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "I've always had a fancy to do songs about anarchy and the church and the goverment. This is not the only one - there're also something like 'St. John.' The band comes up with the licks, and then the music talks to me and tells me what it's about. This one was just about how many people died from holy wars because of their beliefs, or non-beliefs. With that one, my brain was back with the knights and the round table and that shit - I do a lot of fantasizing." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Milkcow Blues (K. Arnold) 4:13 (from "Draw The Line" (1977)) "This one goes all the way back to when Joe and I were in the Jam Band." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) I Live In Connecticut (Tyler, Perry) 0:55 Previously Unreleased Recorded at The Wherehouse, Waltham, Mass, 3/10/79. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards; Joe Perry - Guitars, Vocals; Brad Whitford - Guitars; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion. "On a boxed set there's room for some weird stuff, I guess." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Three Mile Smile (Tyler, Perry) 3:44 (from "Night In The Ruts" (1979)) "Bith Jimmy and I recorded solos for this song. Steven liked Jimmy's solo better and his is the one that you hear on the record, and I'm still pissed about it." Brad Whitford ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Let It Slide (Tyler, Perry) 2:53 Previously Unreleased Recorded at Media Sound, NYC, March, 1979. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards; Joe Perry - Guitars, Vocals; Brad Whitford - Guitars; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion. "This shows what a song is like in the beginning (in this case 'Cheese Cake'), and what it can become. And that's a big part of being a band - building something up from a riff." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Cheese Cake (Tyler, Perry) 4:14 (from "Night In The Ruts" (1979)) "The song was done in one take with no overdubs. When I played that track I went from a regular 6-string to a lapsteel and back, live in the studio. Even though the band was falling apart in every other way, it was a testament to how we were playing." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) (Tyler, Perry) 2:59 (from "Night In The Ruts" (1979)) "A Coney Island White Fish is a scumbag. When you lived by the Hudson River like I did, you always saw these things floating by on their way to sea. They were rubbers - guys would tie 'em up and they'd just keep floating. And that, boys and girls, is a Coney Island White Fish." Steven Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) No Surprize (Tyler, Perry) 4:25 (from "Night In The Ruts" (1979)) "It's ironic that most of the songs that we did that tell the true story of the band end up some back burner album so people didn't really hear 'em. This is one where I just spell it out - and it's also a pretty damn good song." Steven Tyler "This was one of the real good ones from Night In The Ruts. If we'd been more together that might have been the album where we took what we'd done on Rocks, but we were too fucked up to really put it all together, and to support it. That's one of the reasons I left around then." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Come Together (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 3:44 (from "Greatest Hits" (1980)) Recorded at The Wherehouse, Mass, 8/21/78. Produced by Jack Douglas, George Martin and Aerosmith. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards, Harmonica, Percussion Joe Perry - Lead, Rhythm, Slide and Acoustic Guitars Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar Tom Hamilton - Bass Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion "It was really cool to be in the studio with George Martin. You always wondered what it would be like to be in the studio with one of the Beatles, and he has sort of the fifth Beatle. It was kind of intimidating, but we weren't too easily intimidated in those days." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Downtown Charlie (Aerosmith) 2:32 Unreleased Jam Recorded at The Record Plant, NYC, 8/19/78. Produced by Jack Douglas. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards, Harmonica, Percussion; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion. "'Downtown Charlie' just sounds like one of our drunken jams." Joe Perry "A lot of times in the studio, boredom sets in and I try to stir things up with a little R&R off-the-cuff stuff. Most of the time they would never go anywhere, but occasionally the band would catch on. This is one of those rare moments, a complete free-for-all jam, that we discovered on a tape when we were putting this boxed set together." Brad Whitford Well, downtown Charlie Was a place on my daddie's and a Well my pistol was a tripper And I didn't feel so bad Well be comin' round with roses Put my hands on my feet And my turnin' to the luck picture I put my neat Well, the gang's all here And I'm feelin' fine Ah, you gotta lose your mind He was a countdown Oh, that was a downtown Said, swing low slicker Future goin' lover All is goin' good I forgot my rubber A pi-sa (never mind), my sexy All I wanna do is get on my feet Na, na...oh, the boy's coming home (Around this time, Steven screams something I won't even try to make out) Downtown Charlie Said, downtown Charlie (And nevermind the screamin' parts...impossible) Just call him if you're good Rockin' fat if the machine was a roll (Spoken): No. That's not it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Sharpshooter (Whitford, Derek St. Holmes) 5:30 (from "Whitford/St. Holmes" (1981)) Recorded at Axis Studios, Atlanta, GA, 1980 - 81. Produced by Tom Allom. Brad Whitford - Lead Guitar; Derek St. Holmes - Guitar, Vocals; Dave Hewitt - Bass; Steve Pace - Drums. "'Sharpshooter' was one of the first songs that Derek and I came up with. I actually wrote it while I was still with Aerosmith, but we just never did anything with it. When I got together with Derek, we put it together in about half hour." Brad Whitford Ah, can you read in all your magazines Thinkin' that you got it near You trust to kill you're going out tonight Baby, all your let me see Yeah, right, you gotta make it now Every trick in the book Lookin' sharp, you're feelin' heat Like some cat on a hotel mob Chorus: Sharpshooter Thinkin' 'bout your lover, man Sharpshooter Leavin' every night and day Quick as a shot You think you're hot You're stealy as you start the night You're goin' downtown Lookin' mighty clean When you wish to take a shot So all right, you gotta make it now Every trick in the book Feelin' heat, The eggshell shot Like some can on a hotel mob Well, all right, it's okay tonight Yes, they can number one is 'll right, it's okay But wait they can try All right, so right It's okay Chorus Ah, can you read in all your magazines Thinkin' that you got it near You trust to kill you're going out tonight Baby, all your let me see Yeah, right, you gotta make it now Every trick in the book Lookin' sharp, you're feelin' heat Like some cat on a hotel mob Well, all right, it's okay tonight Yes, they can number one is 'll right, it's okay But wait they can try All right, so right It's okay Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) Shit House Shuffle (Perry) 0:36 Previously Unreleased Recorded at Media Sound, NYC, 5/30/79. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Keyboards; Joe Perry - Guitars, Vocals; Brad Whitford - Guitars; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion. "At first I thought, who's gonna be interested in this, but then I figured maybe someone will get something out of it." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) South Station Blues (Perry) 4:09 (from The Joe Perry Project "I've Got The Rock'n'Rolls Again" (1981)) "Another example of me insisting I can sing." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) Riff & Roll (Tyler, Crespo) 3:16 Unreleased Jam Recorded at Power Station, NYC, 9/16/81. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "Always thought it was a great song, but we never got around to using it. As a matter of fact I still like it." Joey Kramer Hey, hey you Lift yor face off down the ground Hey, hey you With the junkies all around Hey, hey you Would your feeling's sound the sand Hey, het you With your face on the flamce Hey, hey you This is all a silly game Hey, hey you Would your feelings sound the same Well, you know you got that love Baby, inspiration And you got that old generation With your feet down Down on the ground And then you sing songs baby When you know who's around Say baby Hey, hey wait Whatcha gonna do with that whore Get your brains scraped off the floor Hey, hey you What you got in the door Yeah, hey, hey you You gotta let it go Hey, hey you What's on in the middle east Hey, hey you Why don't you take another piece Hey, hey you Would your feelings sound the same That's it, stay around.... One, two, thre, four Hey, hey you With that face on the fire Hey, hey you Sing your ass of in the choir Hey, hey you Don't let things go too long Too long, too long Hey, hey you With your ass on the ground Hey, hey you Never say you get the sound Hey, hey you What did you think of the sound ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15) Jailbait (Tyler, Crespo) 4:38 (from "Rock In A Hard Place" (1982)) "This is a Jimmy Crespo riff. This song really made us feel like we had one in the pocket. It seemed impossible to hear it without getting blown away." Tom Hamilton "Even though I wasn't around for that song, I think it's pretty hot. I would have done it a little differently, but if anything I'm a little jealous that I didn't play on it." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16) Major Barbara (Tyler) 5:04 Previously Unreleased Alternate Version Recorded at Power Station, NYC, 20/5/71. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Harmonica; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "I always thought this was velvety smooth." Joey Kramer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17) Chip Away The Stone (Richie Supa) 4:05 Previously Unreleased Version Recorded at Long View Farms, Mass, 4/6/78. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "It's a Richie Supa song that we always thought was going to be a single. It's sort of a pet song, but the public never seemed to like it quite as much as we did." Tom Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18) Helter Skelter (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 3:14 Peviously Unreleased Recorded at Great Northern Recording Studios, 1975. Produced by Aerosmith. Mix Producer: Don DeVito. Steven Tyler - Vocals, Harmonica; Joe Perry - Lead Guitar; Brad Whitford - Rhythm Guitar; Tom Hamilton - Bass; Joey Kramer - Drums. "I don't remember much about this one, but it certainly sounds pretty cool." Tom Hamilton When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Wher I stop and I go for a ride 'Til I get to the bottom Where I see you again Well, do you, don't you Want me to love you I'm comin' down fast But I'm miles above you Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer You may be a lover But you ain't no dancer Helter Skelter (3) Will you, won't you Want me to make you I'm coming down fast But don't let me break you Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer You may be a lover But you ain't no dancer Helter Skelter (3) She's comin' down fast Yes she is, yes she is ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19) Back In The Saddle (Tyler, Perry) 4:39 (from "Rocks" (1976)) "To me this is the kind of riff and instrumentation that falls outside the normal formula of a rock song. I wrote it on a six string bass. It was one of those songs that really opened things up for us." Joe Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20) Back In The Saddle Again (Tyler, Perry) 3:44 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------