Aerosmith
Italians sing a lot and well. And this applies not only to the classics from La Scala or pop musicians from San Remo. The descendants of Italians entrenched in the North American United States are excellent at showing themselves in the class of hard rock vocals. Moreover, in all his guises. Jon Bon Jovi, Ronnie James Dio, Dave Menicenti (Y&T), Lou Gramm (Foreigner) ... There are also some good rock drummers among them - just remember the legendary Dave Lombardo or Peter Criss (aka Chrisswall) ...
"My great-grandfather, Giovani Tallerico, performed classical music on the cello: like me, he toured the country ... I spent all my childhood under my father's piano - I listened for hours as he rehearsed Debussy, Chopin, Liszt ..." - says Stephen Tyler (full surname Tallerico, born 03/26/1948). The classical influences, however, missed the mark - the guy was interested in rhythm and blues.
In the late sixties, armed with a rather strange set of musical knowledge (mandolin, piano, harmonium and drums), Steve clung to one or another group. Chain Reaction, where he sang at one time, even managed to act as an opening act for the Kinks and Yardbirds a couple of times. Well, he wandered, like the mass of other American idiots of that time, through all kinds of woodstocks, watching the heroes of blues and rock in action. In 1969 he was brought to the Rolling Stones concert in New York's Madison Square Garden. Here his historical acquaintance with a certain Anthony "Joe" Perry, who in those days cobbled together his Jam Band ensemble, permanently tormented by the absence of a vocalist and drummer. Having entered the group of his new friend, Steve filled both vacancies at once, although a little later he preferred to focus on the role of the vocalist. In a new incarnation, the ensemble was named Aerosmith ...
However, it is not so easy to wean playful little hands from knocking, bryakan and tinkling. Those who saw the working moments of the recording of the action movie "Eat The Rich" on the Aerosmith video collection "Big Ones" should remember that the drum part in it (not to mention the "cannibal" intro!) Was recorded in four hands by drummer of the ensemble Joy Kramer himself Tyler. And in terms of mastering a variety of percussion on the hard rock scene, he simply has no equal. For some reason, this is not the most popular instrument for heavy music. Even Robert Plant, who picks up a tambourine, or plays Yang Gilan on kongs, simply keep himself busy during the narcissistic drinking of his bandmates. And only at concerts. Tyler's percussion works for the general arrangement of Aerosmith songs, and is a very significant part of the group's overall rhythmic arsenal. "FINE" (from the 1989 album "Pump") wouldn't have worked without me, - admits Tyler, - I sat down at the drums, knocked out a beat, and Joe immediately threw a riff on it ... "
Just one of a large number of American blues-rock bands of the second echelon of the seventies, carrying only the beginnings of the glam style in their work in the early stages, and at first did not constitute any competition for the then rock stars Kiss and Alice Cooper, Aerosmith suddenly became active in the late sterile eighties. with his blistering blues-rock through the peroxide-bleached hair and brains of the fake metal fans. Perhaps this was facilitated by the collective exit of the musicians from many years of hard drinking. According to Steve, his first problems with alcohol appeared under the same father's piano: “In the house, the smoke stood like a rocker: they celebrated from morning to evening. I myself began to drink from childhood. They will put me a glass of fruit, and I secretly pour it out and I fill it to the brim with red Johnny Walker. It was a big glass: it could hold three normal glasses. The next morning I hardly trudge to school. When I was first offered to smoke in the shower weed, I even refused. "Thank you, - I say, - I already suck ..."
Today Aerosmith is the most powerful glam conglomrate. Managing to change the tattered burst of the most delusional images in a five-minute video, Steve still frightens and amuses people at concerts with his more and more monstrous hats and microphone stands, which look like may trees or horses-sticks. Where does all this come from? “I found some rags and put them on a microphone stand. It turned out to be something airy, floating - in the spirit of my beloved Brian Jones, - says Steve, - Just like a guitarist combs a mane on his face to hide, I began to use scarves By the way, in those days I got the hang of using the stand as a spear: I used it to hit the idiots from the first row, who were too violent and showed this ... (stretches out the middle finger) ".
The band's last two albums "Nine Lives" (1997) and "Just Push Play" (2001) were released in March. There can be no more radical method of dealing with spring depression. It is difficult to forget the moment when it is cloudy, puddles and wind outside the window, but from the radio set on the windowsill suddenly bursts out a desperate slaughter "Falling In Love" with its athletic exertion of brass, or the mysterious "Taste Of India", solved in the best traditions of Zeppelin's " Kashmir ". Or when from the standard EMTV compost suddenly splashes out onto the screen a riot of computer graphics, put in the service of good old glam rock in the video for the ballad "Fly Away" ...
Speaking of "Nine Lives". It seems that the owners of the first edition of this album, which depicts Krishna dancing among the snakes in the form of a cat on the cover, can henceforth consider themselves holders of rarities: all subsequent reprints are now issued in a different design, originally intended only for Asian listeners in order to avoid controversy on religious grounds. This is not the first time Aerosmith has faced similar challenges. I remember being tired of proving to everyone that the earring in the cow's udder on the cover of "Get A Grip" is just a photomontage and a joke over the fashion for piercings, Tyler personally took up milking the cow depicted on the cover of the disc in front of television cameras, thereby proving that during filming, she did not suffer at all.
The "Nine Lives" opener, with a ferocious crunch of sexually frustrated March cats, hasn't gone anywhere, so it's okay. "I agree with Madonna," Steve says, "Why is everyone so crazy about sex? Because everyone likes it and everyone lacks it!"
Aerosmith never rests on their laurels. They never stop when they reach some average level. Their music is always more melodic, the performance is more energetic, the arrangements are more powerful (although sometimes one cannot avoid the annoying "backgrounds" that have been abused in the States since the days of Phil Spector), and the show is an order of magnitude more vigorous than everyone else. “At every step I see people who have died before they even started living. They do not want to take risks, which means they are doomed to vegetation ... I hear now and then: you cannot do this and that. What are you saying? ? And we'll wait a couple of months, then we'll see whose ass is tighter ... "
After "Nine Lives" a series of no less interesting albums followed - the old-school "Just Push Play" showed the group in the prime of its creative powers, ready for new achievements that did not keep itself waiting long. The rockers decided to go back to the roots and record an album of real Chicago blues. The album "Honkin 'On Bobo", on which exactly one author's composition "The Grind" was present, and the rest of the songs were cover versions of blues standards, fell to the audience's taste: Joe Perry still masterfully played riff after riff, and the harmonica Stephen Tyler howled in different ways.
But this was followed by a strange turn of the off-season - the group embarked on a long tour, after which Steven Tyler went to rehab: health problems provoked by alcohol and drugs made themselves felt. Confusion and vacillation began in the group: Perry announced that he was looking for a new vocalist, and Tyler replied that he was about to return ... As a result, the prodigal vocalist was given one last chance: today Aerosmith is waiting for Tyler's return, but Perry unequivocally hints that if the process treatment will drag on, the musicians will still find a temporary replacement for Tyler.
"My great-grandfather, Giovani Tallerico, performed classical music on the cello: like me, he toured the country ... I spent all my childhood under my father's piano - I listened for hours as he rehearsed Debussy, Chopin, Liszt ..." - says Stephen Tyler (full surname Tallerico, born 03/26/1948). The classical influences, however, missed the mark - the guy was interested in rhythm and blues.
In the late sixties, armed with a rather strange set of musical knowledge (mandolin, piano, harmonium and drums), Steve clung to one or another group. Chain Reaction, where he sang at one time, even managed to act as an opening act for the Kinks and Yardbirds a couple of times. Well, he wandered, like the mass of other American idiots of that time, through all kinds of woodstocks, watching the heroes of blues and rock in action. In 1969 he was brought to the Rolling Stones concert in New York's Madison Square Garden. Here his historical acquaintance with a certain Anthony "Joe" Perry, who in those days cobbled together his Jam Band ensemble, permanently tormented by the absence of a vocalist and drummer. Having entered the group of his new friend, Steve filled both vacancies at once, although a little later he preferred to focus on the role of the vocalist. In a new incarnation, the ensemble was named Aerosmith ...
However, it is not so easy to wean playful little hands from knocking, bryakan and tinkling. Those who saw the working moments of the recording of the action movie "Eat The Rich" on the Aerosmith video collection "Big Ones" should remember that the drum part in it (not to mention the "cannibal" intro!) Was recorded in four hands by drummer of the ensemble Joy Kramer himself Tyler. And in terms of mastering a variety of percussion on the hard rock scene, he simply has no equal. For some reason, this is not the most popular instrument for heavy music. Even Robert Plant, who picks up a tambourine, or plays Yang Gilan on kongs, simply keep himself busy during the narcissistic drinking of his bandmates. And only at concerts. Tyler's percussion works for the general arrangement of Aerosmith songs, and is a very significant part of the group's overall rhythmic arsenal. "FINE" (from the 1989 album "Pump") wouldn't have worked without me, - admits Tyler, - I sat down at the drums, knocked out a beat, and Joe immediately threw a riff on it ... "
Just one of a large number of American blues-rock bands of the second echelon of the seventies, carrying only the beginnings of the glam style in their work in the early stages, and at first did not constitute any competition for the then rock stars Kiss and Alice Cooper, Aerosmith suddenly became active in the late sterile eighties. with his blistering blues-rock through the peroxide-bleached hair and brains of the fake metal fans. Perhaps this was facilitated by the collective exit of the musicians from many years of hard drinking. According to Steve, his first problems with alcohol appeared under the same father's piano: “In the house, the smoke stood like a rocker: they celebrated from morning to evening. I myself began to drink from childhood. They will put me a glass of fruit, and I secretly pour it out and I fill it to the brim with red Johnny Walker. It was a big glass: it could hold three normal glasses. The next morning I hardly trudge to school. When I was first offered to smoke in the shower weed, I even refused. "Thank you, - I say, - I already suck ..."
Today Aerosmith is the most powerful glam conglomrate. Managing to change the tattered burst of the most delusional images in a five-minute video, Steve still frightens and amuses people at concerts with his more and more monstrous hats and microphone stands, which look like may trees or horses-sticks. Where does all this come from? “I found some rags and put them on a microphone stand. It turned out to be something airy, floating - in the spirit of my beloved Brian Jones, - says Steve, - Just like a guitarist combs a mane on his face to hide, I began to use scarves By the way, in those days I got the hang of using the stand as a spear: I used it to hit the idiots from the first row, who were too violent and showed this ... (stretches out the middle finger) ".
The band's last two albums "Nine Lives" (1997) and "Just Push Play" (2001) were released in March. There can be no more radical method of dealing with spring depression. It is difficult to forget the moment when it is cloudy, puddles and wind outside the window, but from the radio set on the windowsill suddenly bursts out a desperate slaughter "Falling In Love" with its athletic exertion of brass, or the mysterious "Taste Of India", solved in the best traditions of Zeppelin's " Kashmir ". Or when from the standard EMTV compost suddenly splashes out onto the screen a riot of computer graphics, put in the service of good old glam rock in the video for the ballad "Fly Away" ...
Speaking of "Nine Lives". It seems that the owners of the first edition of this album, which depicts Krishna dancing among the snakes in the form of a cat on the cover, can henceforth consider themselves holders of rarities: all subsequent reprints are now issued in a different design, originally intended only for Asian listeners in order to avoid controversy on religious grounds. This is not the first time Aerosmith has faced similar challenges. I remember being tired of proving to everyone that the earring in the cow's udder on the cover of "Get A Grip" is just a photomontage and a joke over the fashion for piercings, Tyler personally took up milking the cow depicted on the cover of the disc in front of television cameras, thereby proving that during filming, she did not suffer at all.
The "Nine Lives" opener, with a ferocious crunch of sexually frustrated March cats, hasn't gone anywhere, so it's okay. "I agree with Madonna," Steve says, "Why is everyone so crazy about sex? Because everyone likes it and everyone lacks it!"
Aerosmith never rests on their laurels. They never stop when they reach some average level. Their music is always more melodic, the performance is more energetic, the arrangements are more powerful (although sometimes one cannot avoid the annoying "backgrounds" that have been abused in the States since the days of Phil Spector), and the show is an order of magnitude more vigorous than everyone else. “At every step I see people who have died before they even started living. They do not want to take risks, which means they are doomed to vegetation ... I hear now and then: you cannot do this and that. What are you saying? ? And we'll wait a couple of months, then we'll see whose ass is tighter ... "
After "Nine Lives" a series of no less interesting albums followed - the old-school "Just Push Play" showed the group in the prime of its creative powers, ready for new achievements that did not keep itself waiting long. The rockers decided to go back to the roots and record an album of real Chicago blues. The album "Honkin 'On Bobo", on which exactly one author's composition "The Grind" was present, and the rest of the songs were cover versions of blues standards, fell to the audience's taste: Joe Perry still masterfully played riff after riff, and the harmonica Stephen Tyler howled in different ways.
But this was followed by a strange turn of the off-season - the group embarked on a long tour, after which Steven Tyler went to rehab: health problems provoked by alcohol and drugs made themselves felt. Confusion and vacillation began in the group: Perry announced that he was looking for a new vocalist, and Tyler replied that he was about to return ... As a result, the prodigal vocalist was given one last chance: today Aerosmith is waiting for Tyler's return, but Perry unequivocally hints that if the process treatment will drag on, the musicians will still find a temporary replacement for Tyler.
