GENRE: Hard Rock FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) SIZE: 689 mb (3% Recovery) Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY on 2012-11-20.
TRACKLIST:
01 Intro
02 Mama Kin
03 Love in an Elevator
04 Jaded
05 Oh Yeah
06 Livin' on the Edge
07 Movin' Out
08 Walkin' the Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
09 Last Child
10 Drum Solo
11 Rag Doll
12 Boogie Man
13 Combination
14 Lover Alot
15 What It Takes
16 No More No More
17 Come Together (The Beatles cover) (with Sean Lennon)
18 Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
19 Mother Popcorn / Walk This Way
Encore:
20 Crowd
21 Dream On
22 Sweet Emotion
NOTES:
On Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry rose from a stage elevator and slid right into “Mama Kin”, their first hard rock bitch-slap to fat cat record executives in New York City.
“It ain’t easy livin’ like a gypsy,” Tyler sang, a lyric he penned as a struggling musician during the last U.S. financial crisis. Things aren’t any easier for artists today.
Aerosmith re-avowed themselves to their blooze roots, delivering a set heavy on their earlier hits, like the funk gem “Last Child” and forgoing most of the typical 90s gloop. They did include the excellent single, “Jaded”, “Livin’ on the Edge” (“we fuckin’ are!” Tyler aspirated), and the hardly known “Boogie Man”. Tyler fumbled the words on “Jaded”, but that’s probably just because it’s a shock not to be singing another half-baked round of “Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”.
The heart of the night was Aerosmith their 1973 debut album that record executives told them “didn’t have a single.” They played “Movin’ Out” followed by a rousing “Walkin’ the Dog”. Tyler staggered around the stage, doing his languid walk-like-an-Egyptian moves, as Perry and rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford ricocheted blues riffs.
There was a lot of love in that tiny stage elevator (cue: “Love In An Elevator”) – in fact, Tyler and Perry’s heads were so close on that shared mic, from a distance it looked as though they were singing out of each other’s mouths. According to a recent report, Perry claims the band is getting along better than ever before. But maybe that’s because it must feel good to play at the helm of New York City, their sometimes-hometown that has always treated them like an annoying stepchild next to Bruce Springsteen and the New York Dolls.
It figures that the first time in 11 years this band has new original material – over an hour of it – all they wanted to do was reminisce. Two new songs, “Lover Alot” and the Joe Perry-led “Oh Yeah”, held up like bonus tracks to the ’70s gutter rock of Rocks and Toys, which they paid homage to with the Perry-fronted “Combination” and Tyler’s on-the-road diary dump “No More No More”, respectively.
Julian Lennon joined on “Come Together” (he chimed in on: “you can feel his disease”). The late Beatle’s son worked with the band on their recent album, adding vocals after a chance meeting in Los Angeles. It was a poignant moment on stage, but must’ve been a little awkward backstage for Cheap Trick, which performed not one, but three Beatles covers (“Golden Slumbers, “Carry That Weight,” “The End”) during the opening set. Lennon quickly bid namaste and got the hell off the stage before “Dude Looks Like A Lady”.
Tyler has said that he always thought of Aerosmith as a “great funk band.” Schooled in funk and soul, Joey Kramer offered up an impressive 10-minute drum solo (half-assisted by Tyler), which almost sounded like it was going to segue into James Brown’s “Mother Popcorn” (which they used to do as a warm-up tune in the early days). Instead, it was just the extended intro to “Walk This Way”, their crossover hit that famously grounded two musical genres, rock and hip-hop, in their mutual obsessions with, well, James Brown.
After the brief respite, Tyler emerged from the cat-walk elevator, seated at his pearly white piano for what we all knew was “Dream On”, the third song on their first record, which miraculously turned out to be their greatest hit. Whenever Tyler sings this song in New York, personal conviction is spelled out along those famously lurid lips.
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