Steven's Input for Cell Phone Tour - Producer's Comments
The Patriot Ledger, MA
March 15, 2005
Walk This Way: Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler offers guiding voice for Boston tourists
...Aerosmith frontman and longtime Marshfield resident Steven Tyler was the first choice of New York-based Candide Media Works to narrate "Boston: City of Rebels & Dreamers," a self-guided cell phone tour of 17 Hub attractions from Fenway Park to the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. "Lemme show you my town," Tyler whoops as he shows callers around the downtown sites, weaving history, wisecracks and personal asides into two-minute narratives at each stop.....
When producers arrived at Tyler's Marshfield home last summer to tape the tour, he looked over the script and used his lyrical instincts to smooth over the rough edges.
"He's got a great ear," (Executive Producer Miles) Kronby said. "Often when he was reading through the scripts, he'd say, 'Don't say it this way - say it this other way.' He was always right."
Tyler also injected some irreverent humor into the tour's somber corners. Explaining that executions on Boston Common were a form of public entertainment in the 1700s, Tyler cracked, "If Aerosmith had been around 300 years ago, we would have been the opening act."...
March 15, 2005
Walk This Way: Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler offers guiding voice for Boston tourists
...Aerosmith frontman and longtime Marshfield resident Steven Tyler was the first choice of New York-based Candide Media Works to narrate "Boston: City of Rebels & Dreamers," a self-guided cell phone tour of 17 Hub attractions from Fenway Park to the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. "Lemme show you my town," Tyler whoops as he shows callers around the downtown sites, weaving history, wisecracks and personal asides into two-minute narratives at each stop.....
When producers arrived at Tyler's Marshfield home last summer to tape the tour, he looked over the script and used his lyrical instincts to smooth over the rough edges.
"He's got a great ear," (Executive Producer Miles) Kronby said. "Often when he was reading through the scripts, he'd say, 'Don't say it this way - say it this other way.' He was always right."
Tyler also injected some irreverent humor into the tour's somber corners. Explaining that executions on Boston Common were a form of public entertainment in the 1700s, Tyler cracked, "If Aerosmith had been around 300 years ago, we would have been the opening act."...
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