Road Work
Albany Times Union, NY
November 24, 2005
Aerosmith is back on tour and stops at the Pepsi next week
In the middle of their 2002 tour in support of "Just Push Play," Aerosmith decided to play one small-venue show -- at the 3,000-seat Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
For that evening, Aerosmith brushed off several older tunes that had rarely made it into the live set, including "Seasons of Wither," "Same Old Song and Dance" and "No More No More."
Those songs are now captured on a new DualDisc, "Rockin' The Joint: Live at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas." The CD side includes a dozen tracks from that show, while the DVD is supplemented with four additional performances, including the hits "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion."
The band, which rumbles into Albany's Pepsi Arena on Wednesday, had filmed and recorded that one-night show for possible release, but according to Joe Perry, the results of that evening exceeded even his greatest expectations.
Vocalist Steven Tyler "was really listening to the tapes every day," Perry said. "I was totally expecting him to come back and say, 'Look, we've got probably five songs from "Rockin' The Joint," but we've got to fill it in with stuff from other nights.' "
Instead, what Perry heard was a single show where the performances were strong from start to finish -- without the major or minor flubs that frequently happen when a song is played live -- and a special energy that surrounded the evening.
"Listening down to the whole thing, it was kind of -- well, this was amazing," he said. "It's all from one night, and not playing songs we play every night. It's not like we played the regular set. So we went in there with the extra care we were thinking of, probably did a couple of sound checks before and rehearsed some of those songs, and there you have it. So that's what makes it, to me, a really unique set of music. ... You hear that energy from the show build in a way that isn't artificial."
The ecstatic reception the audience gave to the material Aerosmith played at the Joint that night is having a direct effect on the show the veteran Boston band will bring to the Capital Region next week.
"Seeing the response that we've gotten from fans to the songs in the set that comprises that record, that's going to influence pulling some out that we haven't played in a while, or have never played," Perry said. "The one thing we did realize is there are so many songs in our catalog that I think are really good songs, that may have slipped through the cracks or just never got played live, or over the years have been put aside because we felt some of the other material -- because they were hits on MTV or whatever -- got the most focus.
"There are a lot of songs there we should gather up and put in the set, and make them a main part of the set instead of going out and writing a bunch of new stuff."
November 24, 2005
Aerosmith is back on tour and stops at the Pepsi next week
In the middle of their 2002 tour in support of "Just Push Play," Aerosmith decided to play one small-venue show -- at the 3,000-seat Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
For that evening, Aerosmith brushed off several older tunes that had rarely made it into the live set, including "Seasons of Wither," "Same Old Song and Dance" and "No More No More."
Those songs are now captured on a new DualDisc, "Rockin' The Joint: Live at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas." The CD side includes a dozen tracks from that show, while the DVD is supplemented with four additional performances, including the hits "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion."
The band, which rumbles into Albany's Pepsi Arena on Wednesday, had filmed and recorded that one-night show for possible release, but according to Joe Perry, the results of that evening exceeded even his greatest expectations.
Vocalist Steven Tyler "was really listening to the tapes every day," Perry said. "I was totally expecting him to come back and say, 'Look, we've got probably five songs from "Rockin' The Joint," but we've got to fill it in with stuff from other nights.' "
Instead, what Perry heard was a single show where the performances were strong from start to finish -- without the major or minor flubs that frequently happen when a song is played live -- and a special energy that surrounded the evening.
"Listening down to the whole thing, it was kind of -- well, this was amazing," he said. "It's all from one night, and not playing songs we play every night. It's not like we played the regular set. So we went in there with the extra care we were thinking of, probably did a couple of sound checks before and rehearsed some of those songs, and there you have it. So that's what makes it, to me, a really unique set of music. ... You hear that energy from the show build in a way that isn't artificial."
The ecstatic reception the audience gave to the material Aerosmith played at the Joint that night is having a direct effect on the show the veteran Boston band will bring to the Capital Region next week.
"Seeing the response that we've gotten from fans to the songs in the set that comprises that record, that's going to influence pulling some out that we haven't played in a while, or have never played," Perry said. "The one thing we did realize is there are so many songs in our catalog that I think are really good songs, that may have slipped through the cracks or just never got played live, or over the years have been put aside because we felt some of the other material -- because they were hits on MTV or whatever -- got the most focus.
"There are a lot of songs there we should gather up and put in the set, and make them a main part of the set instead of going out and writing a bunch of new stuff."
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