Aerosmith Brings Rock 'N' Roll Drama to AT&T Center
San Antonio Express News, TX
January 26, 2006
Steven Tyler and Aerosmith perform Wednesday night at the AT&T Center.
Bahram Mark Sobhani/Express-News
Same old song and dance? Who cares?
This is Aerosmith after all, the American version of the Rolling Stones that continues to gather no moss since rolling out of Boston in the early '70s.
We still love that dirty water served up by the much cleaned up band led by singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, as evidenced at a nearly sold out show at AT&T Center on Wednesday.
About the only down side was co-headliner Lenny Kravitz's no-show due to illness – or at least that was the official reason given.
Some fans, like attorney Chance McGhee, weren't too pleased.
“I'm bummed,” McGhee said. He spent $425 on tickets for himself and his wife.
“My wife and I love Lenny Kravitz – we were thinking Aerosmith was a bonus.” The San Antonio lawyer expressed his doubts about the reason for Kravitz's cancellation announced late Wednesday.
“I think Kravitz is hung over or got into a fight with Aerosmith,” McGhee, 39, said.
Local heroes Sexto Sol filled in admirably, doing their Santana thing that earned a shout out from Tyler.
Rock 'n' roll drama was alive and well this night — so was the fun.
“There's some crazy (expletive) in here,” Tyler said at one point. Moments later, an overheated female fan climbed onto the catwalk to get close to the bad-boy sex symbol (and prove his point). It was one of several instances of security lapses that led to grope 'n' roll.
Other highlights: Tom Hamilton's bass rumbling on cue for the famous intro to “Sweet Emotion.” The song captures the attention across generations.
And they were represented here — with fathers with backward baseball caps accompanying their young children, teenagers snapping photos with their cell phones and gray-headed dinosaurs grooving along to the beat – some motorcycle mamas, too.
Aerosmith opened its concert with the Beatles' “Helter Skelter,” Paul McCartney's infamous ode to a children's playground slide. The frenzied attitude of that distorted E-chord barrage prevailed throughout the show.
For his part, Perry played the man-in-black foil to Tyler's gypsy persona, especially with the on-fire “Baby Please Don't Go” and his own slide guitar blues spotlight.
“Livin' On the Edge” best personifies this band's attitude and ability to survive and call it like it is: “Something's wrong with the world today and everybody knows it's (expletive),” Tyler sang, messing with the verse. But as long as Tyler's still able to miraculously scream those high notes with the only enormous mouth that rivals Mick Jagger's, things ain't so bad. Walk this way, indeed.
January 26, 2006
Steven Tyler and Aerosmith perform Wednesday night at the AT&T Center.
Bahram Mark Sobhani/Express-News
Same old song and dance? Who cares?
This is Aerosmith after all, the American version of the Rolling Stones that continues to gather no moss since rolling out of Boston in the early '70s.
We still love that dirty water served up by the much cleaned up band led by singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, as evidenced at a nearly sold out show at AT&T Center on Wednesday.
About the only down side was co-headliner Lenny Kravitz's no-show due to illness – or at least that was the official reason given.
Some fans, like attorney Chance McGhee, weren't too pleased.
“I'm bummed,” McGhee said. He spent $425 on tickets for himself and his wife.
“My wife and I love Lenny Kravitz – we were thinking Aerosmith was a bonus.” The San Antonio lawyer expressed his doubts about the reason for Kravitz's cancellation announced late Wednesday.
“I think Kravitz is hung over or got into a fight with Aerosmith,” McGhee, 39, said.
Local heroes Sexto Sol filled in admirably, doing their Santana thing that earned a shout out from Tyler.
Rock 'n' roll drama was alive and well this night — so was the fun.
“There's some crazy (expletive) in here,” Tyler said at one point. Moments later, an overheated female fan climbed onto the catwalk to get close to the bad-boy sex symbol (and prove his point). It was one of several instances of security lapses that led to grope 'n' roll.
Other highlights: Tom Hamilton's bass rumbling on cue for the famous intro to “Sweet Emotion.” The song captures the attention across generations.
And they were represented here — with fathers with backward baseball caps accompanying their young children, teenagers snapping photos with their cell phones and gray-headed dinosaurs grooving along to the beat – some motorcycle mamas, too.
Aerosmith opened its concert with the Beatles' “Helter Skelter,” Paul McCartney's infamous ode to a children's playground slide. The frenzied attitude of that distorted E-chord barrage prevailed throughout the show.
For his part, Perry played the man-in-black foil to Tyler's gypsy persona, especially with the on-fire “Baby Please Don't Go” and his own slide guitar blues spotlight.
“Livin' On the Edge” best personifies this band's attitude and ability to survive and call it like it is: “Something's wrong with the world today and everybody knows it's (expletive),” Tyler sang, messing with the verse. But as long as Tyler's still able to miraculously scream those high notes with the only enormous mouth that rivals Mick Jagger's, things ain't so bad. Walk this way, indeed.
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