Old Men Rule*
[40 Years Ago: ‘Toys in the Attic’ Makes Aerosmith Legends by Jeff Giles] "Aerosmith got off to a solid start with their debut album and avoided the sophomore jinx with their second. With their third, 1975′s Toys in the Attic, they truly took off.
Released in April 1975, Toys in the Attic found the group working to maintain its rock audience while making another bid for the crossover success that, to that point, had continued to flit just out of reach. Reconvening at the Record Plant in New York City during the early winter months of the year, the band members were under the gun in terms of delivering new material — but after years of live performance, they were better prepared than ever.
“Toys was the first record where we had to write everything pretty, much from scratch,” guitarist Joe Perry told Ultimate Guitar. “And also, we had to do it after having been on the road for a while. And, though we were still playing a lot of gigs, we took a couple months off to make this record. So this was our first real studio record. And we would write a lot of the material in the studio. So we’d rehearse them and then go into the studio in the morning with a couple of guitar riffs, and we’d build all these songs out of them...” Full text: 40 Years Ago: ‘Toys in the Attic’ Makes Aerosmith Legends
*Disclaimer: Excludes dirty old men 1 Co 6:9-10
[40 Years Ago: ‘Toys in the Attic’ Makes Aerosmith Legends by Jeff Giles] "Aerosmith got off to a solid start with their debut album and avoided the sophomore jinx with their second. With their third, 1975′s Toys in the Attic, they truly took off.
Released in April 1975, Toys in the Attic found the group working to maintain its rock audience while making another bid for the crossover success that, to that point, had continued to flit just out of reach. Reconvening at the Record Plant in New York City during the early winter months of the year, the band members were under the gun in terms of delivering new material — but after years of live performance, they were better prepared than ever.
“Toys was the first record where we had to write everything pretty, much from scratch,” guitarist Joe Perry told Ultimate Guitar. “And also, we had to do it after having been on the road for a while. And, though we were still playing a lot of gigs, we took a couple months off to make this record. So this was our first real studio record. And we would write a lot of the material in the studio. So we’d rehearse them and then go into the studio in the morning with a couple of guitar riffs, and we’d build all these songs out of them...” Full text: 40 Years Ago: ‘Toys in the Attic’ Makes Aerosmith Legends
*Disclaimer: Excludes dirty old men 1 Co 6:9-10
