Professionally, Springsteen had never been bigger –Born in the U.S.A.would sell 30 million albums worldwide and yield seven U.S. Top 10 singles. As the tour moved through North America, it became apparent that demand for tickets far outstripped the supply, and that subsequent legs would ...
Asia (1982):It wasn't the prog-redux moment many might have expected with a new supergroup featuring members of Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer and King Crimson. Instead, it was a huge pop hit. So huge, in fact, that Asia almost immediately started splitting apart. Number of the Beast EMI...
He changed his mind. So I went back and wrote the song. And never in a million years thought Aerosmith would do it. I kind of thought a female vocalist would end up doing it, but it’s so much more powerful with Steven Tyler – him being that vulnerable in the song really wo...
There are many ways to look at 1994: lists of great albums (here’sa top 50 to get you started); a look back at whatfansandtastemakerswereactuallylistening to at the time; thebest overlooked obscurities. But the best way to really understand why a single 365 three decades ago had such ...
We were all bummed when the Aerosmith tour was postponed last year after only a few shows, but it was a cool full circle moment for you guys, just getting to do that. What did it mean to you and Chris? You know, when you say “full circle moment,” it literally was. When we put...
Aerosmith were in free fall. Their smash albums, 1975’sToys in the Atticand 1976’sRocks, both produced by Jack Douglas, made them superstars, but their crippling drug habits (Perry and lead singerSteven Tylerhad become known as “the Toxic Twins”), not to mention a punishing tour schedu...
Pearl Jam also lowered the face price of each ticket to $18--despite opposition from some promoters who encouraged the group to charge almost three times that amount. The band--which has sold nearly 11 million albums since 1992--turned down more than $2 million last year in potential tour...
Rush (1991):Though it's one of Rush's darkest albums lyrically, 'Roll the Bones' doesn't play like that. Not with a title track that takes a playful swipe at rapping. There's also a return to instrumental fare, on the Grammy-nominated "Where's My Thing." Then there's "Dreamline,...
They all have their own individual character -- and I could have leaned towards Starting Over too, but I would say that Side 3 really captured, I think, what they wanted to be from the start and maybe how they sounded live. I would put up so many of these songs, 'Tonight,' '...
I don’t have it around. And also it’s natural, and it has so many healing properties. I did drink red wine once, about four years ago—a one-night thing for Halloween, for my best friend’s birthday, and it was awful. I got allergic to it—I couldn’t even open my eyes for...