Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place
Customer Review: Aerosmith masterpiece
Forget what everyone else is saying. This is a great album, it may not be the most popular with the (conservative) fans but for me and I’m sure many others this is a career high- Tyler said himself this was one of the best.
After ‘draw the line’ it is probably the most experimental/progressive album they made, ok it doesn’t have Joe Perry what we have with is less bluesy more “straight” hard rock sound on ‘Jailbait’ and ‘Lightning strikes’; cool Jazzy bar rock hybrid sound in Julie London cover ‘Cry me a River’-very convincing one of my favorite Aerosmith recordings; ‘Joanie’s Butterfly’ is one of the highlight’s with it’s folksy sound and Zeppelin like lyric. ‘Push comes to shove’ finishes the album in style, well Tyler sound’s like he’s going to collapse or explode when he spits all over the microphone- the essence of Rock’n'Roll.
Customer Review: Hard Rock in a Different Place
A wonderfully hard rockin’ Aerosmith album that fails to suffer from the temporary departure of Perry and Whitford, in fact the new blood raises the ante for the band and this remains a great Aerosmith album to this day. Perry is oft quoted as wishing he’d been there to co-write the fabulous Lightning Strikes. Me thinks he was more than a little peeved at the competence of his replacement! As a great Perry fan (Aerosmith and solo) I still find this album chock full of the usual swagger, yanky slang and searing guitar that the band’s fans adore.
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