AeroForceOne has issued the following from AEROSMITH's Tom Hamilton:

"Here's another one from the early days. For the Walk This Way Book it was broken up and intermingled with other people's memories of this story. Thought you might like to see it the way I originally wrote it.

It must have been the winter of ’71-’72. It seems most of my most profound early memories of the band happened during the winter.

One day Brad and I decided to go down to Wurlitzer’s, Boston’s main music store, and do some errands. I was always ready to go there. Since I was about 12 or 13 the place was like Disneyland to me. There were always new guitars, amps, accessories and tons of other stuff to check out. Not only that, but a lot of times when I didn’t have any money, there was a great guy there named Billy Murray who would throw me free strings and stuff.

We hadn’t had a gig in at least a month and things were getting tight. Not only that, but we had no place to rehearse. Rent was due on the apartment and the phone refused to ring.

We were hanging around the counter when a friend of ours walked up. His name was Scott Baerenwald and he played for a band called REDDY TEDDY, one of the local contenders. He asked us what was up and we told him that we didn’t have a place to work. He told us that his brother was the assistant manager at a place called the Fenway Theater, which was basically right down the street. It sounded far fetched, but Brad and I decided to call the other guys and head over there.

“Just ask for Swine” he said.

“Swine?” I wanted to make sure I had that right. No sense in calling somebody a pig because you didn’t hear their name right.

We all converged at the Fenway a little while later. It’s just a small place, about 1,500 seats but it had a big stage and a balcony and everything told us it was the kind of place we wanted to play in."

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