AEROSMITH Bassist TOM HAMILTON Looks Back On Toys In The Attic - "That One Was Really A Moment Of Inspiration For Us"

July 3, 2015, 8 years ago

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AEROSMITH Bassist TOM HAMILTON Looks Back On Toys In The Attic - "That One Was Really A Moment Of Inspiration For Us"

Greg Prato recently spoke with Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton for the Long Island Pulse. They discussed the 40th Anniversary of the band's classic Toys In The Attic record. An excerpt is available below:

Long Island Pulse: Forty years later, how do you view Toys in the Attic?

Tom Hamilton: "That one was really a moment of inspiration for us. Our second album, Get Your Wings, we were under a lot of pressure from the label because they weren’t happy with how our first album (Aerosmith) did. So we got to that project and made a better album. When it came time to do Toys in the Attic, I think we all really wanted to step up and make a statement. The band was really getting good and our producer, Jack Douglas, was someone that we had a lot of faith in—he was becoming a great producer. Everybody just really wanted to go and kick ass. If you look at the changes between Get Your Wings and Toys in the Attic, you can see how much better we were at making records and writing songs."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

North American syndicated rock radio show and website, InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands, recently dusted off Toys In The Attic as well...

The perception that Aerosmith had broke with “Dream On” off their debut album is not entirely accurate.  As drummer Joey Kramer recalls to InTheStudio host Redbeard, “The first album really didn’t go anywhere until “Dream On” was released (as a single) three or four times. “Dream On” was a single when this record (Toys InThe Attic) hit.”

It was the third release of “Dream On” as a single, after the release of their second album Get Your Wings, that lit the fuse for Aerosmith’s breakout album Toys In The Attic.  What followed was an monster album selling over 8 million copies and producing the timeless classics “Walk this Way” and “Sweet Emotion”, not to mention the first anti-child abuse song “Uncle Salty”, the circular contagion of “No More, No More”, a swingin’ cover of Bullmoose Jackson’s bawdy, “Big Ten Inch” and the riff rock title track “Toys In The Attic”.

Steven Tyler, Joey Kramer and Brad Whitford take us back to this critical moment in history where Aerosmith began their rise as America’s greatest hard rock band. Tune in at this location.



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