Again smooth transition and you’d never know itwas the same show. Then with a few firework type explosions they go in to “Toys in the Attic” which is from a show in Boston, MA on March 28, 1979. It is a great transition and always a fun song as it gets low down & dirty. What is great is how the guitars sound as they are rough around the edges with even a little feedback and the solo is killer as they end it go right into “Lord of the Thighs” with a Whitford intro and then his turn to shine on the guitar. The band comes in singing “Sweet Emotion” and then we are off to the races. The talk box noises come first with the bass thumping away. They bleed the crowd sound straight in to the next track and you don’t realize it is from two different shows. The next two tracks, “Sweet Emotion” and “Lord of the Thighs” are both from Chicago, IL show on March 23, 1978. The rawness is evident and you start to feel like you are the show. The guitar work is great and Joey’s drums pound away and keep the boys on time which is probably a hard thing to do. Tom Hamilton’s bass is pretty high in the mix and stands out. The song is left untouched and you hear all the little mistakes and the roughness in Tyler’s vocals. The album kicks off with “Back in the Saddle” from the Indianapolis, IN show on July 4th, 1977. The album includes the same ol’ crew of Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer but that would soon come to an end…more on that with the next review.Īnd what does the album sound like? Well, let’s walk through it and find out. They also threw in 2 songs from a radio broadcast from 1973 and those songs are obvious as they don’t sound anything like the other tracks and it does disrupt the live feel they established over the rest of the album, but we will get to that later. The band pieced together songs from numerous shows over 19. I love the authenticity they were shooting for on this record. And to go even further with the bootleg theme, they recorded a couple songs on to a cassette and used that version so you get a slight hiss like a cassette usually has.
They were meticulous to make it look like a real bootleg. One great thing about bootlegs are they are usually riddle with mistakes so the band purposely left the song “Draw the Line” off the setlist although it is really after the song “Mother Popcorn”. You have coffee rings on the back cover and everything looks stamped and very unprofessional. They even took it a step further and made the album cover look cheap and dirty like a real bootleg album would look. Luckily for us, the band won out and we got a rough and raw record that was more representative of how the band really sounds live. I believe the record company wanted a clean, studio overdubbed album like every other band was doing at the time, but the band wanted it to sound real and raw. The record company and management felt the band needed a break so they decided to put out a live album. The drug use was rampant as Tyler and Perry became known as the “Toxic Twins” if that gives you any indication of the toxicity of their drug use and relationship. The band had been recording / touring and recording / touring non-stop for years now and it was taking its toll.
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