Anybody heard the new Luftschmidt?

[uwe]

"Aerosmith" in your language. I just heard the first eight tracks in the car - I've got the extended version so there is still some way to go - and, man, their Beatles influence is really coming to the fore, more so than it already has consistently since the reunion. I wonder whether that is an aging rock star thing, going back to your earliest influences in the autumn/winter of your album output.

It sounds nice. Jack Douglas has not so much given it an "in your face" production, but a layered one. Soft focus lense so to say. And, no, it is not "Music from another Dimension", but a mix of seventies Aerosmith as the Americanized Yardbirds, eighties and nineties Aerosmith as the AOR and ballad phenomenon plus that Beatles and sometimes Tom Petty thing. Much like that other band named after a city, Chicago, who carefully walk the line on their more recent releases between horn rock and AOR ballads, Aerosmith tries to serve everybody on this release which makes for varied listening at least, I can listen to a Tyler AOR ballad once in a while as long as it is not a whole CD. Speaking of Tyler: His American Idol holiday seems to have had a healthy (though counter-intuitive) influence on him, he doesn't oversing on the tracks nor go for the really high stuff much. Which is fine in my book because I really like Tyler's voice in its lower range without too much garnish, it's a very pleasantly American sound to me.

Bass info: Hamilton has written two tracks by himself and co-written a few more. And as usual plays some nicely melodic runs. The aggressive Stingray jar of the seventies is long gone though, but it wouldn't fit on this velvety production anyway.

[uwe]

Let's see ... if I carefully type

"Ritchie Blackmore"
or

"gun control"

here, will this elicit a reaction?

[Pilgrim]

Let's see ... if I carefully type

"Ritchie Blackmore"
or

"gun control"

here, will this elicit a reaction?

Hmmm.  Any emoticons handy for rampant hysteria?

I'll see you and raise you Dick Dale.



(Funny that it doesn't show up in a window...)
Maybe that will also generate comments....

[Granny Gremlin]

What a ridiculous album title.

In some spots I wouldn't call that Beatles influence so much as Beatles rip off. .... And apparently Tyler was singing in falsetto this whole, what, 30 years? ... or has he just finally tried relaxed fit jeans for the first time?

The only thing worse is the new David Bowie single.

.... I don't like that I am sounding as curmudgeonny as Dave right here.

[Highlander]

I saw Aerosmith the once... it was the Rocks tour... I was a lot younger then... hmm... so were they...

[uwe]

I saw them twice, once great and inspired around Get a Grip, once totally knackered at the Monsters of Rock where they were still pro, but exhausted. I have a soft spot for them.

Bowie has a new single, I thought he had gone in angsty retirement. Where is it?

Jake, now that you are back in the fold, can we discuss the inherent qualities of Nickelebag more often again? I'm the only guy who ever defends them here.

[Highlander]

Not alone... I have nobly assisted in defending their blatantly sexist bland blend of rocky metal...

Aerosmith (original variant mostly) has always been a favourite with me...