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'One of the last great rock 'n' roll bands left'
from: theprovince.com
by Stuart Derdeyn, The Province
CONCERT REVIEW
AEROSMITH
Where: Rogers Arena
When: Thursday night
Grade: A
The riff. It's what real rock 'n' roll is all about.
At least the black leather-and-jeans, American variety produced by Aerosmith and JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS. It ain't deep, arty or even that angst-ridden. It's got a good beat and you can you-know-what to it.
A Jett classic such as "Do You Wanna Touch Me?" sends the underlying message of the music slamming home.
Actually, the perpetually-Sunset-Strip-circa-'75 rocker did nothing but slam from the opening chords of "Bad Reputation" to a cover of The Sweet's "AC/DC" that ruled.
Given the presence of the BLACKHEARTS, it was a throwback to CBGB's heyday. The guitarist looks like Sid Vicious, the bassist like the Dead Boys' Johnny Blitz, a Billy Idol-like drummer and Paul Schaefer on keyboards. Huh?
Having already destroyed the PNE in August, we've been treated to a lot of JOAN JETT this summer.
Keep it coming.
Jett still sets a standard for any up-and-coming act to strive for: all nuts-and-bolts grinding glam. No more macho star swagger took place on stage at Rogers Arena last night than what the diminutive one-time Runaway thrashed out. It was her last night of touring cross Canada with Aerosmith and she thanked "one of the last great rock 'n' roll bands left out there."
A great rock 'n' roll band hat has certainly had its ups and major downs.
When Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12" came on over the PA, the "everybody must get stoned" verse had more than a little irony given the past history of the "Toxic Twins". Steven Tyler and Joe Perry know a thing or two about drugs.
Along with the insanely underrated rhythm section of drummer Joey Kramer and bassist Tom Hamilton and second guitarist Brad Whitford, the quintet knows one helluva lot about writing dirty hooks and delivering them with every rock-star pose and look in the book.
Opening with "Same Old Song and Dance" right into "Train Kept a Rollin'," the hits just kept coming.
It didn't seem like all love, all the time, though.
Tyler was preening like a drag queen and looked and sounded amazing. But he got some downright scowls from Perry on occasion and grins and head shakes from Hamilton and Whitford -- like, 'Dude, you're so annoying sometimes."
He does steal all the attention. But the band is chugging along so hard behind to make him look that good.
Yup, Aerosmith is indeed one of the greats. And if this is the last go-round, the group appears to determined to go out on the good foot.
From the setlist -- gloriously free of too many of the power ballads and doing new things with them when they did turn up ( "F. I.N.E.") -- to including some very local comments about recording the comeback Permanent Vacation at Little Mountain Studios, it was exactly what Dr. Rock ordered for the fans: A night out with the bad boys of Boston playing like they really meant it.
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