Aerosmith / Aerosmith (US, Columbia, KC 32005) <January 5, 1973>

Aerosmith / Aerosmith (US, Columbia, KC 32005) <January 5, 1973>
(SIDE 1) P AL 32005-2L
(SIDE 1) P BL-32005-2C

エアロは80年代半ばからは別のバンドのようになってしまいましたが（それはそれで好きですけど）、やはり骨太ゴリゴリの70年代、アメリカン・ハード・ロック・バンド時代が好きです。1作目、3作目、4作目あたりはめちゃめちゃ聴き込みました。このファーストも、本当にいいですよね～。

この盤は有名な"Walkin' the Dig"とミスプリントされたファースト・プレスのプロモ盤です。この盤のプロモには白ラベルがありません。にしても、マトがこれで本当に「ファースト・プレス」なのか・・・多少疑問に感じます(この盤のプロモはコレしか持っていないので検証が出来ません)。

"Aerosmith" is the eponymous debut studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on January 5, 1973 by Columbia Records.The song "Walkin' the Dog" is a cover of a song originally performed by Rufus Thomas. The single "Dream On" became an American top ten single when re-released in 1976; it had first been released as a single in 1973. The album peaked at number 21 on the US Billboard 200 Chart in 1976.

On the original cover, the song "Walkin' the Dog" was misprinted as "Walkin' the Dig". When a second pressing of the album was released in 1976, this error was corrected and the cover replaced with a modified one made up entirely of the photo of the band members. This second pressing is the more commonly available version of the LP.

"Make It" - "I wrote 'Make It' in a car driving from New Hampshire to Boston. There's that hill you come to and see the skyline of Boston, and I was sitting in the backseat thinking, What would be the greatest thing to sing for an audience if we were opening up for the...Stones? What would the lyrics say?"

"Somebody" - "'Somebody' grew out of a lick that our roadie Steve Emsback used to play on his guitar during the days of William Proud. I grabbed it and wrote the lyrics."

"Dream On" - "The music for 'Dream On' was originally written on a Steinway upright piano in the living room of Trow-Rico Lodge in Sunapee, maybe four years before Aerosmith even started. I was seventeen or eighteen...It was just this little thing I was playing, and I never dreamed it would end up as a real song or anything...It's about dreaming until your dreams come true."

"One Way Street" - "'One Way Street' was written on piano at 1325 [the street number of the house where the band lived], with rhythm and the harp coming from 'Midnight Rambler.'"

"Mama Kin" - "One day I grabbed this old guitar Joey Kramer found in the garbage on Beacon Street, an acoustic with no strings. It had snow on it and was so warped you could shoot arrows with it. I wedged it between the door and let it dry for a week. I looked at it for about two days, put four strings on it, which was all it would take because it was so warped...I stole the opening lick from an old Blodwyn Pig song."

"Write Me a Letter" - "'Write Me' was originally 'Bite Me,' something we'd been working on for five or six months starting in the Bruins' dressing room at the Boston Garden, but it just didn't make it. Then one day I said, 'Fuck this,' said something to Joey, who started playing like a can-can rhythm thing, and suddenly there it was."

"Movin' Out" - "'Movin' Out' was the first song I wrote with Joe, the first experience of coming up with something and saying, 'See? I can do it.'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0nW8CWnaGg