... and not a
little bit calmer, older and whatsoever..... God has given his blessing
and young spirit most of all to Mr. Steven Tyler, who, aged 59, enjoys
beeing a granddad already, very much. Yeah, okay, apart from a
definate genetic heritance, a lot of physical condition, not a single
gramm overweight and a brilliant facelifting, that's how you could
describe god's gift.
The cut has survived, including an album named 'Honkin On Bobo', which is
a hommage to the musical blues roots. No, it didn't do too well chart wise,
and the question is, whether this piece has really been a dedication or
more or less a inbetweenie filler - same like three Best of albums, one
Live Record and a DVD. To get it straight, Aerosmith did not have a
hitsingle since 2001 and 'Jaded'. To be honest, not much more has
happened meanwhile concerning an increase of general success. But it
doesn't matte. Aerosmith own their cultstatus not only since yesterday.
And strangely that one is even much higher in Europe than in their home
country America. (with the Who, who played here yesterday, it's the other
way round by the way).
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if I remember right,
it's been eight years now, since Aerosmith have appeared live over here in
Munich, where they did a sort of clubgig at our old Babylon in front of
only 1.000 fans. Probably that's why the enthusiasm about the current tour
of Tyler, Perry and Co. is so huge. All concerts are almost sold out.
The support comes from Germany and is named
Edguy. Yes of course we all know them over here. In my case I'm a bit
weary about this lot. I've seen them in the past several times, once in a
bad, - the other time in a good condition. And I really grant them now to
play in front of such a big audiance. Of course they are pretty well known
anyway in the german hardrock scene, and they established themselves with
one song named 'Superheroes'- But now they get a chance to present
themselves to a real big audiance, including at least three generations,
one of them, who could be their dads. 'Superheroes' is on the setlist of
course and also some other wellknown tracks like Catch. Of
The Century’, which is the opener by the way, but also ’Lavatory Love Machine’
und ‘King Of Fools’ just to name a few. And yes, it works, and Little
Toby and his band receive a point at all those Aerosmith fans, although
the aura of beeing a supportslot is not the same lik in a headliner
position.
Well done boys, at least what I have seen from far away, though Edguy's
music is not everybody's taste.
Apart from that, all 12.000 fans are waiting for America's next Top Model,
- sorry, - Steven Tyler and band.
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And
there he is….. with a lot of charme in the sense of glamour and
superstar status. Jes.... and three times halleluja, this guy owns an aura,
that we almost get blind. Big mouth wears Haure Couture of the newest
fashion design a.k.a. Aerosmith. Not missing out on some sunglasses, a
fancy dress and spandex pants. The mild wind develops quickly into a
hurricane. 'Love In An Elevator' is the polposition to a 2 hours
show, which is so perfect, that sometimes it doesn't seem real.
12.000 fans are celebrating
a Rock'n'Roll hymn on the Toxic Twins - Tyler and Perry. There are some
rumours , that the internal relationship between those ultra egos is not
the best one. but here tonight, they put out so much perfection beeing so
professional, that you don't realize a thing. Grandad Steven gives the
tune and everybody is following him. The second egomonster Joe Perry does
almost the same. Both play the first role.
And when Joe Perry pulls
his shirt down and shows his perfect body, every woman's heart jumps up.
(at least he can do this, compared to Steven Tyler who is too skinny and
looks probably better dressed on.)
The set consists of a Greatest hits programm, an acoustic part, when
Tyler/Perry sit on two chairs at the edge of the catwalk. They do a Blues
hommage and from there getting back to the normal Aerosmith context.
Back To Joe Perry, who, like I described before, has taken off his shirt
and now beats up his guitar on the floor. He then storms back the gangway
and let himself fall into the drumkit. And this, my friends is the
most sexy move here on stage tonight.
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For me personally, this man
has a hundred times more sexappeal than Aerosmiths front paradise bird,
thanks to a fresh cell portion and th mentioned before - faclifting.
What's up to Steven Tyler, he still can sing, and he knows how to put
himself in the right limelight.
Let's get it straight. Without Tyler and Perry, the rest of Aerosmith
seems like a pensioners club. This line up is the original from 1970,
which has gathered again after many splits depths and hights in the mid
nineties. And yes, they still do entertain very well as a package.
Evrything goes on and falls down with Steven Tyler, followed by Joe Perry
and the old hits, which still go down well (see setlist) Personally I
prefer the blues hommage with 'Baby Please Don't Go', originally penned by
Big Joe Williams followed by some others. It's grooving like hell.
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We get one long
encore devided in several sequels, which makes the end of a giant
Rock'n'Roll party of american style. Perfectly performed, straight with a
lot of glamour. Exactly like you imagina an Aerosmith gig. Who knows,
maybe that's the last time enjoying there presence live on stage. You
never know.
PS: where did they leave ‚Dude Looks Like A Lady’ tonght ?
some Backstage curiosities you find
here
http://www.aerosmith.com/
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