Here is what members of Aerosmith had to say about some of their songs.

These were chosen at random from the book included in the Pandoras Box set.

Joe Perry, Mama Kin   "This was one that Steven brought with him from before Aerosmith. Steven obviously loved that one-I mean, he did have it tattooed on his arm. But when I first heard it I was afraid that the chords were to simple. But inevitably the best ones are the easy ones."
Tom Hamilton, Sweet Emotion   "This one came at the end of Toys In The Attic sessions. I had my part, but I was too shy to say, hey, lets work on it. But somehow we had an extra day at the end, and Jack said, 'Anyone have anything we can jam on?' And so this one made it in at the last minute. I remember showing Steven this riff a couple of times during the Get Your Wings sessions and he just didn't like it. My immediate reaction was just to forget it. But one day we started the riff at a different point, and it shed a whole new light on it. But nothing happened with it till the next album, Toys In The Attic. The rest is history. It's still a song I'm very proud of."
Steven Tyler, Dream On   "For me this song sums up the shit you put up with when you're in a new band. Only one in fifty people who write about you pick up on the music. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. And I think Dream On is a great song, but it was two or three years before people really got a chance to hear it. That's a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. Dream On came of me playing piano when I was about seventeen or eighteen, and I didn't know anything about writing a song. It was just this little. . .sonnet that I started playing one day. I never thought it would end up being a real song or anything."
Joey Kramer, Major Barbara   "I always thought this song was velvety smooth."
Brad Whitford,Three Mile Smile   "Both Jimmy and I recorded solos for this song. Steven liked Jimmy's better and his is the one on that you hear on the record, and I'm still pissed about that."
Joe Perry, Back in the Saddle   "To me this is the kind of riff and instrumentation that falls outside the normal formula of a rock song. I wrote it on a string string bass. It was on eof those songs that really opened things up for us."
Tom Hamilton, Last Child   "I remember putting it together in the Wherehouse. If was a big room with a high ceiling. We hung up all these drapes. We were basically like a bunch of kids building forts."
Steven Tyler, Last Child   "I always loved this one. Just a little ditty that Brad brought in that became a hit."

 

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