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Quando si sta' per dare in pasto ad un qualsiasi lettore un disco live degli anni '70 la prima cosa da fare è allacciarsi le cinture e prepararsi ad un viaggio nel cuore dell'essenza dei live; perchè è proprio nei '70 che i concerti diventano riunioni di massa di gente che vuole solamente sentire della fottuta musica senza guardare troppo alla qualità dei suoni.
E così diventano grandi band come The Rolling Stones, The Who, Faces, e nella seconda metà dei settanta una band americana che con un rock con influenze blues e hard da' il meglio dal vivo che su disco, forse.....
L'Aerosmith in questo live macina i suoi più grandi successi passando dal rock-blues (Chip away the stone, Come together, I ain't got you, Train kept rollin', ecc.), all'hard rock (Back in the saddle, Walk this way, Mama kin, ecc ), ad un classic rock molto piacevole (Dream on, Toys in the attic, ecc.).
La band è veramente affiatata, difficilmente finisce un pezzo senza che ne sia attaccato subito un altro; Tyler manda in delirio il pubblico con la sua voce sexy, Perry violenta la chitarra con soli prepotenti e riff aggressivi, Whitford è un buon ritmico, e anche un buon solista a sentire l'assolo di I ain't got you, la sezione ritmica sostiene il tutto perfettamente.
L'unico punto debole del disco è forse l'atmosfera eccessivamente coincitata ed affiatata, e con attenzione è possibile percepire lo stato di tensione che si respirava all'interno della band, forse le prime incrinature che di lì a due anni avrebbero fatto crollare, almeno per un po', questa grande macchina del rock.
Questo è l'Aerosmith quando ancora volava molto, molto in alto.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Back in the Saddle (04:27)
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
Ridin' into town alone by the light of the moon
I'm lookin' for old Sukie Jones she crazy horse saloon
Barkeep gimme a drink that's when she caught my eye
She turned to give me a wink that make a grown man cry
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
Come easy, go easy, all right till the rising sun
I'm calling all the shots tonight I'm like a loaded gun
Peelin' off my boots and chaps I'm saddle sore
Four bits gets you time in the racks I scream for more
Fools' gold out of their mines the girls are soaking wet
No tongue's drier than mine I'll come when I get back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm ridin', I'm loadin' up my pistol
I'm ridin', I really got a fistful
I'm ridin', I'm shinin' up my saddle
I'm ridin', this snake is gonna rattle
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
Ridin' high
Ridin' high
Ridin' high
Already
02 Sweet Emotion (04:40)
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
You talk about things and nobody cares
You're wearing other things that nobody wears
You're calling my name but I gotta make it clear
I can't say baby where I'll be in a year
Some sweat hod mama with a face like a gent
Said, "My 'get up and go' must have got up and went"
Well I got good news, she's a real good liar
'Cause the backstage boogie set your pants on fire
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You tellin' me things but your girlfriend lied
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died
Yes it did
You stand in the front just a-shakin' your ass
I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass
I talk about something you can sure understand
'Cause a month on the road and I'll be eatin' from your hand
03 Lord of the Thighs (07:17)
down to who knows who, just to socialize
I'm waiting for my girls, when you caught my eyes
you got no way to make a man
honey you got to understand
I'm your man, child, lord of the thighs!
well, well, lordy my God, what do we got here
she's flashin' 'cross the floor, make it perfectly clear
you're the bait and you're the hook
someone bound to take a look
I'm your man, child, lord of the thighs!
you must've come here to find it
you've got the look in your eyes
although you really don't mind it
I am the lord of your thighs!
04 Toys in the Attic (03:54)
In the attic, lights
Voices scream, nothing seems
Real's a dream
Leaving the things that are real behind
Leaving the things that you love from mind
All of the things that you learned from fears
Nothing is left for the years, voices scream
Nothing seems real's a dream
Toys toys toys in the attic
Toys toys toys in the attic
Toys toys toys in the attic
Toys toys toys
In the attic, lights
Voices scream, nothing seems
Real's a dream
Leaving the things that are real behind
Leaving the things that you love from mind
All of the things that you learned from fears
Nothing is left for the years, voices scream
Nothing seems real's a dream
Toys toys toys in the attic
Toys toys toys in the attic
Toys toys toys in the attic........
05 Last Child (03:15)
I'm dreaming tonight, I'm living back home.
Right!
Take me back to a south Tallahassee.
Down cross the bridge to my sweet sassafras-y.
Can't stand up on my feet in the city.
Gotta get back to the real nitty gritty.
Yes, sir. No, sir.
Don't come close to my
home, sweet home.
Can't catch no dose
of my hot tail poontang sweetheart.
Sweathog ready to make a silk purse
from a J. Paul Getty and his ear
with her face in her beer.
Home, sweet home.
Get out in the field;
put the mule in the stable.
Ma', she's a cookin',
put the eats on the table.
Hate's in the city
and my love's in the meadow.
Hands on the plow
and my feet in the ghetto.
Stand up, sit down.
Don't do nothing,
It ain't no good when the boss-man
stuffin' down their throats
for paper notes
and their babies cry
while cities lie at their feet
when you're rockin' the street.
Home, sweet home.
Mama, take me home, sweet home.
I was the last child.
I'm just a punk in the street.
06 Come Together (04:51)
Here come old flat top
He come groovin' up slowly
He got Joo Joo eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker He just do what he please
He wear no shoeshine
He got Toe Jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together
Right now
Over me
He bad production
He got walrus gumboots
He got ono sideboard
He one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together
Right now
Over me
He roller coaster
He got early warning
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say one and one and one is three
Got to be good lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together
Right now
Over me
07 Walk This Way (03:47)
Well there's a backseat lover who's always undercover
and I talked to my Dad he say
He said "You ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin
Then you're sure to be a changin' your ways"
I met a cheerleader
Was a real young bleeder
All the times I could reminisce
'Cause the best things in lovin' with her sister and her cousin
Only started with a little kiss like this!
Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
And your feet flyin' up in the air
I sing "Hey diddle diddle"
Put your kitty in the middle of the swing
Like you didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Wasn't me she was foolin'
'Cause she knew what she was doin'
And I knowed love was here to stay
When she told me to...
CHORUS
walk this way, talk this way, walk this way
talk this way,
Uh, just gimme a kiss!
Like this.
School girl sweetie with a classy kinda sassy
Little skirt's climbin' way up her knee,
There was three young ladies in the school gym locker
When I noticed they was lookin' at me.
I was a high school loser, never made it with the ladies
Till the boys told me somethin' I missed,
Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor
So I gave her just a little kiss a like this
Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
And your feet flyin' up in the air,
I sing "Hey diddle diddle"
Put your kitty in the middle of the swing
Like you didn't care.
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play,
Wasn't me she was foolin'
'Cause she knew what she was doin'
When she told me how to walk this way.
She told me to
CHORUS
09 Dream On (04:31)
Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines in my face gettin' clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay, yeah
I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life's in books' written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things
Come back to you
Sing with me
Sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me
If it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away
Sing with me
Sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me
If it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream yourself a dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dreams come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on, dream on, ahh
Sing with me
Sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me
If it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord can take you away
Sing with me
Sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me
If it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord can take you away
10 Chip Away the Stone (04:15)
you act like a prima donna
playing so hard to get
sittin' so cool and nonchalant
draggin' on a cigarette
you keep a wall all around ya
'n I'll get through some day
'n I want your love babe, if push comes to shove
gonna chip that wall away
chip away
chip away the stone
I won't stop 'til your love is my very own
chip away
that's what I'm gonna do
sweet little mama I wanna get next to you
you stand like a marble statue
trying to look so hard
all decked out in your antique dress
while the boys all promenade
even a rock will crumble
if you strike it night and day
if hammer I must, I'm gonna get through your crust
gonna chip that stone away
chip it, I'm gonna nip it, all night long
11 Sight for Sore Eyes (03:15)
Goin' downtown goin' down goin' down
'Neath the city eatin' ground round
Underground is pretty gritty
I turned the screw she held the light
That's when I knew she was a
Sight for sore eyes
She was a sight for sore eyes
She was a sight for sore eyes
She was a sight for sore eyes
Playin' no fair sleepin' under stairs
Downtown's a pity takin' fair square
Never where it's pretty gritty
I turned the screw she held the knife
Oh holy Jesus
She's a sight for sore eyes
(Oh she's a nitty nitty nitty)
You a sight for sore eyes
(Oh... she's a nitty gritty)
Turnin' in style
Walk a mile for your titty
Naked foul while under there
Underwear that's pretty gritty
Hey... don't you know people
She's a love lust hussy
She left oh she rust me
Dear old girl
She was a sight for sore eyes but she was sittin' pretty
Sight for sore eyes she was a nitty gritty
Sight for sore eyes
Sight for sore eyes
Peeled back and parted
Even in the car
It was delight or demise
I'm livin' like a leopard king
Sight for sore eyes
She was a sight for sore eyes
Sight for sore eyes (12x)
12 Mama Kin (03:43)
It ain't easy, livin' like a gypsy
Tell ya, honey, how I feel
I've been dreaming
Floatin' down stream and
Losin' touch with all that is real
Whole earth lover, keepin' under cover
Never knowin' where ya been
You've been fadin', always out paradin'
Keepin' touch with Mama kin
Well you've always got your tail on the wag
Shootin' fire from your mouth just like a dragon
You act like a perpertual drag
You better check it out
Cause someday soon you'll have to climb back on the wagon
It ain't easy, livin' like you wanna
And it's so hard to find piece of mind
Yes it is
The way I see it, you've got to say shit
But don't forget to drop me a line
Said you're as bald as an egg at eighteen
And workin' for you dad is just a drag
He still stuffs your mouth with your dreams
You better check it out
Cause someday soon you'll have to climb back on the wagon
Chorus:
Keepin' touch with Mama kin
Tell her where you've gone and been
Livin' out your fantasy,
Sleeping late and smoking tea
Chorus
It ain't easy, livin' like ya wanna
And it's so hard to find piece of mind
Yes it is
The way I see it, you've got to say shit
But don't forget to drop me a line
Said you're as bald as an egg at eighteen
And workin' for you dad is just a drag
He still stuffs your mouth with your dreams
You better check it out
Cause someday soon you'll have to climb back on the wagon
Chorus
Chorus
13 S.O.S. (Too Bad) (02:50)
Stagecoach lady hourglass body
Makin' things glow in the night
Well she would if she could
And she'd be good if she would
Only be a lover she'd be out tonight
'Cause I'm a bad a lonely school-boy and I'm a rat
And it's too bad can't get me none of that
Salt Lake City salt lickin' biddies bogus honey stinkin' a gin
Well my daddy was hard his face was pretty scarred from kickin' ass
And playin' poker to win
'Cause I'm a bad lonely school-boy and I'm a rat
And it's too bad can't get me none of that
It's too bad
And it's too bad can't get me none of that
Loose old lady my mama Katie chivalry was born at her feet
Well she shoulda' thought twice when pa showed his dice
At night she put my daddy to sleep
'Cause I'm a bad a lonely school-boy and I'm a rat
And it's too bad can't get me none of that
It's too bad Lord it's too bad
I said it's too bad Lord it's too bad... yea
I said it's too bad it's too bad
You know it's too bad... aaahh it's too bad
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