Would the world be better or worse with no Aerosmith

I say better.

I've heard "Love in an Elevator" four times this week, thanks to my cubemate's choice of radio station, and I've just about had enough.

For fans of Arwen, let's posit that Mr. Tyler would have spawned her without the band's existence.

from the 70's.

My first concert (Golden Earring opened).

I'm old enough to remember when they existed...

Not much, if you ask me.

"worse without" for sure. Then they recorded "Angel," they took a lot of flak for that power ballad. I remeber Joe Perry getting a little defensive and saying "What about 'Dream On'?"

That made me pause to wonder....okay Joe if that's what you want, Dream On sucks too. Then they did a couple year stint doing soundtrack work for Alicia Silverstone videos :puke: Here's a related question--what the hell has she done recently?

I have respect for Aerosmith, they are a really good band,(a friend of mine in the recording industry saw a show where the monitors went out immediately, but Aerosmith just sucked it up and put on a really good show. Most of the crowd was none the wiser) but the majority of their catalog leaves me very, very cold.

"Get Your Wings". Aerosmith was one of the first shows I went to in my early teens and I thought it was one of the best things I had ever witnessed. Despite them "jumping the shark" for me I would never say the world would be a better place without them. that is a bit harsh. I like steve tyler's voice, i just don't like the songs they make anymore.

What a vacuous, self-indulgent, meaningless peace of crap that band is.

And, for the record, I'm a professional music critic, so my opinion matters more than yours :evilgrin:

Why do music critics love such god-awful worthless college/garage bullshit music like G-Love and Special Sauce or the Replacements? (To name only a few the endless supply0

And singer songwriters, let's face it--we've had enough of those. Anybody singing about life, love, and hard times, newsflash--that territory has been well covered. ;)

Could you go ahead and put the word out for me? Thanx! :evilgrin:

As for the bands you mention, I'm abivalent about G Love. I don't think its anything groundbreaking, of course, but he puts on a pretty good live show.

As far as singer/songwriters, Bob Dylan is the greatest thing the world has ever seen. Ever. Ever ever. But, yeah, it's kinda been done now.

That's the problem with modern rock. It's all been done. And the stuff that hasn't been done, probably hasn't been done for a reason. Like, for example, it's crap.

Pittsburgh apparently can't get enough of Tyler's piping.

It's not even a bad cover, but I likewise here it a dozen times each week.

Too much, I say.