Aerosmith Rockin' The Joint CD

This dualdisc includes a CD side with 11 tracks, and a DVD side with 4 live performances, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the band, and the entire album in Enhanced PCM Stereo.

This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
Aerosmith: Steven Tyler (vocals); Joe Perry , Brad Whitford (guitar, background vocals); Tom Hamilton (electric bass, background vocals); Joey Kramer (drums).
Additional personnel: Russ Irwin (keyboards).
A year after the 2004 live DVD You Gotta Move, Aerosmith unleashes another live release with Rockin' the Joint. This 11-track album was recorded live on January 11, 2002 at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino as the quintet was pushing their 2001 album Just Push Play. The band offers perfunctory treatments of two tunes from that album -- the crawling opener "Beyond Beautiful" and the vaguely psychedelic "Light Inside" -- and they not only halt momentum here, their careful, market-tested nature doesn't sit well in a set that otherwise draws very heavily from the group's classic '70s work (with the notable exception of "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," which sounds even more turgid in a live setting, sandwiched between "Draw the Line" and "Big Ten Inch Record," than it does in the studio). Since this set list does largely date from the mid-'70s, it's easy to hope that this is a stripped-down, lean, mean live record, but setting makes a big, big difference, and the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel isn't some dingy club, or even a good-sized hall. It's a place for slick, flashy, professional entertainment, and Aerosmith delivers accordingly, turning in a polished yet energetic performance that's just this side of pat schtick. Certainly, the band sounds good, arguably tighter than they ever have, but this comes close to sounding like an Aerosmith revue instead of an Aerosmith concert. And while that doesn't make for a bad listen -- apart from the newer songs, the material is all good and the band performs them like the seasoned veterans they are -- it never makes for a compelling one, either. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Captured in 2002 at a rare club appearance in Las Vegas, ROCKIN' THE JOINT presents a live set that in large part pays homage to Aerosmith's early days. In support of the full-length JUST PUSH PLAY, the swaggering Bostonians break in new cuts "Beyond Beautiful" and "Light Inside"--both fitting neatly into the band's canon. Concert staple "Same Old Song And Dance" features a fine midsection vamp, followed by gleaming renditions of "No More No More" and the moody "Seasons Of Wither." "Draw The Line" spotlights Joe Perry's bluesy slide work while the requisite (if not sappy) power ballad "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" is handmade for a swaying crowd of late-to-the-party fans.
The 'smiths then dust off Bull Moose Jackson's risque boogie "Big Ten Inch Record," pushing into an extended jam of "Rattlesnake Shake." This fevered version of the Peter Green-penned classic is profoundly apropos; seeing The Jam Band (featuring future Aerosmith cohorts Tom Hamilton and Joe Perry) play it in 1970 gave Steven Tyler the itch to drop everything and follow his rock-star dreams.

Mojo (Publisher) (p.130) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "On cult favourites like 'No More No More' and the drowsy 'Seasons of Wither,' Aerosmith still sound like one of the world's greatest rock bands."