Aerosmith - Classics Live CD

 Just a note
Tiny Bradshaw did Train Kept a Rollin' first in 1951, before Johnny Burnette did it in '56. Personally, I like the latter better and it sounds closer to what Aerosmith recorded on this album. Good album for any Aerosmith fan to have in their collection.
Submitted by folie (Ravenna, MI)
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 CLASSICS LIVE IS GOOD
On this live set,you get such greats as THE TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN,KINGS AND QUEENS,SWEET EMOTION,DREAM ON,MAMA KIN and LORD OF THE THIGHS. The two other songs are THREE MILE SMILE/REEfeR HEAD WOMAN which is from a previous studio album track,and MAJOR BARBRA which is a studio outtake,which both tracks are jus so so in my opinion.
Submitted by Joel (Miami Fla.)
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 Great album -- Train is a Johnny Burnette track
Excellent album. Picked tracks off of iTunes. > pays tribute to its influences with a version of the Yardbirds' "Train Kept a Rollin'" Well, there's a killer Johnny Burnette track that the Yardbirds were covering. That Burnette track rocks.
Submitted by mickey (Disneyland, CA)
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 Shambolic and mostly not Perry but a fun rock record
Aerosmith is one of those bands people love and also love to complain about. I've been a fan since the late 70s and while nothing will ever beat Toys and Rocks for "classic" status, the truth is that other records (like Draw The Line and Ruts) are, song for song, just about as good. Similarly Mirrors is as good or better than much of the other Geffen-era stuff...and Rock in A Hard Place is half great and half awful, which is not the same as all awful in my book. The first of the two Classics Live albums was put out by Columbia to cash in the growing Aero-revival circa 1986. While it's true there are repeats of much of Live Bootleg here songwise, the versions are completely different -- and in fact are mostly from an '84 show with Crespo and Dufay in for Perry and Whitford (as on parts of Ruts and all of Rock, as well). The sound is good and for the most part the performances are somewhere between exciting and interesting even when Tyler flubs the lyrics to his own best song Dream On. Wings session leftover Major Barbra isn't half bad either. For the long-time (or first-era) 'smith fan, at the bargain price, this is a nice album. Classics II, which was hand-picked by the band and features Perry and Whitford on all tracks, might be a better choice for the Perry cultists. My own view is that except for the more saccharine Diane Warren era stuff almost all of Aerosmith's recorded output has some charm, including the overrated 9 Lives and the underrated Just Push Play. For those who like down n' dirty rock and roll, and already have most of the Aerosmith 70s classics, this is a great disc. For those only familiar with Pump til now, it will sound like a train wreck. But that train wrecked...and kept a rollin' all night long...
Submitted by Andrew (CT, USA)
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