Violent blues rock from above: "Get a grip" by Aerosmith

It's been many years since rock music was still important and extremely relevant. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

30 years later, we need to hear Aerosmith's "Get A Grip" to get an idea...

The aeronauts circle around self-confidently and without regard to current trends. The twelfth album is also the heaviest album of their career to date. Violent blues rock accompanies lyrics in which Stephen Tyler repeatedly addresses the social injustices in the USA. For example, in “Eat The Rich” the complacent upper class is attacked.

Because Tyler loves exaggeration and his band also has an aura of provocation surrounding them. Then they got the reaction of angry animal rights activists to the album cover (a black and white... - the cow with an earring on its udder) just right. But all the outrage was in vain because the photo was taken as a photomontage.

On the other hand, everything about the sound of the old Willds is real. Songs like “Flesh” and “Shut Up And Dance” prove that Aerosmith still relies on honest craftsmanship: powerfully grooving rhythms from drums and bass, sharp blues licks from the guitar and – of course – Tyler’s loud-mouthed vocals. But despite all the harshness, the mature tyrants from Boston don't let their hearts be corrupted. Sustained mid-tempo numbers ensure this. Songs like “Crazy” always guarantee the necessary emotional balance in the context of loud guitars.