Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirly You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. We are in the midst of our
comparison of the album Get a Grip with the album
No More Tears. Last episode, we talked about the rise
and fall and ultimate comeback of Aerosmith through the seventies
and eighties and nineties.
Speaker 2: Today we are diving in track by track into Aerosmiths
Get a Grip album. All right, So, Get a Grip
is released April twentieth of nineteen ninety three. There's a
couple of things I want to talk about before we
go through the lineup really quick.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: It ends up going at least seven times platinum. That's
kind of the latest information I have. Sells over ten
million copies, over half of that is outside of the
United States, so it's an international smash.
Speaker 1: Okay, best selling album worldwide, the first album to reach
number one.
Speaker 2: Some tidbits on this album, Okay. On June twenty seventh,
nineteen ninety four, Aerosmith became the first major artist to
release a song as an exclusive digital download. It was
an unreleased track called head First, which was written for
this album didn't make the final cut. But they released it.
Around ten thousand users downloaded the song, even though at
the time you had to use a modem, which means
it took several hours to get it one. So one song,
one song, one song not good enough to make this album.
Speaker 1: The album was named Album of the Year by Metal
Edge magazine reader's choice. Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Seven songs from Get a Grip wound up charting at
least one of Billboard's charts. Okay, so this is their
one of their biggest selling albums, right, maybe their biggest
selling album.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: They came to the record company with an album in
September of nineteen ninety two, YEP, and said, here you go, fellas,
here's our album, and they listened to it. The guy's
name is John Kelviner.
Speaker 1: It's easy for you to say, I know.
Speaker 2: He is a gefen Ar executive. And he listened to
it and he said, he said, this is not good.
Speaker 1: Don't sugarcoat it. Tell me how you really feel.
Speaker 2: He was the guy that like, you got to tell
the band, and so he's like, look, guys, this there's
no radio friendly hits on this. Okay. I've tried to
kind of figure out what songs were on that September
ninety two album. Yeah, I can't find the track listing.
Here's what I do know. Living on the Edge was
not on there, Crying wasn't on there, and Crazy wasn't
on there.
Speaker 1: Those are kind of big ones.
Speaker 2: I mean, those are the heavy hitters from this album.
Speaker 1: I mean it's good to know because if those songs
had been on there and somebody was saying no hits,
then we like, you're fired.
Speaker 2: You're an idiot. Right, So anyway, I found that very interesting.
Their first submission for this album was rejected. Go back
to the drawing board.
Speaker 1: Wow, real quick.
Speaker 2: The album cover generated some controversy. Really, The album cover
had a cow's udder.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait wait, do you know why milking
stools only have three legs? No, because the cow has
the utterer.
Speaker 2: That's a good one, bad joke. So that the album
covers a picture of a cow's utter, there's an Aerosmith
brand on the cow, and then one of the nipples
on the utter is pierced. So the ped of people
went crazy, right, They're like, I mean they were upset, right,
they're abusing this cow and they're like, uh, this was
computer generated. And everybody calmed down, all right, So let's
dive right in. Okay, So you start off with this,
it's really an intro to Eat the Rich. We got kid, it's.
Speaker 3: Half past the Youth.
Speaker 4: They never read the changer, but the dates you will
grand Slamma but no baby.
Speaker 2: But it starts off with this kind of rat right
sling it.
Speaker 4: From the product gate got all asses.
Speaker 2: You've got the right key, baby, but the wrong key.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's a reference to, and I'm
not gonna floor it.
Speaker 2: They do have the riff from Walks this family, and
I think it's their way of saying, get ready, we're
freaking Aerosmith. Here's our album, huh, and we're bringing it.
And it rolls right into Eat the Rich.
Speaker 1: So the music video on this one, the intro song
is a part of the music video for Eat the Rich. Right,
But you've got this awesome introduction where it builds. You
know how I love the build. You've got the guitar riff,
and then you've got the bass that comes in and
joins it. Then you've got the drums and the rhythm
guitar that come in and join them, and it build
builds right up into that yell. This is the perfect
Aerosmith intro.
Speaker 2: He does make that little animalistic I don't know what
that is, but that little screech.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the screaming demon.
Speaker 2: Steven Tyler can do a lot of vocal gymnastics. He's
like Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3: He makes noises and they're interesting to listen to.
Speaker 2: This was their second single. This was released April seventeenth
and ninety three. It only reached number thirty four, so
it wasn't as big a hit as they wanted. It's
a good concert song. They played it in almost all
of their concerts that year, but they had to reevaluate
how they're going to go through this album.
Speaker 1: The video is weird.
Speaker 2: There's like eyeballs and bones and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's wearing animal horns and it's Here's.
Speaker 2: The thing I've never really understood about this song. Yeah,
it's like Aerosmith has taken stand against rich people.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know they were broke because drugs broke them, but
they're pretty rich. I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there have been several bands that have songs with
this name. There's a Motorhead song, but I think this
is without question the most well known of the ether
rich songs.
Speaker 2: Okay, have you ever heard the song Honey Hush by
fog Hats the rip from that song pretty dag Gum
similar to Eat the Rich.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's spot on, without question, spot on.
Speaker 2: Yes, Honey Hush. Go back to our Smoking de Banded
episode where Kleta Snow says that this song was written
by Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, and Jim Balance. Jim is
the guy who wrote Ragdoll from Permanent Vacation.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. This song is a part of Temco's Dead
or Live four video game opening along with Amazing Interesting,
and it was one of the loop songs on Revolution X,
which is Aerosmith's game by Midway Games.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the next song is called get a Grip?
Speaker 1: Okay, and Jim Balance has worked with a ton of people,
but was in a van uber jazz blues rock band
called Sunshine with another band member named Bruce fairbearn.
Speaker 2: Oh nice. Bruce Fairbarn produced Get a Grip.
Speaker 1: Oh There you Go? But we he was in our
previous music.
Speaker 2: Episodes job he did Wed and New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, both of them.
Speaker 2: How about that There you Go?
Speaker 1: That is cool.
Speaker 2: The opening drum on this track to me, every time
I hear it, I think it sounds like a Janet
Jackson song. What have you done for me lately?
Speaker 1: Your Janet Jackson library in your head is much stronger
than mine.
Speaker 2: I will say, Okay, well, there you go. This is
a good song. I like it. The chorus is strong.
I feel like it's a good concert song. It sounds
a little bit like these songs I used to hear,
like when I'd watched Tom and Jerry cartoons and stuff
like Mama's Little Baby Love Short just has that. It
does that sort of southern.
Speaker 5: Yeah and Damn.
Speaker 6: Things don't change. John Jock's Gone.
Speaker 2: It's a good one. I like it. I think this
is like the second tier down. There's a group of
great songs on this album. There's a group of pretty
good songs on this album. I put this into pretty good.
Speaker 6: Kay.
Speaker 2: One more thing about Get a Grip. There's this massive
burp that I always thought was at the end of
Eat the Rich, Right, Yeah, it's technically the beginning of
Get a Grip, all right. So that brings us to
the third song on the album. It's called Fever.
Speaker 1: This is a rock and little song. Yeah, and I
love the harmonica they use the harmonica periodically. I love
the harmonica and their song. Steven Tyler is a fierce
harmonic player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this song sounds a lot like young Lust to me,
which is a song.
Speaker 1: Up a pump, right. This song is talking about how
they've decided to give up drugs for sex basically, and
the line is that buzz you be getting from the
crack don't last. I'd rather be odd on the crack.
Speaker 2: Of her pass poetic, poetic.
Speaker 1: This song, the guitar solo is done by Brad Whitford
instead of joking, Okay, yes, but it's fast. I really
like the rhythm that Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton have
going and Yeah, solid song. I did it.
Speaker 2: This song reached number five on the Mainstream rock charts.
It's one of seven songs to chart on Billboard in
some way or fashion.
Speaker 1: Do you know who has a cover of this song?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I was leading up to this, go
for it. Garth Brooks has a version of this song.
He calls it the Fever He's got a Fever, and
he changes the lyrics a little bit to be more countryfied. Right,
it's the same song, right, Yeah, got a little twang
to it, a little bit of country field, but it's
it's good. Done with that one. Yeah, all right, let's
move on to the really the first heavy hitter on
this album. This song is called Living on the Edge.
Speaker 1: Is something wrong with Them? This is the most biblical song.
Speaker 2: I've heard as biblical.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're doing things in a different way, and God
knows it ain't his.
Speaker 2: They all did what was right in their own eyes,
and God knows it ain't his. Yes, nice, it's showing
no surprise. This song is loosely based on the nineteen
ninety two La Riots.
Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah, So if you can judge a wise
man by the color of his skin, then you must
be a better man than I.
Speaker 2: Sure you're a better man than I. This was their
first single. It was released February twenty third, ninety three.
This won the Grammy in ninety three for the Best
Rock Performance by a Duo or a Group. Pretty impressive. Yeah,
let's talk about the video.
Speaker 1: Okay, The video is all kinds of weird, Yes, all
kinds of weird. You got Steven Tyler Holtman's junk. Half
of them is blacked out.
Speaker 2: He is naked and holding his package.
Speaker 1: Yep, thankfully.
Speaker 2: Yes, Instead of not holding it, that's right.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly he kicks his head back and somebody
jumps out of the naked, dark side of his body.
It's an interesting effect.
Speaker 2: Always, what the heck just happened? I always wonder how
the meetings on these videos. Here's what we're gonna gonna
start with Catholic girls who are rollerblading and hitting cars
with hockey sticks. It's gonna be awesome. And we're gonna
close it out with the kid from T two crashing
his car after joy riding it. It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1: So you want me to be naked painted half black?
Are you out of your mind? Wait a minute? Am
I do? I have a zipper going down the middle
of meat?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: A zipper? Okay, then we're cool. That's fine. It makes
total sense to me now.
Speaker 2: Plus then he has those like weird like Alice Cooper
like things he's got on his eyes, strange, and he's
in it. They're like he and Joe Perry are playing
with treadmills. I watched a Beavis and butt heead clip
as they were commenting on this video, and Steven Tyler
had those dreads and he goes, look, it looks like Vanillih.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's an interesting tidbit about this song.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Steven Tyler has said in his autobiography the four pounding
drum beats in the middle song where it breaks down, Yeah,
that was a drum that he stole from his high
school after he got kicked out of school. Oh, and
so he played the senior palm, took the drum home,
kept him, didn't return it. So he still had that
drum from like nineteen sixty nine or something. That drum
belonged to his former high school. Wow, are we going
to talk about the weird al song associated with this?
It is my family's favorite weird Alse song.
Speaker 1: We can't overlook any opportunity to talk about weird El.
So if there's a good weird Al Yankovic song that
we need to hear, we need to play it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's do it. There's something weird in the
fridge today. I don't know what it is food I
can't recognize. It's so good, really really funny. This is
a video directed by Marty Kouner. Yes, but it does
not have Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 1: In it, right, So, Marty Kalner directed most of the videos,
not all of them, most definitely right right on this album,
and Marty Kalner is one of those extremely prolific video directors.
He has also directed a lot of live concert shows,
including live comedy concerts. But what you may not know
is that he is the creator of the HBO series
Hard Knocks.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 2: That is amazing, the football show. Yes, great song, ten
pole song for the alcome.
Speaker 1: All right, one of my favorites. If you had the
LP at this point, the needle lifts off, comes back
and we flipped the album over. If you happen to
have a vinyl version of get a Grip, hit us up, Twitter, Facebook, whatever,
let us know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that brings us to the next song on
the album.
Speaker 6: It's called Flesh.
Speaker 1: This is one the Desmond Child helped them write.
Speaker 2: So this has a weird intro to it. So then
intro is like one part Sesame Street, one part Electric Company,
one part seventies point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like you're trying to do some kind
of Pink Floyd thing there, and I think it's a swing.
Speaker 6: In a minute.
Speaker 1: I like the song all right, after that intro is over,
But the intro is makes it less appeeling to me.
Speaker 2: It has kind of a rhythmic, choppy feel to it,
and it almost feels like take a chance on me
by Abbo. I don't know why I'm tying to tell them.
Speaker 1: Actually, now that you say it, I can kind I
can kind of see where you're going with that.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's got a couple of suggestive lyrics. Shall we
say a cauldron begs for one more boom?
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I think the high pitch, the high pitched flash when
he's really leaning on that, it sounds a lot like
back in the Saddle again when he's like, yeah, anyway,
all right.
Speaker 1: Next song on the album walk on Down. So is
this a leftover from the Joe Perry Project? Probably yeah,
this one is.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I feel like Joe is like, hey, I want to
put a song on here, and know like, okay, we
got his part in the middle of side to We'll
let you put this in.
Speaker 5: The one.
Speaker 2: You got Joe Perry on lead vocals. Yeah, that's not
why I listen to us, but no, listen to me.
It is an okay song, but I'm probably scared of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one's to take clare for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe sounds as he does in real life. Yeah,
I'm sorry, Joe.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Joe, can't do it. You got a great guitar
hand yep, just not a good vocal.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you had the cassette tape, this is where
you push stop, kick it out, flip it over.
Speaker 1: Eighth song in line is the song shut Up and Dance. Okay.
Speaker 2: This song was released as a single in January of
ninety four in the UK only. Oh, that's probably why
you didn't hear it as much, right, But this was
the song that was played at the end of Wayne's
World two when Wayne and Garth were gathering. You know,
they were making Wayne stock and they're not worthy. They
were trying to get the band, you know, And so
this is the song that Aerosmith shows up the end,
saves the day and plays shut Up and Dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Every time I hear it, I think of Garth doing
his goofy dance.
Speaker 1: Some of the lyrics of this song sex is like
a gun. You aim, you shoot, you run.
Speaker 2: More sex poetic. This song was actually co written by
Tommy Shaw of Styx and Jack Blades of Night Ranger. Right,
those two guys were both in Damn Yankees.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Jack Blades was also a part of another
album that we've talked about. I Feel Good.
Speaker 2: Both Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades were was.
Speaker 1: Tommy Shaw on Doctor Kogoto. Yeah, ohh there you go.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's a good song. Yeah, it's fun, It's okay,
it's Wayne's world.
Speaker 1: It's not my favorite, it's not a hit.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Fortunately, the next song's coming up.
Speaker 2: We're getting into it now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're saving the best for last.
Speaker 2: That brings us to the next song, Crying.
Speaker 1: There was a time. Okay.
Speaker 2: So this song was released June twentieth of ninety three's
the third single peaked at number twelve on the Hot
one hundred. This song was all over the radio that
whole summer.
Speaker 1: This song was written, of course by Stephen Tyler and
Joe Perry, but also co written by Taylor Rhodes, who
has been involved with several other big hits of Aerosmiths.
Speaker 2: Carrie Underwood actually talks about how Crying was one of
the songs that she really enjoyed, sort of credits is
one of her professional touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 1: So are we ready to talk about the video?
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the video.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the video that has the very important
star Stephen dorf.
Speaker 5: Door.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: He actually he's been in some movies. I mean he
did yeah Blade and some other stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I'm just kidding. Of course he's
he's he's got a great bit in this. He plays
the cheating, disinterested boyfriend very well. Yes, But who were
really wanting to talk about this point is miss Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 2: Yes, young actress named Alicia Silverstone, who had been in
the movie The Crush, Yeah, which I hadn't seen.
Speaker 1: Oh I had, and I can say this. I can
say this now. Alicia Silverstone is exactly one year and
one day younger than I am. She was sixteen turning seventeen.
She's young actress and to say that these videos are
sexy is an understatement.
Speaker 2: They attribute this video to the sudden uptick in pier.
Speaker 1: I had to ask my wife because she because she
had when we met, she had a belly button ring.
It's like, what did you get that? And she's like,
I was a I guess it was a junior senior
in high school. And I was like, oh so right
around nineteen.
Speaker 2: Ninety three, uh huh, how about that?
Speaker 1: And I said, was this video part of it? And
she's like no, I said, Okay.
Speaker 6: It may not.
Speaker 2: She may not realize subliminally, maybe it had become a fad.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, she kicks her legs. How exciting it seems
to get a belly button ring. But my gosh, you
sent me a video of her interviewing with John Stewart
on an MTV show. Yes that he's making comments that
I'm just like listen, bro I got a seventeen year
LA's eighteen now, but I've got a little girl at
that age, and i would punch your freaking lights out
if you're talking to my girl like that, he said.
Speaker 2: When she said that, he goes all of a sudden,
I feel like Joey buttafuco if you understood the Joey
buttafuco reference, And you're the right place because we are
listening to eighties and ninety stuff right now. This won
the MTV Music Award for Video of the Year. It
was Your Choice Award and Best Group Video.
Speaker 1: So this was a part of a trilogy of videos
with Alicia Silverstone in them, and in this particular one,
she can't win like She's has boy trouble after boy
Trouble after boy trouble. She's just when you think she
might be like getting the eye of some nice looking
kid and the diner he steals her backpack.
Speaker 2: You know that is right. That's Josh Holloway. That's Sawyer
from Lost.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, okay, Oh my gosh, wow, that's crazy. Yeah,
so Steve Dorf, Josh.
Speaker 2: Halloway, Alicia's Silverstone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good. Setup.
Speaker 2: The song is fantastic, The video is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Fantastic ending where she's on the bridge and you think
she's jumping to her death on this.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about that for a second.
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: When she jumps, there's no rope.
Speaker 2: There's no bungee cord.
Speaker 1: There's no bungee cord.
Speaker 2: And when she leaps and you know, shuts down the
highway for two hours and doesn't get a name trouble.
That rope would have cut her.
Speaker 1: In half or at least broken her spine.
Speaker 2: And when she flips around and gives the double bird.
Speaker 1: So I saw this video for the first time on
YouTube in preparation for this podcast. I'd seen the video before.
I'd seen the video many, many, many times, watching it
on YouTube as opposed to watching it on MTV right,
right right, and so it was the first time that
I ever actually saw her finger not pixelated out and
blared out.
Speaker 2: It's quite the fu to Stephendorf to jump off and
give double birds on a bungee jumper. Ye, great song,
great video. Tent pull song on the album. Before we
move on from this one, I want to throw something
at you. I read an article this week, and you're
the musician. Between you and I, it was suggested that
Crazy and Crying started out as the same song. They
have the same bones musically, their progression is the same,
but they took them to separate song. Doctor and one
produced Crazy and one produced Crying, but it all came
from the same route. What do you think you buy?
Speaker 1: That? Certainly similar, not identical, but certainly similar chord progressions. Okay,
both in the key of A and listening to them,
I can easily as I'm listening to Crying, I can
sing the lyrics to Crazy and vice versa.
Speaker 2: All right, next song on the album is a song
called Gotta Love It.
Speaker 6: Skipper.
Speaker 1: Apparently you don't gotta love it Skipper. Yes, that's exactly
how I feel, Round and round and round, and that's
exactly how I feel okay. Why you got three songs
on the If you're listening to the LP, you got
three songs on the side, and they're all over five
minutes long, and the one you make the longest one
is gotta Love It.
Speaker 2: No, this song's terrible. Yes, this is the worst song
on the album. This song, to me, sounds like, remember
we've seen those videos when Millie Vanilli is playing on
concert in concert and they hit that skip and it's girl.
You know it's girl. You know it's girl.
Speaker 1: You know it's obnoxious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, round and round and round.
Speaker 1: No, it's terrible.
Speaker 2: It's a skipper.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I honestly don't have anything to say about this
song other than see you later, all right?
Speaker 2: Moving on, moving on to a song called crazy.
Speaker 4: Me a Baby.
Speaker 6: You know when you.
Speaker 4: Drive me up a wall, you make good ball the mast,
it checks you pull. It seems like we're making up
all and we're making know. It always seems you got
something on your mind other than me. Girl, you got
to change your crazy ways? Can you get it?
Speaker 1: Say it? I was crying. Oh, wait a minute, that's
not right.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
Speaker 2: Okay. This song was released May third, ninety four. It's
the seventh single and is my favorite song on the album.
It's the best song to me on the album.
Speaker 1: It's a great song, no question about it. This one.
You know you mentioned about it being taken it in
different ways. This one was co written by Desmond Child.
So Crying was co written by Taylor Rhodes. Crazy was
co written by Desmond Child.
Speaker 2: See there you go. And then you come up with
this slow, louzy, romantic love song. Towards the end you
have that sweeping orchestra.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love this, love it to. It's interesting. I mean,
at the point that this song came out, they had
already had the video for Crying. Yes, they had already
had the video for Amazing, which was the other Alicia
Silverstone of the three. Yes, and so this was the
third one.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: They seem to capture the sliminess of men oh so
well in this video. Yes, and there's another big factor
in this video, Live Tyler, Live, Freaking Tyler.
Speaker 2: Stephen Tyler's daughter shows up. She's sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's beautiful, by the way, guys, just I'm going
to say that again. She's sixteen. It's interesting she had
done I guess she had done some modeling before.
Speaker 2: This has she'd been in a panteine commercial.
Speaker 1: It wasn't her dad that said, hey, come and be
in this video. It was Marty Kawman that said, Hey,
I'd like to use your daughter in this video. I
think she's beautiful, and I have this idea for these
two girls you've run off together.
Speaker 2: They're going to win an amateur stripping contest. How do
you feel about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So how is Stephen Tyler? Do you do? You say,
what used sexuality as a way to generate income? I
can't do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be against my morals.
Speaker 1: If in nineteen ninety four you were eighteen like I was,
you remember the black leather pants and the guy sitting
outside of the gas station gawking, gawking at her kind
of shaking her booty. I can remember, like I saw
the video before I knew that she was Steven Tyler's daughter,
when she did her lip syncing while she was on
stage and she's and she's doing the hair and she's
doing the spitting, and I'm like, dang, she really looks
like him. And I was like, Yeah. When I found out,
I'm like, of course, of course.
Speaker 2: It's it's undeniable. Yeah, that is not Todd Rundgren's daughter,
without a doubt, Steven Tyler's daughter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This of course then opened the door for her
to an incredible acting career. I was watching Empire Records
just last week. She did that, she did that thing
you do. And then of course she's the main woman Elf.
I can't remember what her name is, but the Rings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's in Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This was the video that Amy Heckerling was watching while
working out thinking about who she was going to hire
for her next movie, Clueless, Literally on the treadmill thinking
who in the world am I gonna get to play
cher Horowitz in Clueless. Oh, I'll just get that girl
right there, the Aerosmith girl, Alicias Soursta.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Amy Heckerling had brought us a decade before, had
brought us Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And if you
want to see the difference between high school in the
eighties and high school in the nineties, watch Fast Times.
Bridgemont High followed right up with Clueless, and you'll see
what a difference it was.
Speaker 2: She did Wayne's World Name between us two. Oh, yeah,
so fantastic song. This song won the Grammy for Best
Rock Performance in nineteen years fold out.
Speaker 1: Great song, fantastic hate to end it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The video was ranked number twenty three in VAH one's
Top one hundred music videos of all It's.
Speaker 1: The most memorable of the trilogy, totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The next song is called Lineup.
Speaker 1: So this one's got almost a big band beginning to it,
like it's the theit trumpets and the porns coming in
that blast. It's very got a funk to it. Yes,
and it was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and
and Lenny Kravitz.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen, this song makes me smile every time I
hear it. Not because I love the song and not
because it's there's Been's greatest song, but clearly the song
I associate with a Spenter of PIC Detective. Okay, this
is yes, absolutely so we've covered Garth Brooks Spura of course,
Alicia Soldstone plays backgirl.
Speaker 1: Eventually bank right, and Wayne Tweld, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: This is the song. The music montage where Aceventura is
trying to locate the missing jewel in the AFC Championship
rings and he's popping guys on the button with a
towel in the shower and he's.
Speaker 1: Tackling guys on the track this is, and he's looking
at guys at the urinal.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he tries to crash into that guy and
he gets the finger and he gets out the binoculars
to look at his middle finger. That scene is hilarious.
But this song is what is played during that musical
montage and a spur Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's perfect perfect fit for those for that. You're right.
It's not the greatest song on the album, but it
has edged itself into our memory from being a part
of that movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, Lenny Kravitz sings backup vocals on this, by the way,
right all right. The next song on the album, the
final real song, is a song called a Maze.
Speaker 1: So just Stephen Tyl not Joe Perry on this one
as writer, but he did co write with somebody named
Richard Supa, who also is a big collaborator with Richie
sapor Nice.
Speaker 2: So this song is about climbing back after a dick show.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you're right, this was.
Speaker 2: Written with that guy named Richie Supa, so listen to this.
Richie Supa wrote some other Arismith songs with him back
in the seventies, like Chip away at the Stone, right,
So it's a prominent guy. So he got caught with
a bunch of cocaine, went to jail for three years.
During that time, Aerosmith gets sober. Okay, when he gets
out of jail, he shows up at an Aerosmith concert,
goes backstage, Hey, Steven, how you doing. Good to see
you man, I'm out of jail. He's like, hey, check
it out, I got an eight ball of coke. And
Steven says, get this guy out of here and gets
security and they throw his butt out, And keep in mind,
this is a guy who helped him write hit songs
that they just performed. And as they're dragging him off,
he's like, come back when you've been sober for one year,
tosses his butt out. Okay, So he cleans his act up,
comes back to him summer of ninety one, shows him
his aa you know, coins and stuff like that, I've
been sober, and basically writes this thing. Isn't it amazing
what you can do when your life is cleaned up.
They get together and they write this song.
Speaker 1: What a fantastic sword?
Speaker 5: Is that great?
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic That's the best story of the
whole album. That is awesome, pretty cool, right, very good.
Speaker 2: Yes, And when you listen to the lyrics, like I
had never really listened to the lyrics before. It's talking
about at the beginning, it says, I left let the
right ones out and the wrong ones in. There you
had an angel of mercy to lead me through all
my sin, he said. He stole that line. Richie Soupa
stole that line from an alcohol and drug anonymous meeting
where a girl stood up and said, I'll let the
right ones out and the wrong ones in. Nice.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's great. Okay. So Don Henley is singing backup
vocals on this is that cool? Yes? So this is
the third in the trilogy, and this one it had
been a long time since I'd seen it, but I
was really impressed because this is the one that involves
all the virtual reality. I'm like, this is early mid
nineties and this kid's got a VR set on. Is
that the kid from Dayston Confused?
Speaker 2: It is the kid.
Speaker 1: It is Jason London from Dayston Confused. Yes, And if
anybody can't remember it, it's the one where he's during
the VR session he spills his coke on the keyboard,
right at the makeout session, and.
Speaker 2: It's very sexually yes, very yes, very very sexual.
Speaker 1: We have the m Night shymal on ending on this
one because it turns out, you know, we think that
he's been he's been watching a VR of some MTV model,
but it turns out she's the one that's been v
ring him watching her.
Speaker 2: Where it's crazy. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm crying.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a great song. It's it's the weakest of
the three ballads.
Speaker 5: In my opinion.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love this song. I don't know if it's close.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're they're I mean, it's all they're They're great. Really,
they're really great.
Speaker 1: They also in this one that they've got high speed
motorcycles and they've got sky diving with like snowboards. Is
that right.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a James Bonder. Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 1: This is also one that was in the video game
Better Alive for okay.
Speaker 2: Uh. It does make mention. One of the lyrics on
this song. It says, one last shot a permanent vacation,
a little tie back to an earlier Aerosmith album. It's
a great song.
Speaker 1: I love it all right.
Speaker 2: Finally we come to Boogeyman, which is a instrumental.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will tell you this. I'll tell you this,
the songs that we hear on these albums when I
didn't own the album, that our new experiences for me
sometimes are not so good. Right, Like the beginning songs
of this, particularly some of the beginning songs in this
particular album, I was just like, this is not really
for me. It's all full Aerosmith, It's very Erosmith sounding.
It's just doesn't have that but the appeal to me.
But occasionally there will be songs that I'm not super
familiar with that will totally hook me and become a
part of my rotation. Right, Like I knew Kickstart my Heart.
It's now a part of my workout playlist. I probably
had heard Foolin', but it is now a part of
my road trip playlist. Full and off of Piramine, off
of Piramina, Yes, def Leppard and Motley Crue there. Yeah,
for this one. This is the song for me that
I was just like, Wow, this is different.
Speaker 2: I like this, this is this is the one I'm
digging this, This is the song.
Speaker 1: This is the song I really really like. The Joe
Perry instrumental guitar groove and song. I'll listen to it again.
It'll become a part of a playlist.
Speaker 2: This song is like a cracker with no salt on it.
There's just nothing there for me. It's just an instrumental.
But here's the crazy thing about this. So I looked
at the tour set list for the Get a Grip tour. Right, yeah, okay,
Crazy is not on there. They didn't play Crazy in concert,
but they did play Boogeyman.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Isn't that weird? And that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that brings us to the end of Get a Grip.
Come Back next week, and we're going to take a
deep dive into Ozzy Osbourne's come back out of No
More Tears.
Speaker 1: There might be some shampoo in that. Can't wait.
Speaker 2: We had shampoo the panteen in this one. There will
be shampoo in the next.
Speaker 4: So from almost and now I'll smith the tonge of
you out there, wherever you are, remember the lay at
the end of the tunnel. Maybe you good night.