Aerosmith - Central Park 1975 (2023)

EXTRAORDINARY 1975 BROADCAST FROM NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK • With the release of 1975's Toys in the Attic, Aerosmith’s third album, the band had upped the ante by introducing a dreamy, Beatle-esque whimsy into their hard rock-solid sound. The result was perhaps the finest studio accomplishment of their entire career and included the funky Top Ten hit Walk This Way, as well as bassist Tom Hamilton's crowning achievement, the intro to Sweet Emotion. • Due to the excessive consumption of whatever came their way off-stage, the band's reputation for erratic performances grew steadily throughout the '70s, though none of that is evident in this Central Park set. Steven Tyler's unique talent for thinly veiled sexual innuendo is on full display during opener medley Walking the Dog / S.O.S. / Somebody in which Perry and Whitford's one-two guitar punch propels Somebody. Up next is Big Ten Inch before the mandatory Sweet Emotion and then the Bic-flicker opus Dream On. They end the hour-long set with Toys InThe Attic. • A quite stunning performance and one that true fans have cherished across the intervening 45 years as warmly as few others, the entire set was recorded by the King Biscuit network for live broadcast across the greater New York area, but remains previously unreleased. • Now available on this new CD, this extraordinary concert is now all set to become a favourite live album for fans of the band everywhere.