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Track List
01) Jailbait
02) Lightning Strikes
03) Bitch's Brew
04) Bolivian Ragamuffin
05) Cry Me a River
06) Prelude to Joanie
07) Joanie's Butterfly
08) Rock in a Hard Place (Cheshire Cat)
09) Jig Is Up
10) Push Comes to Shove
01) Jailbait
02) Lightning Strikes
03) Bitch's Brew
04) Bolivian Ragamuffin
05) Cry Me a River
06) Prelude to Joanie
07) Joanie's Butterfly
08) Rock in a Hard Place (Cheshire Cat)
09) Jig Is Up
10) Push Comes to Shove
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First Released
1982
Hard Rock
Philosophical
Rock/Pop
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Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released on August 1, 1982 on Columbia. It is the only Aerosmith album not to feature guitarist Joe Perry, following his departure from the band in 1979. The band spent $1.5 million on the recording of this album.
Rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford left the band during its recording in 1981. Whitford is billed as an "additional musician", and can be heard playing rhythm guitar on "Lightning Strikes." This was also Aerosmith's last studio album released on Columbia Records until 1997.
Despite the album's negative reviews, drummer Joey Kramer asserts in his 2009 autobiography, Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top: "the record doesn't suck. There's some real good stuff on it. But it's not a real Aerosmith record because it's just me, Steven, and Tom - with a fill-in guitar player. It's Jimmy Crespo doing the guitar work."
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As the title of this album makes clear, Aerosmith is caught between a rock and a hard place. In the three years since the group’s last studio album, Night in the Ruts, a minor revolution has taken place in heavy rock, and its insistence on hard, fast power chords has made Aerosmith’s bluesy boogie almost obsolete. Worse, Joe Perry, the fleet-fingered guitarist who played Keith Richards to Steve Tyler’s Mick Jagger, left the fold for a solo career. As a result, Tyler and company were forced to choose between the old sound with new faces or a complete change in approach.
They went for the former, and on first hearing, it almost seems to work. Perry lookalike Jimmy Crespo is no slouch at turning out hard-edged guitar hooks that make up in drive what they lack in swing, and both “Jailbait” and “Lightning Strikes” throb with the sort of nasty glee that’s always been an Aerosmith trademark. But despite an occasional burst of primal energy, much of the LP rocks by rote.
In all fairness, it’s a good formula, and even the weakest examples here hold up well enough under repeated listenings. Not so the ballads, though: Steve Tyler is unable to energize the slow numbers, and they drag interminably, undercutting the album’s pacing in their wake. Maybe next time Aerosmith will stick to the rock; for now, however, they’re really stuck in a hard place.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/rock-in-a-hard-place-126000/
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Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released on August 1, 1982 on Columbia. It is the only Aerosmith album not to feature guitarist Joe Perry, following his departure from the band in 1979. The band spent $1.5 million on the recording of this album.
Rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford left the band during its recording in 1981. Whitford is billed as an "additional musician", and can be heard playing rhythm guitar on "Lightning Strikes." This was also Aerosmith's last studio album released on Columbia Records until 1997.
Despite the album's negative reviews, drummer Joey Kramer asserts in his 2009 autobiography, Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top: "the record doesn't suck. There's some real good stuff on it. But it's not a real Aerosmith record because it's just me, Steven, and Tom - with a fill-in guitar player. It's Jimmy Crespo doing the guitar work."
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As the title of this album makes clear, Aerosmith is caught between a rock and a hard place. In the three years since the group’s last studio album, Night in the Ruts, a minor revolution has taken place in heavy rock, and its insistence on hard, fast power chords has made Aerosmith’s bluesy boogie almost obsolete. Worse, Joe Perry, the fleet-fingered guitarist who played Keith Richards to Steve Tyler’s Mick Jagger, left the fold for a solo career. As a result, Tyler and company were forced to choose between the old sound with new faces or a complete change in approach.
They went for the former, and on first hearing, it almost seems to work. Perry lookalike Jimmy Crespo is no slouch at turning out hard-edged guitar hooks that make up in drive what they lack in swing, and both “Jailbait” and “Lightning Strikes” throb with the sort of nasty glee that’s always been an Aerosmith trademark. But despite an occasional burst of primal energy, much of the LP rocks by rote.
In all fairness, it’s a good formula, and even the weakest examples here hold up well enough under repeated listenings. Not so the ballads, though: Steve Tyler is unable to energize the slow numbers, and they drag interminably, undercutting the album’s pacing in their wake. Maybe next time Aerosmith will stick to the rock; for now, however, they’re really stuck in a hard place.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/rock-in-a-hard-place-126000/
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