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Credit: Far Out \/ Raph Pour-Hashemi<\/p>\n
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We don\u2019t deny Aerosmith<\/a> their place as rock royalty these days, but it took a long time for the band to truly establish themselves. <\/p>\n The beginning of their time as a band was met with persistent controversy, as despite trying to establish themselves as a unique and creative collective, everything they put out was met with barrages of onlookers accusing them of trying to rip off the Rolling Stones. Steven Tyler particularly was met with scrutiny, as he had a similar voice and style to Mick Jagger, which didn\u2019t go down well with a lot of people. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve always just played our music and haven\u2019t given a shit. Still, the \u2018Cheap imitation of the Rolling Stones\u2019 criticism was constant. And it hurt for the first couple of years<\/a>,\u201d said Tyler. \u201cIt was constantly Mick Jagger this and Mick Jagger that \u2013 that I copied him, and Janis Joplin too. Mick was the cheapest, easiest shot. \u2018Well, he looks like him, so let\u2019s write about that.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Later in their career, when the band put out their greatest hit, \u2018Don\u2019t Wanna Miss a Thing\u2019, that was also quite a controversial piece of success, not with the wider public, but with the band themselves. They had been releasing good music for a long time before that, but suddenly, they were forced to spend extended periods on the road, all because a new horde of fans had started attending with the sole intention of seeing that one song.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe were just about to go off the road, and that song came around,\u201d recalled band member Joey Kramer, \u201cWe continued to tour off that song for another year<\/a>. That was welcomed by the band. At that time, that was what we did. We would be on the road for 12 or 18 months, and the only time we came off the road was to make another record.\u201d<\/p>\n The point is that while we now recognise Aerosmith as a pretty great band, it\u2019s not been an easy ride, and they\u2019ve been underappreciated plenty of times. As such, they know when a good group is getting overlooked. Joe Perry has a keen eye for it, and when the press started assigning a certain label to Aerosmith, he couldn\u2019t help but feel a little bit guilty, as he felt it belonged to someone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before the Rolling Stones rip-off label came along, localised press were talking about Aerosmith being the \u201cbad boys from Boston.\u201d Of course, this was a name that the band were happy to take on, but Perry thought it was misplaced, and J Geils was more deserving of the title. He always saw them as one of the greatest rock bands at the time, and couldn\u2019t help but be disappointed by the fact that Aerosmith were somewhat overshadowing them. Another casualty of the critical world of music, if you\u2019re not branded a copycat, chances are, you\u2019re not branded at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n \u201cJ Geils was the rock band at the time we were getting together,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey were king of the hill.\u00a0 I was a little upset when people started calling us the \u2018Bad Boys from Boston\u2019. I was a little offended by the way the press put that title on us because it really belonged to J Geils. They were starting to fade away. They\u2019d just done that world tour with The Rolling Stones and went around the world for a year with them, and then they broke up after that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He concluded, \u201cThere was no more J. Geils, so we were right there. But the local press and the DJs looked at us like we were kind of outsiders. Also, we weren\u2019t really a blues band<\/a>, and we weren\u2019t a folk band; we didn\u2019t really fit into the stereotype of what you\u2019d expect from a Boston band.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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