above: a nice shot from a show in Cleveland 1979
Ventura County Fairgrounds
Ventura, CA
August 3, 1983
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Psycho/Tyler Introduction
Back in the Saddle
Big Ten Inch Record
Mama Kin
Three Mile Smile
Reefer Head Woman
Lord of the Thighs
No More No More
Minister Tyler Preaches
Sweet Emotion
Walk this Way
Toys in the Attic
OU Notes: In the summer of 1983 the reconstituted Aerosmith with Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay decided to embark on a short tour. One could say it was in support of its Rock In A Hard Place released in 1982, but no tunes from that release were played.
The band decided to party a bit on Lake Havasu in Arizona before the tour kicked off. Within a few days word got out there were some heavy drugs being ingested and Tyler and company were paid a visit by local authorities. Tyler was busted, but was bailed out (eventually was let off with a fine) before the first show of the mini tour, which was as follows:
July 30, 1983 Compton Terrace, Phoenix, AZ
August 2, 1983 California Exposition Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA
August 3, 1983 County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA
August 5, 1983 Pacific Coast Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA
August 6, 1983 Sports Arena, San Diego, CA
All of the gigs were recorded by audience members, documenting Tyler's drugged out ramblings.
Man, what to say about this...you have to hear it to believe it. Oddly, the dude who sent it to me just had it listed as: Ventura 8-3-83 50m, no mentioned of the chaos here. I sent a copy of this show to an esteemed professor pal who wrote these notes...
"Hey, J-J-Jaded!" Let's face it: twenty-first century middle-America loves Aerosmith. Today, the Toxic Twins are (mostly) clean and lead a great rock (if not corporate) band that plays to sold out houses across the nation. But we shouldn't let today's sleek edition obscure the tightrope which Aerosmith walked and sometimes fell off of during its 1979-1984 period. In particular, this 1983 Rock in a Hard Place show illuminates how erraticially Aerosmith could perform in those days thanks to a steady diet of drugs and booze. To be fair, only Tyler embarrasses himself here, and the band of Crespo, Dufay, Hamilton, and Kramer try to save him from himself by singing for him when he doesn't (No More No More) and by starting songs (Three Mile Smile) or starting solos (Sweet Emotion) when he rambles incoherently, but there efforts are all for naught. Early in the show, a blitzed Tyler tells the California crowd that "I gotta act drunk, otherwise if I don't, I'll get blamed for being something I wasn't." Um, try again, Steven. You are drunk, at minimum, who knows what was in his bloodstream this night.
Other hilarious Tylerisms:
- "California has been our new home ever since Boston, you all know that, doncha? Well doncha!. . . So when we play here they don't know when we're playing here, back there, anyway...."
- "This song ['Big Ten Inch Record'] happens to be one of [legendary rock promoter] Billy Graham's motherf-cking favorite songs. I heard him tell me that last night when I whoomped his ass at ping-pong!"
- "I ain't gonna f-ck up on any words tonight," just prior to inventing indecipherable but undeniably unrecognizable lyrics to 'No More No More.'"
- "[You all are saying] what the f-ck is wrong with Tyler tonight? He's f-ckin' so stoned, he can't do sh!t. Well, what would you do . . . if you had six inches, had six inches [of blow? smack?] My dick is bigger than six inches!"
- "We ain't like women, you know. Women can cum anytime they want. Boys, you know, it's a two-bit shuffle, you know, doin' it?"
Mercifully, someone in the band makes the executive decision to cut about six songs from the setlist and the show ends after fifty minutes. Tyler departs with a charming "Good night, motherfuckers!" The night before, the band played 90 minutes in Sacramento as headliners with Dio as opener. The crowd reacts to Aerosmith's early departure with a hail of obscenities and jeers, such as "Come on you fucking a$$holes! F-cking I want my money back! F-ck you!" In sum, the performance here is so bad it is good. Scratch that, it is pure Aerosmithian genius. So let's take Tyler's 2004 advice: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Step Right Up! Let's go see the Elephant!"
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