LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 12, 2019-THIRTY YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘PUMP.’ DUE TO DRUG ABUSE AND IN-BAND SQUABBLING DURING THE LATE 70’S AND EARLY EIGHTIES, AEROSMITH AS A BAND DERAILED WITH JOE PERRY AND BRAD WHITFORD BOTH LEAVING THE LINE-UP. THE GROUPS BIG COMEBACK ALBUM WAS 1987’S PERMANENT VACATION, BUT THIS IS THE ALBUM THAT SLAMMED HOME THE COMEBACK AND SENT IT INTO ORBIT.
‘PUMP’ WAS THE GROUP’S 10TH ALBUM AND IT TERMS OF PURE ALBUM SALES IS THE BAND’S SECOND BIGGEST OF ALL-TIME, SELLING OVER 10,500,000 MILLION COPIES ( BEFORE STREAMS AND DOWNLOADS).
THE RECORD WAS DRIVEN BY FOUR HUGE SINGLES ‘JANIE’S GOT A GUN’ ‘THE OTHER SIDE’ ‘WHAT IT TAKES’ AND ‘LOVE IN AN ELEVATOR’
HERE’S AEROSMITH FROM ‘PUMP’
