LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 27, 2019…FORTY SIX YEARS AGO AEROSMITH RELEASED THEIR FIRST SINGLE ‘DREAM ON’
THEIR MANAGER AT THE TIME HAD THE BAND SHARE A HOUSE AND CONCENTRATE ON WRITING SONGS FOR THEIR FIRST ALBUM. STEVEN TYLER HAD ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING ON THE SONG ON AND OFF FOR APPROXIMATELY 6 YEARS, WRITING IT IN BITS AND PIECES. HE WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE IT WITH THE HELP OF THE REST OF THE BAND.
A BREAKTHROUGH CAME WHEN TYLER BOUGHT A KEYBOARD WITH MONEY HE FOUND IN A SUITCASE OUTSIDE WHERE THE BAND WAS STAYING. THE “SUITCASE INCIDENT” HAS SINCE BECOME PART OF AEROSMITH LORE, AS TYLER DIDN’T TELL HIS BANDMATES THAT HE TOOK THE MONEY, AND WHEN GANGSTERS CAME LOOKING FOR THE MONEY HE PLAYED DUMB.
TYLER ALSO RECOUNTED RECORDING THE SONG IN THE BOOK “WALK THIS WAY”:
“I put the string section on ‘Dream On’ sitting at this Mellotron while a friend of mine kept laying out lines of crystal THC that I was snorting whIle I was playing.”
ROCK AND ROLL MY FRIENDS, ROCK AND ROLL !!
THIS VERSION OF ‘DREAM ON’ GETS ME ALL TEARY
