Steven Tyler Tom Hamilton George Martin Interview w/ Robert Klein 1-14-1980 (DO NOT COPY)

Great interview on January 14, 1980. Robert Klein interviews Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, then Sir George Martin, the Beatles' extraordinary producer. Steven and Tom stay on with George throughout the entire interview interjecting comments to the end, though George is worth listening to alone. Robert Klein is a comedian, actor, singer, and ran the Robert Klein Hour nationally syndicated radio show for about two years around 1980 and 1981. He often had bands on and sometimes live performances in the studio. There was a live audience there too. He also asked the questions he wanted to and swearing was quite OK, which Steven fulfills here. Several notes discussed in the interview:
The Philadelphia Spectrum incidents were: On October 9, 1977 an M-80 was thrown injuring Steven and Joe (mostly Joe this time). A year later on November 25, 1978 a bottle was thrown injuring Steven's face. Fans caused a bit of a riot likely against the fans who did this. Naturally the band was very angry and left the stage. They did not return to Philly until February 28, 1983. Concerts could be dangerous then, and fans too left bloody at times from thrown bottles, firecrackers, general mayhem, etc.
Night In The Ruts was released November 1, 1979. Steven, Joey, Tom, Brad, and Jimmy Crespo began touring in November '79 until February 18, 1980, and then sporadically toured through the year until December 1980. Brad left in 1981. They did not resume touring until November 1982 on their Rock In A Hard Place Tour. Joe Perry had left the band after their July 28, 1979 concert in Cleveland, Ohio to do his Joe Perry Project albums and shows.
The movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released July 21, 1978. Despite it being corny and campy, all the main characters were current stars in their own right, and no one was hurt by it. Aerosmith got their hit single "Come Together" out of it, and it's still played very often on my radio station--as often as Walk This Way. Earth, Wind & Fire also got a hit single out of the movie. "Come Together" was produced by Jack Douglas and George Martin. The B-side on the '78 single release was "Kings and Queens," the latter being from their 1977 album Draw The Line.
DO NOT COPY THIS VIDEO. This was made in my home which is why you can hear two trains in the background, which are outside of my house.
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[@TheHonkcat]

I notice the photo of D. Johansenn taping tiny cymbals from a tambourine onto Steven's ankles. They did that for the recording of Back in The Saddle, this might be that time!

[@Grendelmonster8u]

Hi James, nice to see you. I'm glad someone watches this interview after the hell I went through to do this. Anyway, yes, David Johansen is taping the entire tambourines on his boots, not just the cymbals. It's easier to see in my very large photo on my PC. You're correct that this is during the recording of BITS and Rocks, then there are a couple of photos of Steven stomping around in those boots on plywood. They tried using real bullwhips for cracking noises too, but that didn't work out, so they used a cap gun. I think the old days of using objects to make sounds is more fun and interesting than using computers. People have dragged chains, Pink Floyd filled the studio with alarm clocks for Time, and so on. BTW, the two train sounds you here in the video are trains outside _my_ house, which of course I couldn't control while recording this, lol, but it's apt...Train Kept A-Rollin'. The commuter trains go by on the hour. The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train...

[@TheHonkcat]

Your welcome, your right like when I used to be in a garage band we did all kinds of things to make sounds. Now when I occasionally go to sing karaoke, I do "Crackerman" by STP, and instead of a bullhorn I just cup my hands around the mike. Oh, you did a great job on the interview and you seem like a cool gal, see ya later, lady gatoer!!

[@Grendelmonster8u]

James Edwards Thank you so much. I'm debating uploading a Joe Perry solo song. I haven't done a new video in a while because of my pain in the neck computer, plus I operate on spontaneous inspiration, if one wants to call it that. I have so many photos and I hate to just put the album cover on a video. Hmm. There's so much Aerosmith on YT that other than my Round and Round video, I'm not sure what different idea I can do. Joe's song is not on YT as far as I can see. I like a lot of the old 60s garage band music; some were one-hit wonders, but they were good. Oh, did you record any of your garage band music?

[@TheHonkcat]

No ., unfortunately not. we did alot of Aerosmith and our best songs were "Seasons",S.O.S.,Walk in The dog, walk this way,Reefer Head Woman; but the cats in our band didn't have much ambition and I got fed up with their lack of enthusiasm,9spelled THAT 1st try ha-ha0) so I said screw it and never tried to go anywhere else with my singing

[@Grendelmonster8u]

James Edwards That's too bad you gave up if you had wanted to do it in the first place, but that happens to a lot of people whether it's singing, playing instruments, or whatever endeavor. I have a singing regret, though for a different reason--I didn't even try. I didn't/don't have great tone, but there are some singers I could sing along well to or with music, and surprisingly my critical sister thought I sang a song from The Sound of Music well without the music. (I think an English accent makes my annoying voice sound better.) Anyway, we were hanging around and I was singing to Grace Slick's White Rabbit and a guy thought I was fairly good enough and suggested doing back-up vocals in his fledgling band. I was afraid to do it, for self-conscious reasons really. It's not that I feel it would have gone anywhere, but it might have been interesting to try to do. I have this pile of regrets. According to Joe Perry's new autobiography he mentions that before Aerosmith formed Steven was fed up with some things as he was hopping around bands or maybe felt something else--things weren't going anywhere? But he met Joe and Tom, saw the possibility, and there you go. I was crazy about a drummer who had tried to get into bands and it's not that easy to be in the right place at the right time, gel with other band members, and the creative differences. (He is still drumming as a job, at least something happened to make a living doing what he knows best. He was no academic wonder in school.) When the Rolling Stones auditioned Ronnie Wood they were looking for that "gelling" feeling. So I ended up as a record buyer, but I still don't shut up singing anywhere...I'll sing along in stores to overhead music, and in some cases strangers have joined in. Lol. I've never tried a karoake machine though. I've heard people sing so badly on them, but I guess I still have that self-conscious thing going with too many people as an audience. Babble, babble. Well, on Aerosmith last album Music From Another Dimension, Tom sings his song. I don't even think Joe has the greatest voice on a bunch of songs, but he does it and it seems to be OK.

[@jumpers3]

Very cool.Great pics.Klein was a terrible interviewer though

[@Grendelmonster8u]

Thanks. Yeah, Klein was a comedian and entertainer who had done stand-up shows and various things since the 60s, was on early HBO in the 70s doing stand-up comedy, and got popular, so he was no interviewer by trade and kept it kind of light. (As he said he went off the press kit requirements.) He had a lot of great people on, though, who were popular at the time: Pete Townsend, Ted Nugent, Frank Zappa, Sting, Stevie Nicks, Rodney Dangerfield, etc. But the show only lasted between '79-'81. This was a nationally syndicated show. Then he had another show from '86-'88. My 1982 interview with Steven is with a rock journalist, Lisa Robinson, who had done interviews with Aerosmith in the mid-70s and went on part of their tour with them. So that's 52 minutes of just her and Steven. Being on the show with George Martin was pretty cool given that George was essentially the 5th Beatle. Thanks for watching!