How popular were they in the '70s?

>>127030307 (OP)
The seemed very popular in Dazed and Confused.

>>127030307 (OP)
They were one of the biggest bands of the 70s. When you factor in their incredible, unprecedented comeback in the 80s and, even more incredibly, their massive success in the 90s and 2000s, they're nearly inarguably the greatest rock band of all time, pound-for-pound.

>>127030770
lol they're not even in the top 10 biggest selling rock bands.

>>127030806
>they actually are in the top 10 best selling rock bands
Fucking retard lol

I AM THE LORD OF THE THIGHS

>>127032250
Just blame streetshitters. That's what I do. They're everywhere now.

>>127030307 (OP)
Odd that they were basically dead in the early to mid 80s and then had a resurgence to levels higher than they were in the 70s and even managed to be successful with their old bluesy rock during peak grunge year 1993

>>127030307 (OP)
Before KISS became popular they were the 2nd most popular hard rock band in the US with only Zeppelin being more popular concert tours. Once Destroyer became popular KISS and Aerosmith were pretty much on equals terms as far as popularity.

>>127030806
Retarded as fuck.

>>127030307 (OP)
Their only heavy song, Train Kept A Rollin', was not only NOT writtem by them, the solos were not recorded by the guitarists either.

>>127033815
What are you on. Most of the "Rocks" album is every bit as heavy as "Train Kept a Rolling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze6h1t7Z734

Poor guys burned out a little too quickly because they blew up too fast. CBS wanted to push them as the next Zeppelin but they didn't really want to be that big, they would have been happy as a middle tier AOR band like Blue Oyster Cult.

>>127033890
>a middle tier AOR band like Blue Oyster Cult.

I appreciate your effort at trolling

The best thing to come out of Aerosmith was Liv Tyler.

they had some of the best produced hard rock albums of the 70s. Jack Douglas was a god.

>>127030770
>2000s
they fizzled out by late '98. everybody was tired of generic Aerosmith slow song #257649964.

>>127034190
They way overdid it with the ballads to the point where there was a SNL skit making fun of how they all had some variation of "Amazing" or "Crazy" in the title.

>>127030307 (OP)
medium-popular, maybe 1/5 as popular as Led Zeppelin or Fleetwood Mac.

>>127034190
Didn't they get another boost of popularity thanks to 'I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing?'

>>127030307 (OP)
too uncool

>>127030307 (OP)
very

Imagine a biopic of this band.

sloprock, 70's

>>127030770
>tfw you will never been in an LA nightclub in 1986 coked out of your mind getting down with a fine ass black chick wearing Shell Toed Addias while Walk This Way plays

Why even live

>>127030307 (OP)
I liked them because of that movie about hockey Miracle the hockey movie and their Dream On song that song was so cool in the hockey movie Miracle

>>127034317
yes, that was the song that destroyed their integrity in the summer of '98. talk to any boomers about Aerosmith and they will roll their eyes and bring that song up along with the other stupid slow ballads that came previously.

>>127033815
They've had plenty of songs just as heavy, or heavier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX8GG3dnsp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQCv80Ac3ls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze6h1t7Z734
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvodHi2_FoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbVW12E_Sc

>>127035678
Lot of boomers I talk to these days seem to like that song.

>>127036012
They should've won the Oscar fo it. Instead it went to a movie that nobody watched.

>>127035675
What?

Aerosmith were fucking huge.
My mother almost named me Steven Tyler but my dad talked her out of it.

>>127038100
Why did he stop her? Steven is a pretty normal name desu.

>>127035678
Everyone loved and still loves that song, go outside

>>127035675
based Aerosmith and hockey movie enjoyer

>>127038100
My dad wanted to name me Moss

>>127038100
You were lucky that she only wanted to name you after Steven Tyler and she didn't try to name you 'Aerosmith.'

>>127038114
Tyler would have been my middle name. Our last name was Obama.

>>127040866
Oh. Thank God your father stopped her then.

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Now everybody's on the run

>>127040726

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>>127041621
Not as crazy as millennials naming their daughters 'Reneesme.'

>>127038100
kek, based

>>127035999
Steven is out of this world.

>>127038100
dodged a bullet, Joe

>>127041621
What kind of parents would put their child on that position?

>>127034382
Nah, Steven was one of the coolest rock stars before he turned into a gypsy grandma.

I would love to go to their concert. Sadly, they are all retired now.

>>127030770
>They were one of the biggest bands of the 70s.
if you go by their chart success in the 70s it doesnt look they were that popular at all

>>127050210
this was the era of AOR rock so they were mostly only heard on FM radio outside Dream On