The album has been released inwards stereo too quadraphonic, too certified triple platinum past times the RIAA.[7] The original embrace fine art featured gilded winged insignia.
Often overshadowed past times the subsequent twin highlights of Toys inwards the Attic too Rocks, Aerosmith's 1974 minute album, Get Your Wings, is where Aerosmith became Aerosmith -- it's where they teamed upwards alongside producer Jack Douglas, it's where they shed much of their influences too developed their ain trademark sound, it's where they turned into songwriters, it's where Steven Tyler unveiled his signature obsessions alongside gender activity too sleaze. Chief amidst these attributes may hold out Douglas, who either helped the band ease into the studio or captured their audio inwards a agency their debut never did. This is a leaner, harder album, bathed inwards grease too layered inwards grit, but it's non merely downward to Douglas. The band itself sounds to a greater extent than distinctive. There are blues inwards Joe Perry too Joey Kramer's interplay, but this leapfrogs over blues-rock; it turns into slippery difficult rock. To hold out sure, it's even too thus like shooting fish in a barrel to involve heed the Stones here, but they never truly audio Stonesy; there's most to a greater extent than of the Yardbirds to the agency the grouping plant the riffs, specially evident on the embrace of the early on 'Birds classic "The Train Kept a Rollin'." But if the Yardbirds were tight too nervy, Aerosmith is blown out too loose, the audio of excess incarnate -- that is, inwards every agency but the writing itself, which is confident too strong, fueled past times Tyler's gonzo gender activity drive. He is the "Lord of the Thighs," playing that "Same Old Song too Dance," but he besides slows downward plenty for the eerie "Seasons of Wither," a powerful slow-churning ballad whose mastery of atmosphere is a skillful indication of how far the band has grown. They never attempted anything quite too thus creepy on their debut, but it isn't merely that Aerosmith is trying newer things on Get Your Wings, it's that they're doing their bloozy bluster meliorate too bolder, which is what turns this sophomore effort into their root classic.
These days, anyone fifty-fifty remotely hip to pop civilisation knows of Aerosmith. But at the fourth dimension the Boston, Massachusetts band’s minute album slipped into inwards the stores, they were even too thus struggling to attain a wider audience.
Although the band’s root album Aerosmith, which was released inwards 1973, received generally positive reviews, sales were initially on the sparse side. It wasn’t until a duo of years later, after the band zoomed to greater than dandy heights alongside their tertiary album, Toys In The Attic, that the disc garnered renewed involvement — thank y'all to ane of the tracks, “Dream On,” that rose from the dead too turned into a ginormous hitting single.
On all accounts, Get Your Wings (Columbia Records) should convey been the album that zapped Aerosmith into a star-studded stratosphere. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 vast improvement over Aerosmith, which was skillful but non terribly unique equally it basically consisted of touchstone hard-rocking boogie beats, this 1974 tape blazes alongside intensity through too through. Every vocal is sudden too detailed, there’s an increased confidence inwards the band’s performances, the audio is thick too robust, too the publish energy is too thus surplus that it’s plenty to low-cal upwards Disneyland.
Teeming alongside menace too muscle, tunes such equally the whiplash-inducing “S.O.S. (Too Bad),” the crunchy “Woman Of The World” too the sizzling too swaggering “Same Old Song And Dance,” which proposes a boom of cool saxophone work, rank equally truthful bluish hard-rock masterpieces. Mean, lean too burning alongside hunger, these cuts capture the spot-on chemical scientific discipline too coordination of Aerosmith inwards sum flight.
Shaped of ripping riffs, zinging too stinging alongside life, arresting vocals dripping alongside charisma too personality, wickedly hot drumming, deep too deadly bass lines, too ripe too fresh hooks too melodies, Get Your Wings struts alongside role too direction.
Aerosmith’s debut album may convey been riddled alongside comparisons to the Rolling Stones, but Get Your Wings favors a dissimilar approach, equally it bears slight resemblance to the London lads. If references are to hold out named, the heavy stone of Led Zeppelin too Montrose come upwards to mind. But there’s no dubiousness originality prevails, making this the album Aerosmith truly got their wings …
Personnel
Aerosmith
Steven Tyler – atomic number 82 vocals, acoustic guitar on "Seasons of Wither", pianoforte on "Lord of the Thighs" too "Pandora's Box"
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals
Brad Whitford – guitar
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
Steve Hunter – atomic number 82 guitar on "Train Kept a Rollin'" (studio half)
Dick Wagner – atomic number 82 guitar on "Train Kept a Rollin'" (live half) too "Same Old Song too Dance"[8]
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone on "Same Old Song too Dance" too "Pandora's Box"
Randy Brecker – trumpet on "Same Old Song too Dance"
Stan Bronstein – baritone saxophone on "Same Old Song too Dance" too "Pandora's Box"
Jon Pearson – trombone on "Same Old Song too Dance"
Ray Colcord – keyboards on "Spaced"
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