Biography
Aerosmith was one of the most popular hard rock bands of the '70s, setting the style and sound of hard rock and heavy metal for the next two decades with their raunchy, bluesy swagger. The Boston-based quintet found the middle ground between the menace of the Rolling Stones and the campy, sleazy flamboyance of the New York Dolls, developing a lean, dirty riff-oriented boogie that was loose and swinging and as hard as a diamond.
In the meantime, they developed a prototype for power ballads with "Dream On," a piano ballad that was orchestrated with strings and distorted guitars. Aerosmith's ability to pull off both ballads and rock & roll made them extremely popular during the mid-'70s, when they had a string of gold … » Read more
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Influenced By
- Chuck Berry
- Led Zeppelin
- The Rolling Stones
- The Yardbirds
- The Beatles
- Jeff Beck
- James Brown
- Deep Purple
- Janis Joplin
- The Kinks
- New York Dolls
- The Who
- Bo Diddley
- Jimi Hendrix
- Muddy Waters
- Cream
- Free
- John Mayall
- Rufus Thomas
- Howlin' Wolf
- Sonny Boy Williamson
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- Faster Pussycat
- Cinderella
- Lita Ford
- Guns N' Roses
- Raging Slab
- Tesla
- Kix
- Ratt
- Jackyl
- Kick Axe
- Poison
- Y&T;
- The Runaways
- Great White
- Britny Fox
- David Lee Roth
- Duke Jupiter
- Company of Wolves
- Vince Neil
- Babylon A.D.
