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AEROSMITH
Rocks Sessions 1976 [Zodiac 079, 1CD]
Wherehouse, Waltham, MA; The Record Plant, NYC; February-March 1976. Outtakes. Instruments-only. Very good soundboard.
If you are an Aerosmith fan, you’d want this.
Engineer Jay Messina on recording the Rocks album (1976), posted at aerosmithtemple.com:
Let’s move onto Rocks. What’s the story there?
The guys were rehearsing in a warehouse in Waltham, Massachusetts, and they were getting really comfortable up there. It turned out that everything sounded really good in the room, so we just parked the Record Plant mobile truck in the warehouse.
So you just miked everybody up where they were in the room as if they were practicing?
Yes - even to the point of using this huge speaker cabinet Joey had set up behind his drums for the rehearsals. He had a mic just lying in his bass drum, and we ran the signal through a little MXR equalizer with everything from 125Hz and up rolled off, and everything below 125Hz boosted all the way up. A big woof of air would come out of that cabinet, and he’d feel it every time he hit the bass drum. It made for a really cool bass-drum sound - although it bled through everything except the guitar mics that were positioned right on the speaker grilles.
How were the band members positioned in the warehouse?
They were set up in corners. As you walked in, the drums were just to the right. There was a guitar amp in the far right corner, a guitar amp in the far left corner, and Tom’s bass rig was in another corner. It was so loud that they would easily hear each other no matter where they stood. That was the point. We isolated amps and the drum kit a bit with blankets, but, of course, that only worked so well.
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Track 01. Nobody’s Fault 3:36 (6.1MB)
Track 02. Rats In The Cellar 4:51 (8.2MB)
Track 03. Home Tonight 3:42 (6.2MB)
Track 04. Last Child 4:15 (7.1MB)
Track 05. Back In The Saddle 4:38 (7.8MB)
Track 06. Combination 4:14 (7.1MB)
Track 07. Get The Lead Out 3:36 (6.1MB)
Track 08. Lick And A Promise 3:30 (5.9MB)
33 mins
Lineup:
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums, percussion
Joe Perry - guitar
Brad Whitford - guitars
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