Aerosmith
Live Bootleg

THE REVIEW

When you are about to give any reader a live album from the '70s, the first thing to do is fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a journey into the heart of the essence of live performances; because it is precisely in the '70s that concerts became mass gatherings of people who just wanted to hear some damn music without caring too much about the quality of the sound.

And that's how bands like The Rolling Stones, The Who, Faces, and in the latter half of the seventies, an American band become great— with a rock with blues and hard influences they perform better live than on record, perhaps.....
Aerosmith in this live show cranks out their greatest hits ranging from rock-blues (Chip Away the Stone, Come Together, I Ain't Got You, Train Kept Rollin', etc.), to hard rock (Back in the Saddle, Walk This Way, Mama Kin, etc.), to very enjoyable classic rock (Dream On, Toys in the Attic, etc.).

The band is truly tight-knit, rarely finishing a piece without immediately starting another; Tyler drives the audience wild with his sexy voice, Perry assaults the guitar with forceful solos and aggressive riffs, Whitford is a good rhythm guitarist, and even a good lead guitarist when you hear the solo in I Ain't Got You, the rhythm section holds everything together perfectly.
The only weak point of the album might be the excessively excited and cohesive atmosphere, and with attention, it is possible to perceive the tension within the band, perhaps the first cracks that in two years would cause, at least for a while, this great rock machine to crumble.

This was Aerosmith when they were still flying very, very high.