And I don’t think we realized it at that point, how important it was to us.” If you listen to the Tiny Bradshaw version with all the answer backs and the callin’, it was all like kinda swingy and big band-y and the blues was definitely this kind of thing beneath it all. And you’re right, it is a blues song, and as we kinda learned who did it, and then we listened back and it was actually not even a blues song, in the form that basically the Yardbirds took. So the song that we had in common (with Steven Tyler) was this song called “Train Kept A’Rollin’ “. But we liked the energy and the excitement of the rock. So we weren’t really like blues fanatics, I mean we knew where it came from and we were inspired by it. And at that point he left and stayed up in the woods, up in New Hampshire, and Tom and I went down to Boston to seek our fortunes. We said, ‘”No, we want to wear white Capezios and play some big amps and wear tight pants. He really wanted to wear baggy jeans and be barefoot and just play Howlin’ Wolf songs and Muddy Waters songs, just the way that they did it.
In fact in our band, Tom Hamilton and I had a guy named John McGuire, and he really wanted to play blues. I mean I knew people that were these blues players. But the blues in the English form of the word, ya know, the blues that had been already taken and redefined by the English bands. Joe Perry: “I think it was “Train Kept a Rollin’ “. Redbeard: Joe, there was one song some fifty years ago that was on the set list for both Steven Tyler’s New York City high school band, which played the Lake Sunapee NH resort clubs in the summer, and the garage band that you and New Hampshire bass player Tom Hamilton had. This is not the first time in the band’s almost fifty years that Aerosmith has been on hiatus, Joe Perry took time for this classic rock interview to discuss the challenges of maintaining the same personnel over the long career arc of this seminal American band.
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