Is 'Rocks' Aerosmith's best album? Joe Perry and Brad Whitford debate that issue
Aerosmith's Rocks turned 40 this year, but neither guitarists Joe Perry nor Brad Whitford think that the record shows one bit of age. "You put it on and you can still feel the excitement we had when we made it," says Perry. "Everything was clicking for us. We had been working hard and were rising through the ranks, and we were really feeling it. I think that shows in those tracks."
"It doesn't feel like 40 years since we put it out," says Whitford. "I think you could put 'Rocks' on right now next to just about any current record, and you wouldn't know there was four decades between them. It's an honest record. I think that came through then, and it still comes through now."
'Rocks' marked a chart high-water mark for Aerosmith in the '70s, hitting number three on the Billboard Top 200 and establishing the Boston-based band as the premier American hard rock attraction of the era. Perry and Whitford sat down with Music Aficionado to reflect on the hectic pace that surrounded the making of the iconic disc and its enduring legacy.
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