With 1987's Permanent Vacation successfully restoring Aerosmith's reputation as one of hard rock's finest, Columbia Records (their first record company) decided the time was right to issue a follow-up of sorts to their 1980 compilation, Greatest Hits. The result, 1988's Gems, features almost all the tracks that were missing from the first collection, focusing more on their harder-rocking album cuts instead of the hits…
Classics Live is a album by the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, released in 1986. Together, they constitute the band's second live offering, after Live! Bootleg. Classics Live I has gone platinum. Classics Live! is made up of concert recordings from 1977 and 1983. Some of the recordings include guitarists Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay, who had temporarily replaced Joe Perry and Brad Whitford respectively. Venues and dates are not listed on the sleeve, and there is only the all-encompassing and vague statement "These songs were recorded at various concerts between 1977 and 1983." It is not listed which of the four guitarists played on which tracks. The studio track "Major Barbra" was originally recorded for the album Get Your Wings but remained unreleased.
As the sixth domestic Aerosmith hits collection and the first to feature selections from both their Columbia and Geffen years (not to mention that it's the second double-disc retrospective released within eight months), The Ultimate Aerosmith Hits should live up to its title – and it does, for the most part…
Rockin' the Joint is a live album by Aerosmith, which was released on October 25, 2005