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Welcome to my Aerosmith Page. I guess you can call this my tribute to Aerosmith. Aerosmith is my favorite group of all time. In my mind there is no group better then Aerosmith. Thats why I put this page together. Below is a report that I did on Aerosmith my junior year in school. If your interested feel free to read it. If your not interested in my report you can just check out one of the following links I have.

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Aerosmith has been around since 1970. Before then, they were in other small bands of the 60's such as Chain Reaction, The Stangeurs, and The Jam Band. The five band members were born and raised in places like New York City, Lawrence, MA, Colorado Springs, CO, The Bronx, NY, and Winchester, MA.

Steven Victor Tallarico, the lead singer, was born and raised in New York City. His name was later changed to Steven Tyler. He took after his family genes and became involved with music at a young age. At school he was a troublemaker and a victim of a bullies. He would often be called names such as 'nigger lips', because of his big lips. Later on near his mid teen years he started getting involved with drugs and other illegal substances. Eventually he got busted at school.

He first became involved with music and entertaining people. Then he started his first official gig with his father's band. He taught himself how to play the drums. Not long after that, he decided to start his own band. First he was in a band called The Maniacs. Then he played in a band called YAKS and next there was The Stangeurs that formed around 1964. In this band he played both the drums and sang lead vocals at age 16.

Not content Steven Tyler switched once again to another band called Chain Reaction. They started gigs with groups like The Byrds, The Beach Boys. and the Yardbirds. They were also Led Zeppelin's first roadie. Eventually Tyler and his partner Don Solomon decided to leave Chain Reaction and start another band called William Proud. During this time he met up with an old time friend, Anthony Joseph Perry, who worked at a local ice cream parlor.

Joe Perry was born on September 10th 1950 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Like Tyler, his family introduced him to music also. He would often play his guitar, which was built for him by his uncle. His parents gave him clarinet and piano lessons so that he would get into a more classical line of entertainment, but Perry liked the guitar most. At high school he played in a band called Flash who played primitive gigs at parties.

His parents where often concerned about him because he was not a very good student. At one point in his life he had a job at a local foundry for just two dollars an hour. He managed to hold this job for two years. He finally decided to leave the job and move to New Hampshire where, like Tyler, his parents owned a holiday home. Here he decided to take some part time jobs, one as a dishwasher, where he met Tom Hamilton. Hamilton had the same tastes in music and other things. He liked to play the bass guitar. So, between them they decided to put a band together. They named it Pipe Dream.

Thomas William Hamilton was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado on December 31, 1951. Unlike Tyler and Perry's musical parents, his dad was in the Air Force. Because of his father's work, his family would often move from town to town. By the time he moved to New Hampshire he had already been involved with rock 'n' roll. When he was four years old he picked up on it from his brother, who taught him a few things on his guitar. By the time he was eight he started to like a group called the Ventures, which had also inspired Joe Perry early on. Soon after he saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. This really convinced him that his future was in music. He started to go out to the stores and collect albums from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and eventuaily the harder blues-rock bands near the Woodstock age.

By this time Hamilton considered himself a music fan. He started going to lots of rock concerts and having a blast while he was there. When he turned thirteen he started his own band experiences and joined a high school fun outfit called The Mosquitoes. The groups named was inspired by the Beatles. A little later he found himself in a different band called The Merciless Tangerine. This hand was a blues-based act that went through a number of changes. When he was 14, Pipe Dream began to play their first gigs, but not very well.

Over the next couple years they started making progress and formed other bands such as Plastic Glass, and The Jam Band. After being in The Jam Band for a while, Perry and Hamilton decided to invite Steven Tyler over to one of the clubs to hear them play. They wanted to see what he thought of them. His thoughts were not so good until they played their own version of Fleetwood Mac's Rattlesnake Shake. He said to himself 'That's it. These guys stink. They can't even tune a guitar, but they have a great groove going.' So he thought to himself, all he had to do was show them a little of what he knew, with the looseness they had. Then they'd really have something.

Shortly after that Tyler made up his mind to join them. He intended to replace Pudge Scott, the drummer and vocalist. Instead he suggested that the band get a new drummer and a new rhythm guitarist. For the drummer, he thought of one of his colleagues in William Proud, Ray Tabano.

Raymond Tabano was born on the 23'd of December in The Bronx, New York on 1946. After his mother remarried, he moved to Westchester County. At his new home he would hang out with 11 year old, Steven Tallarico (Tyler), who was a close neighbor. They found out that their interest were very similar, especially music. When Ray was 19 he and Steven got the band "William Proud" together. When Steven mentioned Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton, and the prospects of a new band, they moved to Boston.

At Boston, Tabano and his girlfriend made and sold leather outfits. The band was auditioning drummers, but one day someone with the name of Joey Kramer walked into Tabano's leather store and was found to be just the right man for the job. Kramer was one of Tabano's old school mates and a friend. He walked into the store and said 'Hey, I hear your looking for a drummer.' He was taken down to get an audition ...and that's how Aerosmith began.

Joseph Michael Kramer, born on June 21, 1950 in The Bronx, had wanted to be a drummer ever since he was in eigth grade. He asked his parents for a drum set, but his father wouldn't let him have one. Instead Joey asked Steven Tallarico, who was then drumming for the Strangeurs, if he could borrow his. He soon bought his own and knew just what he wanted to do when he got older. It was music. Kramer went to just barely making it out of high school. He went to six or seven different schools before he graduated.

Kramer's early stage experience was with bands like The Turnpikes, Unique 4, and The King Bees. He also played the covers of Cream and Jimi Hendrix songs. He got into soul music at one time, but rock 'n' roll was always Joey's favorite. His time finally came When he got the chance to join Tallarico and his friends. At the time he was studying at Berkley School of Music in Boston. At first he wasn't sure if he wanted to join in with them, because of the noise Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton were making, but when he found out that Steven was in it too, he reconsidered his thoughts and joined the group.

Now, being a group of five, they stayed at an apartment in Boston. Tallarico worked at a bakery and Perry was a part-time caretaker of a synagogue. At this time they became heavily involved with drugs. During this time they thought up a new name for the group. They came up with a name that Joey Kramer used to write across his textbooks in school. He thought it sounded cool, but it had nothing to do with Sinclair Lewis' classic novel, Arrowsmith. He didn't know where it came from, but the five of them agreed in naming the group Aerosmith.

They just planned to be another small band, nothing big. Their first gig was at Nipmuc Regional High School in 1970. They did two more after that, one at Tom's sister's school, and another at a hall, where Joe's Family and friends lived. They went on playing a couple of gigs here and there.

By 1971 Ray Tabano left the band, sold his leather store, and moved to Mexico for six months. He started to become a little pushy and just left. Returning to Boston, Steven Tyler made him an offer to become a roadie for a while with an opportunity of eventually becoming a Marketing Director. He helped design the now famous winged logo. Not long after that he went back to Mexico and joined another Boston band called Justin Tyme. Coincidentally this band would be opening for Aerosmith some time later and Tabano would be trading jobs with Brad Whitford, one of the guitarists of Justin Tyme. He and Brad had traded places.

Brad Ernest Whitford was born on February 23, 1952 in Winchester, Massachusetts. After watching the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show, he went down to his basement and made his own guitar, but eventually he bought a real guitar and just practiced playing some standard music on it. He ended up studying composition at Berkeley School of Music, but after a year he quit. He figured he learn a lot more on his own bv watching people play every night.

At age 16 he started playing in bands like Earth Incorporated, The Teapot Dome, The Cymbals Resistance, and, finally, Justin Tyme. When the job with Aerosmith came up he took it as soon as he could. Now the band was complete. Soon the band signed a contract with a famous recording company named Columbia. They released their first album, Aerosmith in 1974. Today Aerosmith is still around. They just recenly finished they're Nine Lives tour from thier new album, Nine Lives.

Here are two pictures I have with signatures of some of the band members.

Joe Perry	Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton

To learn more about aerosmith you can buy the book titled The Fall and Rise of Aerosmith, which this report was based on, you can buy a different book, or you might just want to go to someonelses Aerosmith site. Thank you for your interest in my report.