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“I don’t want anybody kissing my eyes. I don’t want anybody staying up all night to hear me breathe. What are you kissing my eyes for?”: 28 years later, songwriter Diane Warren is bewildered by some of her lyrics for what became Aerosmith's biggest hit

We'd definitely be willing to miss out on some of those things

MusicRadar · Mar 6

"Why have Kiss lasted in a town like Detroit? 'Cos we appeal to the real masses, the great unwashed of America." In 2003, Kiss fans coughed up $1,000 for front-row seats on their 2003 US tour with Aerosmith, and we joined the throng

“In many ways Kiss has a lot more to do with rappers, both spiritually and aesthetically, than with grunge rock music” - Gene Simmons

Metal Hammer · Mar 6

“When I heard Train Kept a Rollin' I said, ‘Man, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford have gotten really good!’ After Steven left, Jack Douglas said, ‘Don’t say anything, but that’s not Brad and Joe’”: Angel’s Punky Meadows on why he didn’t join Kiss or Aerosmith

As the band’s final large-scale tour looms, the Superstrat pioneer looks back on how he got started, why he quit, and why he’s not planning to fall silent again

Guitar World · Mar 5

Joe Perry of Aerosmith's 2005 Living Room Featured a Novel Take on Animal Print – His Cheetah Sofa Re-Wrote The Pattern Clashing Formula

As oughties trends resurge, we visit Joe Perry's 2000s living room, where animal print was reinvented – here's how to recreate the look

Homes & Gardens · Feb 26

“I got up on stage and my guitar tech goes, ‘Slash wanted me to give you this.’ It was the ’59. It was dead silent in the room”: Joe Perry on the painful memory of selling his ’Burst – and why he’ll never forget the moment it came back to him

The Aerosmith guitarist was forced to sell his most cherished guitar in the late-’70s and spent years trying to get it back, until Slash made the ultimate guitar collector sacrifice

Guitar World · Feb 24

"It's not big, it's not clever, but it is a lot of twelve-bar fun with that Keith Richards' twist": Faster Pussycat's debut is a middle-finger-in-the-air collection of songs about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

Faster Pussycat capture all the sleaze of Sunset Strip on rowdy self-titled debut

Louder · Feb 16

“Tal came over and said, ‘Sting, it doesn’t quite go the way you’re playing it…’” When Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic

Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened

Guitar World · Feb 14

“The door cracks open and I hear, ‘Who the hell are you? Play that again!‘” Steven Tyler gatecrashed Jared James Nichols’ jam and invited him to hang out with Aerosmith – and he kept coming back

Nichols ended up rubbing shoulders with Aerosmith and was even shown some early studio mixes

Guitar World · Feb 11

“Rick said, ‘I think we need to put a bass on it’. One of the kids said, ‘My apartment ain’t too far, I got a bass there’”: How the Beastie Boys saved the day on Aerosmith and Run D.M.C.’s Walk This Way

The Def Jam community spirit was alive and well in NYC's Chung King Studios

Guitar World · Feb 7

“I struggle to think of any Fender that surpasses a Mary Kaye Strat in value or collector appeal”: Body dated January 1956, the first of its kind, played on an Aerosmith album – is this the holy grail of all holy grail Fender Stratocasters?

Only two features distinguished a Mary Kaye Stratocaster from any other Strat that might have rolled off Fender’s production line during the mid-to-late 1950s. So why are vintage examples so darn valuable?

Guitar World · Feb 4