Walk This Wayby Aerosmith, , Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0060515805

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Breath taking!

It took me a while to read this book as the lettering is very small & the paragraphs are very condensed... But aside from that... I was speachless after this book. I was an Aerosmith fan from early 80's but did not know they had such a crazy & wild past in late 60's & 70's. I had to buy the Aerosmith CD Gem's to get into the vibe. If you are like me & did not know about their past, you should also purchase the CD "gems" to set the vibe of your reading session.

This book will set you free...

For an Aerosmith fan this book will do to you "something i can only describe as an epiphany", as steven describe listen to Rattlesnake shake by the jam-band at the barn before Aerosmith was made...
For all Aerosmith fan this book is like a bibble.At list it become my own private bibble and my favorite book of all time of course after i read it for the first time.
Everything is in here; from the childhood of the band-members to the years before Aerosnith and all the stories and secrets in Aerosmith until 1997 (The year this book published).
The stories of the songs,The work on the albums,The people close to the band.everything is here and if you're an Aero-fan,mark my words-You wont stop reading this book!.
So get it,read it,look at the fantastic old photos in the middle,and read it again & again & again until your dreams come true...
Let the music do the talkin' !

Great read!!!

This was a great read! The ride they took you on was one of ups and downs with the bad. So much of Aerosmiths history is right here! I loved it. What I really enjoyed was it talked about how some of their big hits were written and the story behind it.

This book is so mind blowing

When I saw this book at Barnes and Noble for $7.95, I was tempted cause I was starting to become a huge Aerosmith fan at the time and I bought one of their CD's a few months earlier and I loved it, and fortunately I had enough money for this book and it's a really good book and we get to see each of the band member's childhoods which makes the book more interesting and the interviews with each band member, producer, managers, roadies, the band member's wives and friends and this book is really even and consistent, I read this book no matter what mood I am and this book will make you laugh and cry as well and it gets better when Aerosmith reaches their peak in the 70's and their comeback in the late 80's, if you're a fan of the newer Aerosmith, I still think that you should get this book although it focuses more on their old stuff and this book ends in 1998 when they scored a #1 hit with I Don't Want to Miss a Thing.

If you love to read or if you're a fan of rock 'n roll and you want to see what they were like on and off stage, then you gotta read this book and you're Aerosmith collection won't be complete without this book cause it is that good, I would give this book 10 stars instead of 5.

Walk, even unsteadily

Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Those three things make up the bulk of "Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith." And amazingly, that repetition doesn't make it bad. Rather it just adds a guilty pleasure tinge to one of the better rock band biographies out there.

They were some young boys from Boston who wanted to make music, but nobody could have guessed that they would become one of the biggest rock bands of the 70s. Girlfriends and wives, drugs of all kinds (one rock wife used cocaine as eyeliner), plenty of concerts and devoted fans, and a life of reckless excess caught to Aerosmith. They partied hard, and it almost destroyed them. Somehow they got their act back together, cleaned up, and are back rocking onstage.

Unlike the disappointing autobiography by the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith's book has a feeling of authenticity. You get the feeling that because of their wild pasts, this is a bit of a confession for them -- "I was bad and this was what I did, and now I know I was an idiot." They give a sense of the day-to-day life of a major rock band, both the good and the bad. The level of detail is simply astounding -- and many little questions are answered. Wanna know why Steven started putting scarves on his mike stands? This book will tell you!

There are extensive, insightful interviews not only with Steven Tyler, Joe Perry other Aerosmith members, but with just about everyone they spent any time with during those years. Bebe Buell (mom of Steven's first daughter, movie star Liv), Teresa Tyler, Tim Collins, Liz Derringer, Jack Douglas, Elissa Perry, somebody called Rabbit, and lots of others. In fact, it gets a bit difficult to tell the not-so-prominent people apart at times. But it's good to see many different viewpoints, the best way of determining what kind of people they are.

Music aficionados, 70s buffs and Aerosmith fans will devour "Walk This Way." It's not just a guilty pleasure, but a mesmerizingly grubby look at Aerosmith's pheonix-like life, destruction and resurrection. (Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll!)

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