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Joe Perry on the lost golden-era Aerosmith guitar he misses the most

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry may confess to being (mostly) a “stone-cold Gibson man,” but the rock icon says the one guitar from his ‘70s heyday he wishes he still had is a Strat – specifically, the ...
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What Rick Rubin told legendary guitarist Joe Perry during the recording of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage/Getty Images It was the first hip-hop single to reach the top ...
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Run-D.M.C's 'Walk This Way' brought hip-hop to the masses and made Aerosmith cool again

As the story goes, one day nearly 40 years ago, a precocious 22-year-old New York record producer named Rick Rubin heard one of his bands, the hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C., messing with a catchy riff on a ...
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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler wrote ‘Walk This Way’ after watching famous film 50 years ago — and ‘drugs worked,’ too: producer

In the final stretch of making its iconic 1975 album “Toys in the Attic,” Aerosmith stumbled upon inspiration for “Walk This Way” while strolling through the seedy streets of Hell’s Kitchen and Times ...