Aerosmith/Trivia

• Black Sheep Hit: Multiple times, with "Dream On", "Angel" and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". They actually refused to play several of their songs in concert for years because of this.
  • Coincidentally, Mark Chesnutt's cover of "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was a black sheep hit for him around the same time, as he was mainly known for his traditional fiddle-and-steel country, not covers of rock power ballads. In fact, said cover was by far his biggest hit.
• Breakthrough Hit: "Dream On" from their debut album, despite being a Black Sheep Hit Power Ballad.
• Creator Backlash: Joe Perry was not fond of Just Push Play, due to the band rarely, if ever, recording in the same room during it's production and robbing them of the type of live energy was necessary for their kind of music.
• Executive Meddling: The band wanted to include a live cover of "Train Kept-A-Rollin" on Get Your Wings, but producers Jack Douglas and Ray Colcord refused. Eventually, the two sides compromised: Aerosmith played "Train Kept-A-Rollin" twice, in both a slow and fast version, and Douglas added echo and crowd noises sampled from the Concert for Bangladesh in the second half to make it sound like it was recorded live, the crowd noises also helping transition into the beginning of "Seasons of Wither". Further meddling ensued when the album's executive producer, Bob Ezrin, brought in Lou Reed's guitarists Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner, to perform lead guitars in the "studio" and "live" parts.
• Fan Nickname: "The Toxic Twins" for Steven Tyler and Joe Perry; the "L.I.3. (Less Interesting Three)" for Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton.
• Name's the Same:
  • The rhythm guitarist is Brad Whitford. The West Wing's actor is Bradley Whitford.
  • Joe Perry shares the same name with an NFL Hall of Fame running back for the 49ers.
• The Pete Best: Ray Tabano was the guitarist for a while before being replaced by Brad Whitford in 1971, before the band hit it big.
• Throw It In: In "Nobody's Fault", you can faintly hear a squeaky door opening during the song's guitar introduction, just a few seconds before the rest of the band starts playing - according to Steven Tyler, this was due to a recording engineer unceremoniously walking in on a take, and the band left it in because they thought it was funny.