![]() ![]() So it wasn’t until after it became a single that we really started playing it. I don’t know if we really played it much live, in those days if you only had half an hour to make your mark, you didn’t play slow songs. We also knew that if you played straight rock ‘n’ roll you didn’t get played on the radio and, if you wanted a top forty hit, the ballad was the way to go. I didn’t really appreciate the musicality of it until later, but I did know it was a great song, so we put it in our set. Lyrics to 'Dream On' by AEROSMITH: every time that I look in the mirror / all these lines on my face getting clearer / the past is gone / it went by like dusk to dawn / isnt that the way / everybodys got their dues in life to pay / yeah, I know nobody knows / where it comes and where it goes / I know its. Those were the things that attracted me to rock ‘n’ roll, but ‘Dream On’ was a ballad. And to me rock ‘n’ roll’s all about energy and putting on a show. In a Classic Rock Magazine interview in 2002, he confessed: “Back in those days you made your mark playing live. Guitarist Joe Perry commented that he didn’t like the song at first, however. “Dream On” was also the band’s saving grace when they were on the brink of being dropped from their label, but performed poorly at first as Columbia Records focused more on Bruce Springsteen’s first album release. ![]() I never thought that it would end up being a real song.” It was just this little sonnet that I started playing one day. ![]() ‘Dream On’ came of me playing the piano when I was about 17 or 18, and I didn’t know anything about writing a song. That’s a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. He continued, “This song sums up the s–t you put up with when you’re in a new band.
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