They got it with a little help from a rising star named Alicia Silverstone, star of The Crush, a trashy erotic thriller about a murderous teen with a deadly fixation on her sweaty-looking grown-up neighbor Cary Elwes. So the band needed a real hit – a chance to show off the Aerosmith feel and the Aerosmith luster. MTV’s VJ Kennedy gave the video a memorable punch line, snickering, “Edward sure makes my fur long.” But Weird Al hugely improved the song when he redid it as “Livin’ in the Fridge.” Tyler wore dreadlocks, inspiring the mockery of Beavis & Butt-Head: “He looks like Vanilli!” The video was a real dud – there wasn’t even a girl, only some hijinks with Terminator kid Edward Furlong. “There’s something wrong with the world today” was a valid sentiment in 1993, but not the kind of thing you go to Steven Tyler to get lectured about. Which way did you come in?” Megadeth got replaced by Jackyl, giving fans a chance to thrill to Jesse James Dupree’s chainsaw solos during “The Lumberjack.”Ī bigger problem was the underwhelming first single and video, “Livin’ on the Edge,” a big-budget bore. Stephen Tyler’s comment to Mustaine was one of his classics: “We’d like to help you out. Megadeth got the axe after only six shows, when Dave Mustaine was accused of blowing his nose on an Aerosmith T-shirt onstage. Their tour got off to a shaky start with opening act Megadeth, not a happy match. One reason was the admirably moronic cover: the album title tattooed above a cow’s udder. Musically, the album is classic Aerosmith: pounding backbeats from drummer Joey Kramer basslines from Tom Hamilton, which range from bouncing and bubbly to galloping and growling the interlocking guitar play of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford and of course, the howls, screams, screeches of Steven Tyler.“Cryin” dropped at a time when Aerosmith needed a boost – their excellent new album Get a Grip was in danger of looking like a joke. But the commercial success of the album is no fluke.
Out of the 10 million-plus people who purchased Get A Grip, nearly half of those sales came from outside the US.
It topped the Billboard Top 200 albums chart and not only re-established Aerosmith as America’s reigning hard rock band, it brought them global appeal. Released on April 20, 1993, Get A Grip is one of Aerosmith’s most commercially successful albums certified seven-times platinum, it is second only to Toys In The Attic – which was certified eight-times platinum. Permanent Vacation ushered in a renaissance that would continue with Pump and Get A Grip. While Perry and Whitford returned in 1984 to record Done With Mirrors, the band’s second coming really bloomed with 1987’s Permanent Vacation, buoyed by the massive success of the 1986 crossover remakeof “Walk This Way” with hip-hop group Run-DMC.
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