Unplugged 1990

AEROSMITH S CLASSIC ACOUSTIC SHOW FROM 1990 At the beginning of the 1990s, Aerosmith were celebrating a high point in their career. In the wake of 1987 s Permanent Vacation, which had gone 5 x platinum and spawned the Top 20 singles Dude (Looks Like A Lady) , Rag Doll and Angel , their 1989 follow up Pump was an even greater success. With four hit singles, all on heavy rotation at MTV, Pump was certified 7 x Platinum in the U.S. alone, and earned Aerosmith their first Grammy award for the song Janie Got A . In addition, Janie also received two MTV Video Music Awards, and is still regularly featured in lists of all-time great videos. In support of the album, the group embarked on the year-long Pump Tour, which saw Aerosmith play 166 shows across the U.S., Europe and Asia. The tour featured a staggering selection of support artists, including Metallica, Poison and Skid Row. The band also played many high-profile TV and radio shows, including The Howard Stern Show and Saturday Night Live. On the latter, they appeared in a Wayne s World sketch, during which they discussed the fall of the Soviet Union and performed Janie Got A and Monkey On My Back ; Entertainment Television would later rank this appearance as the No. 1 moment in the program s history. On 11th August 1990, Aerosmith performed the entirely acoustic show featured in its completion on this CD. Recorded and filmed at New York s Ed Sullivan Theatre for transmission as part of MTV s then regular concert series Unplugged, the event was a musical departure for the band, but a wholly worthwhile and thrilling show, which is released here for the first time. During a period where Aerosmith were being described as the biggest band in the world , they played a broad range of classics from across their back catalogue, including Monkey On My Back and Toys In The Attic , as well as several covers of numbers from The Doors, Rufus Thomas, Howlin Wolf and others.