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Aerosmith Time-Line 1991 Aerosmith took a well-deserved break and began writing for a new album. The band also found time to ink a new record deal with Sony music, win a Grammy for Janie's got a gun, appear on animated TV show The Simpson's, be inducted into the Boston Garden Hall of Fame, release a 3-CD box entitled Pandora's Box and make the Sweet Emotion video. 1992 Won "Outstanding Rock Band" and "Best Rock Video" at the Boston Music Awards. In support of their anti-censorship fight, gave $10,000 to the List Visual Arts Center a MIT in Boston to fund a sexually explicit exhibition of photographs and sculptures which the National Endowment for the Arts had pulled support for under the Bush Administration. Shot "Rock the Vote" video for massive national TV campaign encouraging America's youth to vote in the Presidential election. Commenced recording of Get a Grip. 1993 Aerosmith released Get a Grip and embarked on another world tour - starting in the USA. Won "Viewer's Choice Award" at the MTV Video Music Awards and were voted "Best Rock Act" at the Billboard Music Awards. 1994 Aerosmith tour Latin America for the first time. Crying video voted "#1 All Time Favorite Video" by MTV viewers. Get a Grip world tour continues through North America, Canada, Europe and Japan. Band honored at MTV Video Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, American Music Awards and the Grammys. Geffen Records releases Big Ones and accompanying video Big Ones you can look at. Columbia Records releases Box of Fire containing all of the band's 12 original Columbia records, plus a bonus CD of Aero-rarities. Band signs biography book deal with Putnam Publishing, with author Steven Davis as writer. Aerosmith star in Revolution X video arcade game and the first Virtual Music CD ROM title Quest for Fame: Featuring Aerosmith. Aerosmith undertake four-date global "Cyberspace tour", proceeds of which benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and download exclusive track "Head First" on CompuServe. December 19, Aerosmith open "Mama Kin" - their own venue in Boston with a set that is broadcast on radio live across America. This concludes the Get a Grip World Tour. 1995 Joe Perry and Steven Tyler induct Led Zeppelin into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame before jamming on-stage with the band. Aerosmith win their third Grammy Award and are voted "Favorite Rock Group" in the People's Choice Awards for the second year running. Band receives Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for "Patron of the Artist." Band starts writing for the new album, spending most of the years between Boston and Los Angeles. Band plays two club shows in November, for fans in their hometown of Boston, at the Middle East and Mama Kin Music Hall, to test out new material for their upcoming album. 1996 Tyler and Perry relocate to Miami, FL to complete the writing phase of the new album. Steven Tyler records spoken word version of an "Unpublished Dream" for Jack Kerouac tribute album, in New York. Band signs with new management, Magus Entertainment Inc. In three cities, Boston, Miami and New York, and four studios, The Boneyard (MA), Criteria (FL), the Hit Factory (NYC) and Avatar (NYC), work progresses on the band's new album, completed by producer Kevin Shirley. Band receives "Band of the Decade" award at the 10th Annual Boston Music Awards. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry join Stone Temple Pilots onstage for a surprise performance at Madison Square Garden, NYC. 1997-98 Nine Lives - Aerosmith's twelfth studio album and first since rejoining Columbia Records - hits the charts at #1 following its release on March 18, 1977 The band kicks off a world tour in Europe on May 8. They then spend the next 20 months on the Nine Lives tour of the world. Walk this Way, the official Aerosmith autobiography, is published. The streets surrounding select book stores are filled with thousands of hungry Aero Fans who wait hours for the chance to have their copy autographed by the band. Fans across America celebrate Steven's 50th birthday in true Aerosmith fashion. After more than 70 U.S dates, concerts in Europe and a record-breaking "Dome" tour in Japan, Aerosmith find themselves taking an unexpected four month break when an untimely injury to Steven Tyler's knee forces him into surgery. An incident involving a gasoline fire sidelines Joey Kramer with a painful arm injury. Aerosmith released their Greatest Hits 1973-1988 album an extension of the earlier Greatest Hits album and the Made in America six track CD Aerosmith contributes four songs to the Armageddon Soundtrack. I Don't want to miss a thing is a major hit and puts a new Aero Classic on the airwaves and the silver screen. 1999-00 Geffen release the new Live album A little south of sanity. The band tours Europe again with the Nothing can stop the Rock tour. Aerosmith begin the writing tracks for their upcoming album and release their Classics Live! Complete album. |
