Aerosmith Reveal How They Made ‘Walk This Way’ with Run-DMC
They reunited in 1985, but years lost to estrangement and addiction had cost them dearly. Damaged relationships could be mended, sobriety was a work in progress, but they were still facing a falloff in sales and the feeling that the band lacked relevance to younger music fans now obsessed with MTV. Even older acts like The Who had a video presence in the rotation between Madonna and Michael Jackson. Fellow Bostonians the Cars had already won one of many awards for their visually witty shorts.
“I can remember vividly, one day I was driving home and thinking about MTV, this new concept of making a mini-movie to go with a song,” says bassist Tom Hamilton. “I thought, “Oh my God, we will never be part of that.” It was depressing.Run-DMC was one of the top-selling rap acts of the mid-’80s, but at the time MTV programmers largely ignored rap and hip-hop.
When it came time to record “we were on tour in Detroit or something, and we had one day off,” recalls Tyler. He and Joe Perry flew to New York. “Thank God Joe brought his guitar, because had he not, they just would have used the drums that are all alone on the record. They were using that sample and playing it over and over.
“It wound up being so magical,” says Tyler. “Then [the director] Jon Small, who gets little to no credit, came up to me and said, ‘I got a really good idea for this . Why don’t we put Run-DMC on one side, Aerosmith on the other side, and there’ll be a wall, and we’ll cut out a piece in the wall.’ The whole idea was to show that rock and roll and rap could live together. It was a giant step outside anybody’s mind at MTV.
was the whole thing. For us to be involved in that was just a miracle. It was without a doubt the second step of our career.”The hit gave Aerosmith the momentum to make their next album, and suddenly they were back from the brink. “If we hadn’t done ‘Walk This Way,’ things would have been different,” says guitarist Brad Whitford. “We just had no way of knowing. Then it caught fire, and it was huge.
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