So when you're listening to this line, you should be thinking of Joe saying to Steven something like, "don't worry about what she said, it was not true." "Backstage lover" refers to Perry, and "pants on fire" means exposing one's lies. You got good news but you're a real good liar/ Cause backstage lover set your pants on fire - this means Elyssa' lies are confirmed by Joe Perry. Said my get up and go musta got up & went - filler line. Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent - this is saying Elyssa's face resembles that of a pig. Ya callin' my name, but I gotta make it clear - Steven is tell Elyssa to stop call him with offensive namesĬan't say where I'm gonna be in a year - this is more of a filler line, but my take on this is Elyssa probably wanted to know where the band would be traveling so she could make arrangements to travel with Joe Perry. Wearing other things that nobody wears - Steven is trying to set her as an outcast
Talk about things and nobody cares - Steven is saying to Elyssa not to waste his and bandmates' time with Steven Tyler wrote the lyrics pertaining to Joe Perry's wife, Elyssa It was Aerosmith's first top 40 single on Billboard Hot 100, and arguably the one that put the band on mainstream rock radio. "Sweet Emotion" was based on much of the ugly differences between Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, but the song was beautiful. In the media they were known as "Toxic Twins," and the nickname stuck because it was so true of their lifestyle. Nevertheless one thing that brought Joe Perry and Steven Tyler together was their use of drugs. There was also a lot of tension between the ladies of the bandmates. They never really talked to each other in person when they did, it was screaming at each others' ears on stage. But prior to that, even in the mid 1970s when Toys in the Attic was released, they were on thin ice. The volatile relationship of Perry and Tyler eventually took its toll in the late 1970s. Knowing this, to add insult to injury, Perry married her in 1975. Steven Tyler was jealous of the lady Joe Perry was dating at the time, maybe because he wanted date her, and also due to the fact that Perry spending more and more time with her, away from the band. Off stage, their differences became more personal. As the frontman and lead guitarist, they were always competing to be on the spotlight on the stage. In fact their feuds are well explained in also of the band's documentaries. But that's how it was done back then".Rivalry between Joe Perry and Steven Tyler is well known for Aerosmith fans. They edited it down to just the melodic element. So then the f*ckin' record company got it and said, 'What can we maul to get this on the radio ?' The single version of "Sweet Emotion" is pretty chopped up.
Perry : "We knew it would be killer live - a show stopper. Finally I said, 'Just fuckin' play a drum fill and we'll go into.'. It was late and we were at the end of our rope.
Tyler : "Remember, we didn't know how to end it ? We got into a big fight. Hamilton : That part came from all the times that we listened to "Rough and Ready" album". Steven had the idea of taking that intro riff, which became the chorus bass line under the "Sweet emotion" part, and transposing it into the key of E, and making it a really heavy Zeppelin-esque thing".īrad Whitford (guitars) : "We kind of bastardized that lick from "Rice Pudding." ". So I spent the day showing everybody and we took it from there. But it was at the end of the recording and Jack said, 'Tomorrow's jam day, if anybody's got a stray riff hanging around'. I wrote that line and realized I should think of some guitar parts for it if I was ever going to get a chance to present it to the band. Tom Hamilton (bass) : "The bass riff came first.