steve hunter and dick wagner played guitar on aerosmith train kept a-rollin.
steve hunter and dick wagner played guitar on aerosmith train kept a-rollin.
who played guitar on aerosmith train kept a-rollin?
steve hunter and dick wagner
the song was an early feature of aerosmith's concerts and a frequent show closer, including for their first gig in 1970. they wanted to record a live version of the song, but producer jack douglas persuaded them to record a studio version, which actually consisted of two different versions of the song. the first part was slower, "more groove-oriented", while the second was a spirited rocker. to give the second part more of a live sound, douglas overdubbed crowd noise from the concert for bangladesh, the 1971 benefit organized by george harrison. steve hunter and dick wagner, who worked with lou reed and alice cooper, were brought in to record the guitar parts. according to hunter, "we [wagner and i] wanted to keep the solos equal so we'd sit down ... and go through the material so it was totally even ... we didn't want it to look like there was a rhythm guitar player and a lead guitar player, because that's what we both did". hunter later elaborated:
train kept a-rollin'
in 1974, aerosmith brought "train kept a-rollin'" into the hard-rock mainstream. steven tyler, joe perry, and tom hamilton had performed the song prior to joining aerosmith. perry recalled, "'train kept a-rollin'' was the only song we had in common when we first got together. steven's band had played 'train' and tom and i played it in our band ... it's a blues song, if you follow its roots all the way back ... i always thought if i could just play one song, it would be that one because of what it does to me". perry's band began performing the song regularly after he had been moved by the performance of "stroll on" in "blowup"; tyler recalled his band opened for the yardbirds in 1966:
train kept a-rollin'