Walk This Way

Walk This Way is a song by Aerosmith from 1975, which was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. It appeared on the album Toys in the Attic.

History

The song starts with the beat of Joey Kramer two-stroke drum beat, followed by the smooth guitar riffs by Joe Perry. The intro played Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on an electric guitar and a bass guitar.

Walk This Way is about a high school student who loses his virginity. It was very quickly sung by Steven Tyler and contains rap similar passages, such as " so I took a big chance at the high school dance" ( German: " So I left it at the high school dance get it "). They took the song eleven years later scratch. As an inspiration to the text Marty Feldman's Frankenstein was a junior.

In addition to consuming verses the chorus mainly consists of the repetition of the phrase " Walk this way, talk this way" ( German: Make it so, then say so ). In many appearances, the line "talk this way" is repeated by the band often, even with the audience. At the concerts, longer guitar solos are played, also imitated Tyler with his voice, the riffs. In the list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time magazine Rolling Stone, the original peaked at number 336 and the cover 287 square The first release was on 28 August 1975.

Cover version of Run - D.M.C. feat. Aerosmith

1986 took run- D.M.C. in cooperation with the Aerosmith classic scratch. During the recording of the album Raising Hell to producer Rick Rubin procured for inspiration the Aerosmith album Toys in the Attic. And Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels at that time did not know who were Aerosmith, suggested Rubin to record a remake of Walk This Way with the band. Neither Simmons nor McDaniels liked this idea, but Jam Master Jay took them a favor and later they decided to re-recording. In a trailer for Guitar Hero they meant to "A beautiful song" ( German: "A Beautiful Song" ) Mostly this version is considered mainstream pop and rap scene, the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 stormed addition to rap.. dominates the cover of the rock, pop and hip- hop directions. As a DJ Afrika Bambaataa was involved, the mixed remixes of songs known groups. publication was on July 4, 1986.

Music Video

The director of the music video led Jon Small. In the video to Run D.M.C deliver. and Aerosmith initially symbolically a duel until Steven Tyler breaks the wall between the two bands. Later in the video both carry then the song together before.

Cover versions

  • 2001: Pinetop Perkins feat. Rusty Zinn
  • 2002: Hayseed Dixie
  • 2003: Dick Brave & the Backbeats
  • 2003: Sum 41 feat. Ja Rule & Nelly
  • 2004: Steve Lukather feat. Tim Bogert
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