‘When the Monkey Comes’ is an Aerosmith outtake from Nine Lives album. It was recorded during the 1996 sessions at the South Beach studio. A version of the song was later reworked under a new name, ‘Angle’s Eyes’, and released for the Charlie’s Angels movie soundtrack in 2000.
A demo of the song was found in one of the lost Avatar Studios DAT (digital audio tape) found in a trash bin in the UK during the early 2000s. The tapes contained TV mixes of released tracks and demos simply listed as “rough”.
3 of these were early pre-production demos with someone other than Tyler on vocals. It is assumed that the voice belongs to Marti Frederiksen, as he is known to have started working with Joe. One of the “rough” demos was clearly the opening riff and pre-chorus we now recognise from Angel’s Eye, but the chorus was completely different in chords and melody. The lyrics in this demo were all scating with a couple of words finished, like the conclusion to the chorus repeating the word “disguise”. The South Beach demo did include Tyler on vocals and different lyrics to the released version (though similar in parts). While the lyrics were almost finished, they didn’t flow as good as the final ones.
It’s most likely a song Frederiksen brought to the band, initially working on it with Perry, as John Kalodner asked him to provide songs for the band about that time, and then Tyler finished the lyrics.
When “Angel’s Eye” was released it was credited as Tyler/Perry and Frederikersen so assume Perry did some sort of guitar dub on it. Whilst the song rocked in a way, a lot of fans hated it, or put it down as it lacked a real guitar solo which is very un-Aerosmith in style.
“Angel’s Eye” was played live about 5 times in 2001, two of which Steven confused its lyrics with the original demo. The video below is a mix of the 2 live versions and evolution of the demos.
The Back-Burner: Aerosmith Outtakes & Demos 
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