In the spring of 1999, General Motors wanted “Sweet Emotion” for its Olympic advertising. It could not get the record everyone knew. The 1975 master belonged to Columbia, by then part of Sony. Licensing it would have meant a deal with the label as well as the band. So the song went back into the … More The Other “Sweet Emotion”: Aerosmith’s 1999 Re-Recording for General Motors
Aerosmith’s two previous albums had both been made twice. Get a Grip was rejected by the label in 1992 and written again. Nine Lives was recorded in Miami, scrapped, and recorded again in New York. On 5 August 1999, two weeks after the last show of the tour that followed it, bassist Tom Hamilton wrote … More The Making of Aerosmith’s Just Push Play: Self-Produced, All-Digital and Never in the Same Room
“Painted On My Heart” is a song written by Diane Warren, who offered the song to Aerosmith after the success they had with IDWMAT. In April 2000 MTV News reported Aerosmith had recorded the song for the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie ”Gone in 60 Seconds”. Columbia was supposed to do the soundtrack with Matt Serletic … More “PAINTED ON MY HEART” the Diane Warren song AEROSMITH denied ever recording!
On March 5, 1999, MTV reported that Aerosmith recorded Diane Warren song, “Blue Eyes Blue” for the film “Runaway Bride”. They later opt out of the project leaving Eric Clapton to record the song for the film soundtrack (released July 1999). Aerosmith recently recorded a ballad called “Blue Eyes Blue” for the soundtrack to Runaway … More “BLUE EYES BLUE” Diane Warren’s perfect follow-up to IDWTMAT that Aerosmith rejected
