Get Your Wings
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| Studio album by Aerosmith | ||||
| Released | March 1, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | December 17, 1973 – January 14, 1974 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant, New York City | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 38:04 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Ray Colcord, Jack Douglas, Bob Ezrin | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| Blender |  |
| Robert Christgau | B− |
| Rolling Stone | (average) |
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Get Your Wings is the second studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released March 1, 1974. The album is the first to feature production from Jack Douglas, who would go on to produce the band's next four albums. Three singles were released from the album, but none of them made the pop charts.
The album has been released in stereo and quadraphonic, and certified triple platinum by the RIAA.
In 1973, Aerosmith released its debut album to little fanfare. As guitarist Joe Perry recalls in the 1997 band memoir Walk This Way, "There was no nothing at all: no press, no radio, no airplay, no reviews, no interviews, no party. Instead the album got ignored and there was a lot of anger and flipping out." The band had been quite nervous recording their first album, with vocalist Steven Tyler going so far to alter his singing voice, and they had little chemistry with producer Adrian Barber. By the time they began recording Get Your Wings, however, Jack Douglas had agreed to work with the band, beginning a long and successful studio collaboration.
Get Your Wings was recorded at the Record Plant in New York City between December 1973 and January 1974. Jay Messina engineered the sessions. Douglas later recalled, "So, to the best of my memory, the preproduction work for Get Your Wings started in the back of a restaurant that was like a Mob hangout in the North End. I commuted there from the Copley Plaza Hotel and they started to play me the songs they had for their new album. My attitude was: 'What can I do to make them sound like themselves?'"
One of the album's most famous tracks is the cover of "Train Kept A-Rollin'", which had been made famous by the Yardbirds, one of Aerosmith's favorite bands. According to Douglas, the crowd noise at the end of the track was taken from a "wild track" from The Concert for Bangladesh, which the producer had worked on. The single version doesn't contain the echo and crowd noise. The song is notable for its start/stop groove, and became their signature, show-stopping song, and is still used to end concerts today. It appears in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Rock Band video games. In 1997, drummer Joey Kramer explained to Alan Di Perna of Guitar World that this unique rhythmic feel originated "probably just from jamming on it at soundcheck and experimenting with putting a James Brown kind of beat behind it. I played with a lot of R&B-type groups before joining Aerosmith." In the same interview, Perry stated that "Train" was the one song "we all had in common when we came together." In 1997, Perry spoke to Aerosmith biographer Stephen Davis about the origins of some of the tunes:
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