YouTube Tuesdays: Aerosmith temporarily forget themselves and channel The Outsiders

4.6.2010 @ 3:53 pm UTC by lilah wild

If you grew up during the 90’s – or, hell, were doing anything at all during the 90’s – you probably have Aerosmith firmly ensconced in the richly deserved Crazy-Crying-Amazing pop-metal powerballad bucket. Or, if you’re more generous, you remember them fondly for “Sweet Emotion,” or that duet with RUN-D.M.C. You probably don’t recall the 20 seconds in 1981 where Steven Tyler swapped his scarves for a leather jacket, greaser hair, and a lead pipe. (Although in the true style of Lead Singer Syndrome, he dances with the lead pipe more than doing anything interesting with it.) It’s a swaggery little tune that does very nicely on a summer booze-and-badasses playlist, and the audio effects on the lightning are the perfect cheddar icing.