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pidunk 10:52 pm UTC 04/12/07 |
| In reply to: | Aerosmith 'story' - Scaramouche 10:39 pm UTC 04/12/07 |
> Here's another 'story' I've read in an Aerosmith book: > > John Kalodner (their A & R) approached Jim in the late > 80's to write for their Permanent Vacation album (I > think). > > Jim agreed but Tyler & Perry weren't so keen for some > reason. > > With shades of Bat 3, they then approached Desmond Child, > and wrote 'Dude Looks Like A Lady'. I just did a little googling, and came up with this: When die-hard rock band Aerosmith was noodling with a song called "Cruising for the Ladies," Desmond Child told the group he thought the title was dull. Steven Tyler, the band's lippy lead singer, confessed he originally had the phrase "Dude looks like a lady" in mind. "But he said he wasn't sure what that meant," recalls Child, who came to the rescue. He took the lead and crafted a tale of a man who falls for a "lady" stripper who turns out to be, well, a dude.This is taken from this url. I once heard Child speak at a seminar where he seemed to have described his songwriting as "bursts of spontaneious combustion", that do not particularly gear themselves specifically to projects. He described spirited dialogues about who was going to perform what song of his, and a running gag between he and Jon Bon Jovi goes on where Child gives away a song to someone else that Jon wanted to record. Child described himself as someone who "accidentally" finds projects that fit his muse. he said he talks alot and the subject is invariably that of songwriting. I don't know any information about where Jim or Aerosmith's A&R people fit in. | |
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