One More Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tSchwartz, meanwhile, confirms that, \u201cWe just got on like a house on fire. Dom\u2019s very energetic, like ADD energetic\u2026He and (Tyler) are very complementary. When we did the first session, Dom was really encouraging him \u2014 \u2018Come on, let\u2019s do this together, and that!\u2019 It was infectious. And Steven just went in and did it and everyone in the room was, clapping, like, \u2018Oh. My. God.\u2019 Things just happened really quickly, and organically. Everything just landed. Every idea we had came out on this EP, which is rare. We were just inspired by their presence, their aura, whatever you call it. It was just amazing, the whole process.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTyler and Yungblud both wound up performing at the Back to the Beginning concert for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath on July 5 in Birmingham, England \u2014 the latter releasing a single of his rendition of the band\u2019s \u201cChanges.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe got to hear all the stories that were absolutely incredible from Joe and Steven,\u201d Schwartz adds. \u201cWhat rock life used to be like before socials and everything else. I\u2019m still pinching myself to think we\u2019ve been spending all this time together with those two.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tEqually organic was the addition of Steve Martin on banjo for \u201cMy Only Angel (Desert Road Edition).\u201d \u201cWe did this acoustic version,\u201d Schwartz recalls, \u201cand I said, \u2018I\u2019d like to try banjo on it, why not?\u2019 And Steven goes, \u2018Hey, why don\u2019t we call Steve Martin?\u2019 and I was like, \u2018Yeah, why don\u2019t we.\u2019 (laughs) The next thing you know Steve Martin sends me over this banjo part that was amazing, and he said, \u2018Should I go record it?\u2019 I said, \u2018It\u2019s done. You already recorded it.\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018What? I did it on my phone!\u2019 But it sounded amazing, and Steve Martin\u2019s on the record as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs to determining what Aerosmith should sound like 13 years after its last album, Music From Another Dimension!<\/em>, Schwartz explains that \u201cthe easiest trap with Aerosmith is to go for the ballads, which we know and love. But they\u2019ve got \u2018Sweet Emotion,\u2019 so many other records that are phenomenal. We tried to go back to the \u201870s rather than the later era and tried to be inspired by those moments. The main thing was to make sure it sounded authentic. The whole idea was to push things forward \u2014 take things from the past and bring them forward as if they were done today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tWork on the EP went into October, Schwartz says, with \u201cWild Woman\u201d as the last of the original songs written. \u201cBack in the Saddle (2025 Mix),\u201d meanwhile, was the idea of Perry\u2019s wife Billie and is the only track to include Aerosmith\u2019s other classic members \u2014 Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer, whose parts were taken from the original recording and mixed with new contributions from Tyler, Perry and Yungblud. Matt Sorum (Guns N\u2019 Roses, Velvet Revolver, the Cult) plays drums on the four originals.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat was nerve-racking,\u201d Schwartz says of the remake. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to overly change it, or completely transform it. I wanted it to sound like what would\u2019ve happened if we recorded it today in a studio, with today\u2019s approach and technology. When you listen to it, it\u2019s supposed to be a similar feeling \u2014 just modern.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tRudolph adds that \u201cBack in the Saddle\u201d solidifies the Aerosmith imprimatur on the endeavor. \u201cWe very much consider it an Aerosmith project versus a Steven and Joe side project,\u201d he explains, \u201cin the sense that Steven and Joe are Aerosmith and that \u2018Back in the Saddle\u2019 is on it, with everybody playing. The intention is that moving forward, if and when, we\u2019ll certainly get Tom and Brad involved. Joey\u2019s sort of retired from playing with the band. But it\u2019s all very fluid at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThere is every intent on moving forward, it seems.<\/p>\n
\n\tSchwartz says that Tyler, Perry and Yungblud \u2014 who performed together at this year\u2019s MTV Music Video Awards \u2014 \u201cstarted a new song\u201d after the EP\u2019s four original tracks were done. \u201cWe haven\u2019t completely finished it, but it\u2019s really exciting.\u201d Perry certainly sounds game as well. \u201cThe obvious (thing) is maybe we can go in and write some more music. I haven\u2019t really talked to Steven about it, but I know that in our conversations over the last couple of months the words, \u2018We\u2019re never gonna do this again\u2019 never came up, so that\u2019s a good sign. I guess that\u2019s part of the adventure; I\u2019m too young to retire\u2026(and) I know he\u2019s got more in him. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tRudolph \u2014 who\u2019d be counseled by a predecessor that Aerosmith would never make new music again \u2014 says One More Time<\/em> has given both band and brand a jolt of new excitement, and purpose. \u201cListen, they have an album called Nine Lives<\/em> \u2014 I think they\u2019re proving, living out that title at this point,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019ve been around for 55 years as a band. It doesn\u2019t look like they\u2019re going anywhere any time soon. This (EP) turned out so far above and beyond whatever expectations we had going into it. It was supposed to be the guys just going in and featuring on Dom\u2019s single. And now it\u2019s a whole new Aerosmith record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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