Get A Grip (Cowhide Cover) [Special Limited Edition, Original recording]

Aerosmith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Special Limited Edition, Original recording
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000L69SIS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,254 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Special Limited Editon version, issued in a fold-open, felt, cowhide-style case. A full length CD, only avaiable commercially for a short time, and issued in small quantities. Geffen Records, 1993, # GED/ GEFD-24446.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for collectors!, April 19, 2009

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L. Ocampo "osl" (Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get A Grip (Cowhide Cover) (Audio CD)

It's a very rare and great edition for collectors! It was sent very fast and in perfect conditions! Thanks!

4.0 out of 5 stars Masterclass in blues based rockin' out, October 21, 2007

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Paul Lawrence "'EJL'" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get A Grip (Cowhide Cover) (Audio CD)

I don't really know what it is that Aerosmith drink. Well probably just orange juice these days, but whatever brand it is I want some! Get A Grip is the second great album in a row from Aerosmith giving the band yet another upswing era during the late 80's/early 90's and whatever the indiscretions (the armageddon soundtrack) the band were richly deserving of the accolades both Pump and this album garnered.

The album kicks off with an intro and then scoots along into Eat the Rich, a fast paced rocker laced with humour. It then drops straight into the title track which uses the whole Aerosmith armoury of boogie riffs, fast-mouth lyricisms from Steven Tyler and a host of melody and harmony effects thoughout, a true masterclass in how to write a rollicking rock `n' roll song. Fever follows up and has a slower vocal delivery and a musical form with a bit more of a slouch, if you get my meaning. A low slung feel that you know the boys in ZZ Top would probably approve of.

Livin' On the Edge, the flagship single off the album is a slower paced number to much of what has gone before and is certainly one of the most mature songs on the album lyrically. Flesh is in many ways a repeat of the formula of Fever in that both have a ridiculously bouncy Aerosmith delivery and neither are particularly deep in the lyrical department! Walk on Down is a fairly bluesy number and the band can probably write a song like this in around ten minutes. Not a standout but very much in keeping with the rest of the album as is Shut Up and Dance where that Aerosmith swingability comes into full force in the same way David Lee Roth can create a swingin' good time vibe out of thin air.

As the album moves into it's latter phases there is a bit of a dip in quality, the ballad Cryin being about as good as any other latter day Aerosmith ballad, just how necessary another one of them is being up to your personal tastes. But whatever it's merits, it does mark a point in the album after which the tunes are a touch less memorable. Gotta Love It and breezes along but just feels a touch too similar to what has gone before to my mind but others may really love it. Crazy is anything but, almost like the band only had enough energy left in their bones to power a certain number of upbeat tunes which is weird as Line Up definitely has a honky tonk feel. One can see how Honkin On Bobo came outta these guys.

The final trilogy of tunes in the form of Can't Stop Messin, Amazing and Boogie Man are fairly anonymous slices of blues inflected party numbers. But by this point in the album chances are everybody is too drunk to care.

A really good album I wholeheartedly recommend, hey, I'm a fan - which is why I bought the limited edition cowhide cover. It was certainly a talking point when the album came out as was the ring that looked like it had been put through a cows udder on the booklet cover art, the band being very quick to point out nobody actually went out and pierced a cows udder for the photograph.

Pick this up, it's cheap enough, and you'll have yourself a party rocker of an album for your collection.