NEW
YORK (Aerosmith Official Website) - AEROSMITH's first-ever concert DVD
"YOU GOTTA MOVE" - recently released via Columbia
Music Video--has
already been certified 4X platinum. Frontman STEVEN TYLER was on hand
at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas to receive a plaque
commemorating sales of the concert film, which represents America's
Greatest Rock & Roll Band at their live concert finest, unleashing
their "inhibition-free, sweat-slicked rock 'n' roll" (Classic Rock).
Continuing
AEROSMITH's tradition as pioneers of new media, the audio CD included
with the DVD features UMixIt, a groundbreaking, interactive
(non-downloadable) music technology for your PC. This marks the first
time a major artist has used this technology. UMixIt allows fans to
take the song "You Gotta Move" (in 8 or 16-track versions) and
manipulate, mix and re-mix the original instrumental and vocal tracks.
TYLER says, "You never know what you can hear between the tracks unless
you can solo them. We've made that possible without having to go to a
recording studio.
You can hear things like Joe stomping his fuzz-tone, and shoving his
guitar into the amp for feedback, not to mention me clearing my throat
and singing the wrong lyrics for all the right reasons."
The
"You Gotta Move" DVD contains over two hours of music and interviews
and includes an inside look at the making of Honkin' On Bobo,
AEROSMITH's critically acclaimed 2004 blues album, which received a
four-star review in Rolling Stone and was ranked by the magazine as one
of the top 50 albums of the year. The members of Aerosmith--STEVEN
TYLER, JOE PERRY, BRAD WHITFORD, TOM HAMILTON and JOEY KRAMER--remain
creatively vital, and are the platinum standard for artistic and
commercial success in the music world.
"To get a performance
that hangs together, very often people will film 20 shows to put a DVD
together like that--and we filmed one," JOE PERRY recently told Launch
Radio Networks. "It was a testament to the ability of the band to put
on a good show, knowing the cameras were running."
The DVD also
gives fans a chance to catch some behind-the-scenes action. In the
February issue of Sound & Vision magazine, Parke Puterbaugh said
"You Gotta Move" is "�a smoking souvenir of their bluesy Honkin' On
Bobo tour. The two-hour program intersperses unrelenting energetic
performances with studio and backstage footage�Use this DVD as 'Exhibit
A' in a greatest rock-band debate."
Classic Rock went on to
proclaim: "�they now seem almost supernaturally attuned, and
consequently boast a synchronicity that soars way beyond the sum of
their constituent parts. Each component (be it Tyler, Perry, Hamilton,
Kramer or Whitford) therefore sits so comfortably in the well-oiled
Aerosmith machine that they're far more free to extemporize and emote
than the corporate concoctions they call contemporaries."
The
live music on "You Gotta Move" was produced by STEVEN TYLER and Marti
Frederiksen and the 5.1 Surround Sound was produced by TYLER, Thom
Cadley and Frederiksen. Keith Garde (who produced Aerosmith's 1990
documentary "The Making of Pump") was Senior Producer. The DVD package
also includes a seven-track bonus audio CD.
