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Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. Warren Zevon on David Letterman. Sometimes, late-night TV musical performances live on forever. Most don’t. But we still want to talk about them.
Each week on “Tonight’s Musical Guest, Today”, long-time friends Alex Beaton and Jon Hillman dive in on the music and cultural memory of a band through the arc of their late-night TV performances. Watch along with Alex and Jon as they examine and react to these musical history moments preserved in the amber of time alongside two celebrity guests and a talk show host.
From Conan to Colbert, Letterman to Leno, or SNL to MadTV, there is no shortage of iconic late-night musical moments. And no end to the ones you don’t remember.
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
Aerosmith with Perry Eaton
The podcast bad boys from Boston are talking about THE Bad Boys from Boston. It's AEROSMITH week!
Joining the show with discussion questions in hand is the lead singer and guitarist of another great Boston band Beeef, Perry Eaton! Perry and the guys break down the many eras of Aerosmith and try to make sense of their complicated and epic legacy. The band's first TV performance in 1974 on The Midnight Special is all leather pants and rock god vibes. 13 years later, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry do Walk This Way with Run-DMC on the VMAs. Back to back 90s SNL performances capture the apex of Aerosmith, including an iconic Wayne's World sketch. And we return to the Super Bowl, with a halftime show that surrounds Aerosmith with the 2001 zeitgeist.
Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!
Dream On/Train Kept a Rollin', 8/16/1974 on The Midnight Special
Walk This Way with Run-DMC, 9/11/1987 on the MTV Video Music Awards
Janie's Got a Gun (27:24 mark)/Monkey on my Back (40:04 mark) (row 174), 2/17/1990 on Saturday Night Live
Cryin' (20:10 mark)/Sweet Emotion (51:10 mark) (row 66), 10/9/1993 on Saturday Night Live
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, 2/24/1999 on The Grammy Awards
Bye Bye Bye/I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing/It's Gonna be Me/Jaded/Walk This Way with N'Sync, featuring Britney Spears, Nelly & Mary J. Blige, 1/28/2001 on the Super Bowl Halftime Show
