Aerosmith
Renziehausen Park bandshell
McKeesport, PA
10/6/74
01 Introduction - Tuning
02 S.O.S. (Too Bad)
03 Somebody
04 Banter - Tuning
05 Lord of the Thighs
06 Woman Of The World
07 Banter - Tuning
08 Pandora's Box
09 Dream On
10 Same Old Song & Dance
11 Walkin' the Dog
12 Train Kept a Rollin' (with drum solo)
Steven Tyler - vocals, harmonica
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals
Brad Whitford - guitar, vocals
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums
1320 WKTQ-AM ("13Q") free concert
Pittsburgh band Diamond Reo ("Ain't That Peculiar") opened the show, their first ever public performance. Aerosmith played second - they arrived via helicopter during Diamond Reo's set and landed on the baseball field across the street from the bandshell. When their helicopter flew over the crowd they received more applause than Diamond Reo did at any point during their set.
Brownsville Station was the headliner. I met Cub Koda from Brownsville in 1980 and he remembered playing this show - "Yeah, Aerosmith opened for us and we blew them off the stage!" was his comment, not exactly how I remembered it. :) R.I.P. Cub!
I've tried researching this date on the Internet and it often shows up as 10/26/74 or 10/24/74. For years I listed this as 10/13/74 but I'm now pretty certain it was 10/6. It was definitely a Sunday, and for an outdoor show in the Pittsburgh area, it had to be pretty early in October! Many thanks to my longtime friend Dewey for taping this and loaning me his master to copy. Unfortunately that master is long-gone, so this is the lowest generation version of this recording. I believe that all other copies in circulation originated from the cassette copies I traded in the 1980's.