Tonight’s WBLM Mini-Concert

When Aerosmith came to Portland on December 6, 1979, Steven Tyler passed out onstage which brought the show to a halt. It was a Thursday night in front of a sold-out crowd at the Cumberland County Civic Center. In the middle a song, He collapsed and didn’t get up. Steven Tyler had to be carried from the stage and the show was over. Thankfully although the crowd was disappointed, they didn’t start a riot. The over 8,000 fans in attendance that night were invited back for a make-up performance the following month.

Aerosmith’s hardcore rock n’ roll lifestyle had chewed them up and spit them out. In a 2004 interview with Dateline on NBC.com, Steven Tyler said of this drug and alcohol addicted time, “It stole us like a crook, it just raped us. It took every want and need to write a song, and what were you doing. The lost weekends were piling up. I lost my wife and my daughter and my band, and everything that I lived for up until that moment, and didn’t care.” This period really was the end of Aerosmith. That was until Tyler got sober in 1986 and soon after, so did the rest of the band. Then came their resurrection with the release of the mega-hit comeback album, Permanent Vacation in 1987.

Join us tonight at 6:20 for live Aerosmith on the WBLM Mini-Concert!