Classic music videos for songs released in 1975 don't often exist.
But then again, the male protagonist in this video would have been 1 in 1975.....
The song peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, making this the first top 40 hit for the band and kicking off a string of hit songs. I'm not going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about the drums. Now, you hardcore musicians know that, in a song in 4/4 time, the drum usually hits on the 2nd and 4th beat. In this song, it hits on 1 and 3. It's upside down, and it works, brilliantly.
The band broke up in the early 1980's but reformed in the mid 1980's and enjoyed a resurgence, leading to a release of this single, alongside this video, in 1991.
All these years later, the band still tours and still brings high energy. Here they are in a 2011 performance. Joe Perry's unusual background vocal is more pronounced here.
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