0:05: I know Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are crucial to this video...but I wonder where the other guys are during this practice session? Or do Joe and Steven just dress like this while hanging out?
0:09: SYMBOLISM ALERT! There's a wall. It's dividing the rockers from the rappers. Somebody's ticked off. I'm guessing we will come back to this.
0:21: Does Steven Tyler walk like this through the Kroeger? Does he ever kick out the display table and then have to pick stuff up while the manager watches?
0:31: See, this is why you don't live in apartments. You get music rages where you stick your speaker up against the wall. Hoping that violence doesn't break out.
0:42: So, did Jam Master Jay have a copy of Walk This Way on vinyl? If he liked Aerosmith enough to have this in his collection, and they are living RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the Aerosmith practice facility, couldn't they have made peace before this?
0:48: Does Steven Tyler ever get dizzy? Could he have been an astronaut, whirling around on the centrifuge? True story...a few weeks ago I took my son to an amusement park and I agreed to ride the tilt-a-whirl. I felt terrible the rest of the night. I could never have been Steven Tyler in concert. OK, end of story.
1:11 Did Steven Tyler gripe at Joe Perry to stop playing during this? Was Joe auditioning for a new lead singer and just didn't have the heart to say otherwise?
1:18 "YEAH! Throw that milk jug! That'll show 'em!"
1:24 "Turn it up to 11! We did that 20 seconds ago, let's do it again!"
1:32 Oh, he's not getting his rent deposit back now.
1:37 I always imagined that the walls of studios were a bit more sturdy? Was I mistaken?
1:52 Gotta be hard to sing with all that dust flying through the air. No wonder his voice gets so raspy.
1:58 Um, am I still in this video?
2:14 SYMBOLISM ALERT! There's a paper curtain. It's been impossible to break through for years. But now Russell and and Darryl, they can do this...
2:23 I think this expression is the best part of the video. That's some serious acting. That's where his daughter Liv got her chops so that she could be in a sex scene in Armageddon with Aerosmith playing in the background which is so weird now I'm gonna just move on...
2:32 Oh, the laceless Adidas shoes. Never tried pulling that off, but I wanted to.
2:42 Now they are a trio. The walls have come down. Happiness ensues...Run DMC is playing to Aerosmith's audience...but could Aerosmith play to Run DMC's audience? Hmmm....Given how rap has overwhelmed rock, I think that this was prophetic in where music was going and how 'black' music has been accepted by a 'white audience'.
3:05 Wait, Russell...you break into somebody else's concert and then you are ticked off that they keep singing?
3:19 Steven Tyler screams on behalf of metal bands everywhere. He knows the game is up.
3:30 The video ends with what seems like 3 50ish white guys trying to get their groove on. Needless to say, the last thirty seconds of these guys dancing has not aged well.
Fortunately, we don't judge this video by only its last few seconds. Still great. This song will still be played a hundred years from now.
