This morning, while driving to the office I was listening on the radio Aerosmith and Run DMC with Walk this way. I love this song and the guitar riff is one to always remember, in my opinion. Joe Perry is one creative guy, I won’t discuss this.

Just that when the song reached the solo, I asked myself the same thing I keep on asking each time I listen Aerosmith songs: does Joe Perry know his solos? Can he play the same solo twice? I asked myself this question when I listened Crying, Crazy and now Walk this way because his solos always seems improvised right the very moment he’s in the studio, recording.

I can imagine Aerosmith recording a new song: OK, guys, let’s go. Hey, Joe, did you have time to work on that guitar solo? Aaaa..uh…yeah, I tried like a couple of times…don’t worry, I’ll work it out there as I do all the time…

I realize that maybe this is the exact thing that makes his solos recognizable. Not necessarily the solos but his musical style, his way of feeling the music, but I could bet that he can’t remember the exact solos he played on the record.

The fact is that the structure of his guitar solos is not fixed, we don’t speak here about a short, fix form solo like let’s say, Bon Jovi, for ex.

However, the question still remains, does Joe Perry know his guitar solos or is he’s just working around a theme every time he faces the moment? It must be interesting to improvise over the same theme for over 30 years…

What do you think?

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