name	Get a Grip
type	studio
artist	Aerosmith
cover	GetAGrip_Aerosmithalbum.jpg |
released
recorded	January - February 1992 at A&M; Studios in Los Angeles, CaliforniaSeptember - November 1992 at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
genre	Hard rock, blues rock
length
label	Geffen
producer	Bruce Fairbairn
last album	''Pump''(1989)
this album	''Get a Grip''(1993)
next album	''Nine Lives''(1997)
misc	}}

''Get a Grip'' is the 11th studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in April 1993 by Geffen Records. ''Get a Grip'' was the band's last studio album to be released by Geffen before they returned to Columbia Records.

''Get a Grip'' featured guests including Don Henley, who sang backup on "Amazing", and Lenny Kravitz, who offered backup vocals and collaboration to "Line Up". As on ''Permanent Vacation'' and ''Pump'', this album featured numerous song collaborators from outside the band including: Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, Mark Hudson, Richie Supa, Taylor Rhodes, Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw.

''Get a Grip'' became Aerosmith's best-selling studio album worldwide, achieving sales of over 20 million copies, and is tied with ''Pump'' for their second best-selling album in the United States, selling over 7 million copies as of 1995. This also made it their third consecutive album with US sales of at least five million. Two songs from the album won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, in 1993 and 1994.

Reception

In his Allmusic review for ''Get a Grip'', Stephen Thomas Erlewine said the album failed compared to ''Pump'' because he thinks the band was trying too hard to have a hit and it didn't have any depth to it, but he feels the album still "sounds good". Mark Coleman, for his ''Rolling Stone'' magazine review of ''Get a Grip'', said he liked the title track and he compared the album's introduction, titled "Intro", to Steven Tyler and Joe Perry's collaboration with Run–D.M.C. on "Walk This Way", but feels that most of the album lacks "adventure" and is too "somber". In his interview he compared "Livin' on the Edge" to a Bon Jovi song and feels that a problem with the album comes from the outside songwriters/collaborators. Robert Christgau, however, feels on ''Get a Grip'' that they are trying many different things on the album and that they are really good at trying something new, like the song "Cryin'" and he gave it their best review since 1980's ''Greatest Hits''. Ben Mitchell called the album "soft" and "shallow" but considered "Eat the Rich" and "Crazy" standout tracks.

Track listing

{{tracklist | writing_credits = yes | title1 = Intro | writer1 = Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance | length1 = 0:23 | title2 = Eat the Rich | writer2 = Tyler, Perry, Vallance | length2 = 4:09 | title3 = Get a Grip | writer3 = Tyler, Perry, Vallance | length3 = 3:58 | title4 = Fever | writer4 = Tyler, Perry | length4 = 4:15 | title5 = Livin' on the Edge | writer5 = Tyler, Perry, Mark Hudson | length5 = 6:07 | title6 = Flesh | writer6 = Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child | length6 = 5:56 | title7 = Walk on Down | writer7 = Perry | length7 = 3:37 | title8 = Shut Up and Dance | writer8 = Tyler, Perry, Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw | length8 = 4:55 | title9 = Cryin' | writer9 = Tyler, Perry, Taylor Rhodes | length9 = 5:08 | title10 = Gotta Love It | writer10 = Tyler, Perry, Hudson | length10 = 5:58 | title11 = Crazy | writer11 = Tyler, Perry, Child | length11 = 5:16 | title12 = Line Up | writer12 = Tyler, Perry, Lenny Kravitz | length12 = 4:02 | title13 = Amazing | writer13 = Tyler, Richard Supa | length13 = 5:56 | title14 = Boogie Man | note14 = Recorded by Tony Lentini | writer14 = Tyler, Perry, Vallance | length14 = 2:16 }}

Immediately after "Amazing," a snippet of "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well," by Lucky Millinder, is heard as if being tuned in on an old radio. Tyler says, "So from all of us at Aerosmith to all of you out there, wherever you are, remember: the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. Good night." The music then fades out.

Bonus track (international version)

{{tracklist | writing_credits = yes | title13 = Can't Stop Messin' | writer13 = Tyler, Perry, Blades, Shaw | length13 = 3:30 }}

"Can't Stop Messin'" is track 13 on the international version, bumping the remaining two tracks down to 14 and 15.

Additional B-sides and alternative versions

Don't Stop Head First Amazing (Orchestral Version) Livin' On The Edge (Acoustic Version)

Personnel

Steven Tyler – Lead vocals, Keyboards, Harmonica, Mandolin, Additional percussion

Joe Perry – lead guitar, backing vocals

Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar

Tom Hamilton – bass

Joey Kramer – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Paul Baron – trumpet

Desmond Child – keyboards on "Crazy"

Bruce Fairbairn – trumpet

Don Henley – background vocals on "Amazing"

Sandy Kanaeholo – log drums on "Eat the Rich"

Tom Keenlyside – saxophone

Lenny Kravitz – background vocals on "Line Up"

Melvin Liufau – log drums on "Eat the Rich"

Wesey Mamea – log drums on "Eat the Rich"

Ian Putz – baritone saxophone

Bob Rogers – trombone

Richard Supa – keyboards on "Amazing"

Liainaiala Tagaloa – log drums on "Eat the Rich"

Mapuhi T. Tekurio – log drums on "Eat the Rich"

Aladd Alationa Teofilo – log drums on "Eat the Rich"

John Webster – keyboards

Production

Producer: Bruce Fairbairn

Engineers: John Aguto, Ed Korengo, Ken Lomas, Mike Plotnikoff, David Thoener

Pre Production Engineer: Tony Lentini

Mixing: Brendan O'Brien

Mastering: Greg Fulginiti at Masterdisk

Mastering Supervisor: David Donnelly

Programming: John Webster

Production coordination: Debra Shallman

Guitar technician: Dan Murphy

Arranger: Steven Tyler

Art direction: Michael Golob

Cover design: Hugh Syme

Photography: Edward Colver, William Hames

John Kalodner : John Kalodner

Charts

;Album {|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" !scope="col"|Chart (1993) !scope="col"|Peakposition |- |Australia (Top 40) |style="text-align:center;"|3 |- |Austria (Top 75) |style="text-align:center;"|3 |- |Canada ''RPM'' 100 Albums |style="text-align:center;"|2 |- |France (InfoDisc) |style="text-align:center;"|24 |- |Netherlands (Top 100) |style="text-align:center;"|2 |- |New Zealand (Top 50) |style="text-align:center;"|9 |- |Norway (Top 40) |style="text-align:center;"|3 |- |Switzerland (Top 100) |style="text-align:center;"|1 |- |Sweden (Top 60) |style="text-align:center;"|3 |- |US ''Billboard'' 200 |style="text-align:center;"|1 |- |UK (Top 100) |style="text-align:center;"|2 |}

;Singles

US ''Billboard (magazine) rowspan="3"

Year !! Single !! Chart !! Position
rowspan="20"	1993	rowspan="4"	Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks || align="center"|3
US Billboard Hot 100	''Billboard'' Hot 100	24
US ''Billboard'' Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs)	Top 40 Mainstream	9
UK Singles Chart	57
rowspan="7"	"Cryin'"	>
US ''Billboard'' Hot 100	12
US ''Billboard'' Top 40 Mainstream	11
UK Singles Chart	17
Norway Top 20	1
Sweden Top 60	3
Schweizer Top 75	4
rowspan="2"	"Eat the Rich"	>
UK Singles Chart	34
"Fever (Aerosmith song)	Fever"	>
rowspan="6"	"Livin' on the Edge"	>
''Billboard'' Hot 100	18
''Billboard'' Top 40 Mainstream	19
UK Singles Chart	19
Australian Top 50	21
Norway Top 20	4
rowspan="3"	1994	"Crazy" ||	Mainstream Rock Tracks	7
The Billboard Hot 100	17
Top 40 Mainstream	7

End of decade charts

!Chart (1990–1999)	!Position
U.S. ''Billboard'' 200

Certifications

!Organization	!Level	!Date
rowspan="2"	Gold (20,000 units)
Platinum (40,000 units)
rowspan="3"	Silver (60,000 units)
Gold (100,000 units)
Platinum (300,000 units)	October 1, 1994
	Gold (500,000 units)
Platinum (1,000,000 units)
2× Platinum(2,000,000 units)	September 13, 1993
3× Platinum(3,000,000 units)	January 12, 1994
4× Platinum(4,000,000 units)	April 19, 1994
5× Platinum(5,000,000 units)	September 15, 1994
6× Platinum(6,000,000 units)	December 6, 1994
7× Platinum(7,000,000 units)	November 7, 1995
	Gold(50,000 units)	Apr 19, 1993
Platinum(100,000 units)	Apr 19, 1993
2× Platinum(200,000 units)	Jun 09, 1993
3× Platinum(300,000 units)	Sep 29, 1993
4× Platinum(400,000 units)	Nov 11, 1993
5× Platinum(500,000 units)	Nov 30, 1993
6× Platinum(600,000 units)	Feb 24, 1994
7× Platinum(700,000 uits)	Jun 22, 1994
8× Platinum(800,000 units)	Jul 25, 1994
Diamond(1,000,000 units)	Nov 18, 1994
IFPI – Finland	Gold (10,000 units)	1994
	2× Gold(200,000 units)	1995, 1996

Awards

Grammy Awards

!Year	!Winner	!Category
1993	"Livin' on the Edge"
1994

See also

Get a Grip Tour

List of best-selling albums worldwide

References

External links

Lyrics

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name	Jools Holland
background	solo_singer
birth name	Julian Miles Holland
birth date	January 24, 1958
birth place	Blackheath, London, England
instrument	Piano, keyboard, guitar
genre	Boogie-woogie, jazz, blues, R&B;
occupation	Musician, composer, television presenter, bandleader
years active	1974–present
associated acts	Squeeze Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
website	Official site }}

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze (1974-1980 & 1985-1990) and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour, Magazine and Bono.

Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B; music. He currently hosts ''Later... with Jools Holland'', a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show the Hootenanny, is based.

Life and career

His great grandfather came from Ireland.

Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "F*ck Off."

Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981 and helped the band to achieve millions of record sales, before pursuing his solo career.

Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being ''Boogie Woogie '78''. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show ''The Tube'' with Paula Yates. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "groovy fuckers" in a live, early evening TV trailer for the show, causing it to be suspended for six weeks. He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron.

thumb|right|Holland at the Tsunami Relief concert in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, 22 January 2005In 1983 Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album ''Soul Mining''. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Jools Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point, he again departed Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.

In 1987, Holland formed The ''Jools Holland Big Band'' which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance program Sunday Night on NBC late-night television. Since 1992 he has presented the eclectic music program ''Later... with Jools Holland'', plus an annual New Year's Eve "Hootenanny".

In 1996 Holland signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.

Holland has a touring band, The Rhythm And Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff. He also headlined the Skegness SO Festival in July 2010.

Personal

Holland lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath in southeast London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design, heavily inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series ''The Prisoner''. Holland owns costumes and props from the series and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in the series. In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, ''The Laughing Prisoner'', with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie. Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the program. Holland is also a Millwall FC fan. His younger brother Christopher also plays organ in the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra as well as being a successful singer/songwriter in his own right.

Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film ''Spiceworld'' as a musical director.

He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006 Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. He is also known for his charity work: in June 2006 he performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay, and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also patron of the Drake Music Project and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.

Jools Holland was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.

On 29 August 2005 Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years (between 1983 and 1995 she had been married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham, but they divorced). The wedding, at St James's Church, Cooling near Rochester, was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Noel Gallagher, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Holland is also a patron for The Milton Rooms, a new Arts centre in Malton, North Yorkshire, along with Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Kathy Burke.

Writing

His 2007 biography, ''Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts'' was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland. He is the author or joint author of four other books.

Discography

Albums that have charted and gained Certifications

Year	Album	Peak chart positions		!style="width:4em;font-size:75%"
1996	Jazz & Rock & Roll''
1998	''Best Of''				UK">Music recording sales certifications
!style="width:4em;font-size:75%"	!style="width:4em;font-size:75%"
1996	Jazz & Rock & Roll''
1998	''Best Of''				UK: Silver
2000	''Hop The Wag''				* UK: Silver
2001	''Small World Big Band''				* UK: 2× Platinum
2002	''SWBB Volume Two: More Friends''				* UK: Platinum
2003	''Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3)''				* UK: Silver
2005	''Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska''
2007	''Best of Friends''				* UK: Silver
2011	''Finding The Keys - The Best of''

Releases

1978 "Boogie Woogie '78" (EP)

1981 ''Jools Holland and His Millionaires''

1984 ''Jools Holland Meets Rock 'A' Boogie Billy'' (U.S. release only)

1990 ''World Of His Own''

1991 ''The Full Complement''

1992 "Together Again" (single with Sam Brown)

1992 ''The A-Z Geographer's Guide To The Piano''

1994 ''Solo Piano''

1994 ''Live Performance''

1996 " Jazz & Rock & Roll''

1997 ''Lift The Lid''

1998 ''Best Of''

1999 ''Sunset Over London''

2000 ''Hop The Wag''

2001 ''Small World Big Band''

2002 ''SWBB Volume Two: More Friends''

2003 ''Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3)''

2004 ''Tom Jones & Jools Holland''

2005 ''Beatroute''

2005 ''Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska''

2006 ''Moving Out To The Country''

2007 ''Best of Friends''

2008 ''The Collection''

2008 ''The Informer (With Ruby Turner)''

2008 ''"The Informer" (single with Ruby Turner)''

2009 ''"I Went By" (single with Louise Marshall)''

2010 ''Rockinghorse''

Film and television

1981 ''Urgh! A Music War''

1982 ''Police: Around the World''

1982 - 1987 ''The Tube'' (Host for 121 editions)

1983 ''Rebellious Jukebox'': Compere

1984 ''The Young Ones'': Punk (Episode entitled "Summer Holiday")

1985 ''Walking To New Orleans'' (Jools Holland in New Orleans)

1987 ''Eat the Rich'': Sun Reporter

1987 ''Filthy Rich & Catflap'': Strip Show Pianist (Episode #1.3)

1987 ''The Laughing Prisoner'': No. 7

1987 ''French and Saunders'' (Episode 1.5)

1988 ''Sunday Night'': Host (unknown episodes)

1989 ''Juke Box Jury'': Host (unknown episodes)

1989 ''The Groovy Fellers'' Himself, 6 episodes

1991 ''Mr Roadrunner'' (Jools Holland in Memphis)

1994 ''There's No Business'': Pianist

1994 - 1995 ''Don't Forget Your Toothbrush''

1995 ''The Beatles Anthology''

1997 ''Spice World'': Musical Director

1997 ''Name That Tune'': Host and Pianist

2003 ''Jool's History of the Piano'' : Presenter

2006 ''Top Gear: Star in a reasonably priced car.

2007 ''Fairport@Forty'': Interview

2009 ''Chop Shop Rover Concept: The Jet 1 Car'' : Customer

Current television programmes

1992–present ''Later... with Jools Holland''

1993–present ''Jools' Annual Hootenanny''

Books

''"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road'', (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998), (ISBN 0-670-88051-5)

''Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties'', Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1998), (ISBN 0-575-06700-4)

''Ray Charles: Man and Music'', (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999), (ISBN 0-86241-929-8)

''Hand That Changed Its Mind '', International Music Publications (2007), (ISBN 1-84328-645-9)

''Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts '', Michael Joseph Ltd (2007), (ISBN 0-7181-4915-7)

References

External links

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