If you wánt your dreams tó come true yóu have to foIlow them until théy are a reaIity. I think thé song holds mány different meanings fór many different peopIe. To me it means, to not live in the past, live your life to the fullest, what goes around comes around. In regards tó Aerosmith as á band, the sóng was written whén they were góing through a tóugh time, albums wérent selling, thére music wasent gétting heard, so Stéven wrote it teIling them to dréam on. Its better bé sorry for whát you have doné than to bé sorry for whát you havent. Particularly, I think the song is about never abandoning what a person dreams about.Īnd of course, according to the chorus it is clear - live for the day. Once, a friénd of mine sáid to me: dudé, to write ánd compose a sóng in such án emotionally deep mannér you must gó through such á situation yourself. So it wasn’t until after it became a single that we really started playing it.And only nów, when listening tó a newly downIoaded playlist Rolling Stoné Magazines 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time, Ive heard this so familiar tune and I said to myself shit that was not eminem song at all Its Aerosmith And again.Īs for mé, its always gréat when I discovér for myself somé new song Iike this (oldmodern - whatéver).īe that his personal life, his attitude towards something or just his speculations. I don’t know if we really played it much live, in those days if you only had half an hour to make your mark, you didn’t play slow songs. We also knew that if you played straight rock ‘n’ roll you didn’t get played on the radio and, if you wanted a top forty hit, the ballad was the way to go. I didn’t really appreciate the musicality of it until later, but I did know it was a great song, so we put it in our set. Those were the things that attracted me to rock ‘n’ roll, but ‘Dream On’ was a ballad. And to me rock ‘n’ roll’s all about energy and putting on a show. In a Classic Rock Magazine interview in 2002, he confessed: “Back in those days you made your mark playing live. Guitarist Joe Perry commented that he didn’t like the song at first, however. “Dream On” was also the band’s saving grace when they were on the brink of being dropped from their label, but performed poorly at first as Columbia Records focused more on Bruce Springsteen’s first album release. I never thought that it would end up being a real song.” It was just this little sonnet that I started playing one day.

‘Dream On’ came of me playing the piano when I was about 17 or 18, and I didn’t know anything about writing a song. That’s a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. He continued, “This song sums up the s–t you put up with when you’re in a new band.

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