Aerosmith: Walkin' The Dogma (Can I Borrow The Karma?)
Annene Kaye, Creem, January 1983
IF THE WASHINGTON Monument vanished tomorrow a sizable portion of the population would be suitably abashed, but if the darned old thing trickled away bit by bit during a period of heavy construction only a few "cranks" would yell fire. So went Aerosmith; the band that you couldn't ignore for so long did a quick fade only to have their tracks covered by an avalanche of big noise bands.
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