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Great interview. Robert Klein interviews Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, then Sir George Martin, the Beatles' extraordinary producer. Steven and Tom stay on with George throughout the entire interview interjecting comments to the end, though George is worth listening to alone. Robert Klein is a comedian, actor, singer, and ran the Robert Klein Hour nationally syndicated radio show for about two years around 1980 and 1981. He often had bands on and sometimes live performances in the studio. There was a live audience there too. He also asked the questions he wanted to and swearing was quite OK, which Steven fulfills here. Several notes discussed in the interview: The Philadelphia Spectrum incidents were: On October 9, 1977 an M-80 was thrown injuring Steven and Joe (mostly Joe this time). A year later on November 25, 1978 a bottle was thrown injuring Steven's face. Fans caused a bit of a riot likely against the fans who did this. Naturally the band was very angry and left the stage. They did not return to Philly until February 28, 1983. Concerts could be dangerous then, and fans too left bloody at times from thrown bottles, firecrackers, general mayhem, etc. Night In The Ruts was released November 1, 1979. Steven, Joey, Tom, Brad, and Jimmy Crespo began touring in November '79 until February 18, 1980, and then sporadically toured through the year until December 1980. Brad left in 1981. They did not resume touring until November 1982 on their Rock In A Hard Place ...