@slash: Credit to @thelegendsofmusic Aerosmith performing “Back In The Saddle” Live at the Summit in Houston, Texas on the 25th of June, 1977 May 3rd, 1976 - The day Aerosmith released “Rocks” on Columbia Records “Back in the Saddle” was written about a cowboy going to a bar, picking up a girl and spending the night with her. There is lots of sexual innuendo in the lyrics among the Old West images (“I’m like a loaded gun,” “This snake is gonna rattle). The song was originally recorded and popularized by Gene Autry, who first recorded it in 1939. Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler decided to use the cowboy theme for his lyrics after talking with producer Jack Douglas about using the “back in the saddle” line as a way of declaring that the band was back with a new album and ready to rock hard. Tyler always thought “back in saddle” meant having sex with your girlfriend more than once in a night, so he wrote the lyrics about a cowboy riding into town to satisfy his sexual urges. He wrote the lyrics in the stairwell of the Record Plant recording studio, where he would often write once the track was finished. The song’s main riff was composed by guitarist Joe Perry on a 6-string bass guitar he had recently purchased. Perry says he was “lying on the floor, stoned on heroin” when he came up with the riff. The song wasn’t recorded until almost a year later, when they used their rehearsal space - a warehouse in Waltham, Massachusetts they called “The Wherehouse” - as a recording studio by bringing in a mobile recording unit to record the Rocks album. #Music #RockNRoll #Aerosmith #StevenTyler #JoePerry #BradWhitford #TomHamilton #JoeyKramer iiii]; )'