Chip Away the Stone

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"Chip Away the Stone"
Single by Aerosmith
from the album Live! Bootleg
B-side
  • 1. "S.O.S. (Too Bad)" (Live version)
  • 2. "Chip Away the Stone" (Live version)
ReleasedDecember 8, 1978
1989 (re-issue)
RecordedApril 8, 1978 at Santa Monica
June 4, 1978 at Long View Farms
Genre
Length4:02
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Richard Supa
Producer(s)Jack Douglas
Aerosmith singles chronology
"Come Together"
(1978) 		"Chip Away the Stone"
(1978) 		"Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
(1980)

"Chip Away the Stone" is a song performed by

Cal Jam II live album, despite being the same recording from Live! Bootleg at Santa Monica.[2]
The lyrics describe the narrator's attempt to seduce a beautiful woman who is "actin' like a prima donna [and] playin' so hard to get", and who is attracting the attention of men who compete for her attention: "while the boys all promenade."

The live version that appears on Live! Bootleg was recorded in Santa Monica on April 8, 1978. The single also featured a studio version of the track, which was recorded at

Hot 100 in 1978, breaking the band's run of Top-40 charting singles in the United States
at the time.

The song was also included on the albums

Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart, when it was included on the collection Gems, 10 years after its initial release. The 1989 single contains the original studio version of "S.O.S (Too Bad)" as the B side.

The song was a regular part of the setlist in Aerosmith concerts in 1978, but only occasionally played live after that year.

35 years after its release, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performed this song with Randy Jackson and members of the house band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on January 20, 2012.

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single. The video was directed by Arnold Levine.

Cover versions

Humble Pie covered the song on their 1981 album Go for the Throat
.

New Bomb Turks covered the song on their 2003 album Switchblade Tongues, Butterknife Brains.

Vince Neil, Blues Saraceno, Ricky Phillips, Pat Torpey and Paul Taylor covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance (Eagle Records, 1999). Backing vocals were by David Glen Eisley.

The Hot Club of Cowtown did a tongue-in-cheek country-style version on their 2002 album Ghost Train.

Guns N' Roses covered part of the song during their Up Close and Personal Tour.[4]

RagDolls, an all female Aerosmith tribute band, performed the song as part of their set during their premier performance in October 2020.

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-306-80741-6
    .
  2. ^ Davis, p. 328
  3. ^ Davis, p. 320
  4. ^ "Guns N' Roses Concert Setlist at The O2 Arena, London on June 1, 2012". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
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