Rockin' the Joint

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Rockin' the Joint
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Live album by
ReleasedOctober 25, 2005
RecordedJanuary 11, 2002
Venue The Joint (Las Vegas)
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Length58:28
Label Columbia
Producer Marti Frederiksen and Steven Tyler
Aerosmith live chronology
A Little South of Sanity
(1998)
Rockin' the Joint
(2005)
Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014
(2015)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
PopMatters (2/10) [2]

Rockin' the Joint is a live album by Aerosmith, which was released on October 25, 2005. It was recorded in January 2002 in The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on their Just Push Play Tour, [3] and consists of Aerosmith songs from throughout their career performed live.

Contents

This is the first Aerosmith album to be available in a DualDisc format, having one side of the disc being the CD side with the standard edition of the album, and a DVD side which featuring the album in enhanced stereo, behind the scenes footage, and 4 live tracks in video format. Multiple editions of this album contain bonus tracks, most notably the Japanese and Target Exclusive editions. Strangely, the bonus tracks are not included on the CD side of the Target dual disc release, only on the DVD side. While the non-DualDisc Target edition contains the bonus tracks in CD format.

The Japanese release was presented on two separate discs a CD and a DVD, as opposed to a DualDisc.

CD

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Good Evening Las Vegas" 0:22
2."Beyond Beautiful" Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen, Mark Hudson 4:51
3."Same Old Song and Dance"Tyler, Perry5:50
4."No More No More"Tyler, Perry4:40
5."Seasons of Wither"Tyler5:05
6."Light Inside"Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen3:35
7."Draw the Line"Tyler, Perry7:22
8."I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Diane Warren 4:33
9."Big Ten Inch Record"Fred Weismantel4:17
10."Rattlesnake Shake" Peter Green 8:24
11."Walk This Way"Tyler, Perry4:12
12."Train Kept a Rollin'/The Star Spangled Banner*" Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, Lois Mann5:13
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Toys in the Attic"Tyler, Perry4:00
14."Livin' on the Edge"Tyler, Perry, Hudson5:30
Target exclusive bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Livin' on the Edge"Tyler, Perry, Hudson5:30
14."What It Takes"Tyler, Perry, Child5:23

DVD and DualDisc DVD Side

No.TitleLength
1."No More No More"4:40
2."Dream On"4:57
3."Draw the Line"7:22
4."Sweet Emotion"6:03
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
5."Toys in the Attic"4:00
6."Livin' on the Edge"5:30
Target bonus tracks (not included on CD side)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Livin' on the Edge"Tyler, Perry, Hudson5:30
6."What It Takes"Tyler, Perry, Child5:23

Personnel

Aerosmith
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Album

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [4] 16
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [5] 97
US Billboard 200 [6] 24

Release history

RegionDateFormatTracksLabelCatalog #BarcodeEditionSeriesNotes
USAOct 25, 2005CD14Columbia/SBME CK 96522827969652220Target Exclusive [7]
USAOct 25, 2005DualDisc30Columbia/SBMECN 97737827969773727 [8]
USAOct 25, 2005DualDisc32Columbia/SBMECN 97738827969773826Target Exclusive [9]
USAOct 25, 2005CD12Columbia/SBMECK 97800827969780022 [10]
USANov 25, 2008CD12Columbia/SBMECK 97800886973609422 [11]

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