Aerosmith at Mama Kin Music Hall:

Aerosmith co-owned the club with The Lyon's group. The club was on Lansdown Street where you would find Jillian's, Mama Kin's, Avalon, and other clubs and bars.

When the club first opened, Aero was all over the news speaking on how they wanted to have unknown bands play there, have the option for the band to get a copy of the performance (whether a tape of video), so the band would have something to present to recording labels (or something like that). Basically, a chance they (Aerosmith) did not have when they started out.

Aerosmith and some band members also played there several times, some of their presentations been some really cool an secret club gigs.

12/16/1994

First live performance of a band member at the club was Steven's with RAY TABANO'S BAND, and they played:

1.I Ain't Got You
2.Milk Cow Blues

     

12/19/1994

First time the band played there was on december 19th, 1994. There is several audio bootlegs from a FM Radio broadcast. This infamous Aerosmith concert, which was the last at the end of their 18 month GAG tour, saw the band going back to their roots playing mainly 1970s material with only a couple of tracks from their recent Geffen days. 

The old aerosmith.com had some videos form this show (there's no video bootleg) and the whole video of the show (or most of it) was shown to some AF1 members in a convension back in 1995-96.

That night Setlist was:

1. Train kept a rollin' 
2. Same old song and dance 
3. Big ten-inch record 
4. Walk on water 
5. Walkin' the dog 
6. Chip away the stone 
7. Last child 
8. Rattlesnake shake 
9. One way street 
10. Stop messin' around 
11. Let the music do the talking 
12. Walk this way 
13. Cryin' 
14. Mama kin 
15. Milk cow blues 
16. I'm not talking 
17. Toys in the attic 

Aerosmith donated the proceeds from their Ma Kin gig to the city, and Mayor Menino was at the press conference to receive a $10,000 check on behalf of Boston's homeless. Tom Hamilton offered this to the officials: "We want to thank Mayor Menino and all the boys and girls in Boston government who are going to help us keep our clubs open later in Boston."
 

05/24/1995

MTV taping for some new segment about the boys Club. Aerosmith gave Mtv's camares a special private tour.

MTV is flush with pride at Mama Kin tour
When MTV rang up the folks at Mama Kin to sneak a peek at the new Lansdowne Street club, who did they get to conduct the private tour? The owners of course! So Aerosmith's main men, Steven Tyler, left, and Joe Perry had the music titans Walk This Way yesterday through their little club, theater and Bitchin' Kitchen. Then they popped in to the ladies room to redecorate. Gotta love it.
Side note: Steven spray painted 'Squat This Way' on the mirror and Joe did his trade mark AeroWings.

10/11/1995

They played there again November 10th, 1995. This show is the rarest and most wanted show in the Aerosmith world as they played some Nine Lives outtakes. There are no bootlegs form this show due to the strict security with no cameras (in regard fans), they used metal detector wands on entry to the gigs with the sole purpose of detecting video and recording equipment.

They were unannounced/surprise gigs - although the rumors were flying about the weeks before.

That night set was:

1. Make It
2. Bone To Bone
3. Get The Lead Out
4. Trouble 
5. Remember (Walking In The Sand)
6. I'm A Man 
7. Reefer Head Woman
8. Sick As A Dog
9. Something (Joe Perry tune)
10. Last Child
11. The Farm
12. S.O.S. (Too Bad)
13. What Kind of Love Are You On
14. Milk Cow Blues
15. Mama Kin
16. Think About It
17. Immigrant Song

The band don't lend out recordings to anyone unless you are a very close friend or a celeb and only under the proviso that it's for their own eyes. Club owners certainly wouldn't get copies. Usually with any concert, the venue is asked to sign things to say they won't do any private videoing/recording either without permission. It's locked down real tight.

I think they wanted to play a gig at a club as hadn't played for a year (since MK Dec 94) and they included some new material as well as it was more your classic 70s set (like their Boston Club data to celebrate Aerosmith 10 in 1980).

Sadly the only recordings are in the band's vaults.

05/22/1996

An article on the Boston Globe:

12/16/1995

Later on, it was Brad that joined "GOVN'T MULE" for a song live at Mama Kin's. In a newspaper review of the '95 show at the Middle East sais that the outtake played there "Trouble" was a rocking/blues song inspired on the blues tune "Born Under a Bad Sing", and few days later Brads joins a band and plays it live?, hmmm... i'd say "Trouble" is a song Brad wrote based on this blues song.

1. Born Under A Bad Sign

01/10/1998

The band had a book signing of their "Walk This Way" autobiografy, it was taped.

This was passed out to the THOUSANDS of fans standing in line for the "Walk This Way" book signing at Mama Kin's. I liked the 'FOLLOW YOUR BOOK' line. If you followed your book, you would not have seen them. They RUSHED everyone through so fast that the 10 hours in line was to only stare at them for about 3.3 seconds. And that was to look at the WHOLE band. If you blinked, you missed it.

Few shots from inside Mama Kin Music Hall. The signing was held in the upstairs above the club.

01/16/1998

This was the last time they played there, January 16, 1998. It was a small set, and the played that gig to help promote "NEMO".

1. Make It

2. Walkin' The Dog

3. Pink

4. Stop Messin' Around

5. Chip Away The Stone

6. Draw The Line

7. Rats In The Cellar

It was covered by a local Boston tv station "WAAF", and showed some clips as a news update, etc; it was later broadcasted in a show called "Real Rock TV"; it's the 7 song set mixed with an interview and fottage of the book signing days before. Soon i'll have the video of the full show posted here.

However, years ago I found a video from this show on a hidden folder of the AF1 website; it was a clip of Walikin' Dog, but i had no sound, so i edited it and mad a special mix of a live version of the song to fit the video. The Web-Guy later uploaded the video i edited to his web space, check it:

- Walkin' The Dog (live at Mama Kins Music Hall jan 16, 1998)

Finaly a friend set me a bunch of pictures from that night, check them out:

Here's so press article about the show:

AEROSMITH GETS IMPROVED NEMO OFF TO ROUSING START

Author: By Steve Morse, Globe Staff
Date: 01/17/1998 Page: C8
Section: Arts and Film

Despite bone-chilling temperatures, the NEMO music conference and showcase got off to a flying start yesterday, peaking with a sensational set by Aerosmith at home club Mama Kin. NEMO is only in its second year, but the quality of the seminars held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza -- and the band showcases held at 22 clubs around the city -- reflected a major leap from last year.

NEMO is designed to help new, unsigned bands find their way through the music industry, but adding support this year was mega-giant Aerosmith, which rattled Mama Kin in a special 40-minute, take-no-prisoners set that was a metallic valentine for the true Aerosmith fan.

Unlike Aerosmith's recent FleetCenter shows, where more recent hits dominated the song list, last night's gig was a plunge into the '70s for vintage tracks that haven't been heard in a while. Only one tune, ``Pink,'' was current, while the rest were laden with history, starting with the crunching ``Make It,'' from the band's first album.

As Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and the boys got looser by the minute, they roared into the acid-swamp boogie of Memphis classic ``Walking the Dog,'' the even heavier boogie of ``Stop Messin' Around'' (with Perry taking a vocal turn and wailing like Howlin' Wolf), the searing ``Draw the Line,'' the ancient ``Chip Away the Stone,'' and the climactic ``Rats in the Cellar.'' On this, Brad Whitford stepped up with a molten guitar lead and the band jammed with a ferocity that left the elbow-to-elbow crowd in a state of total ecstasy.

Tyler, who even looked like his old self with dark hair (having replaced the reddish-blond streaks of the recent past), sang like a man possessed and took some harmonica leads reminiscent of the dear, departed Junior Wells. Tyler even thanked WBCN for broadcasting the show, as if this were the old days, though of course, the ``new'' 'BCN had no part of it. (WAAF took advantage of its new Aerosmith alliance by passing out 'AAF stickers on the street.)

01/05/1999

This is an article the Boston Globe ran, on Jan 5,1999, on the closing of Ma Kin:

And this is an undated pic i found of Steven and some transexual called Musty? at Mama Kin's on Christmas:

So, finnaly the club was closed... what a pitty... :'(

Special thanks to:

- AF1 "Toonses88" for all the pics and articles scans.

- AF1 "neesb"/Denise for looking for the 1998 video.

- AF1 "Bone to Bone" for reviews, coments, scans.

- AF1 "aeroknows" for bits and pices of info.

- DMAAT "Queen Of Delusion"/Lisa for help info and a pic.

- To Clive Newton for all his help.

- To everyone that is reading this and all the ones that helped me some how.

Gonzaloc!

2005

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