The band took a brief break before recording their follow-up to Pump in 1992. Despite significant shifts in mainstream music at the beginning of the 1990s,[12] 1993's Get a Grip was just as successful commercially, becoming their first album to debut at number 1[90] and racking up sales of 7 million copies in a two-and-a-half-year timespan.[39] The first singles were the hard rocking "Livin' on the Edge" and "Eat the Rich". Though many critics were unimpressed by the focus on the subsequent interchangeable power-ballads in promoting the album,[12] all three ("Cryin'", "Crazy" and "Amazing") proved to be huge successes on radio[50] and MTV.[64] The music videos featured then up-and-coming actress Alicia Silverstone; her provocative performances earned her the title of "the Aerosmith chick"[91] for the first half of the decade. Steven Tyler's daughter Liv Tyler was also featured in the "Crazy" video.[92] Get a Grip would go on to sell more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone,[39] and over 20 million copies worldwide.[93] The band won two Grammy Awards for songs from this album in the category of Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: for "Livin' on the Edge" in 1994 and "Crazy" in 1995.[77]
During the making of Get a Grip, the management and record
company brought in a variety of professional songwriting collaborators
to help give nearly all the songs on the album more commercial appeal,[12] a trend which would continue until the early 2000s. However, this led to accusations of selling out that would continue throughout the 1990s. In addition to Aerosmith's grueling 18 month world tour in support of Get a Grip,
the band also did a number of things to help promote themselves and
their album and appeal to youth culture, including the appearance of the
band in the movie Wayne's World 2[94] where they performed two songs,[95] the appearance of the band and their music in the video games Revolution X[96] and Quest for Fame,[97] performing at Woodstock '94,[98] using their song "Deuces Are Wild" in The Beavis and Butt-head Experience,[99] and opening their own club, The Mama Kin Music Hall, in Boston, MA in 1994.[100] That same year saw the release of the band's compilation for Geffen Records, entitled Big Ones featuring their biggest hits from Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip, "Deuces Are Wild" from the Beavis and Butt-head Experience, as well as two new songs, "Blind Man" and "Walk on Water",[101] both of which experienced great success on the rock charts.[50]
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