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Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry
My first album, and I remember this very well, I bought in 1975 when I was nine years old. There was a thing called the Columbia Records and Tapes program where you could order eight albums for a penny! I convinced my mother to let me do that. I got the 8- …