While playing a gig with The Jam Band, Steven Tyler was impressed by Jam Band's cover of Fleetwood Mac's song 'Rattlesnake Shake.'
In a June 1975 interview with Circus Magazine, Steven Tyler said the following about the experience, "They did this song so well that I knew if I could get together with these guys, we could pull the same feelings off with some of the songs I wrote, so I got together with them...I loved Joe's style. He always played out of tune and real sloppy and I just loved it."
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