A Little South of Sanity

A Little South of Sanity is a live album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released on October 20, 1998 by Geffen Records. The two-disc album featured recordings taken while the band was on the Nine Lives Tour, which began in 1997 and was still ongoing at the time of the live album release, and the Get a Grip Tour, which the band was on in 1993 and 1994.

A Little South of Sanity
Live album by Aerosmith
Released	October 20, 1998
Recorded	1993–1994 (Get a Grip Tour) 1997–1998 (Nine Lives Tour)
Genre	Hard rock, blues rock
Length	112:06
Label	Geffen
Producer	Jack Douglas
Aerosmith live chronology
Classics Live I and II (1987) A Little South of Sanity (1998) Rockin' the Joint (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B [2]
NME	(4/10) [3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

This album was the only Aerosmith album to receive the Parental Advisory sticker, primarily due to lead singer Steven Tyler shouting profanities in between songs and modifying some song lyrics to racier ones, although some other song lyrics had profanity in their original studio versions as well (even their next studio album, Just Push Play, contained profanity).

The release of the album enabled Aerosmith to complete their contract with Geffen Records that helped lead to their newfound success in the 1980s and early 1990s. Shortly after the band reunited in 1984, they signed a contract to generate six albums for Geffen. Three of those albums, the studio records Done With Mirrors, Permanent Vacation, and Pump were finished before Aerosmith agreed to a contract with Columbia Records in 1991. The contract was not due to take effect until after Aerosmith’s obligations to Geffen were fulfilled, but after 1993’s Get a Grip was released the band did not compose another studio album for the label. Instead a compilation of their hits from the Geffen era, titled Big Ones, was put together and plans for a live album were conceived as Aerosmith went to Columbia.

On the seal, the album title is misnamed as A Little South of Insanity.

There are no listings to support where or when each performance was culled from - only the listing that all tracks are from either the Get A Grip or Nine Lives World Tours. However, the recordings of "Love In an Elevator", "Same Old Song and Dance", and " Sweet Emotion" each have Tyler calling out to the live crowd; the first song has him mentioning the crowd in State College, Pennsylvania, the second a crowd in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the third a crowd in Seattle, Washington. A bootleg called Yokohama Arena 3/12/98 has "Last Child" being recorded at the same time as the title revealed to where the song was performed, also, Tyler says, "Motherfucker" out loud as if it were edited in this live album.[5] Eat the Rich is recorded from Costa Rica in November, 1994.[6]

At the beginning of disc 2, before starting "Back in the Saddle", Tyler shouts, "I've got blisters on my sisters!", referencing a similar thing Ringo Starr shouted at the end of The Beatles song "Helter Skelter".

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Eat the Rich" (San Jose, Costa Rica, 10 November 1994)	Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance	5:14
2.	"Love in an Elevator" (University Park, PA, 19 January 1998)	Tyler, Perry	5:55
3.	"Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" (West Palm Beach, FL, 5 October 1997)	Tyler, Perry, Glen Ballard	3:20
4.	"Same Old Song and Dance" (West Palm Beach, FL, 5 October 1997)	Tyler, Perry	5:57
5.	"Hole in My Soul"	Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child	5:40
6.	"Monkey on My Back"	Tyler, Perry,	4:08
7.	"Livin' on the Edge"	Tyler, Perry, Mark Hudson	5:24
8.	"Cryin'"	Tyler, Perry, Taylor Rhodes	5:10
9.	"Rag Doll"	Tyler, Perry, Vallance, Holly Knight	4:13
10.	"Angel" (Tokyo, Japan, 8 March 1998)	Tyler, Desmond Child	5:35
11.	"Janie's Got a Gun"	Tyler, Tom Hamilton	5:15
12.	"Amazing" (Castle Donington, UK, 4 June 1994)	Tyler, Richard Supa	5:23

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Back in the Saddle"	Tyler, Perry	6:10
2.	"Last Child" (Yokohama, Japan, 12 March 1998)	Tyler, Brad Whitford	5:04
3.	"The Other Side" (Las Vegas, NV, 7 December 1997)	Tyler, Vallance, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier	4:40
4.	"Walk on Down"	Perry	3:40
5.	"Dream On"	Tyler	4:50
6.	"Crazy"	Tyler, Perry, Child	5:44
7.	"Mama Kin" (Boston, MA, 16 January 1998)	Tyler	4:12
8.	"Walk This Way"	Tyler, Perry	4:08
9.	"Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"	Tyler, Perry, Child	4:21
10.	"What It Takes"	Tyler, Perry, Child	5:15
11.	"Sweet Emotion" (Seattle, WA, 22 October 1997)	Tyler, Hamilton	5:57

Personnel

• Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
• Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals, talkbox on "Sweet Emotion", pedal steel guitar on "Rag Doll", lead vocals on "Walk on Down"
• Brad Whitford – guitar
• Tom Hamilton – bass
• Joey Kramer – drums

Additional musicians

• Russ Irwin – keyboards, backing vocals
• Thom Gimbel – keyboards, backing vocals

Production

• Engineer: Jay Messina
• Assistant engineers: Lawrence Manchester, John Wydrycs
• Mixing: Jack Douglas
• Mastering: Greg Calbi
• Monitor engineer: Mike Sprague
• Director: Jim Chapman
• Photography: Moshe Brakha
• Lighting design: Jim Chapman
• Clothing/wardrobe: Sherry Willshire

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[7]	37
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[8]	34
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[9]	10
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[10]	6
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[11]	24
French Albums (SNEP)[12]	39
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13]	21
Japanese Albums Chart[14]	3
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[15]	34
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[16]	47
Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[17]	43
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[18]	24
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[19]	16
UK Albums (OCC)[20]	36
US Billboard 200[21]	12

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[22]	Platinum	100,000^^
Japan (RIAJ)[23]	Platinum	200,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[24]	Gold	100,000^^
United States (RIAA)[25]	Platinum	1,000,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Tracks	Label	Catalog #	Barcode	Edition	Series	Notes
USA	Oct 20, 1998	CD x 2	23	Geffen/Universal	GEFD2-25221	720642522127	Explicit Version	—	[26]
USA	Oct 20, 1998	Cassette x 2	23	Geffen/Universal	GEFC2-25221	720642522141	Explicit Version	—	[27]
USA	Oct 20, 1998	CD x 2	23	Geffen/Universal	GEFD2-25308	720642530825	Clean Version	—	[28]
USA	Oct 20, 1998	Cassette x 2	23	Geffen/Universal	GEFC2-25308	720642530849	Clean Version	—	[29]
USA	Nov 24, 1998	CD x 2	23	Geffen/Universal	GEFD2-25314	720642531426	Special Collector's Edition	—	embroidered cloth digipak[30]

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External links

• A Little South of Sanity (disc 2) at MusicBrainz