Writers: Steven Tyler and Joe Perry
Producer: Jack Douglas
Recorded: February 1975 at the Record Plant in New York City
Released: April 1975
| Players: | Steven Tyler — vocals, harmonica, keyboards, percussion Joe Perry — guitar Brad Whitford — guitar Tom Hamilton — bass Joey Kramer — drums Scott Cushnie — piano |
| Album: | Toys In The Attic (Columbia, 1975) |
With verses such as “Holiday Inns, lock the door with a chain/You love it then you hate it but to me they're all the same,” the hard rocking “No More No More” speaks with great detail about life on the rock & roll road.
Lead guitarist Joe Perry says he's always been fond of “No More No More” because of songwriting partner Steven Tyler's lyrics. “It's not one of those stupid, generic ‘I love rock & roll songs’ that some bands do. It's a real song about the rock & roll lifestyle, our rock & roll lifestyle. I don't know if it's the definitive song about life on the road, and I don't even care. It's like a page from our diary.”
Guitarist Brad Whitford calls “No More No More” “one of the songs that I really liked where Steven does his little storytelling bit about life within the band. It's him talking honestly about an interesting slice of the Aerosmith story.”
Though never released as a single, “No More No More” has always been a popular radio track and concert song for Aerosmith.
The Toys In The Attic album peaked at Number 11 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than six million copies.
In the book Walk This Way: The Autobiography Of Aerosmith, Perry remembers that Toys In The Attic was the album on which Aerosmith “started to become recording artists instead of having our albums being a record of us playing live.”
