Their flabby, watered-down, indulgent post-rehab career all but crapped on their legacy as a killer 1970s rock band. Hell, I'd put "Adam's Apple" up against anything the Stones were doing in ’75 or '76 (hey you, Black and Blue). Not quite as good as the next LP (Rocks, their peak) because of the overplayed hits on here, but the stuff you don't hear on the radio still sounds great. There's a pattern with drug-devouring musicians where often, on the way up, the dope is opening creative pathways and letting them get out of their own way, leading them to an ideal point on the graph where creativity meets skill. Of course, once peaked, they begin the inevitable slide and release stepped-on dope like Pump, with its production focusing on vocals, drums, and brass (!?). Anyway… Is it curious that Joe Perry and Steve Perry both have prominent beaks, are Portuguese, but aren't related?
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