

I showed him the chords to 'Dream On' and we wrote 'Angel' 10 minutes later." Tyler, Perry and Child also wrote the future hit "Crazy" around the same time, but the band saved it for 1993's Get a Grip. But when I used his skill and started to write with him, it became like a tapestry we worked on together. "When I tried to use Desmond as a song doctor, someone to fix a song after it's done, it didn't work for me.
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"I learned how to operate in this system," Tyler explained in Walk This Way. Within a few days, the collaboration yielded "Dude" and "Angel," as well as "Heart's Done Time," which Child wrote with Perry. "I told if he knew someone I could write lyrics with and have as much fun as when I'm writing songs with Joe Perry, then please bring 'em in," Tyler recalled in Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith. After initially approaching Meat Loaf partner Jim Steinman, Kalodner reached out to Child, who was riding high off hits with Kiss ("I Was Made For Lovin' You") and Bon Jovi ("You Give Love a Bad Name," "Livin' on a Prayer"). Unimpressed with what the band had cooked up at its rehearsal facility in Somerville, Mass., he suggested bringing in outside writers to help. The self-contained Done With Mirrors was a tentative step back, but as the group approached its second album for the label, Kalodner tightened the screws in hopes of having some hits. Aerosmith met Child through John Kalodner, the A&R executive who signed the band to Geffen Records after their career hit rock bottom during the early '80s.
