Get a Grip

For other uses, see Get a Grip (disambiguation).

Get a Grip
Studio album by
Aerosmith
ReleasedApril 20, 1993[1]
RecordedJanuary–February and
September–November 1992
Studio
Genre
Length62:06
LabelGeffen
ProducerBruce Fairbairn
Aerosmith chronology
Pump
(1989) 		Get a Grip
(1993) 		Nine Lives
(1997)
Singles from Get a Grip
  1. "Livin' on the Edge"
    Released: March 1993
  2. "Eat the Rich"
    Released: June 1993 (UK)[4]
  3. "Cryin'"
    Released: July 1993
  4. "Amazing"
    Released: November 1993
  5. "Crazy"
    Released: May 1994
  6. "Shut Up and Dance"
    Released: June 1994 (UK)

Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in April 1993 by Geffen Records. Get a Grip was the band's last studio album to be released by Geffen before they returned to Columbia Records.

Get a Grip featured guests including Don Henley, who sang backup on "Amazing", and Lenny Kravitz, who offered backup vocals and collaboration to "Line Up". As on Permanent Vacation and Pump, this album featured numerous song collaborators from outside the band including: Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, Mark Hudson, Richie Supa, Taylor Rhodes, Jack Blades, and Tommy Shaw.

Get a Grip became Aerosmith's best-selling studio album worldwide, achieving sales of over 20 million copies. The album became the band's first album to reach number one in the United States and tied with Pump for their second best-selling album in the U.S., selling over 7 million copies as of 1995 (Toys in the Attic leads with nine million).[5] This also made it their third consecutive album with U.S. sales of at least five million. Two songs from the album won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, in 1993 and 1994. The album was voted Album of the Year by Metal Edge readers in the magazine's 1993 Readers' Choice Awards, while "Livin' on the Edge" was voted Best Video.[6]

  1. ^ Huxley 2015, eBook,"Get a Grip, Geffen, April 1993".
  2. ^ Big Ones (CD insert). Aerosmith. Geffen Records. 1994. GEFD-24716.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo (February 28, 2017). "Aerosmith Albums Ranked". Loudwire. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  4. ^ The Great Rock Discography. p. 7.
  5. ^ "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  6. ^ Metal Edge, June 1994