“Livin' On The Edge” by Aerosmith

"Livin' on the Edge" was the first single from Get a Grip, Aerosmith's eleventh album, and it came out in 1993 as a rocker with a conscience. Steven Tyler wrote it with Joe Perry and Mark Hudson, and according to the band's autobiography, Walk This Way, it was partly sparked by the 1992 Los Angeles riots, with a nod toward John Lennon's messages of peace.

Bruce Fairbairn produced it and even blows trumpet on it; Brendan O'Brien mixed. The arrangement is stuffed with stray sounds: Tyler on harmonica, mandolin and keyboards, Perry adding Appalachian dulcimer to his guitar, horns from the Margarita Horns, and a bass drum Tyler says he swiped from his high school, booming four times in a gap between the last verse and chorus. Marty Callner directed the video, which starred Edward Furlong.

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