No Surprize

Night in the Ruts is the sixth album by American rock band Aerosmith.

Joe Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album. The album was not produced by Jack Douglas who had produced Aerosmith's previous four albums. Instead, Columbia Records brought in Gary Lyons as a producer.

About halfway through the recording of the album, due to mounting debt and the need for the band to generate an income, the record label and management set Aerosmith out on another tour without extra time to finish the album, which pushed the album to being released later in the year. Joe Perry left the band mid-way through the tour, after a violent feud involving the band members and their wives. Prior to his departure, Perry had completed guitar parts for "No Surprize", "Chiquita", "Cheesecake", "Bone to Bone (Coney Island Whitefish Boy)", and "Three Mile Smile". The guitar parts for the remaining songs were recorded by Brad Whitford, Richie Supa, Neil Thompson, and Jimmy Crespo (who later became Perry's official replacement from 1979 to 1984).

Despite some critical acclaim and early success, the album quickly fell down the charts. The album has since achieved platinum status. Promo videos for "No Surprize" and "Chiquita" were filmed (featuring Perry's replacement Jimmy Crespo); however, these videos received little television airplay. "Chiquita" is available on the band's Video Scrapbook VHS and laserdisc release.

The title is an intentional spoonerism of the phrase "right in the nuts", which was subsequently the title of the tour[citation needed], and was shown on the back artwork for the album.

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Contents
[hide]*1 Track listing
 * 1.1 Side one
 * 1.2 Side two
 * 2 Personnel
 * 2.1 Additional personnel
 * 3 Production
 * 4 Charts
 * 5 Certifications
 * 6 Miscellanea
 * 7 References
 * 8 External links
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edit] Personnel

 * Steven Tyler - Lead Vocals, Piano
 * Joe Perry - Guitar, Backing Vocals
 * Brad Whitford - Guitar
 * Tom Hamilton - Bass
 * Joey Kramer - Drums, Percussion

edit] Additional personnel

 * Jimmy Crespo - additional guitars
 * Richie Supa - additional guitars (uncredited) on "Mia"
 * Louis del Gatto - baritone saxophone
 * Lou Marini - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
 * Barry Rogers - trombone, tenor saxophone
 * Neil Thompson - electric guitar
 * George Young - horn, alto saxophone

edit] Production

 * Producers: Aerosmith, Gary Lyons
 * Executive producer: David Krebs
 * Engineer: Gary Lyons
 * Mastering: Vic Anesini, George Marino
 * Direction: David Krebs, Steve Leber
 * Creative supervision: Keith Garde
 * Art supervisor: Joel Zimmerman
 * Art direction: Kosh
 * Design: Kosh, Lisa Sparagano
 * Cover art concept: Styler
 * Photography: Jimmy Ienner, Jr., Jim Shea

edit] Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

edit] Miscellanea

 * The cover artwork for the album was originally supposed to be used for the "Chip Away the Stone" single, released in 1978.
 * "No Surprize" is a playable song in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
 * Right in the Nuts was originally the working title to Aerosmith's second album Get Your Wings, as evidenced by Tyler's introduction to "Pandora's Box" from the bootleg Rattlesnake Shake
 * The song, "Mia" was written for Steven Tyler's daughter, Mia. However, during early sessions the song was also an acronym for Joe Perry's absence aka M.I.A. = Missing In Action.