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Otan Vargas / Aaron Lewis (Staind) Borgata - Music Box - Atlantic City 14/2/09 'Its Been A While'

AaronLewis/Otan Vargas Atlantic City 2/14/09

Otan was in the audience for the Aaron Lewis show at the Borgata in Atlantic City on 2/14/09. Aaron invited Otanon stage to perform Its Been Awhile.

Aaron Lewis & Otan Vargas at the Music Box Borgata Atlant...

Otan Vargas a 24 year old Filipino Singer/Songwriter was in the audience that night at The Borgata Music Box Atlantic City when Aaron Lewis of Stai...   more Otan Vargas a 24 year old Filipino Singer/Songwriter was in the audience that night at The Borgata Music Box Atlantic City when Aaron Lewis of Staind pulled him up on the stage to sing Staind famous song "It's Been Awhile".

I wasn't really that good but it's sure was an awesome experience Aaron Lewis is the most humble person I've ever met, for him to do this for a fan is really unbelievable. Thank you so much Aaron and thank you to the people who were there that night! God bless ya'll - Otan

Recorded by Pixie & Caitlin

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Aerosmith live Downstairs @ Middle East Club nov 9th, 1995

Aerosmith live Downstairs @ Middle East Club november 9th, 1995.

This Boston club gig was the first show they played almost a year on from the imfam...   more Aerosmith live Downstairs @ Middle East Club november 9th, 1995.

This Boston club gig was the first show they played almost a year on from the imfamous "Mama Kin Music Hall" Dec 19, 1994 concert at the end of their "Get A Grip" Tour. The classic 1970s material sets included several new songs ("Trouble", "Something", "The Farm", "What Kind Of Love Are You On", "Hole In My Sole"), some which would end up being recorded during album sessions with Glen Ballard in Miami, Spring 1996.

Just as with next days "Mama Kin Music Hall" november 10th gig, this was a secret but rumored show. Even when it was supoused to be a secert gig, it was advertised in the press few weeks early as if the band playing would be "Rayco and the Seat Covers". The night of the show the club listed that night playing band as one called "The G-Spots", witch was the name Steven used to introduce the band it self at the star of the show; "The G-Spots".

This two secret gigs are mostly famous because everybody was 'wanded' as they entered the club to assure that no one would bootleg the show before some of those previously un-released songs were released. 14 years after the show no bootleg has surfacted the net, making this show the "holy grail" and "most wanted" recording for a die hard Aerosmith fan.

Its been confirmed by a very trustable source close to the band that "The Middle East show doesn't exist (no video or audio recordings were made). Mama Kin (november 10th 1995 show) was video taped by the in house camera. No board tapes were made."

So the video recording of the november 10th Mama Kin's Musci Hall video recording of the show in the hands of the band, stored in a closet deep into the "back burner" of Aerosmith's vaults.

Aerosmith fans from all over the world are waiting for the band to release some kind of box set including material from this two 1995 secret gigs.

The set list of the night was:

Make It
Bone To Bone
Get The Lead Out
Trouble
Remember (Walking In The Sand)
I'm A Man
Hole In My Soul
Sick As A Dog
Something (Joe Perry tune)
The Farm
S.O.S. (Too Bad)
What Kind of Love Are You On
Milk Cow Blues
Last Child
Mama Kin
Think About It
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Immigrant Song

Extra information about this show and reviews can be found at: http://www.gotsiding.com/aero_outtake...

Info about Aerosmith Outtakes at: http://www.gotsiding.com/aero_outtakes/
Aerosmith Outtakes Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith's_outtakes
Middle East Club site: http://www.mideastclub.com/
472(Up) and 480(Down)
Mass Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

* The pictures of this rare show were taken with a plastic camara by Lou Campione, who developed and keeped the pictures all of this years. After long years of waiting, he was the one who scaned and sent the pictures. However, he sent them in extremly low resolution, and not all the pictures of the show. Lisa Collins, who lost her camara during the show, also took pictures at the show.


Video and audio (The Farm and Trouble) edited by Gonzalo Collarte, feb 2009.   less

So Far Away

Aaron performing So Far Away at the Silver Legacy in Reno.