Underplayed Gems

The Making of Pump (1990)

The Making of Pump poster
Original title
Aerosmith - The Making of Pump
Directed by
Martin Torgoff
Genre
hard rock, documentary film, rockumentary
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A documentary about Aerosmith recording their 1989 album Pump. It shows the band working in the studio with their producer and engineers.

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What happens

Pump is the tenth album by the American rock band Aerosmith. It was released on September 12, 1989, by Geffen Records. The album peaked at No. 5 on the US charts, and was certified 7x Platinum by the RIAA in 1995. The album contains the hit singles "Love in an Elevator", "The Other Side", "What It Takes", "Janie's Got a Gun", which all entered the Top 40 of the Hot 100. It also has certified sales of seven million copies in the U.S. to date, and is tied with its successor Get a Grip as Aerosmith's second best-selling studio album in the U.S. (Toys in the Attic leads with nine million). It produced a variety of successes and "firsts" for the band including their first Grammy Award ("Janie's Got a Gun"). "Love in an Elevator" became the first Aerosmith song to hit number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was the fourth best-selling album of the year 1990. In the UK, it was the second Aerosmith album to be certified Silver (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in September 1989. Pump was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature producer Bruce Fairbairn and engineers Mike Fraser and Ken Lomas at Little Mountain Sound Studios. Two video documentaries on the recording, Things That Go Pump in the Night and The Making of Pump, were released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1990, with the latter also released on DVD in 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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