"Blind Man" is a song by American

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 hard rock

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 band Aerosmith

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. It was written by Steven Tyler

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, Joe Perry

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, and Taylor Rhodes

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. It was released as a single in December 1994 from the Geffen

Geffen Records

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-era compilation album Big Ones

Big Ones

Big Ones is one of the many compilation albums by the American rock band Aerosmith, released on November 1, 1994 by Geffen Records...

, one of three songs from that greatest hits record not previously released on any Aerosmith studio album, which was released a month earlier in November (see 1994 in music

1994 in music

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).

Despite the song's moderate success, the band hardly ever performed it live after the 1993-1994 Get a Grip Tour

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.

Recording

The song was recorded at two separate sessions, the first session took place at Power Station

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, New York City

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 in April 1994, and was engineered

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 by Adam Kasper

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 with second engineering by Chris Albert. The second session took place at Capri Digital Studios, Capri

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, Italy

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 in June, and was also engineered by Adam Kasper, but the second engineer on that session was Max Carola.

Charts

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Chart (1994)	Peak position
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US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	48
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	3
US Billboard Mainstream Top 40 Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart...	23

Video

The video for the song was also one of the only songs from Aerosmith's Geffen era not released on the video collection Big Ones You Can Look At

Big Ones You Can Look At

Big Ones You Can Look At is a VHS and Laserdisc featuring music videos by the American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released on November 4, 1994. In addition, there are outtakes and band interviews. Running time is 100 minutes...

. The live performance portions of the video were filmed during the day at The Summit in Houston, Texas

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 before Aerosmith's performance there on September 30, 1994. The video was directed by Marty Callner

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, and featured cameo appearances by Pamela Anderson

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 and A&R man John Kalodner

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.

In 2009, drummer Joey Kramer

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 admitted on That Metal Show

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that this is his least favorite Aerosmith video.