The members of the band reportedly spent afternoons getting high and watching Three Stooges reruns. One day, they had a post-Stooges meeting to try to come up with a name. Kramer said that, when he was in school, he would write the word “aerosmith” all over his notebooks. The name had popped into his head after listening to Harry Nilsson ‘s album Aerial Ballet , which featured jacket art of a circus performer jumping out of a biplane. Initially, Kramer’s bandmates were unimpressed; they all thought he was referring to the Sinclair Lewis novel they were required to read in high school English class. “No, not Arrowsmith,” Kramer explained. “A-E-R-O…Aerosmith.” The band settled upon this name after also considering “the Hookers” and “Spike Jones”. At some point prior to the weekend of December 25, 1971, they had also been known as “Fox Chase”.
The members of the band reportedly spent afternoons getting high and
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