text=<B><font size="+15">1980</font></B>
- Aerosmith release Greatest Hits on Columbia Records 
- The Joe Perry Project release their debut Let the Music do the Talking, which earns the band a minor hit with the title cut 
- Internal strife continues to plague Aerosmith's progress as Brad Whitford leaves the band 
<B><font size="+15">1981</font></B>
- Guitarist Brad Whitford teams up with Derek St. Holmes, who had previously played with Ted Nugent, to record Whitford / St. Holmes 
- Rick Dufay replaces Brad Whitford on guitar 
- Joe Perry Project releases I've Got The Rock n' Rolls Again 
- Steven Tyler spends much of the year recovering from a motorcycle accident 
<B><font size="+15">1982-83</font></B>
- August - Rock In A Hard Place is released on Columbia Records 
- The band sets off on the "Rock In A Hard Place Tour" with Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay on guitars. The tour continues into early 1984 
- Joe Perry Project Records Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker for MCA Records 
- Brad Whitford reunites with Joe Perry to play live at several shows 
<B><font size="+15">1984</font></B>
- February - Valentine's Day, after a long period of well-publicised estrangement between Perry and Tyler, Perry and Whitford visit their old band backstage following an Aerosmith show at Boston's Orpheum Theater. The wounds start to heal... 
- April - The announcement is made that the original Aerosmith will reunite and tour  - The band teams up with AR man, John Kalodner, who then signs them to Geffen. Kalodner continues to be involved to this day 
- The reunited Aerosmith begins rehearsing at the Glen Ellen Country Club in Millis, MA. 
    "You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin' - it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move." 
      - Steven Tyler
- Aerosmith launches their 70-date "Back in the Saddle" tour 
    "I know everybody's gonna' ask if we got back together for the money, and of course we did. No, it's fun to have the money come in, but the reason is definitely the pleasure we get from playing together again." 
      - Joe Perry in a Rolling Stone interview.
- After interviewing the band, one writer observes, 
    "Hearing Perry and Tyler rap about their career, their enthusiasm for good, fast, hard, rock 'n' roll, and their good-natured comraderie, will dispel any notion that they're just doing it for the money. Clearly, they are brimming with enthusiasm over their new material, and the chance to have another crack at being in the center ring of the rock 'n' roll circus." 
      - Jim Moran Sweet Potato
- America's radio and TV airwaves are inundated with countless young, second-wave heavy metal bands, many admittedly indebted to Aerosmith 
    "We paved the road, so to speak, so why not fucking get in our cars and drive down it again?" 
    - Steven Tyler
"The Quiet Riot's and all those guys with the leather and studs and the stacks of Marshall amps that aren't turned on better watch out. We are the band your mother warned you about." 
    - Joe Perry
<B><font size="+15">1985-86</font></B>
- New Year's Eve - Aerosmith culminate their "Back in the Saddle" Tour with a legendary two-night stand at Boston's Orpheum Theater 
- July - Aerosmith enters the studio to record Done With Mirrors with Ted Templeman producing 
- November - Done With Mirrors is released on Columbia Records. Aerosmith set out on a world tour in support of their new album 
- The band is generally ecstatic about being back together and touring again 
    "I feel like it's ten years ago again. I feel like the band never was and here we are starting out at the beginning again." 
      - Steven Tyler
- Aerosmith re-enters the charts for the first time in six years, teaming with Run-DMC for a Rick Rubin-produced re-make of "Walk This Way", a track that the rappers had been burning up the clubs with for some time. 
<B><font size="+15">1987</font></B>
"We crawled out from under our problems and got in touch with ourselves." 
      - Brad Whitford
- Aerosmith release their ninth studio album Permanent Vacation. Going Triple-Platinum, the album deservedly restores Aerosmith to a dignified position in the music business and, more importantly, in the ears and hearts of the listening public - the fans 
    "Aerosmith forfeited none of their bad-boy image, and their live shows were among the best of their long career. Even critics liked them better the second time around." 
      - Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll
<B><font size="+15">1988</font></B>
- September - Aerosmith win their first MTV Music Awards for:
Best Group Video - "Dude Looks Like A Lady"
Best Stage Performance in a Video - "Dude Looks Like a Lady" 
- "Rag Doll" and "Angel" land Aerosmith on the Billboard Charts with "Angel" peaking at #3, tying with "Dream On's" 1976 re-released as their highest charting single 
<B><font size="+15">1989</font></B>
- September - Pump, their 10th studio album reaches # 5 on the charts and goes Multi-Platinum 
- September - Aerosmith receive MTV Awards Nomination for Best Heavy Metal Video - "Rag Doll" 
- The Making Of Pump - longform video is released 
- Things That Go'Pump' In The Night - is released 
