{"id":2817636,"date":"2025-07-12T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/2817636\/celebrity\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:06:51","slug":"postmodern-jukebox-dream-on-aerosmith-cover-ft-morgan-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/2817636\/celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmodern Jukebox &#8211; Dream On | Aerosmith Cover ft. Morgan James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FYfUxMiDHpY?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you enjoyed the video, please, give it a like and subscribe, and turn on notifications, so you&#8217;ll know when I post a new video. I&#8217;d also very much appreciate you leaving me a comment and sharing the video with your friends. Thanks! \ud83d\ude4f\u2764<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to my channel: <\/p>\n<p>Please support Postmodern Jukebox at <\/p>\n<p>Please support Morgan James at <\/p>\n<p>Band members in this performance:<\/p>\n<p>Morgan James &#8211; Vocals<br \/>\nArtyom Manukyan &#8211; Cello<br \/>\nDesiree Hazley &#8211; Violin<br \/>\nLauren Baba &#8211; Viola<br \/>\nAndy Sanesi &#8211; Drums<br \/>\nJonathan Richards &#8211; Bass<br \/>\nScott Bradlee &#8211; Piano<\/p>\n<p>Arrangement: Scott Bradlee<\/p>\n<p>This was the first single Aerosmith released. Their manager had them share a house and concentrate on writing songs for their first album. Steven Tyler had been working on the song on and off for about six years, writing it in bits and pieces. He was able to complete it with the help of the rest of the band.<\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough came when Tyler bought an RMI keyboard with money he found in a suitcase outside of where the band was staying. The &#8220;suitcase incident&#8221; became part of Aerosmith lore, as Tyler didn&#8217;t tell his bandmates that he took the money, and when gangsters came looking for it, he continued to play dumb.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler&#8217;s father was a classically trained musician, and when Steven was 3 years old, he would lie underneath the piano and listen to his dad play. In his book, Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, Tyler writes, &#8220;That&#8217;s where I got that &#8216;Dream On&#8217; chordage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the meaning of this song, Tyler explained: &#8220;It&#8217;s about the hunger to be somebody: Dream until your dreams come true.&#8221; He added, &#8220;This song sums up the s&#8211;t you put up with when you&#8217;re in a new band. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. That&#8217;s a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. &#8216;Dream On&#8217; came of me playing the piano when I was about 17 or 18, and I didn&#8217;t know anything about writing a song. It was just this little sonnet that I started playing one day. I never thought that it would end up being a real song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every time that I look in the mirror<br \/>\nAll these lines on my face getting clearer<br \/>\nThe past is gone<br \/>\nIt went by like dusk to dawn<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t that the way?<br \/>\nEverybody&#8217;s got their dues in life to pay, yeah<\/p>\n<p>I know nobody knows<br \/>\nWhere it comes and where it goes<br \/>\nI know it&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s sin<br \/>\nYou got to lose to know how to win<\/p>\n<p>Half my life&#8217;s in books&#8217; written pages<br \/>\nLived and learned from fools and from sages<br \/>\nYou know it&#8217;s true<br \/>\nAll the things come back to you<\/p>\n<p>Sing with me, sing for the year<br \/>\nSing for the laughter and sing for the tear<br \/>\nSing with me if it&#8217;s just for today<br \/>\nMaybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year<br \/>\nSing for the laughter and sing for the tear<br \/>\nSing with me if it&#8217;s just for today<br \/>\nMaybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away<\/p>\n<p>Dream on, dream on, dream on<br \/>\nDream until your dreams come true<br \/>\nDream on, dream on, dream on<br \/>\nDream until your dreams come true<br \/>\nDream on, dream on, dream on<br \/>\nDream on, dream on, dream on<br \/>\nDream on, ah<\/p>\n<p>Sing with me, sing for the year<br \/>\nSing for the laughter and sing for the tear<br \/>\nSing with me if it&#8217;s just for today<br \/>\nMaybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away<\/p>\n<p>Sing with me, sing for the year<br \/>\nSing for the laughter and sing for the tear<br \/>\nSing with me if it&#8217;s just for today<br \/>\nMaybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away<\/p>\n<p>#postmodernjukebox #dreamon #morganjames #scottbradlee #aerosmith #steventyler #hardrock #bluesrock #heavymetal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed the video, please, give it a like and subscribe, and turn on notifications, so you&#8217;ll kno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2817637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21045],"tags":[93869,21047,21046,1961,19775,93866,27104,97521,66214,322394,1769746,1769747,1769745,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-2817636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-aerosmith","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity","11":"tag-cover","12":"tag-dream","13":"tag-dream-on","14":"tag-dreams-come-true-band","15":"tag-james","16":"tag-jukebox","17":"tag-morgan","18":"tag-morgan-james","19":"tag-postmodern","20":"tag-postmodern-jukebox","21":"tag-vlog"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}