Aerosmith Permanent Vacation RIAA 2x Platinum Album Award Jim Steinman with his famous Gibson ES-355

with his famous Gibson ES-355 "Lucille" guitar and a 2006 tour metal medallion he would typically only pass out to backstage guests

Mini fur guitar complete with strings and tuning pegs (really

which was released on Jan

having written or co-written with Tom Scholz many Boston tracks including "Smokin' "

By 2005 the album had been certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for three million sold

Aerosmith Permanent Vacation RIAA 2x Platinum Album Award Jim Steinman with his famous Gibson ES-355RIAA 2x Platinum album award for Aerosmith album Permanent Vacation. The album was released on August 25, 1987. It was certified 2x Multi Platinum by the RIAA on May 24, 1988 for two million copies sold. Often considered the band's comeback album, it produced the hits "Rag Doll", "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)", and "Angel". The album reached #11 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart and #37 on the UK Albums Chart. It also did well in Australia, Canada,