Love Is A Mix Tape: Life And Loss, One Song At A Time - Plot & Excerpts
It’s a tape full of soothing soul and vintage country and whispery rock and private jokes and intimate history. Some of the choices I didn’t like at the time, such as Aerosmith’s “Angel,” but they all flow together in my memory now. I think about this tape years later, when I’m interviewing Aerosmith, and they tell me how much they hate “Angel.” Steven Tyler tells me, “Sometimes a heavy leather biker guy with tattoos will come up to me and say, ‘Oh, man, let me tell you my favorite song,’ and every time, I know it’s gonna be ‘Angel.’ And I just gulp, and I don’t know what to say. Ugh, that one?” I wonder whether I should tell Steven Tyler I used to hate “Angel,” too, but after my wife put it on this romantic mix tape, tucked in between Big Star and the Beatles, I fell in love with it. I decide not to tell him. I’m sure somewhere in his cosmic rock-star heart, he knows the whole story. “Thirteen” was the song we chose as the first dance at our wedding.
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