Jacoby Shaddix recalled in a recent interview Aerosmith’s reaction to Papa Roach’s cover of “Sweet Emotion” during MTV’s ‘Icons’ tribute special honoring the Boston rockers.
As Shaddix tells the story “so, MTV, back in the day, asked us to come do this thing to honor Aerosmith. What was the song — “Sweet Emotion” — they were like, ‘We want you guys to do ‘Sweet Emotion’.’ And I was like, ‘Let’s go,'”
When it came to the performance itself, Shaddix remembers “we just hacked our way. It was bad. It was not good.”
As for Aerosmith’s reaction, Shaddix said “I could tell that they were just kind of like, ‘Hm, that was loud’. We were young numbskulls playing like, I mean, nu-metal. We weren’t like, classic rocker vibe, and so we did our best but it just wasn’t good enough. It just wasn’t good.”
Watch the performance below…
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