Kenny Aaronson

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Kenny Aaronson Biography

Bassist whose career has spanned more than four decades with bands like Dust and Blue Oyster Cult, as well as artists like Dana Fuchs.

At the age of twenty, he got an audition with Jimmy Lovine, who was the producer for Flame. Lovine got Aaronson into the studio soon after that to record several demos.

A longtime fan of the Rolling Stones, Aaronson got to perform with Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards on the Stones’ Dirty Work album.

He grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a large Italian family.

Going strong well into the 2010s, he performed with the New York Dolls and toured in 2011 in support of Mick Mars and Motley Crue.

Kenny Aaronson (born April 14, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American bass guitar player. He has recorded and performed with several notable artists, such as Billy Idol, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Hall and Oates.

He started playing drums at the age of eleven, following in his older brother’s footsteps. Aaronson switched to electric bass at the age 14 after becoming enamored by the bass on Motown records and was strongly influenced by James Jamerson. As a teenager, he played bass for Brooklyn-based hard rock band Dust, which included Marc Bell (a.k.a. Marky Ramone), which released two albums in 1971 and 1972 on the Kama Sutra label. In 1973, Aaronson joined the New York band Stories, whose single,”Brother Louie”, reached #1 on the Billboard, Cashbox and Record World charts.

In 1988, Aaronson was named Bassist of the year by Rolling Stone. That year Aaronson also toured with Bob Dylan, but he was forced to leave the tour after developing skin cancer. Aaronson underwent surgery, which was successful in defeating the disease. Aaronson was the bassist in the house band for the MTV Guitar Greats Show where along with Dave Edmunds, Chuck Leavell and Michael Shrieve, he backed up artists such as Steve Cropper, Brian Setzer, Dickey Betts, Link Wray, Neal Schon, Johnny Winter, Lita Ford, Tony Iommi and Dave Gilmour. Kenny also auditioned for the Rolling Stones in 1994.

Aaronson has toured and recorded with a variety of artists including Billy Idol, Billy Squier, Foghat, Brian Setzer, Dave Edmunds, HSAS (with Sammy Hagar, Neal Schon, and Michael Shrieve), Mick Taylor, Graham Parker, Hall and Oates, Edgar Winter, Robert Gordon, Leslie West Band, Rick Derringer and Joan Jett among others. Aaronson was a regular member of Jett’s backing group the Blackhearts from 1991 to 1995. Aaronson was one of the few Blackheart band members to co-write a track with Jett. The song, “World Of Denial”, was recorded for the 1994 album “Pure and Simple” but was not released in the U.S. until 2001’s Fit To Be Tied- Great Hits by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts”.

In July 2011, Aaronson supported singer/songwriter John Eddie and played with Corky Laing & The Memory Thieves. Also in 2011, Aaronson recorded with ex Bongo’s singer Richard Barone on a tribute album for The Runaways. Aaronson joined the New York Dolls and toured in the summer of 2011 supporting Mötley Crüe and Poison.

More recently, 2014 recorded with Gar Francis of the Doughboys, Kurt Reil of The Grip Weeds and Bruce Ferguson of The Easy Out a self-titled full-length album under the name The Satisfactors. In June 2015 the first single of the album called Johnny Commando reached Top 10 in The Netherlands at Ned.FM Radio.

In November 2015, he joined the British band The Yardbirds.

In 2016, Aaronson was featured on former Mambo Sons guitarist/songwriter Tom Guerra’s second solo album Trampling Out the Vintage, and in 2018, co-wrote three songs with Guerra, originally intended for The Yardbirds, which were included on Guerra’s third solo album, American Garden.

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