Tom Hamilton: I thought, I'll be damned if I'm going to play eighth-notes on the root all my life!

Aerosmith’s long-serving bassist reflects on becoming a "music-book junkie", channeling John Paul Jones and "smoking a bowl" before writing Sweet Emotion

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