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Twent y- one Top 4 0 hit s, four Gra m mys, a nd 14 0 m illion a lbums sold worldw ide: T hat 's some résumé. Aerosm it h ba ssist a nd composer Tom Hamilton wears it well. After all, he's been at it a long time. As a 15 -year-old, he and his buddy and f ut ure ba ndmate Joe Per r y road-t r ipped to Sunapee, New Hampshire, and caught an 18 -year- old Steven Tyler performing. "You could tell you were look ing at someone who wa s going to be huge. The confidence, the natural musical knowl- edge, the magnetism—it was all there." You could say the same for Hamilton, and add "collector of the coolest rocker pieces ever" to the list: Original Aerosm it h a lbum a r t work a nd Gra m my sculp - t ures complement a n a ssor t ment of Chr ist ia n Loubout in cheet a h slippers, Ba lma in leat her jacket s, a nd motorcycle pa nt s t hat have toured w it h t he ba nd a nd kept Ha milton inspired w it h sweet emot ion. RockeR staples: Met a llic-blue Gucci high- tops, a Saint Laurent leopard jacket ("I wore it all through our Eastern Europe tour; it was hot, but I wore it through the first songs no matter what"), LGB pa inted jea ns f rom A la n Bilzer ia n, a nd a n Alexander McQueen skull shirt. Best mementos: A f ra med collage of fa ns' t icket s shaped like a n a lbum ("One of our crew members made one for each of us in t he ba nd"); t he or ig ina l g uit a r on which he played "Sweet E mot ion." Bc Star Power tom Hamilton "My wife, Terry, buys me a lot of my coolest pieces. We got married in '75. We've been together since before the band even made it." 118 bostoncommon-magazine.com above: A Saint Laurent boot punctuates an amplifier atop a toilet tank. What else would you expect for a rock star's home décor? right: Some of Hamilton's favorites are Christian Louboutin slippers and a Balmain "Sergeant Pepper" jacket. "There are a ton of photos of me wearing it onstage—it just looks amazing, though a little Michael Jackson-y."