Whenever I see "John Kalodner = John Kalodner" on an album I kind of assume that's the direction the band is headed. That's been the case since Done With Mirrors, but really came to the fore with "Get A Grip".
This is a somewhat famous quote by him (it's on Wikipedia, but I've read it in other places as well): "Kalodner considered that the best example of his contribution to an artist's success was his role in Aerosmith's 1993 Get a Grip album, for the reasons that "...first of all, I made them rerecord the whole record completely. Second of all, I made them write with all these different people. They were very resistant. The record is an interesting eclectic record with, like, five hit singles, very rare in music, and Bruce Fairbairn produced it. And I got Brendan O'Brien to mix it, who became a giant producer. So for all those reasons, and, of course, it sold like 20 million copies worldwide.""
I've seen them since - because it was a show both my ex-wife and I would both go to - but they haven't been a top tier band since PUMP, their last truly great album.