At Fenway Park, Aerosmith delivers a rocking good time.

• Position: ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE

Byline: Craig S. Semon

COLUMN: MUSIC REVIEW

BOSTON - The Rolling Stones couldn't do it. Bruce Springsteen couldn't do it. Paul McCartney couldn't do it.

Aerosmith did it. They produced the single greatest rock `n' roll moment to ever unfold on the sacred ground of Fenway Park.

Emerging high atop "The Monster Seats" during the tail end of Saturday night's sold-out concert, Aerosmith's frontman Steven Tyler, wearing a Red Sox jersey (sleeves ripped off, of course) and sitting behind a white baby grand, performed the granddaddy of all power ballads, "Dream On."

How cool was it? We're talking Carlton Fisk magically waving the ball fair in the bottom of the 12th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. That's how cool. On top of that, Aerosmith even gave Sir Paul a ticket to ride with "Come Together," which is quite possibly the coolest version of a Beatles classic to ever be performed at the legendary park.

To paraphrase the Cute Beatle, rumors of Aerosmith's death have been greatly exaggerated. And, God knows, there has certainly been plenty of rumors. The band (sans Tyler) was looking to replace the singer, who broke his shoulder after falling off a concert stage last August, and subsequently entered rehab after developing an addiction to painkillers. Then came the nasty rumors that Tyler was replacing Simon Cowell on "American Idol." Say it ain't so. What next? Mick Jagger replacing Charlie Sheen on "Two and a Half Men"?

If there was any lingering doubt that Tyler's heart is still in Aerosmith and, hands down, Aerosmith is the best rock band to hail from the Bay State (and, arguably, the best rock band to hail from America), all that was quashed during the band's two-hour-long, 18-song set that pulled out all the stops and covered all the bases.

An amusing Ken Burns spoof that whimsically linked the history of the Boston Red Sox with "The Bad Boys of Boston" brought the hometown audience to its feet. Narrated by Worcester's own Denis Leary, the documentary not only had the distinction of being the first time Johnny Pesky and Aerosmith's guitarist Joe Perry appeared together on film, but Leary took his favorite expletive (that he usually saves for the likes of New York Yankee Bucky Dent) and sandwiching it in-between "Aero" and "Smith" for the un-PC cheer, "Aero-(expletive)-Smith"!

Aerosmith barreled on the field with a full-throttle version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'," The number erupted with Tyler's howling vocals, Perry's snarly guitar...