"Chip Away the Stone" is a song performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith.
[3] "Chip Away the Stone" peaked at #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, breaking the band's run of Top-40 charting singles in the United States at the time.
The song re-charted in 1988 at #13 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, when it was included on the collection Gems, 10 years after its initial release.
The song was a regular part of the setlist in Aerosmith concerts in 1978, but only occasionally played live after that year.
35 years after its release, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performed this song with Randy Jackson and members of the house band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on January 20, 2012.