Aerosmith Postpones Current Tour of Horrors
Aerosmith's Joe Perry gave an in-studio interview at WXRX-FM in Rockford, Illinois Friday morning (August 7) on his way back home to Boston. According to the Associated Press, the guitarist didn't say anything specific about singer Steven Tyler's condition or say where Tyler was following the frontman's fall from the stage at the Buffalo Chip Campground in Sturgis, South Dakota Wednesday. Tyler suffered head and shoulder injuries in the fall.
"I don't know what's happening with the tour. We're being told [it may take] anything from four weeks to two months [for Steven to be able to get back on stage]. So I don't know," Perry said in the interview.
He continued, "We've had some bad luck on this tour. Up until three years ago, since we came back we'd only cancelled two gigs. Then Steven had his foot thing, and I had my knee thing, and Tom [Hamilton, bass] had that thing with cancer. It's all hit at once — but we had 25 years of a good run.
"We did seven gigs then had to cancel seven, then we did seven more and then this happened. I don't know if we'll be able to finish this. I gotta play!
"It's breaking my heart — ZZ [Top] are my second favorite band to play with. Cheap Trick is my first. Billy Gibbons has been up every night playing 'Rattlesnake Shake' with us and I want to keep doing that. We're the only three American bands to have the same members, still putting out albums. I keep asking, but if someone can think of another, let me know!"
It really isn't like Aerosmith to cancel any tour completely. I would be shocked to see this tour get cancelled, but I was also shocked to see him fall off stage. Video of him falling is below:
"I don't know what's happening with the tour. We're being told [it may take] anything from four weeks to two months [for Steven to be able to get back on stage]. So I don't know," Perry said in the interview.
He continued, "We've had some bad luck on this tour. Up until three years ago, since we came back we'd only cancelled two gigs. Then Steven had his foot thing, and I had my knee thing, and Tom [Hamilton, bass] had that thing with cancer. It's all hit at once — but we had 25 years of a good run.
"We did seven gigs then had to cancel seven, then we did seven more and then this happened. I don't know if we'll be able to finish this. I gotta play!
"It's breaking my heart — ZZ [Top] are my second favorite band to play with. Cheap Trick is my first. Billy Gibbons has been up every night playing 'Rattlesnake Shake' with us and I want to keep doing that. We're the only three American bands to have the same members, still putting out albums. I keep asking, but if someone can think of another, let me know!"
It really isn't like Aerosmith to cancel any tour completely. I would be shocked to see this tour get cancelled, but I was also shocked to see him fall off stage. Video of him falling is below:
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