Given the walking-wounded list of injuries sustained by Beantown rockers Aerosmith on the road (and on the road to the road) this summer, it’s easy to compare the veteran group to another mishap-plagued act, Spinal Tap.
Only, unlike Tap’s legendary string of accident-prone skinsmen, Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer is actually the only one in the group who hasn’t been laid up so far this year. As for the rest of them, the hits, and falls, and bumps, and titanium knees, keep on coming.
Wednesday brought the latest ER visit, this time for singer Steven Tyler, 61, who was reportedly goofing around and dancing a little jig onstage at the rough and ready Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota after the sound went out during "Love In An Elevator."
Tyler took a step too far and slipped off the stage, landing in a heap on some fans and then getting a trip to the ER to treat some head and neck injuries. This just a few weeks after the band canceled seven shows due to an unspecified on-stage injury sustained by Tyler earlier in the tour and a few months after guitarist Joe Perry couldn’t make it to the stage when he needed emergency surgery to treat an infection in his surgically replaced knee.
Add in some "non-invasive" surgery for bassist Tom Hamilton a few weeks ago, and guitarist Brad Whitford’s absence earlier in the tour due to, no kidding, a head injury sustained while exiting his Ferrari that required head surgery — and a gardening accident suddenly seems imminent.