AEROSMITH Guitarist Says Tour Could Be Delayed Between Four Weeks And Two Months

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!"

AEROSMITH's next concert was scheduled for Friday in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but was postponed. The band's web site doesn't mention any other cancelations.

Meanwhile, Perry has told Classic Rock Revisited more about his upcoming album, which is due for release before the new AEROSMITH LP. He says: "It's going to be the JOE PERRY PROJECT rather than a solo one. David Hull played on the first two PROJECT albums and he's going to be on this one.

"We went online and my wife found a singer in Germany. We brought Hagen over, auditioned him, and he's singing half of the songs. I'm comfortable with singing lead, but I don't know how comfortable the rest of the world is with it!

"The drummer is from my son's band — I call him the Percussion Prodigy. Our keyboard player is a local guy, who also helped do the demo work."

(Thanks: Rock Radio)