STEVEN TYLER Voices Concern Over JOE PERRY's Health - "I'm Really Worried Right Now That I'm Not Getting Any News"
July 14, 2016, 8 years ago
According to an update from Billboard, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler told them he's placed calls to check on his bandmate and songwriting partner Joe Perry without any reply. "It's starting to scare me a little bit," Tyler says about Perry, who collapsed onstage and was hospitalized Sunday during a show with the all-star Hollywood Vampires in Brooklyn. Perry is currently off the tour, though a statement earlier this week promised that he'll "rejoin his fellow Vampires on stage again soon."
Tyler: "I know they're putting out nothing, but he's recovering, he's really good, he fainted, exhaustion. But I know my brother. He's just about the only other guy that's as passionate about his art as I am. He's always asking me to do three, four (Aerosmith) shows in a row, and I can't. I'll blow my voice out. I know how to maintain my career, my health, and Joe's passionate. I don't think he knows how to. I think he's out there and someone's overbooking him. They're doing like eight or nine shows in a row, or five in a row. I think they're all a little burnt. I think they may need to look at that. Not young anymore, y'know?"
"I'm really concerned and worried right now that I'm not getting any news. I'm a little bummed out, and that scares me. I don't know whether it's heat prostration or whether he's been working himself too hard or getting off on wrong things passionately. I don't know what it is, but I know that nobody's talking to me. I can only tell you that Joe's my brother and I love him so much."
On July 10th, Tyler performed at Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia as part of his ...Out On A Limb solo tour. Fan-filmed video footage of Tyler and his band doing "Cryin" and a cover of The Beatles' "Come Together" can be seen below.
Tour dates:
July
14 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
20 - Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre
23 - Denver, CO - Ellie Caulkins Opera House
26 - Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
29 - Houston, TX - Brown Theater at Wortham Center
August
1 - Dallas, TX - Music Hall at Fair Park
13 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
17 - Nashville, TN - Andrew Jackson Hall at TPAC
23 - Washington, D.C. - Warner Theatre
29 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
September
1 - Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
4 - Boston, MA - Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
7 - Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music
10 - Providence, RI - Providence Performing Arts Center
13 - Toronto, ON - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Tyler tells Rolling Stone that his first ever solo album, We’re All Somebody From Somewhere (out July 15th), will feature 15 new songs including his first two country singles, “Love Is Your Name” and “Red, White And You”, as well as a new, “darker, countrified” version of Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got A Gun”.
"Country music still plays stuff with melody, I have a sorcerer's grasp of melody, I like to think," he explains. "I'm a freak for that so thank God they're still playing it in country, and I think they're gonna be all over songs like 'Only Heaven' and you guys are gonna be surprised."