Aerosmith postponing tour???

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » March 22, 2006 7:52 pm

Don't know if this has already been posted, but I heard on the radio today that Aerosmith has postponed something like 12 North American shows because Steven Tyler is having surgery, which they didn't mention what type in the report. Has anyone else heard about this? Again sorry if this is really old news and I didn't see an earlier thread.

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » March 22, 2006 7:55 pm

In all the stories I've heard about the tour being canceled, I have yet to hear what the actual surgery is for.

Hope he's okay.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » March 22, 2006 8:15 pm

The closest I've found was one article that said it was throat surgery, but said it wasn't cancer.....I was hoping to catch them with Cheap Trick this year....that was my first rock concert back in about 1976.
Hope it's nothing too serious, always been a Steven Tyler fan.

A Balding Fan · Post by **A Balding Fan** » March 22, 2006 8:28 pm

rumor on chicago radio has it being possibly the bird flu

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » March 22, 2006 9:19 pm

This doesn't really add much to what's already known but it's also the latest info I could find.

By the way, just when did Cheap Trick become "80s hair metal vets?" Looks like someone at Rolling Stone may just be on the crack but then again we already knew that.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... or_surgery

Aerosmith's Tyler Set for Surgery

Rockers cancel rest of Rockin' the Joint tour

Back in the saddle soon enough
Photo by David Atlas

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will undergo throat surgery this week, forcing the classic-rock icons to cancel the remaining twelve dates of their North American Rockin' the Joint tour with Eighties hair-metal vets Cheap Trick. The jaunt, now in its fifth leg, was scheduled to run through April 9th in Vancouver.

"Despite Aerosmith's desire to keep the tour going as long as possible, Tyler's doctors advised him not to continue performing to give his voice time to recover," the band's publicist, Marcee Rondan, said in a statement. Rondon added that Tyler, who turns fifty-eight on Sunday, was "doing fine" but would be out of commission for two to three months following the operation.

Though Aerosmith will now be on hiatus, the group will return with a new album and tour dates.

"It's going to be just like what the White Stripes are doing, and like a couple of songs on Sheryl Crow's new album," Tyler told Rolling Stone of the new material before Aerosmith launched their spring tour. "You'll listen to it and be like, 'I've heard that before' -- but you never did."

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, who've been on the tour since last October in support of the live CD/DVD Rockin' the Joint, had cancelled eight shows in early March -- including performances in Lexington, Kentucky; Pensacola, Florida; and Manchester, New Hampshire -- citing illness as the reason for the cancellations. No further details were released at the time.

Currently, Aerosmith is still scheduled to inaugurate the first Rock'N the Rally music festival in Sturgis, South Dakota, running August 6th through 10th. The five-day event, also featuring the Steve Miller Band, Big & Rich, Deep Purple and REO Speedwagon, coincides with the legendary annual Sturgis Bike Week, and hopes to draw on the estimated 600,000 bikers set to descend on the town of 7,000.

JESSICA ROBERTSON

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » March 22, 2006 11:26 pm

I heard is was because the cost of Ben-Gay was too much.

Zuke · Post by **Zuke** » March 22, 2006 11:30 pm

I think it's his throat, I saw it on cnn.com, or yahoo, one or the other this afternoon.

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » March 22, 2006 11:53 pm

My best professional guess would be vocal nodules...no fun.

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » March 23, 2006 9:58 am

Zuke wrote:I think it's his throat, I saw it on cnn.com, or yahoo, one or the other this afternoon.

No sh*t, Sherlock.