Aerosmithhas postponed a series of dates on its farewell tour after frontmanSteven Tylershredded his voice during a performance over the weekend.
“I’m heartbroken to say I have received strict doctor’s orders not to sing for the next thirty days,” Tyler, 75,posted on Instagramon Monday, Sept. 11. “I sustained vocal cord damage during Saturday’s show that led to subsequent bleeding. We’ll need to postpone a few dates so that we can come back and give you the performance you deserve.”
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band, whose career has been punctuated by hits like “Dream On”和“Walk This Way,” has rescheduled its “Peace Out” tour dates originally scheduled for later this month and October in Toronto; Chicago; Detroit; Cleveland; Raleigh, N.C.; and Washington, D.C., to January and February.
Aerosmith’s show atChase Centerin San Francisco, scheduled for Dec. 1, with special guests the Black Crowes, remains unaffected at this time.
The 40-date tour kicked off on Sept. 2, with a four-hour set in Philadelphia, only to be interrupted by Tyler’s vocal cord injury during a performance in Long Island, N.Y.
The group, formed in Boston in 1970, is on the road without drummer Joey Kramer, who took a “temporary leave of absence” during Aerosmith’s Las Vegas residency last year.
“While Joey Kramer remains a beloved founding member of Aerosmith, he has regrettably made the decision to sit out the currently scheduled touring dates to focus his full attention on his family and health,” the band said in a statement. “Joey’s unmistakable and legendary presence behind the drum kit will be sorely missed.”
In 2020, Kramer sued the other band members — Tyler, guitaristJoe Perry, bassist Tom Hamilton and guitarist Brad Whitford — forappearing at the Grammyswithout him while he recovered from another unspecified health issue.
Tyler is also facing allegations of having an illicit sexual relationship with a teenager in the 1970s. Julia Misley, formerly Julia Holcomb, sued the Aerosmith frontman last year for sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction ofemotional distress.
The allegations assert that Tyler “used his role, status, and power as a well-known musician and rock star to gain access to, groom, manipulate, exploit, sexually assault” Misley, now 65, over three years.
In his 2011 memoir, “Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?,” Tyler acknowledged a “Julia Halcomb” and detailed encounters with an unnamed 16-year-old “girlfriend to be” while he was 25.
He recounted nearly marrying her and persuading her parents to grant custody to avoid legal repercussions while she accompanied him on a tour out of state. The lawsuit further alleged that Tyler coerced Misley into having an abortion after she became pregnant in 1975 due to their sexual relationship.
Tyler has denied the claims.
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