Aerosmith Fans Cheer Singer’s Injury
I’ve seen some pretty silly stage hijinks at concerts before, but I don’t believe that faking an injury has been one of them.
Aerosmith fans at a Wednesday night show in Rapid City, South Dakota apparently thought they were seeing this spectacle, and obediently cheered the singer’s tumble. Not sure if any camcorders were on hand, but surely this will be on Youtube soon.
“We thought maybe he stage-dived into the crowd, but he didn’t get back up,” Jessica Kokesh, a University of South Dakota journalism student who was covering the concert, told the AP. “I thought he was falling back to crowd-surf.”
Security guards rushed to Tyler’s aid, and he was taken backstage to be attended to by a physician. Eventually, Tyler was loaded onto a helicopter bound for the Rapid City Regional Hospital, where, according to several reports, it was revealed that he suffered minor head and neck injuries, and an injured shoulder as a result of the fall. Shortly after the incident, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry informed the crowd that Tyler had been airlifted to a hospital, and the show was over.
