Broken shoulder, stitches to head put Aerosmith's Canadian tour in turmoil

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry says the band's lead singer, Steven Tyler, suffered a broken shoulder and has stitches on his head after falling from the stage during a recent concert, throwing the Canadian leg of the band's tour into turmoil.

Perry revealed late Friday that Tyler has been flown to Boston to meet with his own doctor after he tumbled from a stage while performing near Sturgis, S.D., on Wednesday.

A Friday night concert in Winnipeg and a Sunday night gig in Regina have been officially cut, with promises for makeup dates in the future.

An Aug. 11 concert in Edmonton is still a go for now, promoters said. The Canadian tour has other dates, including Calgary on Aug. 13 and Vancouver Aug. 15.

"It is unfortunate that we do have to announce that the Regina concert that was scheduled for this Sunday is postponed," Brad Walker, a spokesman for Keystone Entertainment, told CBC News on Friday.  "We are working really closely with the venue right now to come up with a re-scheduled date, which we are hoping to have announced early to mid next week."

'It's breaking my heart.' —Joe Perry, Aerosmith guitarist

Information about the Aerosmith tour has been changing almost hourly as fans try to keep up with the status of Tyler's health.

"We still don't know if we're going to keep the tour up or what. It's breaking my heart," Perry said.

Tyler, 61, fell several feet while entertaining the crowd by dancing around as the sound crew replaced a fuse that blew during the song Love in an Elevator.

An amateur video showed him spinning around before falling off the stage.

Perry hits radio station

A concertgoer said Tyler's head was bleeding and he was holding his shoulder after the fall, but it wasn't immediately clear how seriously he was hurt.

Perry said the band had to cancel only a couple of concerts during its first 25 years, but has had a run of bad luck the last three years.

On June 28, Tyler hurt his leg at a concert in Uncasville, Conn., and the band had to postpone seven shows in July. Tyler also battled pneumonia before the tour began in June, while Perry fought a knee infection.

After Tyler's fall, Perry said he decided to ride the tour bus home and stop at radio stations along the way to play some of his solo work.

"As soon as I knew that the tour was going to get postponed, or cancelled or whatever, it was, 'All right, where's the first radio station I can hit?' " he said.

According to the band's website, the 2009 tour schedule was to make stops in the five western Canadian cities and then, after Vancouver, continue with more U.S. performances.

The band makes another swing through Canada in September, with dates in Toronto (Sept. 3) and the Ottawa suburb of Kanata (Sept. 5).