Steven Tyler is proof that age ain’t nothing but a number – a fairly high number that mathematically means he’s old.
But that won’t stop him. He may be in his sixties, but Steven Tyler can still do everything that the kids do – like sing, dance, topple off the edge of a stage in the middle of an ill-advised bout of body-popping during an Aerosmith concert and get airlifted to hospital in a helicopter. Which, funnily enough, happened to him on Wednesday night in South Dakota.
Don’t worry, we have video of Steven Tyler’s hilarious (or tragic) fall after the jump.
If you ask us, this is taking the piss. Aerosmith are famously the poor man’s Rolling Stones, but there’s no need to take it to this level. Remember when Keith Richards injured his head by falling out of a coconut tree? Well, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has decided to rip off that moment by clattering off the edge of a stage during a concert and getting airlifted to hospital with injuries to his head, neck and shoulder. Honestly, it’s shameless.
According to reports, this is what happened – there was a power-cut in the middle of an Aerosmith concert in South Dakota on Wednesday, and to entertain the crowd while the issue was being remedied, Steven Tyler decided to keep the crowd entertained. He slipped, fell, and was airlifted to hospital ‘in good spirits’ as the concert was halted.
That’s according to reports but, according to this video, this is what happened…
You see? The reports were all lies. Steven Tyler wasn’t dancing to entertain the audience – he was simply leading everyone in a mass game of charades. Watch the video again – he’s clearly miming the 1972 arthouse film Helicopter Shhh Lionel Blair Wuh-Wuh-WAARRRGH Ouch. It’s obvious.
Anyway, this fall continues Steven Tyler’s lucky streak of creating gaps in Aerosmith’s schedule by buggering himself up. Not so long ago Tyler cut a tour short to have surgery on his throat, and then there was the time he caught hepatitis, the time he had to go to rehab, and now this.
In fact, Steven Tyler is getting so good at buggering himself up that it’ll be hard for him to keep it fresh from now on. Maybe during the next Aerosmith tour he can eat a bad oyster and vomit over the front three rows, or have a medieval knight in full armour charge onto the stage on horseback and run him through with a lance or something. He needs to think of something fast, because unfortunate body-related mishaps are swiftly becoming Steven Tyler’s USP.
However, at least Steven Tyler is showing people of his generation that they don’t have to do what society expects of them. No, they can dress up like a female drama teacher, nob around like the world’s most embarrassingly drunk dad at a wedding and spectacularly crock themselves in front of the entire world. That’s much better, isn’t it?
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I love Aerosmith! You leave Steven Tyler alone you big bully!
What I mean is… Aerosmith were really really good. Once. But watching a granddad run about on stage like he’s 20 is a bit embarrassing. And he’s going to break a hip soon. Love in an Elevator won’t seem so cool when he’s tottering about on stage with a zimmer frame.
“dress up like a female drama teacher”
I just received a nasty look from my boss after laughing out loud at that one.
Thanks hecklerspray..
Such a mean man you are, making fun of that poor old spaz-dancing bastard.
Consolation for Steven as a result of that extremely “…ill-advised bout of body-popping”, his being slathered in heaping dollops of Ben-Gay applied by his 35+ years younger girlfriend(s).
(Tear-streaming hilarious; gracias.)
What??? Dude, you just gotta be jealous that Steven Tyler is one of the most talented and amazing musicians of our time, and your just a simple(probably a bit fat)journalist for a shitty celebrity gossip website. You write blogs about celebrities for a living and you think the joke is on Steven Tyler??? For slipping, while he was entertaining thousands of his die hard fans???? Those being the fans in which make him millions of dollars annually??? Not to mention, him having hotter than hell 18 to 30 year olds throw themselves at him on a daily basis, (Your probably married to a fatty, right??? She’s a bit plump isn’t she, not too much of a looker either, right??? Who fucks journalists??? Well actually what you do by far cannot be considered journalism) but he is regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and more people know, sing, and love his songs than read this stupid, malicious fucking blog. Why don’t you take yourself and your hog wife and get a real fucking job, Jack. The minute you realize that celebrities are human beings and have faults just like you, me, and your Jabba the Hutt wife, the better off your gonna be. Fuck yourself.