Aerosmith Continues To Postpone Shows

The Aerosmith tour remains stalled, leaving in its wake thousands of ticket holders who will have to wait a while to see the show they thought they would be seeing this summer.

The latest two dates to be postponed are Sunrise and Tampa, Florida. Joe Perry said via Twitter on Thursday that the shows would be rescheduled for October, but later that day he said that his earlier statement was due to a miscommunication, and that they were hoping to be able to honor those two dates.

Obviously, that is not going to happen, but so far it seems like they remain hopeful that Tyler’s injury will not keep him out of action for an extended period.

At first there seemed to be some reluctance on the part of the group to reveal what type of “illness” was responsible for halting the tour, and which member of the group had been sidelined. Rumors that frontman Steve Tyler had torn a muscle were later confirmed.

Talking with rock radio station WBCN in Boston, drummer Joey Kramer said that Tyler tore a quad muscle during a show. Although he did not actually see the event that led to Tyler’s injury, Kramer said that he thinks that it happened at the Mohegan Sun show in Connecticut.

Like any injury, recovery from a torn quad muscle depends upon the severity of the injury, surgery may be required, and recovery time can vary from a few weeks to several months. It’s pretty certain that any injury requiring months to recover from would probably force Aerosmith to simply halt the tour and reschedule when Tyler has recovered.

You can hear comments from Joe Perry regarding the status of the tour from a recent interview he did with WHTP’s “The Cowhead Show.” You can listen here, but be aware that you will run into a “first time listener registration” page, but you can just click the “Decline” button and go straight to the interview.

The most interesting thing Perry said was that Tyler’s doctors want him off his feet for “at least one more show,” so perhaps the show will resume in the near future. There’s a lot more about Tyler’s injury in the interview as well as some talk about the other medical problems the group has had to deal with in recent years.

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Springsteen Confirmed For Super Bowl Half-Time Show

As rumored back in August, Bruce Springsteen has been confirmed as the half-time performer for the next Super Bowl which is scheduled for February 1, 2009 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The announcement comes from the NFL and NBC, which will be airing the annual event.

Almost 150 million viewers watched the half-time show last year when Tom Petty rocked the half-time show at the University of Phoenix Stadium, so it looks like “The Boss” may be in for the most-watched performance of his career.

Springsteen and his E Street Band will have 12 minutes to fill, which is a pretty short gig, but one with a history of headlining heavy hitters like Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and U2. I’m not sure where the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” of 2004 figures into the history of this event, but it was certainly one of the most publicized, and also the type of performance that is not likely to be repeated again.

In 1988, Chubby Checker was the first well-known musician to perform at the Super Bowl half-time show and the performances have varied in style through the years including  the “Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye” in 1995, a “Blues Brothers Bash” in 1997 and  the “Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing” in 1999 with Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Savion Glover.

With Springsteen’s popular appeal and “working man” persona, I suspect that he, along with his E Street Band will draw a very competitive number of viewers to the half-time show in Tampa.

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