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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry ‘stable’ after stumbling offstage and collapsing during concert

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Lead guitarist Joe Perry of American rock band Aerosmith performs in Singapore on 2015. Photo: AP
Agence France-Presse

Aerosmith’s hard-rocking guitarist Joe Perry collapsed during a concert in New York but was said Monday to be recovering.

Perry was performing Sunday night with his side project Hollywood Vampires, which features glam metal pioneer Alice Cooper on vocals and Hollywood star Johnny Depp as a fellow guitarist.

A video posted on social media by a fan showed Perry slow down and sit on the edge of the drum set as Cooper leads the band in a cover of Spirit’s song I Got a Line on You.

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Perry then exits behind an amplifier and stumbles as he disappears off-stage at the concert, which was one of the first at a new amphitheater on Coney Island, the historic beach entertainment complex on Brooklyn’s coast.
Vocalist Steven Tyler (left) and guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith perform in Inglewood, California, in 2014. Photo: Reuters
Vocalist Steven Tyler (left) and guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith perform in Inglewood, California, in 2014. Photo: Reuters

“Thanks to all of the fans reaching out and asking about Joe. He is stable right now, with family and is under the best care,” said a statement shortly afterward on Perry’s social media accounts.

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Cooper later said that Hollywood Vampires would go ahead with their tour, with the next date due Tuesday night in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio.

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