Aerosmith Guitarist Joe Perry Injured After Motorcycle Struck By Senior Citizen

[analog_kidd]

What's so funny is the "Senior Citizen" is three years older than Joe.

FOXNews.com - Aerosmith Guitarist Joe Perry Injured After Motorcycle Struck By Senior Citizen

Joe Perry, guitarist for the American rock band Aerosmith, was recovering Friday after his Italian racing motorcycle was hit by a 62-year-old as he drove through Middleborough, Mass., The Boston Herald reported.

Perry, 59, suffered a back injury and some minor scrapes after being rear ended late Thursday by Linda O'Brien, who did not initially recognize the famous guitarist.

"Of all the people to hit, it had to be a rock star,†O'Brien later said.

While sources for Perry did not say why he was in Middleborough, 43 miles south of Boston, Aerosmith are due to play a sold-out concert in Fenway Park on August 14.

The band starts a 19-date American tour on July 23 in Oakland, Calif.

Aerosmith's manager, Trudy Green, told The Herald that the band's summer touring would not be impacted by Perry's injuries.

[Guest boatme99]

Freakin hilarious. I thought the same when I saw the title.

As an aside, I watched the Stones '08 concert on tv the other night. It's almost embarasing to see Mick strutting around anymore.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Maybe senior citizens have a grudge against motorcycles, or guitarists.

A local guitarist buddy I played with for many years-- He got back into motorcycles about age 35, and had been riding a couple of weeks when a senior citizen in a van blew thru a stop sign and knocked my friend flying many feet into a vacant lot. He broke a couple of ribs, punctured a lung, and fractured his left fret hand bad.

Friend was a real trooper workaholic, and never would turn down a dollar. We were working a steady 6 night gig and the poor guy was back on stage within 2 weeks, with a left-arm cast going up to the shoulder and three stainless pins holding his left hand together. The stainless pins had marble-sized plastic knobs on the end of them, sticking out the side of his hand. After playing a set, the pins would work loose and every break he would screw them back into his hand cranking the little round knobs. Heck of a trooper.

[1gewehr]

Steven Tyler is big 2nd Amendment supporter. For all that the band is from Boston, they do NOT have Massachusetts political beliefs! Getting rear-ended by senior citizens happens quite frequently to motorcycles. Slower reactions combined with inability to accurately judge distances means that seniors tend to fail to stop soon enough. Joe Perry is one heck of a guitarist and I hope that he doesn't lose any of his talent because of a bone-headed woman.

[Guest tnxdshooter]

The sad part about all this is that the bone headed idiot woman will probably sue Joe Perry to get money.