Summary Aerosmith's hard-rocking guitarist Joe Perry collapsed during a concert in New York.
NEW YORK (AFP) - Aerosmith s hard-rocking guitarist Joe Perry collapsed during a concert in New York and was said Monday to be in stable condition at a hospital.
Perry was performing Sunday night with his side project Hollywood Vampires, with 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 1969 song "I Got a Line on You."
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.
"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," a statement on Perry s social media accounts said.
Alice Cooper also said on Twitter that the Aerosmith guitarist was "stable." The band kept playing, although without songs on which Perry would have taken a signature role.
Hollywood Vampires formed last year to play covers of songs by deceased rockers. After putting out an album, the supergroup performed a tribute to late Motorhead frontman Lemmy at this year s Grammy Awards before embarking on the tour.
Perry, 65, raised in a small town in Massachusetts, made his name with his heavy guitar to complement the vocal cord-straining Steven Tyler on hits such as "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way."
Aerosmith was notorious for wild parties, although Perry in a 2014 interview with AFP said the rock life never appealed to him and he generally stayed in monogamous relationships with women.
"I was the odd man out because I wasn t into that kind of lifestyle. But I was always a loner anyway, so it didn t bother me much," he said.
