Steven Tyler says that in thousands of concerts he’s only fallen off the stage four times – but this last one was worthy of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“I landed upside down, and after twenty stitches on the back of my head, and a broken left shoulder, I just want to say that I’m plain grateful that I didn’t break my neck!” the 61-year-old Aerosmith lead singer said Thursday in his first comments since last week’s accident that left him with a broken left shoulder and 20 stitches on the back of his head.

Tyler said everything seemed to be going perfectly at the Aug. 5 show in Sturgis, S.D., where after a storm caused a one-hour delay, “Tens of thousands of my biker buddies were ready to rock!” He called it “one of the best shows we’ve played in a long time! The band was slammin’ and I was lovin’ every minute of it!”

The first trouble came when the fuses on the equipment blew and the sound went down in the middle of the song “Love In an Elevator.” “Well, I wasn’t gonna go hide under the big top and play ‘ROCK STAR’ and wait for everything to be fixed,” he said in his statement. “I wanted to go out to the crowd to continue the show … so, the Train Kept A-Rollin’ and I ran out on the cat walk and grabbed my mic to finish the song.”

That’s when things got out of hand. “I was doing the Tyler shuffle and then I zigged when I should have zagged … AND I slipped, and as I live on the edge … I fell off the edge!” he said, expressing relief that he survived the ordeal.

Tyler thanked fans “for your love and support” and paid tribute to the band’s crew and the venue’s staff “for taking care of me in a time of need,” as well as the police department and the helicopter crew “for getting me outta there before I bled to death.”

He also thanked “all the doctors and nurses at the Rapid City Hospital for putting my Humpty Dumpty ass back together again.”

“And most of all … I want to thank the angel on my shoulder,” he said. “Looking forward to seeing all of you very soon.”

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As In Touch reported yesterday, Aerosmith’s front man, Steven Tyler, fell off the stage during his performance at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota on Wednesday night.

The singer is currently nursing a broken shoulder, after being airlifted to the Rapid City Regional Hospital. A spokesperson for the band announced that their planned show in Winnipeg, Canada, on August 7, has been postponed while Steven recovers from the accident.

I’m just glad he’s okay, he’s a legendary performer and awesome in concert.

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Fans rocking to Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler could have shouted a simple warning: Hey, don’t walk this way!

Instead the 61-year-old music legend fell from a concert stage at South Dakota’s famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

Tyler was flown to a hospital with minor injuries early Thursday and treated for minor head, neck and shoulders injuries.

“You could kind of see it coming because he was dancing all over the stage,” said Lance Yellow Robe, who was eight feet from the stage when Tyler toppled shortly after midnight.

Mike Sanborn, spokesman for the Buffalo Chip Campground which hosted the outdoor concert, said Tyler was dancing around on stage after the sound system failed during a performance of “Love In an Elevator.”

“He put his [mic] stand down and twirled around and stepped backwards off the stage,” Sanborn said.

Security rushed to help the singer, and the crowd cheered when he got back up. Tyler was taken backstage. Minutes later Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry returned to the stage and announced that Tyler was being taken to the hospital.

The show would not go on. “He was in good spirits when he got in the helicopter” Sanborn said.

“He was talking and joking with the physician.” Sanborn said Tyler was seen on site by a physician and flown to Rapid City Regional Hospital, the area’s only major hospital.

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