Aerosmith Admit Tyler Drug Fears

American rock icons Aerosmith have admitted that singer Steven Tyler could have a drug problem.

Aerosmith are one of the longest lasting success stories in American music. First emerging with a tough brand of boogie in the mid 70s, the band were afforded a career boost when Run DMC took hold of their track 'Walk This Way'.

Re-emerging with the smash hit 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing' the band are still rock icons. However recently there has been much confusion over their future, with singer Steven Tyler behaving erratically.

The frontman fell offstage during a show in the United States earlier this year, forcing the postponement of an entire tour. Since then, the band have had little contact with Tyler and in a new interview guitarist Brad Whitford admitted the singer may have ongoing drug issues.

"This guy has a tremendous history of drug abuse, and you have to be suspicious that this is something that is probably going on with him," he told Rock Radio.

"I think that's got to be a part of this irrational behavior. People in recovery and stuff, if you're really doing it, it takes a lot of work."

"Historically or statistically, the majority of people in that situation don't make it. I have a feeling we might be looking at, you know, someone who's just really struggling very badly with this."

Steven Tyler recently emerged onstage in New York to jam with guitarist Joe Perry at a solo show. Telling the crowd he was "the rainbow" the singer seemed on good spirits, blasting through 'Walk This Way'.

Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer told Rock Radio that the band could potentially carry on without Steven Tyler. "You know, getting someone else is one of the questions," he explained "We all know that there's really no way to replace Steven, but we want to continue touring together."

"We even have a 40-year anniversary coming up and it's a milestone. We want to be able to celebrate it together and there's millions of fans out there that are dedicated to us."