Aerosmith Vs. Philadelphia

Aerosmith was performing at the spectrum on October 10, 1977 when a fan threw a cherry bomb on stage.  In an interview with Goldmin, guitarist Brad Whitford stated “We were going back up on the stage to do the encore, I was going up the stairs right behind [singer] Steven [Tyler] and [guitarist] Joe [Perry], and I felt the concussion of the cherry bomb going off. Steven immediately covered his face and there was blood shooting up out of Joe’s arm, literally. So pretty quickly we got ourselves to the emergency room.” 

The incident ruptured an artery in Perry’s arm and burned Tyler’s cornea

The band members  made it through their December show unscathed but when they returned to the Spectrum in November of 1978, Tyler was injured again when a fan threw a beer bottle onstage.  

In Aerosmith’s Walk This Way autobiography, Whitford recalls “Five songs into a sold-out show, someone threw a beer bottle from the balcony. It hit the stage dead center, right in front of the monitor, and exploded – sending shards of glass into Steven’s face. I think some glass went right through his mouth. That’s it. Backstage, Steven’s holding a towel to his bloody face, and he wants to go back on! The vote was four-to-one against, and we were in the limos two minutes later. Fuck this.”