Aerosmith [ tickets ] is not breaking up in the wake of lead singer Steven Tyler's apparent departure from the band, although the veteran rockers may be looking for a new frontman, according to guitarist Joe Perry.

Perry posted on his Twitter feed late Monday night (11/9) that the band was "positively looking for a new singer to work with."

"You just can't take 40 years of experience and throw it in the bin," he continued, adding that "one of the members is doing his own thing and said so in the press. That's all I know."

Perry was referring to Tyler's quote to a music publication following the band's appearance last month at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that seemed to indicate his time in the band had come to an end. "I don't know what I'm doing yet, but it's definitely going to be something Steven Tyler: working on the brand of myself--Brand Tyler," the singer told Classic Rock Magazine following the Middle East performance.

"Steven quit as far as I can tell," Perry told the Las Vegas Sun last week. "I don't know anymore than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don't know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don't know."

In an interview this morning (11/10) with Connecticut radio station WPLR, Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer said quotes from both Perry and Tyler have been "taken out of context" by the press, but he did not deny that Tyler had left the band.

"My partners have been misquoted and their comments have been taken out of context," Kramer said. "I'm not going to make a statement about that on the radio. I'm going to make a statement about it in person."

Aerosmith had been on an unplanned hiatus after Tyler, 61, fell off the stage during an Aug. 5 performance in Sturgis, SD. The singer broke his left shoulder and suffered a cut on his head that required 20 stitches. Tyler made enough of a recovery for the band to salvage the final leg of its world tour, including two shows in Hawaii and the Abu Dhabi performance.

Following the injury, Perry seemed to take a last straw approach to the singer, telling Reuters last month that Tyler has refused to pen new songs with him for more than a decade, and more recently telling the Las Vegas Sun that Tyler won't return his phone calls.

The band also ran into turmoil in the late '70s, when Perry and rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford departed the band and were replaced by new members before both returned to the fold in 1984. "The circumstances were different then," Perry told the Sun. "We'd been touring pretty much nonstop for eight years and the band was just pretty much burned out on each other. We needed a break. We needed to take a vacation but blood was running so hot I just had to leave, had to get out of there. But I certainly wasn't going to stop playing so I put out a solo project."