Steven Tyler Goes Incognito at 'Idol' Taping in Oklahoma -- or Was It Kansas?

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Life on the road can make a man forgetful. Take, for instance, former American Idol judge Steven Tyler, who mistook Oklahoma City for Wichita, Kan., in a radio interview this week with syndicated host Bobby Bones. 

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“Do you travel so much that you forget where you are at times?” Bones asked.



“Absolutely, absolutely,” the Aerosmith frontman said. “I was on the set the other night in … Wichita, Kansas. Just so happened ‘Idol’ was there."

He then told the story of how he brought Idol judge Randy Jackson and host Ryan Seacrest onstage for a jam onstage -- only the show in question was in Oklahoma City, not Wichita.

“Of course, I dragged them both out onstage, which was a hoot for me," Tyler said. "That was my coup de gras. Getting them both out onstage in my world and not on the set of ‘Idol’ was a grand finale for me.”

Tyler then said he dropped by the set the next day in a disguise, just to see if he would be recognized.

“I jumped on the set and tried to fool them to see if they could figure out who I was," he said. 

Did he stump Seacrest? Tyler wouldn't say, but he mentioned that the taped prank will air in January when the Fox singing competition returns.