Often performers have to fret about followers within the viewers throwing projectiles at them — simply earlier this month, Billy Strings was the newest sufferer, getting hit within the head with an object rumored to be a lighter. Nevertheless, typically it is your individual bandmates that get you. Final night time in Springfield, IL, Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas swung the mic stand proper into his bandmate Paul Doucette’s head.
On the Illinois State Truthful, MB20 — who’re, in case you have been questioning, nonetheless kicking it — have been enjoying “Bent” from their 2000 album Mad Season and Rob Thomas was actually swinging that mic stand round. Paul Doucette — the group’s drummer, rhythm guitarist, and backing vocalist — was manning the guitar when he was struck within the head. He promptly exited the stage, and Thomas supplied him an apology in entrance of the gang afterward, saying, “I am so sorry. I am gonna maintain apologizing to you, like, all month.”
Regardless of his harm, Doucette seemed to be in good humor when sharing a video of himself after, as he was getting items of his in-ear monitor faraway from his ear: “Rob took me the fuck out with swinging the fuckin’ mic stand throughout that present. And I’ve bits of my in-ear, which he fuckin’ smashed in my ear, that are actually in my ear, and so Lindsey and Jamie are actually attempting to get it out of my ear.”
Watch clips of the painful second under.
