10 Musicians That Got Seriously Injured Onstage

As rock and roll started to get a little bit nasty in the '70s, you couldn't script a more terrifying band than Alice Cooper. Even if Alice's antics onstage these days are fairly tame, this was the kind of act that no mother wanted their child to go to, including everything from killing prop babies on stage to Alice getting executed in a million different grotesque ways. Alice always finds a way to come back though, until one night when those gallows got a little too realistic.

Going through the mechanics of Alice's show, the ceremonial hanging of himself that he does towards the end is actually fairly practical, using a piano wire to keep his head in place so he won't actually suffocate while hanging. That's all dependent on the equipment that you have though, and in the aftermath of Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice nearly got caught one night when the piano wire finally gave out and the rope almost pulled taut on his neck.

Being blessed with a small chin though, Alice was able to maneuver his way out of the gallows and fell about 10 feet only to finish the gig and get a new piano wire with the strength to hold an elephant for the next gig. What's even crazier is the fact that this was Alice in his most notorious years. If you could make your way out of this situation with junk in your system, can you imagine how terrifying this would have been if you had to tackle it stone cold sober?