Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas and their guitar player Paul Doucette have been bandmates since 1995. But their friendship got tested during an August 16th performance in Springfield, Illinois when Rob, while swinging his microphone stand, made contact with Paul's head!
Thomas, though, was oblivious to the accident as Doucette stumbled off stage clearly starry-eyed from the blow to his head.
Check out video of the incident posted by armstrongpatton/Instagram.
Before the end of the band's gig Rob apologized that his signature move caused Paul to be injured.
Later, in video posted to Rob's Instagram, Paul shows how he is having pieces of his ear bud removed with tweezers because it got impacted after being hit with the stand.
Both seem to have a good attitude about the mishap and chalk it up to the hazards of being rock stars.
