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All of the following will remind you that being in a rock band isn't for wusses...some incredible onstage injuries have happened to some of your favorite performers, some potentially deadly....from Metallica's James Hetfield's second and third degree burns, to Alice Cooper almost hanging himself from a botched gallows stunt and stabbing himself with a sword and so many other things, to Keith Richards' onstage electric shock, to Bret Michaels getting smacked in the head with scenery at the Tony Awards, to Pete Townsend impaling his hand with his guitar's whammy bar while doing his famous windmill move, and many, many incidents of performers falling off the stage, it's a pretty hazardous way to make a living. Here are some of rock's nastiest onstage injuries.