TIL that Keith Moon, the drummer of The Who, once bribed a stagehand to fill his bass drum with gunpowder before a show. He then proceeded to detonate it on stage during the show's finale, scorching Pete Townshend's hair and embedding a piece of shattered cymbal in his own arm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Moon#Destroying_instruments_and_other_stunts
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