Brazilian Musician Electrocuted To Death On Stage In Bizarre Accident

I think most people are familiar with the famous story about how Van Halen would ask for a dish of M&M's with the brown ones picked out. That wasn't because they were being difficult, it was to make sure that the venue read through the entire contract rider.

The idea was if a venue went so far as to pluck through M&M's then the band was pretty confident that they also did their due diligence to make sure none of them got hurt by pro or a Marshall stack that tipped over or, god forbid, electrocuted.

Unfortunately, the latter is what happened to a Brazilian musician earlier this month during a show in the city of Salinopolis on July 13.

Here's a clip of him performing that was posted online that same day.

According to The Sun, 35-year-old Ayres Sasaki was performing at a venue called the Solar Hotel, and part of the way through the show, a fan — who was wearing soaking-wet clothes — hopped on stage to hug him.

The big problem, however, seems to be that the combination of the hug and the wet clothes caused a problem for a nearby cable because, within seconds of the fan coming onstage, Sasaki was electrocuted.

He was reportedly killed instantly.

"What we know is that his show was scheduled for a specific time and was moved up, but we are contacting people who were with him at the moment to understand how everything happened," Sasaki's aunt told the local press.

"We will gather all the information in a statement that we will release to the press."

As if this story couldn't get any more tragic, it does. Sasaki leaves behind a wife, who he married just under a year before the incident.

Police are still investigating the incident, but what's really strange is that no one seems to know how or why the fan who hugged Sasaki was soaking wet.

Man, that's a tragic one. One second you're strumming guitar, the next you've got who knows how many volts flowing through you.

Scary stuff.