Musicians who instead of lip syncing perform live for audiences know that sometimes despite all efforts to ensure that there are no mishaps, technology or human factors fail. And because when you’re on stage all eyes are on you, as a musician you will keep playing even if an important instrument fails.

When an American band Generation Esmeralda performed a gig in Uba, Brazil on September 22, 2012 and Brad Parker who does drums suddenly stopped drumming, the rest of the band kept playing. They played on until they noticed that the drummer lost consciousness and that’s when they realized that something went wrong. Brad Parker suffered a fatal heart attack onstage.

Naturally, since everybody except myself has a cell phone camera these days, the incident was caught on video, though as a moment of silence out of respect for the deceased musician, the uploader of the video removed the audio track so the video is mute: