Gary Cherone caught up in the moment during the

Amazing Journey Newsflash - The Kid is Alright

Gary Cherone caught up in the moment during the "smashing" encore of My Generation at the Whittier Amazing Journey performance, decided to do a full body dive into Mike Portnoy's obliterated custom made drum set. Unfortunately the back of his head landed (we believe) on one of the lug nuts on the drums. CalProg security manager Gruno reports the event as follows:

Gary flipped over the drums and his back landed on a mic stand and one of the bass drums. The back of his head landed flat against the back of the toms. He was knocked out briefly (maybe 3 seconds max ) as I was on stage left and he had this bewildered look when he came to. He sat motionless for another few seconds. After they exited the stage, I had to get Portnoy's stick bag for him and there was blood all over the drums. He was okay with some ice and towels in the dressing room.

Christopher Petro captured the moment in full color:

Later in the lobby at the Radisson Hotel PapaJ was seen basking in the "glow" of the recovering Cherone:

That's GARY taking the picture.