Once during rehearsal, I was really getting into Johnny B. Goode and at the end I jumped up with my guitar held above me. Smashed the flourescent bulb hanging from the garage rafters. Glass everywhere. End of rehearsal, since that was the only light source in there.
It was cool.

BOOM BOOM
 
Out go the lights.

Again???

If it was one of those toxic spill waiting to happen compact florescent lamps that you screw into a normal  lamp fixture socket.....  that's par for the course.
 
Those CFL things have a definite life span limit. The base contains electronics to light the lamp and they do burn up. Sometimes catastrophically. I hate to leave them on when I leave the house for that very reason. I have seen where too many of them failed and when they did, they started a fire. Unlike an incandescent lamp which simply "burns out" it's filament and goes dark, the CFL's can easily go the other direction and create a literal fire hazard situation.
 
I have seen where it's recommended not to run them for more than 4 hrs at a time to get the life span indicated on the packaging. The bases get rather hot when they run so it kinda makes sense not to run them all day and night. I have a few of them in use in my house but I'm careful not to let them stay on when I'm not in the house to monitor them.
 
A power conditioner would likely not have helped since those lamps and their electronics will burn out at some point regardless of how regulated the voltage levels are to them.
 
Anytime something electronic burns up, it stinks.

In my studio/dungeon/tomb, all of the Asian beetles (no, this is not a Yoko reference) and boxelder bugs (also not a Yoko reference) converge to plan their assault strategies. Being bugs, they haven't mastered the art of actually formulating a viable strategy, so they end up dying in vast quantities. Many of them decide to go out in a blaze of glory, so they swarm all over the fluorescent lights.
 
I don't know why they haven't bottled Eau de Charred Bug yet, but I'm pretty sure it's coming. I just want to be a part of the advertising campaign. I can't wait to see perfume thugs spraying innocent shoppers at the mall. 
 
"Calvin Klein's Dead Bugs...for Her." (whispers: "Dead Bugs!")
"I don't always reek of decaying flesh, but when I do, I choose Bichos Chamuscados...Stay dead, my friends."
"Eau de Yoko...Now at KMart."