Axl Rose calls it “Tossers Anonymous.” It’s his own self-help version to stop injuring the audience by throwing his microphone.
A woman named Rebecca Howe claimed she suffered serious injuries at the end of a Nov. 29 show in Adelaide, Australia, when Rose threw his microphone into the crowd at the end of “Paradise City,” allegedly hitting her in the face
Rose issued a statement on Twitter last week saying he’d learned a lesson. “Having tossed the mic at the end of [our] show for over 30 years, we always felt it was a known part of the very end of [our] performance that fans wanted and were aware of to have an opportunity to catch the mic,” he wrote. “Regardless, in the interest of public safety from now on we’ll refrain from tossing the mic or anything to the fans during or at [our] performances.”
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