Guns N’ Roses has opted to abandon a longstanding concert tradition after an Australian woman said she was injured at one of the band’s recent shows.
Over the weekend, Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose announced that he would no longer toss his microphone into the crowd at the end of each concert — which he has done “for over 30 years.” His statement came shortly after Rebecca Howe of Andrews Farm, Australia, said Rose’s flying microphone struck her in the nose at a Guns N’ Roses show in Adelaide.
Howe told the Adelaide Advertiser that the impact from the mic left her bleeding, “in shock and hyperventilating.” A widely circulated image shows purple cuts and bruises around Howe’s nose and eyes.
