Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose is ending a 30-year tradition of tossing the mic into the crowd. Rose says he doesn’t want anyone to get hurt. He says there have been reports that a fan may have been hurt at a recent show in Adelaide, Australia. “We hope the public and of course [our] fans get that sometimes happens,” he says. “Unfortunately there [are] those that for their own reasons chose to frame their reporting regarding this subject in a more negative n’ irresponsible out of nowhere light which couldn’t [be] farther from reality,” Rose says in a note he posted on social media. “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 adds. “If true, obviously we don’t wants anyone getting hurt or to somehow in any way hurt anyone at any of [our) shows anyway,” he writes. “Having tossed the mic at the end of … our show for over 30 years we always felt [it] was aknown part of …our] performance,” Rose adds. ‘We don’t want [anyone] getting hurt,’ he says, adding that he hopes the band’s supporters get that it’s a “known part” of the show and that fans are aware of it. ‘If true,” Rose writes, “Obviously we don’t want anyone getting injured or to … somehow … hurt anyone,” the band says in another note. ‘It’s a known fact that fans want to catch [the] mic,’ he adds, “and we always feel [it’s] a good thing to make sure that they’re aware of that.’ ‘We hope [our fans] get that,” he concludes. ‘I hope [they] understand that sometimes things happen that we just don’t mean to hurt people,’ Rose says of the reports of a fan being hurt at the Adelaide show. “It’s not about us, it’s about the fans,” the singer says. ‘There’s a lot of good people in this world. We’re not trying to hurt anyone. We just want people to have a good time.” ‘We’re just trying to do our best,’ Rose adds, ‘which is what we always do.’ ‘If it’s true, we’re not going to do it,’ the singer adds, adding, ‘We just want to have the best of people in the world.’ ‘It was a great experience,’ he writes, ‘and we hope [the fans] understand it.’ ‘I’m sorry if it’s going to be a little awkward,’ the frontman says, ‘but we just want them to know that we’re here for the long haul’ ‘We’ll keep doing it,’ Rose writes. ‘This is a tradition that we’ve had for 30 years. We’ll keep it going,’ the band adds. ‘We’ve always been open-minded,’ the guitarist says.
Axl Rose will stop tossing mics after a fan was reportedly injured. The Guns N’ Roses frontman has been throwing his microphone into the crowd at shows for years, but he’s now
