A fan who attended a Guns N’ Roses concert was hit on the nose by a microphone thrown by Axl Rose.
The incident went down during a live show in Australia on November 29.
Keep reading to find out more…
Guns N’ Roses are an American band that was formed in the late 1980s.
They are well-known for their heavy metal music.
The ban features Axl Rose, originally known as William Bailey.
Slash, originally known as Saul Hudson.
Duff McKagan, who was also originally known as Michael McKagan.
Izzy Stradlin, who was known as Jeff Isbell.
The band also featured Steve Adler, Matt Sorum, Dizzy Reed, and Gilby Clarke.
The band was originally formed in 1985 by Rose and Stradlin in Los Angeles.
It features Rose as the vocalist, McKagan on bass, Adler on drums, and Slash and Stradlin on guitar.
They signed with Geffen Records, where they released multiple albums.
One of their hit albums includes Appetite of Destruction, which was released back in 1987.
The sizzling fury, with Rose’s wildcat howls matched by Slash’s guitar pyrotechnics, made the album one for the ages.
The album was a huge success that it went on to sell more than a whopping seventeen- million copies.
After the band reached the pinnacle point in their career…
They were dogged by a changing lineup, violence at their concerts, substance abuse, and allegations of racism and homophobia stemming from the lyrics to their song ‘One in a Million’.
By 1991, the band went on to make 2 more albums; Use Your Illusion I and II.
Both albums went on to sell well.
By 1993, the band released a new album titled The Spaghetti Incident?
The album received huge controversy because it included a song written by well-known mass murderer Charles Manson.
The band then started to fall apart, with some members leaving.
Adler, Stradlin, and Slash departed from the band by 1996.
However, Rose carried the band on his back throughout the early 21st century.
Despite members leaving, Guns N’ Roses still did quite a handful of live shows in 2000 and 2001.
As they were doing live shows, Slash, Stradlin, and Matt Sorum, who replaced Adler on drums prior to the Use Your Illusion recording sessions, recruited former Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland to form a new supergroup called Velvet Revolver.
Velvet Revolver landed their debut album back in 2004 titled Contraband, which received a lot of positive reviews by fans and critics around the world.
As for Rose, he went to the studio and continued working on the next Guns N’ Roses full-length album, which he worked on since 1994.
By November 2008, 9 tracks from the album, titled Chinese Democracy, were released.
The album received some positive reviews it wasn’t anywhere near matched to their best-selling albums.
By 2016, Slash and McKagan made their return to the band after years of absence, where they went on a concert tour.
Since then, the band has continued with their live shows.
But recently, an incident took place during one of their shows this past week.
During their concert in Australia, Rose threw a microphone into the crowd and it accidentally hit a woman in the face.
Rebecca Howe, from Adelaide, Australia, was enjoying her night at the concert…
Rose and his fellow bandmates were playing their song ‘Take Me Down To Paradise City’ before he reportedly hurled the microphone into the crowd, hitting the woman on the nose.
The microphone throwing from Rose was nothing new, as he’s performed this stunt countless times over the years.
Rather than a fan catching the mic and screaming in excitement…
It ended up hitting Howe’s face, leaving her with a bloody nose.
When she spoke up about the incident to the Adelaide Advertiser and said she believed that her face had “caved in.”
She recalled the moment, saying: “I was in Diamond Standing, so it wasn’t even right at the front, and it was the very last song, ‘Take Me Down To Paradise City’.
“He took a bow and then he launched the microphone out to the crowd … and then bang, right on the bridge of my nose.”
After taking the brutal hit to the face, Howe said that she began to hyperventilate.
She added: “My mind went, ‘Oh my God, my face is caved in.’
“What if it was a couple of inches to the right or left? I could have lost an eye … what if it hit me in the mouth, and I broke my teeth?
“If my head was turned and it hit me in the temple, it could have killed me,” she said.
Since the incident took place, the frontman of the band spoke up, saying he’s putting an end to the mic-throwing stunt.
Taking to social media, Rose wrote: “It’s come to my attention that a fan may have been hurt at r show in Adelaide, Australia possibly being hit by the microphone at the end of the show when I traditionally toss the mic to the fans.
“If true obviously we don’t want anyone getting hurt or to somehow in anyway hurt anyone at any of r shows anywhere.”
He continued: “Having tossed the mic at the end of r show for over 30 years we always felt it was a known part of the very end of r performance that fans wanted and were aware of to have an opportunity to catch the mic.
“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 r performances.
“Unfortunately there r 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 b farther from reality. We hope the public and of course r fans get that sometimes happens.