Dave Grohl: Axl Rose Thanked Him For Throne With Classic Guitar

Dave Grohl revealed to Classic Rock magazine that Axl Rose gifted him a rare and beautiful guitar for lending him his “throne” on tour. Grohl himself debuted the throne in the summer of 2015, after he fell off stage and broke his leg during a Foo Fighters concert in Sweden. Grohl was unable to walk or run for several months as a result of that injury, so he performed a large stretch of Foo Fighters shows on the massive light-up throne constructed for him by the band's road crew.

The Foos frontman later ended up loaning the throne to Axl Rose after the Guns N' Roses singer broke his foot right at the start of that band's “Not In This Lifetime” reunion tour in April 2016 — forcing Rose to perform the first portion of the trek while seated.

Grohl told Classic Rock: “So, Axl took it out with Guns N’ Roses, then he took it out with AC/DC, and then all of a sudden I became the guy you come to if you break a limb on tour, like 'Thrones R Us.'”

Grohl went on to say, “(Afterwards) he had Slash go pick me a guitar. And he picked me an early-’60s Gibson ES-335 Dot, which to this day is the nicest f***ing guitar I have ever played in my life. It was an incredibly kind and classy gesture, and I was very appreciative.”

Dave Grohl told us a while back how he came up with the design of the now legendary frontman throne: “Y'know when you're a kid and you're in school, you sit in class and you draw instruments and stages and stuff like that in your notebook. It's the exact same thing. If you see the photo, it's like, it looks like I did it when I was in seventh grade. And it actually happened.”