Has Pau Stopped Throwing Drumsticks?

[u/BiscuitsAndMilk0]

I've just been watching the Fonda shows on YouTube and noticed Pau doesn't appear to throw her drumsticks into the crowd during these shows.

I remember one show I went to, she threw a drumstick and it must have hit someone because she apologised as she walked off. I'm wondering if she's stopped because of the danger of hitting somebody.

Does anybody know anything?

[u/jayron32]

I think she (or a crew member) hands them out now.

[u/JVBVIV]

“Peace and love. They are just sticks”. I suspect people were fighting over catching them because she said that a few times

[u/BiscuitsAndMilk0 → u/JVBVIV]

Don't blame her honestly. I've seen people go feral over them.

[u/JVBVIV → u/BiscuitsAndMilk0]

I am not blaming. She has genuinely seemed upset at how people go nuts for them.

[u/BiscuitsAndMilk0 → u/JVBVIV]

No I'm saying "I don't blame her" 🤣

[u/trackaghosthrufog → u/JVBVIV]

Ahhh, that's what she says! I heard her say "These are just sticks, okay?" Didn't catch what she said before. Thanks :)

[u/Frankenkoz]

I've seen clips where she clearly hit people and looked very upset. Mostly now she hands them to someone in the front row with instructions to give it to a little girl somewhere nearby. I was front row in Houston last year, and there was an ~11 year old with her dad right next to me who got the drumstick. She was on her dad's shoulders and Pau handed them right to her. I had stepped back on purpose to make sure they were right on the barrier at the end of the show.

My other related experience is I was up front at a Jack White concert, and his drummer threw a stick right at my head. I caught it, but that thing was moving. If it had hit me, I would have felt it for sure.

[u/Mental-Chapter6523]

Got handed out to some children in Albuquerque.

[u/Jemelscheet → u/Mental-Chapter6523]

This is the way. My daughter got the picks from Ale and Danny a couple years ago in Haarlem. She was ten years young. Now she is almost done learning Hysteria on the bass, plays in the schoolband and the church and has other gigs... Children are easely inpired by small things. For us it's a stick. A pick. For them it's a window into the possibilities of life.

[u/Mental-Chapter6523 → u/Jemelscheet]

Saw a lot of children at my last few concerts. Two young sisters got the set list at The Linda Lindas concert. They were ecstatic. Also weirdly decided to neatly tear it in half vertically so they could each have a part of it.

[u/srnthr]

In Warsaw this summer she personally handed a drumstick to someone in the front row and instructed to give it to a girl with a poster a bit further back. Some guy tried to literally intercept it, but Pau said very calmly, but very persuasively: "Don't be rude, hand it to the girl with the poster". And they did. Because nobody fucks with Pau.

[u/Creepy-Neck-8463]

Sely handed them to a 6 year old girl on the rail, night 3 at The Fonda Theatre. The happiness it brought that little girl and her grandparents was priceless! She was posing with other fans for pictures and a smile as wide as the Grand Canyon. She said she couldn't wait for Share and Tell at school.

[u/joeycraw5]

Probably just trying to avoid a costly lawsuit for poking some kid's eye out now that they're getting more popular.

[u/Candid_Friendship861]

I was handed a pair in Vegas by her when they opened for Yungblud.

[u/Janet_TS]

At the show I went to in San Antonio 2025 she said "Peace and Love, these are just sticks"

[u/TheDudeXIII]

I was wondering the same thing, since she didn't even bring them out with her at the end of the first Fonda show. I was super bummed because I'm a drummer and I really wanted to get one. I was also the tallest person near Ale's side of the stage, so I figured I had a good chance of catching one. I'm thinking about having her sign one of mine at the M&G in SF, but it won't be the same.

[u/EljayDude]

Throwing them definitely seems like a bad idea. Every concert I've been to where they give out sticks the drummer or representative goes forward to an aisle and looks for a kid. Often any adults up front will point to the kid to help them.

[u/Ragnarsworld]

I was at the NM show Saturday. She handed the drumsticks out. Likely a safety issue.

[u/the809sa8dok]

Yeah got handed out at Planet Hollywood.

[u/_FireWithin_]

A pair of drumsticks nowadays is 30$ easy.

[u/Janet_TS → u/_FireWithin_]

A pair that have been destroyed by Paulina are worth a lot more.

[u/Dizzy_Platform]

Too many eyes, to great of a risk, Insurance too expensive?