The Use Your Illusion Tour was a concert tour by the rock band Guns N' Roses which ran from May 24, 1991 to July 17, 1993. It was not only the band's longest tour, but one of the longest concert tours in rock history, consisting of 192 shows in 27 countries. It was also a source of much infamy for the band, due to riots, late starts, cancellations and outspoken rantings by lead singer Axl Rose. Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ... is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... A concert comprises a performance, usually involving some degree of formality, and particularly a performance featuring music. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ... is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... W. Axl Rose[1] (born William Bruce Rose, Jr. ...

History

The Use Your Illusion Tour was a promotional tour for the albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, although due to the scale of the tour, the term "promotional tour" is perhaps a trivialization. The tour started on May 24, 1991, approximately when the long-awaited follow-up to Appetite for Destruction was to be released. The release date of the album, or albums, since there were now two of them, was pushed back to September but the tour began as originally scheduled. The tour marked a high point in the popularity of Guns N' Roses, with a total of over 7 million fans attending, and accompanied by high worldwide album sales. Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alternate cover The original, banned cover of Appetite for Destruction. ... An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ...

Live recordings from the tour would later be issued as a two video/DVD set, Use Your Illusion I and II, featuring footage from a 1992 concert in Tokyo, Japan and would also provide content for the 2-disc set Live Era: '87-'93. The tour also provided a large volume of footage for music videos, including the popular "You Could Be Mine" and "Estranged". Also, at one time, footage of much of the tour was to be released as a documentary, titled The Perfect Crime. The footage consisted of Guns N' Roses' time on the road, and it is thought to have had concert footage, and information about the riots and other major events of the tour. Nothing has been said as to why it was never released. It was never spoken about after the tour, almost as if forgotten. Nothing seems to point to any release of this in the future. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... DVD cover. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...   , literally Eastern capital) is a unique subnational administrative region of Japan with characteristics of both a prefecture and a city. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... You Could Be Mine is American rock band Guns N Rosess second-highest selling single and one of their most popular songs. ... Estranged is a song and music video by the American hard rock band Guns N Roses, from their album Use Your Illusion II. Estranged is one of Guns N Roses longest running songs, as well as one of the longest and most expensive music videos ever made. ...

The conduct of the band, and particularly Axl Rose, during the Use Your Illusion Tour generated negative press, notably from the magazines Spin, Kerrang!, Circus, and Hit Parader. Axl's response to this bad press is documented in the song "Get in the Ring". Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... Circus was a monthly American magazine devoted to rock music. ... Hit Parader is an American music magazine focusing on the genres of hard rock and heavy metal External links Hit Parader website Categories: | ... Get in the Ring is the fifth song on the Guns N Roses album Use Your Illusion II. It was written by Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, and Slash and is directed at the music critics, who gave the band negative reviews because of their actions during the Use Your Illusion...

The shows were all varied, as a set list was never chosen by the band. They did, however, usually open with "Welcome to the Jungle", "It's So Easy" or "Nightrain" and closed with "Paradise City". The shows were noted to be exciting to watch and each show featured many guitar solos from Slash and a solo from former drummer Matt Sorum. Appetite for Destruction track listing Welcome to the Jungle (1) Its So Easy (2) This article is about the Guns N Roses song. ... Its So Easy is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... Appetite for Destruction track listing Its So Easy (2) Nightrain (3) Out Ta Get Me (4) Nightrain is a song written by the American rock band Guns N Roses in the late 1980s. ... Paradise City is one of the most famous songs written by the hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Matt Sorum (born Matthew Sorum, November 19, 1960, in Mission Viejo, California) is a hard rock drummer and percussionist. ...

The Use Your Illusion Tour was massive not just in the number and size of performances, but also in its technical aspects and the size of the crew. A total of 80 working personnel traveled with the band during the tour. The trade magazine Performance named the tour crew "Crew of the Year" for 1991. The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel on tour, usually in sleeper buses, with musicians and who handle every part of the production except actually playing the music. ...

Personnel

Main band members

• Axl Rose – vocals, piano, acoustic guitar (1991-1993)
• Slash – guitar, acoustic guitar (1991-1993)
• Izzy Stradlin – guitar, backing vocals (1991)
• Gilby Clarke - guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals (1991-1993)
• Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals (1991-1993)
• Matt Sorum – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1991-1993)
• Dizzy Reed – piano, organ, percussion, backing vocals (1991-1993)

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Additional musicians

• Teddy "Zigzag" Andreadis – keyboards, backing vocals, harmonica, percussion (1992-1993)
• Roberta Freeman – backing vocals (1992-1993)
• Tracey Amos – backing vocals (1992-1993)
• Cece Worrall – horns (1992-1993)
• Anne King – horns (1992-1993)
• Lisa Maxwell – horns (1992-1993)

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Schedule

Main article: Schedule on Use Your Illusion Tour

// 05/24/1991 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre (East Troy, Wisconsin) 05/25/1991 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre (East Troy, Wisconsin) 05/28/1991 - Deer Creek Music Center (Noblesville, Indiana) 05/29/1991 - Deer Creek Music Center (Noblesville, Indiana) 06/01/1991 - Capital Music Center (Grove City, Ohio) 06/02/1991...

Notable events

In Philadelphia during 1991, Axl Rose had erupted, after a fan had gotten into a fight with Guns N' Roses' photographer Robert John when the fan kicked the camera out of his hands. Axl cursed out the fan, and challenged him to a fight. After the fan was ejected from the concert, the show continued. // Born in Birmingham, Alabama on November 10, 1961, Robert John moved to California with his parents when he was three years old. ...

On Tuesday, July 2, 1991, at a show at the Riverport Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri, Axl spotted a spectator bootlegging the concert with a video camera, and jumped into the audience after him. After returning to the stage, Axl replied: "Well, thanks to the lame ass security, I'm going home" then slammed the mic on the stage. Axl then stormed off the stage; some people thought when he slammed the mic, because of the noise, that he shot someone. Slash told them, "He just threw the microphone on the ground. We're outta here." The band followed. The band was looking to come back out and finish the show, but as the police and security were trying to calm down the audience, a riot broke out. The footage was captured by Robert John who was documenting the entire tour. Sixty fans were injured. The band lost most of their equipment and Axl was charged with inciting a riot. He was acquitted due to lack of evidence. is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre St. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

On November 7th, 1991, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin quit the band. Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Izzy Stradlin (born Jeffrey Dean Isbell on April 8, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N Roses from 1985 to 1991. ...

Guitarist Gilby Clarke made his debut in December 5, in Worcester. This was also the first show after the release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

On April 13 and 14, 1992, two concerts had to be canceled when a warrant was issued for Axl's arrest due to the St. Louis show. is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 261 days remaining. ...

On April 20, 1992, the band performed at the The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, an effort for AIDS Awareness in London. Guns were a controversial addition to the lineup as many in the gay community were still angry over Axl using a gay slur during the song "One In A Million." The band opened with "Paradise City" and closed with "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." During the famous "Paradise City" opening, Axl points at a group of protesters in the audience and yells "SHOVE IT!" He had planned to address the controversy between songs, but was asked not to by the band as it would pull the spotlight from Queen and Freddie Mercury. As Slash concluded a short cover of the Alice Cooper song "Only Women Bleed," bassist Duff McKagan can be seen keeping an eye on Axl who approaches the front of the stage. When Slash finishes the song, pauses, then strums the beginning of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," Duff walks over to Axl and shakes his hand as an act of appreciation. Uncharacteristically quiet, Axl refrains from addressing the audience at all during the concert. Later in the show, Slash joined Joe Elliott of Def Leppard and the surviving members of Queen for "Tie Your Mother Down." Axl sings "We Will Rock You" and finishes "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Elton John with Queen. The show was broadcast live around the world via satellite, gathering the largest audience for a music concert in history. is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert poster The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was an open air concert held on Easter Monday, April 20, 1992 at Londons Wembley Stadium, televised live worldwide. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ...

On August 8, 1992, at a show in Montreal, Quebec during the GNR-Metallica Stadium Tour portion, Metallica frontman/guitarist James Hetfield's left arm was badly burned due to misunderstanding about some new pyrotechnics added to Metallica's set. Metallica was forced to end their set early. However, Rose refused to begin before Guns N' Roses' scheduled time leaving fans to wait hours before Guns N' Roses finally took the stage. A few songs into the very late Guns N' Roses' set, Axl stormed off stage due to vocal issues, sparking a huge riot that spilled into the streets. is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The GNR-Metallica Stadium Tour was a famed joint, co-headlining concert tour by Guns N Roses and Metallica during 1992. ... James Hetfield (born James Alan Hetfield, 3 August 1963, Downey, California[1]) is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash/heavy metal band Metallica. ... Pyrotechnics is a field of study often thought synonymous with the manufacture of fireworks, but more accurately it has a wider scope that includes items for military and industrial uses. ...

On November 25, 1992, the band performed in Caracas, Venezuela, in front of a crowd of 45,000. Just two days later, the Venezuela Air Force launched a failed military coup, making it impossible for the band to leave the country with all of their equipment.^{[citation needed]} is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: La Sultana del Avila (English:The Avilas Sultan) La Sucursal del paraiso Motto: Ave María Santísima, sin pecado concebida, en el primer instante de su ser natural. ... The Air Force of Venezuela (Fuerza Aérea Venezolana, FAV) is a professional armed body designed to defend Venezuelas sovereignty and airspace. ...

On November 30, 1992, the band performed for the first time in Bogotá, Colombia. When they started to play "November Rain", a soft rain fell over the city and stopped right after they finished the song. (Axl later stated this was a special moment for him because November Rain was #1 in Colombia for 60 weeks.) Following this, Axl stated that the band were at risk of electrocution and must stop to dry the stage. The band moved backstage and returned to finish with "Don't Cry" and "Paradise City". is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Bogotá, 2600 metros más cerca de las estrellas Bogotá, 2600 meters closer to the stars Localities (localidades) of Bogotá Country Colombia Department Bogotá, D.C.* Foundation August 6, 1538 Government  - Mayor Luis Eduardo Garzón, PDA Area  - City 1,587 km²  (612. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

On December 5 and 6 the performed for the first time in Argentina surrounded by rumors, threats, and controversy. Rose unexpectedly appeared the night before to their first show giving an exclusive interview to Marcelo Tinelli on his show wearing the Argentinean football team shirt. The night after Axl Rose opened the show performing "Welcome to the Jungle" wearing that shirt again.^{[citation needed]}

On July 17, 1993 the band performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina at River Plate Stadium in front of 80,000 people. It their last show with most of the original lineup (Axl Rose, Slash, Duff Mackagan, Matt Sorum, Gilby Clarke and Dizzy Reed). The tour was renamed the "Skin and Bones Tour" for the last couple of legs and was a variation of the Use Your Illusion Tour which included an unplugged performance in a living room set. A highlight of the night was Cozy Powell dressed as a Domino's Pizza delivery boy playing drums with Matt Sorum. The Estadio Monumental Antonio V. Liberti, better known as El Monumental or River Plate Stadium, is a stadium in the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Trivia

• During the whole tour, shows were opened with a variety of songs: Welcome to the Jungle, It's So Easy, Nightrain, Right Next Door To Hell and Perfect Crime. This fact alone proves that there was a lot of variety in setlists.
• Garden Of Eden was performed at least twice during the tour, one recording also exists (Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas 02/23/1993). Other rarely performed songs were Locomotive, Breakdown, Coma, Bad Apples and Back Off Bitch. During the Skin N' Bones -tour 1993, the band also played The Garden, Nice Boys, Reckless Life, Dead Horse, Used to Love Her and You Ain't The First. Some of them in every show and some just couple of times.
• The longest show of the tour was held in Inglewood, CA 08/03/1991. It lasted almost 4 hours.
• During the first show of the European leg (Helsinki, Finland 08/13/1991) Axl walked off the stage after screaming "D'YOU KNOW WHERE THE FUCK YOU ARE!", leaving the band alone playing Welcome to the Jungle instrumentally and jamming together. The band played 14 Years + drum and guitar solos before Axl came back. They broke into Jungle again, now with vocals. It is said by reporters, that Axl had already ordered a limousine to take him back to his hotel in Helsinki.
• In Germany 05/28/1992, before the drum solo Axl stated "Now we're gonna do something we really enjoy for ourselves.. and.. for those who don't like it; go get yourself a fuckin' coke! And for the press.. who doesn't like it; go fuck yourselves!". The crowd got good laughs out of it.
• In 07/21/1992 Axl threw up during You Could Be Mine. After solos and November Rain they played it again though. Recording of the show exists.
• The band added an acoustic part (including a sofa and a coffee table on stage + a pizza delivery boy in some gigs) to every show on the Skin N' Bones -tour. It included You Ain't The First, You're Crazy, Used to Love Her, Patience and Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Later they added a Rolling Stones cover Dead Flowers to the set. Also November Rain was played partly acoustically with just Axl on piano and Slash on electric or acoustic guitar (percussion was supplied from Sorum with gongs and kettle drums), the outro would remain as the original.
• A show was planned to be played in Moscow, Russia (05/21/1993), but it never happened.
• Double Talkin' Jive was always in the setlist, but the band made many changes in it during the tour. In 1993 they jammed along with Whole Lotta Rosie, Communication Breakdown, Oh Well and Train Kept A Rollin' during the intro. One of the longest versions (with Train Kept A Rollin') was played in Cologne 06/19/1993, after the first chorus Axl yelled to a fan: "HEY YOU.. YOU.. YOU.. YOU.... FUCK YOU!" and continued "Ok we gonna start over, just.. first verse over okey?". Duff and Matt kept on jamming until Duff counted "one.. two.. ONETWOTHREEFOUR!" and in unison the whole band broke into the familiar heavy beat, like they had practiced it. Recording of the show exists.

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External links

• In depth info and tour diary
• Causes and the riot itself
• Review of Riot Concert Bootleg DVD