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1991 : January |
In early January, the band rehearse at the Long Beach Arena in California
for their upcoming shows in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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1991 : January 19th |
The band are rehearsing at a small rehearsal place in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
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1991 : January 20th |
Matt Sorum and Dizzy Reed made their concert debuts for GN'R at the Rock
In Rio II festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Three minutes before Matt
goes onstage in front of 140.000 people, they tell him that he's gotta do
a drum solo. And he pulled it off.
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1991 : January 22nd |
Matt goes to Corcovado to see the statue of Christ
the Redeemer.
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1991 : January 23rd |
Second Rock In Rio II show. The band played on two nights to a total
of 260.000 people.
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1991 : May |
Alan Niven was fired. Doug Goldstein became GN'R's new
manager.
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1991 : May 9th |
First of three warm-up shows. This one is in San Francisco at the Warfield
Theatre.
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1991 : May 11th |
Second warm-up show, Los Angeles at the Pantages
Theatre.
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1991 : May 16th |
The last warm-up show before the tour is in New York at the Ritz.
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1991 : May 24th |
GN'R kicked off their first ever world tour as
headliners in East Troy, Wisconsin. Skid Row opened the shows.
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1991 : June 17th |
During a show in Uniondale, NY, Axl apologizes for
being late. "Yeah, I know it sucks...If you got any real complaints, you could
do me a favor though. You could write a little letter on how much that sucked
and send it to Geffen Records..... Tell those people to get the fuck out of my
ass."
Later on he commented on the forthcoming Use Your Illusion record "The new
record will be delayed again. Geffen Records decided they wanted to change the
contract and I'm deciding fuck you. And since I don't have time to do both go
back there and argue and bitch with them or be on tour, I guess we'll just be on
tour and have a good time and fuck them. It's a shame but... So we'll play a lot
of the new shit tonight and it really doesn't matter does it?".
During Patience Axl tells the crowd to beat the living fuck out of anybody who
throws something at the stage. He also says that he won't throw anything back
into the crowd, he'll leave.
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1991 : June 19th |
The official premiere of the You Could Be Mine
video on MTV. The song had debuted on radio the day before.
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1991 : June 25th |
You Could Be Mine, the first single from the forthcoming Use Your Illusion
albums, is released in the US.
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1991 : July |
"You Could Be Mine" is released in the UK in July. It also appeared
in the movie Terminator 2 and Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared in the video
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1991 : July 2nd |
While the band played Riverport Performance Arts Centre,
St. Louis, MI, Axl spotted someone in the crowd taking pictures. Security didn't
respond to Axl's request to remove the person so he jumped into the crowd. When
he returned to the stage he complained about the security ("Well, thanks to
the lameass security, I'm going home") and left the stage. The rest of the
band followed. After this a riot broke out. GN'R wanted to continue the show,
but they were advised not to. The band lost their equipment and Axl was charged
for inciting a riot.
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1991 : July 29th |
During the show at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, Axl
mentions how Slash and himself finished the record yesterday. "The
motherfucker is done".
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1991 : August 3rd |
The band plays at the Forum in Inglewood, CA. This show was the longest
one on the whole Use Your Illusion world tour. According to Duff it was
three hours, 36 minutes and 19 seconds long. The show starts with Sid
Vicious' version of "My Way" as an intro, Perfect Crime is the first song
and Paradise City ends the set. "Double Talkin' Jive" is dedicated to
somebody at CBS News.
Shannon Hoon makes a guest appearances on "Don't Cry" and "You Ain't The First".
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1991 : August 12th |
GN'R and Skid Row arrives in Helsinki, Finland. Duff,
Slash, Matt, Dizzy and Skid Row spends the night at the Tavastia club where the
Black Crowes were performing.
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1991 : August 13th |
The "Get In The Ring Motherfucker" tour comes to Europe. The first two
shows are held at the Jäähalli in Helsinki, Finland. Again
Skid Row opens for GN'R. An hour in to the show, as the band launch into
Welcome To The Jungle, Axl leaves the stage. The rest of the band plays an
instrumental version of the song and continue the set with 14 Years, a drum solo
and a guitar solo. After 25 minutes, Axl returned.
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1991 : August 14th |
Second sold out show in Helsinki.
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1991 : August 16th |
GN'R performs at a sold out Globen in Stockholm,
Sweden. It took the band four hours to sell 13000 tickets to this show.
And yes, Guns N' Roses was front-page news. A photographer from the Swedish
newspaper, Expressen, took photographs (without permission) of the band while
they were in the Daily News club. GN'R's bodyguards tried to stop the
photographer, but they failed. The "prohibited" photo made it onto Expressen's
first page! Expressen gave the shows five out of five.
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1991 : August 17th |
Second sold-out show in Stockholm. At around nine o'clock, Axl comes out of the elevator at the Sheraton Hotel, but instead
of going to the car that's waiting for him, he goes and plays roulette for 1.5
hours. After that he goes back up to his room. Five minutes later he comes back
down and goes to the car. On the way to the venue, he tells the driver to stop.
There was a festival in Stockholm called Vattenfestivalen and Axl wanted to see
the fireworks.
The show starts after eleven o'clock.
During "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", Axl says "Now on this one maybe you people
that have been falling asleep the whole fuckin' show, on your feet up here could
sing along too.... If you're bored, you should've saved your money and gone and
seen the fireworks tonight."
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1991 : August 19th |
Show in Copenhagen, Denmark. The show went fine until somebody threw a
firecracker onstage. Axl told the audience that they wouldn't
continue the show until the idiot who did it turned himself in. After a
15-minute break the show continued.
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1991 : August 20th |
The band, minus Axl, lands in Oslo, Norway for the
following day's show. Izzy tells the Swedish production manager that there's a
little problem. Nobody knows where Axl is.
The rest of the band checks in at Grand Hotel.
Later in the evening Axl's assistant calls and says they're in Paris, France.
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1991 : August 21st |
The band, minus Axl, lands in Oslo, Norway for the
following day's show. Izzy tells the Swedish production manager that there's a
little problem. Nobody knows where Axl is.
The rest of the band checks in at Grand Hotel.
Later in the evening Axl's assistant calls and says they're in Paris, France.
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1991 : August 24th |
GN'R plays in Mannheim, Germany. This show included
Nine Inch Nails and Skid Row as openers. GN'R sold 38000 tickets in two days.
They sold tickets faster than Madonna and The Rolling Stones had done the year
before.
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1991 : August 31st |
After shows in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany (the show in Oslo,
Norway was cancelled) GN'R plays a show at Wembley Stadium in
London, England. The 72000 tickets were sold out in record breaking time. No
artist had sold out the venue this fast before GN'R.
Double Talkin' Jive is dedicated to Sky magazine, Time Out magazine and
"something I respected years ago but now I'd rather wipe my ass with it,
Kerrang! magazine....."
This was Izzy's last show as a member of GN'R.
Before the show the band had an poster-ad campaign in London which read: Guns
N' F____g Roses, Wembley F____g Stadium, Sold F____g Out
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1991 : September 5th |
GN'R's performance of "Live And Let Die" is shown
on the MTV Video Music Awards show. The performance was taken from the show in
London, England.
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1991 : September 10th |
"Don't Cry" single released in the US.
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1991 : September 16th |
Use Your Illusion I and II are released in Europe. The albums
debuted at number one and number two on the Billboard charts. They marked
the first time a major contemporary rock artist had released two separate
albums on the same day.
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1991 : September 17th |
US release of the Use Your Illusion albums.
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1991 : October |
Steven Adler launched a lawsuit against the band. He claimed that GN'R were responsible for his drug addiction.
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1991 : October 2nd |
Duff was backstage at a Pearl Jam show in Los Angeles. After the show,
Pearl Jam went over to Duff's house.
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1991 : November 7th |
Izzy Stradlin leaves GN'R. His replacement is Gilby
Clarke (born August 17, 1962). Gilby, formerly of the band Kill For Thrills, had
been playing the same clubs as GN'R.
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1991 : December 5th |
The first show of the second US leg of the tour in Worcester, MA. with Soundgarden opening. This is the first show where GN'R uses
background vocals and horns. The expanded 12-piece line-up looks like this:
W. Axl Rose (lead vocals, piano)
Slash (lead guitar, backing vocals)
Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals)
Gilby Clarke (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)
Dizzy Reed (keyboards, percussion)
Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals)
Ted Andreadis (keyboards, harmonica, background vocals)
Diane Jones (background vocals)
Roberta Freeman (background vocals)
Tracy Amos (background vocals)
976-Horns:
Lisa Maxwell (horns)
Cece Worrall (horns)
Anne King (horns)
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1991 : December 9th |
GN'R plays three shows at the Madison Square Garden
in New York (9th, 10th and 13th).
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1991 : December 31st |
New Year's Eve show at the Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.
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