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| January, 1991 - In early January, the band rehearse
at the Long Beach Arena in California for their upcoming shows in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| January 19th, 1991 - The band are rehearsing at a small
rehearsal place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| January 20th, 1991 - 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! |
| January 22nd, 1991 - Matt goes to Corcovado to see the
statue of Christ the Redeemer. |
| January 23rd, 1991 - Second Rock In Rio II show.
The band played on two nights to a total of 260.000 people. |
| May, 1991 - Alan Niven was fired. Doug Goldstein became
GN'R's new manager. |
| May 9th, 1991 - First of three warm-up shows. This one
is in San Francisco at the Warfield Theatre. |
| May 11th, 1991 - Second warm-up show, Los Angeles at
the Pantages Theatre. |
| May 16th, 1991 - The last warm-up show before the tour
is in New York at the Ritz. |
| May 24th, 1991 - GN'R kicked off their first ever world
tour as headliners in East Troy, Wisconsin. Skid Row opened the shows. |
| June 17th, 1991 - 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. |
| June 19th, 1991 - The official premiere of the You
Could Be Mine video on MTV. The song had debuted on radio the day before. |
| June 25th, 1991 - You Could Be Mine, the first single
from the forthcoming Use Your Illusion albums, is released in the US. |
| July, 1991 - "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 |
| July 2nd, 1991 - 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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| July 29th, 1991 - During the show at the Forum in Inglewood,
CA, Axl mentions how Slash and himself finished the record yesterday. "The motherfucker is done". |
| August 3rd, 1991 - 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 You Ain't The
First. |
| August 12th, 1991 - 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. |
| August 13th, 1991 - 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. |
| August 14th, 1991 - Second sold out show in Helsinki. |
| August 16th, 1991 - 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. |
| August 17th, 1991 - 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." |
| August 19th, 1991 - 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. |
| August 20th, 1991 - 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. |
| August 21st, 1991 - At around five or six o'clock in
the morning, Axl's assistant calls the hotel to tell them that Axl won't make it for tonight's show. The show at Spektrum
in Oslo, Norway is cancelled. |
| August 24th, 1991 - 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. |
| August 31st, 1991 - 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 |
| September 5th, 1991 - 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. |
| September 10th, 1991 - Don't Cry single released in
the US. |
| September 16th, 1991 - 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. |
| September 17th, 1991 - US release of the Use Your Illusion
albums. |
| October, 1991 - Steven Adler launched a lawsuit against
the band. He claimed that GN'R were responsible for his drug addiction. |
| October 2nd, 1991 - Duff was backstage at a Pearl Jam
show in Los Angeles. After the show, Pearl Jam went over to Duff's house. |
| November 7th, 1991 - 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. |
| December 5th, 1991 - 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) |
| December 9th, 1991 - GN'R plays three shows at the Madison
Square Garden in New York (9th, 10th and 13th). |
| December 31st, 1991 - New Year's Eve show at the Joe
Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida. |
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