Friday, MAY 24, 1991
OPENING NIGHT of the Use Your Illusion tour in East Troy, WI. The venue is Alpine Valley. Skid Row opens the show and does so throughout the year.
Saturday, MAY 25
SECOND SHOW at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI.
Tuesday, JULY 2
GUNS PLAY their first of two gigs in St. Louis, MO, at the Riverport Performing Arts Center.
Tuesday, JULY 2
SECOND SHOW in St. Louis. In the middle of the show Axl spots someone in the crowd that’s taking pictures. He told the security to remove the person so he jumped into the crowd. When he got back on stage he complained about the security and left the stage. The others in the band followed him. After this a riot broke out. GN’R wanted to continue the show but were told not to. The band lost their equipment and Axl was charged for inciting a riot.
Slash later about the incident: "We were backstage, watching cops on stretchers all bloody and shit, and it was like, "Fuck! How could this be happening?" I was so scared somebody was going to die. It was completely out of hand. This guy was shooting pictures the whole show. He'd been doing it, and probably having a good laugh. I saw Axl tell the security guard, 'Stop that fuckin' guy!' and the security's watching the band. So Axl went in, and that's when it started. We wanted to go on again. I know there's a certain amount of blame that can be put on us, because if you don't know us, you might say, 'Well, you could've done something to keep it together.' But from our point of view, it all happened so fast, we didn't know what the fuck was going on. The kids had a field day. I lost all my amps, my guitar tech got a bottle in the head, someone got knifed, our stage and video equipment and Axl's piano were trashed. I don't know. It was a fluke. It shouldn't have happened... but it did."
Saturday, AUGUST 3
THE LAST gig before heading for Europe for the first time of this leg. This concert was the longest Guns ever did.
Monday, AUGUST 12
GUNS N’ Roses 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.
Tuesday, AUGUST 13
THE FIRST of two shows at the Ice Stadium in Helsinki, Finland.
Wednesday, AUGUST 14
SECOND SHOW in Finland.
Friday, AUGUST 16
GUNS PLAY in the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
Saturday, AUGUST 17
SECOND SHOW in Stockholm. During their stay in Sweden, when Guns were at the club Daily News, a photographer from Expressen (Sweden’s at that time biggest newspaper (referred by Axl as "your version of the Enquirer") takes pictures of them without permission. Guns bodyguards tried to stop him but they failed and the picture came on Expressen’s first page the next day.
Sunday, AUGUST 19
THE SHOW goes fine until someone throws a fire-cracker up on stage during "Sweet Child O’ Mine". Axl then adressed the audience: "You wanna play games like that, we’ll go home, it’s not a problem". The song went on, but when Axl saw that the security didn’t do anything he stopped the show: "Stop, stop, stop... I didn’t come here for anyone in my band to get hurt or for any people in the crowd to get hurt, because somebody wants to be an asshole." Axl then talked to Izzy before he said: "In fact, we are gonna leave for a bit, until you find the guy". So they went off stage.
After about 15 minutes they got back on stage and continued with "Sweet Child...".
On the 21st should Guns have played at Spectrum in Oslo, Norway but it was cancelled.
Saturday, AUGUST 31
A SHOW at Wembley Stadium in London, England. This came to be Izzy's last concert with Guns N' Roses.
Before the tour resumed in December a lot of things happened... On September 17 Use Your Illusion I & II was released, Steven Adler launched a lawsuit against the band in October, on November 17 did Izzy Stradlin leave the band. There were only three weeks to find a replacer, but they made it and Gilby Clarke toured with them for the rest of the tour.
Friday, DECEMBER 6
THE TOUR resumes in Worcester, MA.
Tuesday, DECEMBER 31
NEW YEAR'S eve show at the Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.
Friday, JANUARY 3, 1992
GUNS N' Roses opens 1992 with a show in Baton Rouge.
Saturday, FEBRUARY 1
A SHOW in Chandler, AZ at the Compton Terrace. This is the last gig before Guns are moving on to Japan.
Monday, FEBRUARY 17
THE BAND arrive in Narita, Japan. They are going to play three gigs here.
Monday, FEBRUARY 17
THE BAND arrive in Narita, Japan. They are going to play three gigs here.
Wednesday, FEBRUARY 19
GUNS KICK off their Japan gigs with 'Coma.' One of three live performances of the song!
Thursday, FEBRUARY 20
SECOND SHOW in Japan.
Saturday, FEBRUARY 22
THE THIRD Japanese show is being filmed for a home video release later during 1992.
Wednesday, APRIL 1 - Thursday, APRIL 2
TWO GIGS in Mexico.
Thursday, APRIL 9
A SHOW at the Rozemont Horizon in Chicago, IL. The next show was going to be held at Rosemont Horizon again, but a prosecutor issued a warrant for Axl's arrest in St. Louis in 1991. Two more shows had to be cancelled (Auburn Hills, MI, Palace on April 13 and 14).
Monday, APRIL 20
THE FREDDIE Mercury Tribute: Concert for AIDS Awareness is held in London, England at Wembley Stadium.
Guns N' Roses performed Paradise City and Knockin' On Heaven's Door. They were originally going to perform three songs but there had been some technical problems earlier. Later that night Axl joined his heroes, Elton John and the remains of Queen, for an amazing duet version of "Bohemian Rhapsody". He also performed "We Will Rock You" with Queen. Slash played "Tie Your Mother Down" together with Queen and Joe Elliot. The show was shown live around the world via satellite, gathering the largest audience for a music concert in history. In the UK, the royalties from the "Knockin'..." single have been pledged to organizations fighting AIDS.
