Guns N’ Roses historic stadium tour just got even more massive as the band added second shows in several cities for their Not In This Lifetime Tour. Due to unprecedented demand, a second show has been added at MetLife Stadium on July 24th. The first show on July 23rd is sold out. Founder Axl Rose and former members, Slash and Duff McKagan, began the most celebrated music event of the past decade headlining both weekends at this year’s Coachella Music & Arts Festival bringing the tally in April to almost half a million fans served and counting. The Not In This Lifetime Tour, produced and promoted exclusively by Live Nation, will see the iconic band headline stadium dates throughout the U.S. and Canada starting in Detroit at Ford Field on Thursday, June 23rd and include previously announced shows in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Washington DC, Philadelphia and more. A full list of tour dates is below.
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One Million fans and counting will be part of the most celebrated music event of the past few decades when the tour of the summer launches on June 23rd in Detroit, but Guns N’ Roses have begun their return in spectacular fashion beginning with the Troubadour in Los Angeles on April 1st for their first live performance in more than 20 years followed by back-to-back arena shows in Vegas filling the house to the rafters, then Coachella for two weekends (April 16th and April 23rd) including a trip south of the border for two sold out stadium shows in Mexico on April 19th & 20th. April has seen almost a half million fans alone in North America! Guns N’ Roses’ are Axl Rose, Duff McKagan (bass), Slash (lead guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboard), Richard Fortus (rhythm guitar), Frank Ferrer (drums), and Melissa Reese (keyboard).
Following the group’s 1985 formation, Guns N’ Roses injected unbridled, unrivaled, and unstoppable attitude into the burgeoning Los Angeles rock scene. The spirit went on to captivate the entire world with the release of their 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction –the best-selling U.S. debut ever, moving 30 million copies globally. In 1991, the seven-time platinum Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II occupied the top two spots of the Billboard Top 200 upon release. Over the course of the past decade, Guns N’ Roses have performed sold out shows and headlined festivals worldwide following the critically acclaimed release of 2008’s RIAA platinum-certified Chinese Democracy. Six studio albums later, Guns N’ Roses are one of the most important and influential acts in music history and continue to set the benchmark for live performances connecting with millions of fans across the globe.
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All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
June:
23 Detroit, MI Ford Field
26 Washington, DC FEDEXFIELD
29 Kansas City, MO Arrowhead Stadium
July:
1 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
3 Chicago, IL Soldier Field (2nd Show)
6 Cincinnati, OH Paul Brown Stadium
9 Nashville, TN Nissan Stadium
12 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Field
14 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
16 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
19 Foxboro, MA Gillette Stadium
20 Foxboro, MA Gillette Stadium (2nd Show; On sale April 30th)
23 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
24 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium (2nd Show)
27 Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome
29 Orlando, FL Orlando Citrus Bowl
31 New Orleans, LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome
August:
3 Arlington, TX AT&T Stadium
5 Houston, TX NRG Stadium
9 San Francisco, CA AT&T Park
12 Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field
15 Glendale, AZ University of Phoenix Stadium
18 Los Angeles, CA Dodger Stadium (New date)
22 San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium
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The article calls GNR one of the most important and influential acts in music history. I’m sure that rolls off the tongue easy and sounds good. And GNR are certainly notable and hold an important place on hard rock music, but influential? I doubt it. GNR was pretty much the last major hard rock act to come out. In fact you could almost argue GNR rode out the rock and metal scene till there wasn’t one. Axl took the name and went into hiding for 16 years. If GnR were influential, who were they influential to? Rappers? Hip Hoppers? Britney Spears? There were really no solid hard rock acts that were derived from GmR. As least not any that matter.