Chinese Democracy Tour

Chinese Democracy Tour

World tour by Guns N' Roses
Location	America, Europe, Oceania, Asia
Associated album	Chinese Democracy
Start date	January 1, 2001
End date	December 31, 2011
Legs	19
Number of shows	2001: 4 (17 cancelled) 2002: 23 (19 cancelled) 2003: 0 (2 cancelled) 2004: 0 (1 cancelled) 2006: 75 (7 cancelled) 2007: 20 (2 cancelled) 2009: 4 2010: 72 (2 cancelled) 2011: 41 (3 cancelled) Total shows: 239
Guns N' Roses concert chronology

The Chinese Democracy Tour was a worldwide concert tour by hard rock band Guns N' Roses to promote the group's long-delayed album Chinese Democracy.

The tour began in 2001. That year the band played three U.S. dates and a Brazilian one, while their 2002 tour included Asian, North American and a few European dates. The band did not tour again until May 2006, when it toured North America again and performed a major tour of Europe. The band's tour continued in 2007 with shows in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Mexico.

Their first show after the 2008 release of Chinese Democracy was in Taiwan on December 11, 2009. In the same month the group played South Korea for the first time, as well as two dates in Japan. Since 2010 the tour has continued with concerts in North America, South/Central America, Europe and Australia. As of late 2010, the entire tour had attracted a total audience of about 4,000,000 people. The ten-year tour came to a close on the final day of 2011, with a New Year's Eve show in Las Vegas.

Band members history

The bulk of the band remained stable throughout the tour: lead vocalist Axl Rose; keyboardist and backing vocalist Dizzy Reed; bassist and backing vocalist Tommy Stinson; and keyboardist, programmer and backing vocalist Chris Pitman. The main lineup changes were in the form of rhythm guitarists (Paul Tobias from 2001 to 2002, Richard Fortus from 2002 to present), lead guitarists partnering Finck (Buckethead from 2001 to 2004, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal from 2006 to 2014) and drummers (Bryan "Brain" Mantia from 2001 to 2006, Frank Ferrer from 2006 to present). The 2006/2007 tour lineup—Rose, Reed, Stinson, Pitman, Finck, Fortus, Thal and Ferrer—remained to complete the album, released in 2008. Finck rejoined Nine Inch Nails in 2008, and was replaced by Sixx:A.M. guitarist DJ Ashba in 2009.

2001 European Tour

The 2001 European Tour (often referred to as the Chinese Democracy Tour) was a scheduled concert tour by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, planned in support of the band's then-upcoming sixth studio album Chinese Democracy. Initially due to begin and end in June, many tour dates were rescheduled for December due to the reported illness of guitarist Buckethead. The re-configured tour was later cancelled outright.

Background

Following the Use Your Illusion Tour, which ran for over two years and visited 27 countries, and the release of cover album "The Spaghetti Incident?" in November 1993, the band began to write new material. Relationships between band members began deteriorating, however, and the future of Guns N' Roses was in doubt. As members turned focus to their own side-projects tensions began to grow.

Gilby Clarke was the first to leave the band, reportedly being fired in June 1994. On October 30, 1996 it was announced that lead guitarist Slash had officially left the band, after having not been involved since 1995 due to a poor relationship with vocalist Axl Rose. Drummer Matt Sorum was fired from the band after an argument with guitarist Paul Tobias, and Duff McKagan became the last original member to leave in 1997. With only one remaining original member, Axl Rose, and one other member from the "Use Your Illusion" lineup, Dizzy Reed, Guns N' Roses began the search for new musicians, while the former members continued with their respective solo and band careers, with Slash, McKagan and Sorum later forming Velvet Revolver with Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland in 2003.

Robin Finck became the band's lead guitarist in 1997, followed shortly the next year by drummer Josh Freese and bassist Tommy Stinson. Finck left the band in 1999 to rejoin his former band Nine Inch Nails, before the band recorded and released their first new song in six years in the form of "Oh My God". A number of changes to the band occurred in 2000, including the departure of Freese, the hiring of lead guitarist Buckethead and drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, and the return of Robin Finck. Along with these changes came the news that Guns N' Roses were planning a tour in the summer of 2001, and would be playing at the Rock in Rio festival in January.

Warm-up shows

The first warm-up show for the upcoming tour of Europe was announced in December 2000 as a New Year's Day performance at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. It was also rumoured that the long-awaited Chinese Democracy would be released in June 2001, for which the scheduled European Tour would be promotional. Guns N' Roses – then composed of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarists Buckethead and Robin Finck, rhythm guitarist Paul Tobias (who joined in 1994 to replace Gilby Clarke), bassist Tommy Stinson, drummer Brain and keyboardists Dizzy Reed (still with the band since joining in 1990) and Chris Pitman (who joined between 1998 and 2000) – completed the band's first performance in seven years, which was praised as "a triumphant return" by music magazine Rolling Stone. The band performed a number of new songs, including "Oh My God" (released as a single in 1999), "Riad N' The Bedouins", "Chinese Democracy", "Street of Dreams" (all later released on Chinese Democracy) and "Silkworms" (which remains unreleased as of 2012), including a bulk of original songs and 'classics' such as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", "November Rain" and "You Could Be Mine". The Las Vegas show was followed two weeks later by the performance at Rock in Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The performance featured a similar set list, which also included the live debut of new song "Madagascar". MTV praised the performance as "The capstone of the third night of the [...] festival", summarising it as "an exciting show."

Cancellations

Guns N' Roses were due to begin their European Tour on June 1 at the German music festival Rock am Ring, but announced in May that they were to cancel the entire tour; according to the band's European management agency, the reason for the cancellation was the illness of lead guitarist Buckethead. With a rescheduling process said to be planned, it was later announced that many of the proposed tour dates would be completed later in the year. On November 8, it was announced that the tour was to be cancelled completely, allegedly due to the ongoing illness of Buckethead, which was also said to have delayed the completion of the upcoming album. The band's manager, Doug Goldstein, apologised to fans for scheduling the tour, which he admitted was a poorly executed decision, with the following statement:

Following the euphoria of [the band's appearance at the] Rock in Rio [concert], I jumped the gun and arranged a European tour as our plan was to have the new album out this year. Unfortunately, Buckethead's illness not only stopped the tour, but it slowed down our progress on Chinese Democracy. I am very sorry to disappoint our fans, but I can assure them that this is not what Axl wanted, nor is it 'Another page from the Howard Hughes of rock,' as some media will no doubt portray it. I made a plan, and unfortunately it did not work out.

Despite not being able to complete their tour of Europe, the full lineup of Guns N' Roses performed two more shows in 2001, both at The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, on December 29 and 31. Songs performed made up similar set lists to those at the January performances.

Set list

January 1, 2001 – House of Blues, Las Vegas, Nevada

Main set:

1. "Welcome to the Jungle"
2. "It's So Easy"
3. "Mr. Brownstone"
4. "Live and Let Die"
5. "Oh My God"
6. "My Michelle"
7. "Think About You"
8. "You Could Be Mine"
9. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
10. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
11. "November Rain"
12. "Out ta Get Me"
13. "Riad N' The Bedouins"
14. "Chinese Democracy"
15. "Rocket Queen"
16. "Patience"
17. "Street of Dreams (The Blues)"
18. "Nightrain"

Encores:

19. "Silkworms"
20. "Paradise City"

January 14, 2001 – Rock in Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Main set:

1. "Welcome to the Jungle"
2. "It's So Easy"
3. "Mr. Brownstone"
4. "Live and Let Die"
5. "Oh My God"
6. "Think About You"
7. "You Could Be Mine"
8. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
9. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
10. "Madagascar"
11. "November Rain"
12. "Out ta Get Me"
13. "Rocket Queen"
14. "Chinese Democracy"
15. "Street of Dreams (The Blues)"
16. "Patience"
17. "Nightrain"

Encores:

18. "My Michelle"
19. "Silkworms"
20. "Paradise City"

Personnel

• Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano, whistle, whistling
• Dizzy Reed – keyboards, piano
• Tommy Stinson – bass, backing vocals
• Chris Pitman – keyboards, samples, backing vocals
• Robin Finck – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Bryan "Brain" Mantia – drums, percussion
• Buckethead – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar
• Paul Tobias – rhythm guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Warm-up shows
January 1, 2001	Paradise	United States	House of Blues	1,800	*
January 14, 2001	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Rock in Rio 3	200,000	**
Original Tour
June 1, 2001	Nürburg	Germany	Rock am Ring		Cancelled
June 3, 2001	Nuremberg		Rock im Park		Cancelled
June 5, 2001	Berlin		Waldbühne		Cancelled
June 9, 2001	London	United Kingdom	London Arena		Rescheduled
June 10, 2001					Rescheduled
June 12, 2001	Glasgow		SECC		Rescheduled
June 14, 2001	Birmingham		NEC		Rescheduled
June 17, 2001	Imola	Italy	Heineken Festival		Cancelled
June 19, 2001	Madrid	Spain	Plaza de Las Ventas		Cancelled
June 20, 2001	Barcelona		Palau Sant Jordi		Cancelled
June 23, 2001	Arnhem	Netherlands	GelreDome		Rescheduled
June 25, 2001	Stockholm	Sweden	Globen		Rescheduled
June 26, 2001	Oslo	Norway	Spektrum		Rescheduled
June 28, 2001	Roskilde	Denmark	Roskilde Festival		Cancelled
June 30, 2001	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter		Cancelled
Rescheduled Tour
December 2, 2001	Arnhem	Netherlands	GelreDome		Cancelled
December 5, 2001	Oslo	Norway	Spektrum		Cancelled
December 7, 2001	Stockholm	Sweden	Globen		Cancelled
December 9, 2001	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Areena		Cancelled
December 13, 2001	London	United Kingdom	London Arena		Cancelled
December 14, 2001					Cancelled
December 16, 2001	Glasgow		SECC		Cancelled
December 18, 2001	Manchester		MEN Arena		Cancelled
December 19, 2001	Birmingham		NEC		Cancelled
New Year Shows
December 29, 2001	Paradise	United States	The Joint	1,400
December 31, 2001				1,400

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*	First show since 1993, ending of the Use Your Illusion Tour. First show for the new line-up. Axl on vocals, Dizzy Reed on keyboards, Tommy Stinson on bass, Chris Pitman on keyboards, Paul Tobias, Buckethead and Robin Finck on guitar, and Brain on drums. GN'R performed five new songs (that includes Oh My God).
**	Guns N' Roses' biggest concert attendance ever.

2002/2003 World Tour

Chinese Democracy Tour 2002 was a tour by Guns N' Roses which was the band's first major tour since 1993. The North American leg was organized in the autumn of 2002 to support the supposed release of Chinese Democracy, and was announced on September 25, 2002 as the Chinese Democracy Tour. Thirty-five dates had originally been scheduled, but the band ended up performing at only sixteen.

Set list

Madagascar, Chinese Democracy and Street of Dreams were played frequently while Riad N' The Bedouins was dropped a few dates later. Welcome to the Jungle opened the show and Paradise City ended the encore on all dates.

August 18, 2002 – WTC Open Air Stadium, Osaka, Japan

Main set:

1. "Welcome to the Jungle"
2. "It's So Easy"
3. "Mr. Brownstone"
4. "Live and Let Die"
5. "Think About You"
6. "You Could Be Mine"
7. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
8. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
9. "Out ta Get Me"
10. "Riad N' The Bedouins"
11. "Madagascar"
12. "November Rain"
13. "Rocket Queen"
14. "Nightrain"
15. "Street of Dreams (The Blues)"
16. "Chinese Democracy"
17. "Patience"

Encore:

18. "Paradise City"

December 5, 2002 – Madison Square Garden, New York City

Main set:

1. "Welcome to the Jungle"
2. "It's So Easy"
3. "Mr. Brownstone"
4. "Live and Let Die"
5. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
6. "Think About You"
7. "You Could Be Mine"
8. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
9. "Out ta Get Me"
10. "November Rain"
11. "Chinese Democracy"
12. "Madagascar"
13. "Rocket Queen"
14. "Street of Dreams (The Blues)"
15. "My Michelle"
16. "Patience"
17. "Nightrain"

Encore:

18. "Paradise City"

Personnel

The only line-up change for this tour was the addition of rhythm guitarist Richard Fortus, replacing Paul Tobias due to the fact the latter no longer wished to tour. However, Tobias never officially left the band and continues to work with them. The touring line up for the 2002 tours of Europe, Asia and North America consisted of:

• Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano, whistle, whistling
• Dizzy Reed – keyboards, piano, percussion, backing vocals
• Tommy Stinson – bass, backing vocals
• Richard Fortus – rhythm guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
• Chris Pitman – keyboards, programming, backing vocals
• Robin Finck – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Bryan "Brain" Mantia – drums
• Buckethead – lead guitar, acoustic guitar

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Asia
August 14, 2002	Hong Kong	China	Exhibition Centre	2,000	*
August 17, 2002	Chiba	Japan	Chiba Marine Stadium	35,000	Festival **
August 18, 2002	Osaka		WTC Open Air Stadium	25,000	Festival
Europe
August 23, 2002	Leeds	United Kingdom	Temple Newsam Park	52,000	Festival
August 24, 2002	Hasselt	Belgium	Pukkelpop Field	100,000	Festival
August 26, 2002	London	United Kingdom	London Arena	12,000	Sold Out
MTV Video Music Awards
August 29, 2002	New York City	United States	Radio City Music Hall	11,948,000	TV Show ***
North America
November 7, 2002	Vancouver	Canada	GM Place	15,000	Cancelled/Riot
November 8, 2002	Tacoma	United States	Tacoma Dome	6,100
November 11, 2002	Nampa		Idaho Center	4,400
November 14, 2002	Minneapolis		Target Center	8,000
November 15, 2002	Fargo		Fargodome	6,575
November 17, 2002	Moline		The MARK of the Quad Cities	7,000
November 18, 2002	Rosemont		Allstate Arena	18,500	Sold Out
November 21, 2002	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	8,857	Ended Earlier
November 22, 2002	Pittsburgh		Mellon Arena	9,000
November 24, 2002	Cleveland		Gund Arena	9,500
November 25, 2002	Columbus		Nationwide Arena	6,000
November 27, 2002	Albany		Pepsi Arena	6,000
November 29, 2002	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	16,000	Sold Out
November 30, 2002	London		John Labatt Centre	10,000	Sold Out
December 2, 2002	Boston	United States	Fleet Center	12,700	Sold Out
December 3, 2002	Hartford		Hartford Civic Center	10,000±
December 5, 2002	New York City		Madison Square Garden	20,000	Sold Out
December 6, 2002	Philadelphia		First Union Center	15,000	Cancelled/Riot
December 8, 2002			First Union Spectrum		Cancelled
December 9, 2002	Washington, D.C.		MCI Center		Cancelled
December 11, 2002	Greenville		BI-LO Center		Cancelled
December 13, 2002	Tampa		Ice Palace		Cancelled
December 14, 2002	West Palm		Cruzan Amphitheatre		Cancelled
December 16, 2002	Biloxi		Mississippi Coliseum		Cancelled
December 17, 2002	Houston		Compaq Center		Cancelled
December 19, 2002	Dallas		American Airlines Center		Cancelled
December 21, 2002	Albuquerque		Tingley Coliseum		Cancelled
December 22, 2002	Phoenix		America West Arena		Cancelled
December 27, 2002	San Diego		San Diego Sports Arena		Cancelled
December 28, 2002	Paradise		Mandalay Bay		Cancelled
December 30, 2002	Sacramento		Arco Arena		Cancelled
December 31, 2002	San Jose		Compaq Center		Cancelled
January 3, 2003	Inglewood		Great Western Forum		Cancelled
January 4, 2003	Anaheim		Arrowhead Pond		Cancelled

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*	First show of the Chinese Democracy World Tour and it's in China. As the band came on late, maybe 90 minutes after the opening band.
**	First Japanese show of the tour in front of 30,000 people. One of GN'R's fog machines was mounted way up high in the lights blew up right before showtime, showering the stage with slippery fog oil. GN'R ended up being 40 min late, while tech guys used just about every towel in the stadium to make the stage safe.
***	In a surprise appearance, the band played a set consisting of "Welcome to the Jungle", "Madagascar", and "Paradise City". The performance was meant to be kept a secret, but some New York radio outlets announced the performance earlier in the day.

2004 At Rock in Rio Lisbon

After the 2002 tour was cancelled the band went into hiatus until they were scheduled to play at Rock in Rio Lisboa 1 in May 2004. However lead guitarist Buckethead left the band in March 2004 and their appearance was cancelled and Axl Rose made the following statement:

The band has been put in an untenable position by guitarist Buckethead and his untimely departure. On behalf of Guns N' Roses and myself I apologize to the fans who planned to see us at Rock In Rio - Lisbon. The festival and its tradition mean a lot to me personally and I sincerely do not enjoy being robbed by one of our own of the opportunity to be the first artist to play it for the third time. I would also like to express my gratitude to those who chose to embrace Buckethead's role in Guns and support our new line up. We greatly appreciate Bucket's contributions and remain open to 'discussions' as there are obviously several issues to resolve. In the meantime rather than dwelling on the negative, Guns will be moving forward and surprisingly (without giving away any details) this unfortunate set of circumstances may have given us the opportunity to take our recording that one extra step further. Regardless we hope to announce a release date within the next few months.

Buckethead left Guns N' Roses, according to his manager, due to "Guns' inability to complete an album or tour".

Date	City	Country	Venue	Notes
May 30, 2004	Lisboa	Portugal	Parque da Bela Vista	Cancelled

2006/2007 World Tour

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Guns N' Roses performing Paradise City at Globen on June 26, 2006.

The Chinese Democracy Tour 2006 was a concert tour by Guns N' Roses promoting their upcoming album Chinese Democracy. It started in May 2006 when the band launched a European tour, headlining both the Download Festival and Rock in Rio Lisboa. Four warm-up shows preceded the tour at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, and became the band's first live concert dates since the short 2002 tour. The shows also marked the debut of virtuoso fusion guitarist and composer Ron Thal (a.k.a. Bumblefoot) on lead guitar, replacing Buckethead. During the course of this tour, Izzy Stradlin and Sebastian Bach made frequent guest appearances. The European dates played to over 700,000 people during 32 shows in 18 countries.

Set list

The band brought You're Crazy, Used to Love Her and Down On The Farm for some dates. Better, I.R.S. and There Was a Time made their live-debut reinforcing rumors about a Chinese Democracy release in 2006.

July 29, 2006 – Wembley Arena, London, England

Main set:

1. "Welcome to the Jungle"
2. "It's So Easy"
3. "Mr. Brownstone"
4. "Live and Let Die"
5. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
6. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
7. "Street of Dreams (The Blues)"
8. "Better"
9. "You Could Be Mine"
10. "Out ta Get Me"
11. "Sway"
12. "Sailing"
13. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
14. "Think About You"
15. "My Michelle"
16. "Patience"
17. "November Rain"
18. "Rocket Queen"
19. "Nightrain"

Encores:

20. "I.R.S."
21. "Paradise City"

September 23, 2006 – KROQ Inland Invasion, Hyundai Pavilion, San Bernardino, California

Main set:

1. "Welcome to the Jungle"
2. "It's So Easy"
3. "Mr. Brownstone"
4. "Live and Let Die"
5. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
6. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
7. "You Could Be Mine"
8. "Street of Dreams (The Blues)"
9. "Out ta Get Me"
10. "November Rain"
11. "Better"
12. "My Michelle"
13. "I.R.S."
14. "Patience"
15. "Nightrain"

Encores:

16. "Rocket Queen"
17. "Madagascar"
18. "Paradise City"

Personnel

The only line-up change for this tour was that of guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal replacing the departed Buckethead. Also, drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia missed the second half of the European tour because of the birth of his daughter in early July. He was temporarily replaced by session drummer Frank Ferrer. The line up of the European and North American Tours was:

• Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano, whistle, whistling, tambourine, keyboards
• Dizzy Reed – keyboards, piano, percussion, backing vocals
• Tommy Stinson – bass, backing vocals
• Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal – lead guitar, rhythm guitar
• Richard Fortus – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
• Chris Pitman – keyboards, programming, backing vocals
• Frank Ferrer – drums
• Robin Finck – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Bryan "Brain" Mantia - drums (until replaced by Frank Ferrer)

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Warm-up shows
May 12, 2006	New York City	United States	Hammerstein Ballroom	3,600	Sold Out*
May 14, 2006				3,600	Sold Out
May 15, 2006				3,600	Sold Out
May 17, 2006				3,600	Sold Out**
May 18, 2006			The Plumm	900	Acoustic Show
Europe
May 25, 2006	Madrid	Spain	Parque Juan Carlos	10,000
May 27, 2006	Lisboa	Portugal	Parque da Bela Vista	50,000	Festival
May 31, 2006	Budapest	Hungary	Budapest Arena	11,000
June 2, 2006	Nürburg	Germany	Nürburgring	80,000	Festival
June 4, 2006	Milan	Italy	Idroscalo	30,000	Festival
June 7, 2006	London	United Kingdom	Hammersmith Apollo	3,000	Sold Out
June 9, 2006	Dublin	Ireland	RDS Arena	30,000	Sold Out
June 11, 2006	Castle Donington	United Kingdom	Donington Park	65,000	Festival**
June 13, 2006	Prague	Czech Republic	Sazka Arena	18,000	**
June 15, 2006	Warsaw	Poland	Stadion Legii	12,000	**
June 17, 2006	Burgenland	Austria	Pannonia Fields II	35,000	Festival**
June 20, 2006	Paris	France	POPB	15,000	**
June 24, 2006	Dessel	Belgium	Graspop Metal Meeting	35,000±	Festival
June 26, 2006	Stockholm	Sweden	Globen	15,000	Sold Out
June 28, 2006	Oslo	Norway	Oslo Spektrum	9,700	Sold Out
June 29, 2006	Roskilde	Denmark	Animal Showgrounds	80,000	Festival
July 1, 2006	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion	13,000
July 2, 2006	Nijmegen	Netherlands	Goffertpark	25,000±	**
July 5, 2006	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Areena	10,000	Sold Out
July 6, 2006				10,000	Sold Out
July 8, 2006	Oslo	Norway	Oslo Spektrum	9,700	**
July 10, 2006	Athens	Greece	Terra Vibe Park	15,000	Festival**
	Nuremberg	Germany	Frankenstadion		Cancelled ***
July 12, 2006	Leipzig		Zentralstadion		Cancelled ***
	Istanbul	Turkey	Kurucesme Arena	17,000	**
July 14, 2006	Bilbao	Spain	Kobetamendi	20,000	Festival**
July 15, 2006	El Ejido		Playa De Guardias Viejas	20,000	Festival**
July 18, 2006	Sheffield	United Kingdom	Hallam FM Arena	12,500	**
July 19, 2006	Newcastle		Metro Radio Arena	11,000	Ended Earlier**
July 21, 2006	Glasgow		SECC	10,000±	Sold Out**
July 23, 2006	Manchester		MEN Arena	19,388	**
July 25, 2006	Birmingham		NEC Arena	10,000±	Sold Out**
July 27, 2006	Nottingham		Nottingham Arena	10,288	Sold Out**
July 29, 2006	London		Wembley Arena	12,750	Sold Out**
July 30, 2006			Cuckoo Club	150±	Acoustic Show
July 30, 2006			Wembley Arena	12,750	Sold Out**

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*	First show for the new co-lead guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal.
**	Izzy Stradlin joined the band on stage.
***	In addition, Guns N' Roses were supposed to open for two dates of The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour in Germany on the European leg of the tour, but because of Keith Richards' infamous fall from a tree in Fiji, those shows were cancelled.

North American leg

On August 31, 2006, Axl Rose appeared on MTV Video Music Awards as a presenter, noting that the band would go on a North American tour on October 24. Five warm-up shows for the tour were held in September 2006, with two at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas two at Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and one show in Devore for KROQ's Inland Invasion 2006.

Following the band's appearance at Inland Invasion on September 23, a handful of subsequent warm-up shows were postponed, which led to rumours that this was carried out in order to finalize the work on the new album. The rumors were seemingly denied by manager Merck Mercuriadis, who stated that the shows had been merely moved to "fit in with the main body of the tour". He did, however, once again state that Chinese Democracy would be out before the end of the year. The actual tour, again called the Chinese Democracy Tour, was now scheduled to begin on October 20 in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Jacksonville show was moved to October 31, with the October 22 show in Nashville, Tennessee postponed up to January 2007, until being cancelled in December. The tour commenced on October 24 in Sunrise, Florida, now ringing true to Rose's prior statement.

During the 2006 North American tour the band's opening acts included The Suicide Girls, Papa Roach, Sebastian Bach, Die Mannequin and Helmet. The band were also joined onstage by former Gunner Izzy Stradlin and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich both making one-off appearances. Bubbles, Ricky, and Julian of the Trailer Park Boys made some appearances in Canada. Long-time drummer Bryan Mantia took a leave from his touring responsibilities before the October tour dates to spend more time with his family. He was replaced by his understudy Frank Ferrer. Since then, Ferrer has apparently been granted an official membership in the band, which fueled speculation that Mantia had resigned. During a Florida show in October, Ferrer was introduced as "our newest member" by Axl Rose. Regardless, the band's management has stated that both Mantia and Ferrer are official members.

Eagles of Death Metal were supposed to go on tour with Guns N' Roses. On November 24, 2006 in Cleveland, Ohio, during their first concert with Guns N' Roses, the band was not well received by the crowd. When Axl Rose came out to perform, he asked the crowd whether they enjoyed "the Pigeons of Shit Metal", following with an onstage announcement the band wouldn't open for the Guns during the remainder of the tour. Soon after, Eagles of Death Metal released a statement regarding the incident:

"At first the audience refused to welcome us to the jungle, but by the time we took our final bow, it had become paradise city. Although Axl tried to November rain on our parade, no sweet child o' mine can derail the EODM night train. We say live and let die."[12]

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Warm-up shows
September 16, 2006	Paradise	United States	The Joint	3,000±
September 17, 2006				2,000±
September 20, 2006	San Francisco		Warfield Theatre	4,874	Sold Out
September 21, 2006				4,874	Sold Out
KROQ Inland Invasion
September 23, 2006	San Bernardino	United States	Hyundai Pavilion	30,000	Festival
Tour
October 24, 2006	Sunrise	United States	BankAtlantic Center	8,388	Sold Out
October 25, 2006	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum	10,534	Sold Out
October 27, 2006	Estero		Germain Arena	6,000±
October 29, 2006	San Juan	Puerto Rico	Coliseo de Puerto Rico	8,918
October 31, 2006	Jacksonville	United States	Veterans Memorial Arena	5,000±
November 2, 2006	Greensboro		Greensboro Coliseum	4,389
November 3, 2006	Huntington		Huntington Civic Center	6,500
November 5, 2006	East Rutherford		Continental Airlines Arena	9,924
November 6, 2006	Portland		Cumberland Civic Center		Cancelled
November 8, 2006	Worcester		DCU Center	10,000±
November 10, 2006	New York City		Madison Square Garden	14,482	Sold Out
November 13, 2006	Baltimore		1st Mariner Arena	5,257
November 15, 2006	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	13,051	Sold Out
November 17, 2006	Ottawa		Scotiabank Place	9,722	Sold Out
November 18, 2006	Quebec City		Colisée Pepsi	9,729
November 20, 2006	Halifax		Halifax Metro Centre	7,880
November 21, 2006	Saint John		Harbour Station	5,145	Sold Out
November 24, 2006	Cleveland	United States	Quicken Loans Arena	6,757
November 25, 2006	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	6,313
November 27, 2006	Rosemont		Allstate Arena	9,599
November 29, 2006	Milwaukee		Bradley Center		Cancelled
December 1, 2006	Ames		Hilton Coliseum	4,438
December 2, 2006	Minneapolis		Target Center	7,241
December 4, 2006	Winnipeg	Canada	MTS Centre	9,284	Sold Out
December 6, 2006	Calgary		Pengrowth Saddledome	13,370	Sold Out
December 7, 2006	Edmonton		Rexall Place	13,355	Sold Out
December 10, 2006	Everett	United States	Everett Events Center	5,868
December 11, 2007	Portland		Rose Garden Arena	9,000±
December 13, 2006	Fresno		Save Mart Center		Cancelled
December 15, 2006	Oakland		Oracle Arena	5,786	**
December 17, 2006	Universal City		Gibson Amphitheatre	6,189	Sold Out*
December 19, 2006				6,189	Sold Out*
December 20, 2006				6,189	Sold Out*
January 10, 2007	Sacramento		ARCO Arena		Cancelled ***
January 11, 2007	Bakersfield		Rabobank Arena		Cancelled ***
January 13, 2007	Reno		Reno Events Center		Cancelled ***
January 16, 2007	San Diego		iPayOne Center		Cancelled ***

#		Source
*	Izzy Stradlin joined the band on stage.
**	Lars Ulrich performed on drums with GN'R.
**	Cancelled in order for the band to complete the album in January to have a March 2007 tentative release date. However, the album wasn't completed in time for a March 6 release.

2007 World Tour

Chinese Democracy Tour 2007 was a continuation of the previous tour promoting Chinese Democracy. The album had a tentative release date in March according to Axl Rose, but it didn't materialize. The band continued touring in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. They also performed two songs at Rodeo Drive's Walk of Style.

Set list

Nice Boys and Don't Cry were new additions to the setlist on this tour. This was the first appearance of these two songs in a live setting since 1993.

Walk of Style Ceremony

This performance featured keyboardist Chris Pitman on bass guitar, as Tommy Stinson was unable to attend due to a personal family issue. They played acoustic versions of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" to close out the ceremony.

Live Earth

They were asked to perform but the band was already touring in Australia and Japan. Axl Rose issued a statement regarding Live Earth and rumors in the Guns N' Roses Website:

Guns N' Roses or myself will not be performing at Rio Live Earth or Live Earth for a couple of reasons. The first is that we were not asked until the last couple weeks while we were on tour in Australia and have upcoming sold-out dates already rescheduled in Japan. Our gear is already en route to Japan for these shows. We have attempted to find a solution to be able to perform in Rio, but unfortunately none has been suggested.

I was asked to perform individually with Lenny Kravitz by the promoters and Mr. Gore. As we were working this out, Lenny unfortunately became injured and temporarily canceled his involvement from the event. According to the promoters, by the time they had reconfirmed Lenny's performance, there wasn't enough time to arrange flights for myself to Brazil and then to Japan for our upcoming shows. Unfortunately, I was not informed that Lenny's performance was reconfirmed until our own explorations and in following the media surrounding the event today, which is Saturday morning here in Australia and Friday in Brazil.

Guns N' Roses or I were not asked to play anywhere else such as Japan or Australia (as we are already in the regions on tour) and in which we have formally offered to perform but the offer of our involvement was declined.

We wish all involved, the performers, the organizers, the fans and audiences around the world all the best and a very successful event.

My Coke Festival

The band pulled out of the festival after bassist Tommy Stinson failed to recover from a wrist injury he sustained when he fell down a flight of stairs.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Walk of Style ceremony
February 8, 2007	Beverly Hills	United States	Rodeo Drive		Walk of Style ceremony in honor of Donatella and Gianni Versace.
My Coke Festival
April 27, 2007	Johannesburg	South Africa	New Market Racetrack		Cancelled
May 1, 2007	Cape Town		Kenilworth Racetrack		Cancelled
Mexico
June 2, 2007	Monterrey	Mexico	Monterrey Arena	17,600	Sold Out
June 3, 2007	Guadalajara		Arena VFG	32,572	Sold Out
June 5, 2007	Mexico City		Palacio de los Deportes	20,255	Sold Out
Oceania
June 10, 2007	Perth	Australia	Burswood Dome	17,000	Sold Out
June 13, 2007	Adelaide		Entertainment Centre	8,000
June 15, 2007	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena	14,000	Sold Out
June 16, 2007				14,000	Sold Out
June 20, 2007	Brisbane		Entertainment Centre	11,000±	Sold Out
June 21, 2007				10,000±
June 23, 2007	Sydney		Acer Arena	20,000	Sold Out
June 24, 2007				20,000	Sold Out
June 29, 2007	Auckland	New Zealand	Vector Arena	12,000	Sold Out
June 30, 2007				10,000±
July 3, 2007	Christchurch		Westpac Arena	8,000	Sold Out
Live Earth
July 7, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Copacabana Beach		Scrapped
Asia
July 14, 2007	Chiba	Japan	Makuhari Messe	17,000	Sold Out
July 15, 2007				12,000±
July 17, 2007	Nagoya		Nippon Gaishi Hall	12,000	Sold Out
July 18, 2007	Tokyo		Nippon Budokan	9,000
July 21, 2007	Osaka		Intex Osaka	10,000±	Sold Out

2009–2012 World Tour

Rumors started in February that Guns N' Roses would perform Spain and Italy in June, and continued through the year with comments from Irving Azoff about a Summer Stadium Tour but nothing happened.

On November 10, 2009 after speculation about shows in Japan, the band announced on their MySpace four dates in Asia and thirteen in Canada. More dates were added later for South America and Europe.

On August 15, 2010, a cancellation notice for the remaining shows of the tour was posted on Rose's Twitter. The statement would later be refuted on the official Guns N' Roses Twitter and Facebook, with claims that the tweets were being looked into. Several hours later, the band confirmed that Axl's account had been hacked, and the band would in fact continue the tour.

Following the events that took place at the Reading Festival where the organizers pulled the plug on their set because they passed the curfew time, Axl Rose released the following message via his Twitter account:

Our start times at the Reading and Leeds festivals factually had nothing to do with us as the previous bands (who were great by the way) came off stage when they did and we went on within' our contracted and documented changeover time period.

Whatever other nonsense anyone's choosing to write would appear intentionally false.

Having the fans or our show penalized for how the event was run or simply the natural flow of events those evenings and for such minimal amount of overtime along with distortions and falsehoods by media, the promoter and or event organizers regarding the events seems a bit draconian and more than unfair to the fans.

A simple question: If you are aware of our changeover time, the average length of our show and the general nature of how these types of festivals run all of which are no big secrets...why book us?

Is it simply because the lineup on our nights at both festivals sold well? So it's a cash grab with no respect for the fans or the band and somehow an unwanted inconvenience for the cities and law enforcement? If we're not wanted and just being used to line someone else's pockets or for fictitious tabloid fodder at the fans and our expense we're fine with going elsewhere. God forbid we would force ourselves on anyone. It's not that kinda party.

I didn't organize, arrange, authorize, have knowledge of or was even consulted about our being booked for these shows till after the fact nor did I choose to work with anyone I'm aware of other than our manager who was involved in arranging these dates. Yet it would appear we're amazingly often legally obligated to honor such arrangements whether against our will or better judgment. That's simply and unfortunately how this business often works with the artist and imo seems is legally supported to benefit managers, agents, promoters and ticket vendors.

With how the fans and we were treated in the past I had what I feel were legitimate and now proven justified apprehensions. Yet we gave 100% and from where we stood it seemed as if the both the fans (who rocked!) and our camp were having fun and making the most of things.

Why (and what would appear intentionally) risk having it go bad for everyone? Imo that's where true recklessness and negligence at both the fans and our expense would seem to be.

Anyway...thanks again to all the fans who made our nights!!

Peace!!

Axl-

Towards the end of the European leg, Duff McKagan joined Guns N' Roses onstage for the first time in seventeen years on October 14, playing bass on "You Could Be Mine" and guitar on "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", "Nice Boys" and "Patience" at London's O2 Arena.

On November 5, 2010, DJ Ashba confirmed the tour would continue across the U.S. in 2011. When asked about a new album, he said:

We've been throwing around a bunch of ideas and it should be good, man. We've got a lot of good stuff on the plate coming out. It won't take as long, I promise. Yeah, I'm excited to get this next one rolling. A lot of great shit. Axl [Rose, vocals] has a lot of good shit up his sleeve, so I'm really excited about it.-

On October 2, 2011, the band came back to South America playing Rock In Rio in front of 100,000 people. After passing through Argentina, Chile and Paraguay, the first US tour in 5 years took place with positive reviews.

Set list

All of the songs from Chinese Democracy with the exception of "Riad N' The Bedouins" were played at the show in Tokyo, along with nine songs from Appetite for Destruction. A cover of AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" has also been frequently played. In 2011, the band added "Estranged" to the set. The Tokyo setlist below is the longest set Guns N' Roses has ever played. The setlist on the right is a typical setlist from the 2011 tour.

December 19, 2009 – Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan

Main set:

1. "Chinese Democracy"
2. "Welcome to the Jungle"
3. "It's So Easy"
4. "Mr. Brownstone"
5. "Catcher in the Rye"
6. "Sorry"
7. "If the World"
8. "Live and Let Die"
9. "Street of Dreams"
10. "You Could Be Mine"
11. "Rocket Queen"
12. "My Michelle"
13. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
14. "Shackler's Revenge"
15. "I.R.S."
16. "November Rain"
17. "Whole Lotta Rosie"
18. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
19. "Scraped"
20. "Prostitute"
21. "This I Love"
22. "Out ta Get Me"
23. "Don't Cry" (Original)
24. "Nightrain"

Encore:

25. "Madagascar"
26. "There Was a Time"
27. "My Generation"
28. "Better"
29. "Patience"
30. "Nice Boys"
31. "Paradise City"

November 19, 2011 – The Comcast Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut

Main set:

1. "Chinese Democracy"
2. "Welcome to the Jungle"
3. "It's So Easy"
4. "Mr. Brownstone"
5. "Sorry"
6. "Riff Raff"
7. "Estranged"
8. "Better"
9. "Rocket Queen"
10. "Live and Let Die"
11. "This I Love"
12. "Shackler's Revenge"
13. "My Generation"
14. "Street of Dreams"
15. "You Could Be Mine"
16. "Sweet Child o' Mine"
17. "November Rain"
18. "Don't Cry" (Original)
19. "Whole Lotta Rosie"
20. "Out ta Get Me"
21. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
22. "Nightrain"

Encore:

23. "Madagascar"
24. "Nice Boys"
25. "Patience"
26. "Paradise City"

Personnel

The only line-up change for this tour was that of guitarist DJ Ashba replacing the departed Robin Finck. Frank Ferrer remained as drummer, even with reports that Bryan "Brain" Mantia rehearsed with the band before the tour. There has been no official word on whether or not Brain has left the band, however Axl Rose mentioned him in the interview with Del James (2009) still working on things for the band, most likely in a studio capacity.

• Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano, whistle, whistling
• Dizzy Reed – keyboards, piano, percussion, backing vocals
• Tommy Stinson – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals
• DJ Ashba – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, snare drum
• Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Richard Fortus – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
• Chris Pitman – keyboards, samples, tambourine, backing vocals
• Frank Ferrer – drums, tambourine

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Notes
Asia
December 11, 2009	Taipei	Taiwan	Banqiao Stadium	18,000	*
December 13, 2009	Seoul	South Korea	Olympic Arena	6,000
December 16, 2009	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Dome	32,000
December 19, 2009	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome	30,000	**
North America #1
January 13, 2010	Winnipeg	Canada	MTS Centre	8,500
January 16, 2010	Calgary		Pengrowth Saddledome	9,000
January 17, 2010	Edmonton		Rexall Place	9,800
January 19, 2010	Saskatoon		Credit Union Centre	9,000
January 20, 2010	Regina		Brandt Centre	6,000
January 24, 2010	Hamilton		Copps Coliseum	6,500
January 25, 2010	London		John Labatt Centre	6,000
January 27, 2010	Montreal		Bell Centre	15,000
January 28, 2010	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	21,000	Sold Out
January 31, 2010	Ottawa		Scotiabank Place	8,000
February 1, 2010	Quebec City		Colisee Pepsi	6,500
February 3, 2010	Moncton		Moncton Coliseum	6,000±
February 4, 2010	Halifax		Metro Centre	10,000
February 11, 2010	New York City	United States	John Varvatos Store	100	Acoustic Show
February 14, 2010			Rose Bar	150	Acoustic Show
South America #1
March 7, 2010	Brasilia	Brazil	Ginásio Nilson Nelson	13,000	Sold Out
March 10, 2010	Belo Horizonte		Mineirinho	15,000
March 13, 2010	São Paulo		Estádio Palestra Itália	38,000	Sold Out
March 16, 2010	Porto Alegre		Estacionamento da Fiergs	17,000	Sold Out
March 18, 2010	Montevideo	Uruguay	Estadio Centenario	40,000
March 20, 2010	Santiago	Chile	Movistar Arena	15,000
March 22, 2010	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Estadio José Amalfitani	45,000	Sold Out
March 25, 2010	Lima	Peru	Estadio Monumental	45,000
March 27, 2010	Caracas	Venezuela	Poliedro de Caracas	15,000
March 30, 2010	Bogotá	Colombia	Parque Jaime Duque	20,000
April 1, 2010	Quito	Ecuador	Estadio Olímpico	38,000	Sold Out
April 4, 2010	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Praça da Apoteose	30,000	***
North America #2
April 7, 2010	Panama City	Panama	Figali Convention Center	15,000	Sold Out
April 9, 2010	San José	Costa Rica	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa		Rescheduled
April 11, 2010	San Salvador	El Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlán	25,000±
April 12, 2010	Guatemala City	Guatemala	Estadio del Ejército		Cancelled
April 13, 2010	San Jose	Costa Rica	Estadio Morera Soto		Cancelled
April 15, 2010	San Juan	Puerto Rico	Coliseo Roberto Clemente	15,000
Europe #1
May 31, 2010	Bergen	Norway	Vestlandshallen	6,500
June 2, 2010	Oslo		Oslo Spektrum	6,000
June 5, 2010	Helsinki	Finland	Käpylä Sportspark	15,000	Festival
June 6, 2010	St. Petersburg	Russia	Ice Palace	15,000
June 8, 2010	Moscow		Olympiysky Stadium	18,000
June 12, 2010	Sölvesborg	Sweden	Norje Havsbad	33,000	Festival
June 14, 2010	Aalborg	Denmark	Gigantium	8,000
Rock N' Rev Festival
August 13, 2010	Sturgis	United States	Monkey Rock USA	18,000	Festival
Europe #2
August 27, 2010	Reading	United Kingdom	Little John's Farm	88,000	Festival
August 29, 2010	Leeds		Bramham Park	70,000	Festival
August 31, 2010	Belfast		Odyssey Arena	14,000	Sold Out
September 1, 2010	Dublin	Ireland	The O2	14,000	Sold Out
September 4, 2010	Rome	Italy	Palalottomatica	13,000	Sold Out
September 5, 2010	Milan		Mediolanum Forum	12,000	Sold Out
September 8, 2010	Zurich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion	13,000	Sold Out
September 10, 2010	Amneville	France	Galaxie	12,000
September 13, 2010	Paris		Bercy	17,000	Sold Out
September 14, 2010			L'Arc Bar	300	Acoustic Show
September 16, 2010	Geneva	Switzerland	Geneva Arena	9,500	Sold Out
September 18, 2010	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle	15,000	Sold Out
September 21, 2010	Bucharest	Romania	Romexpo	30,000	Sold Out
September 23, 2010	Belgrade	Serbia	Belgrade Arena	14,000	Sold Out
September 24, 2010	Zagreb	Croatia	Arena Zagreb	15,000
September 27, 2010	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena	16,000	Sold Out
September 30, 2010	Antwerpen	Belgium	Sportpaleis	13,000
October 2, 2010	Lille	France	Zénith de Lille	7,000
October 3, 2010	Arnhem	Netherlands	GelreDome XS	12,000
October 6, 2010	Lisbon	Portugal	Pavilhão Atlântico	15,000
October 9, 2010	Madrid	Spain	Palacio de Vistalegre	10,000	Sold Out
October 10, 2010	San Sebastián		Velódromo de Anoeta	7,000
October 13, 2010	London	United Kingdom	The O2 Arena	23,000	Sold Out
October 14, 2010				20,000	Sold Out ****
October 17, 2010	Birmingham		LG Arena	12,000	Sold Out
October 18, 2010	Manchester		M.E.N. Arena	15,000	Sold Out
October 22, 2010	Zaragoza	Spain	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe	7,000
October 23, 2010	Barcelona		Palau Municipal	10,000	Sold Out
October 29, 2010	Moscow	Russia	Mosfilm Pavilion	50	Private Festival
Australia
December 1, 2010	Townsville	Australia	Reid Park	16,000
December 4, 2010	Sydney		ANZ Stadium	40,000	V8 Supercars
December 7, 2010	Adelaide		Entertainment Centre	8,000
December 11, 2010	Perth		Perth Motorplex	15,000
Yas Island Show
December 16, 2010	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	Yas Arena	21,000	Sold Out
South America #2
October 2, 2011	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Cidade do Rock	100,000	Festival *****
October 5, 2011	Santiago	Chile	Movistar Arena	15,000
October 8, 2011	La Plata	Argentina	Estadio de La Plata	50,000
October 10, 2011	Rosario		Salón Metropolitano	10,000	Sold Out
October 12, 2011	Córdoba		Orfeo Superdomo	10,000±
	La Paz	Bolivia	Estadio Rafael Castellón		Cancelled
October 15, 2011	Asunción	Paraguay	Hipódromo de Asunción	70,000
North America #3
October 18, 2011	Mexico City	Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes	20,000	Sold Out
October 19, 2011				15,000±
October 22, 2011	Guadalajara		Arena VFG	10,000
October 23, 2011	Monterrey		Monterrey Arena	8,000
October 28, 2011	Orlando	United States	Amway Center	5,240
October 29, 2011	Miami		American Airlines Arena	8,170
October 31, 2011	Greenville		BI-LO Center	6,000
November 2, 2011	Atlanta		Philips Arena	8,000
November 4, 2011	Houston		Toyota Center	Unknown
November 5, 2011	Dallas		Gexa Energy Pavilion	12,000
November 8, 2011	Omaha		Qwest Center Omaha	Unknown
November 9, 2011	Norman		Lloyd Noble Center	7,000
November 12, 2011	Kansas City		Sprint Center	7,000
November 13, 2011	Minneapolis		Target Center	8,000
November 15, 2011	Rosemont		Allstate Arena	9,000±
November 17, 2011	East Rutherford		Izod Center	14,000
November 19, 2011	Hartford		The Comcast Theatre	7,500	Sold Out
November 20, 2011	Wilkes-Barre		Mohegan Sun Arena	Unknown
November 23, 2011	Albany		Times Union Center		Cancelled
November 25, 2011	Worcester		DCU Center	5,097
November 26, 2011	Camden		Susquehanna Bank Center	6,500	Sold Out
November 28, 2011	Hamilton	Canada	Copps Coliseum	7,000
December 1, 2011	Auburn Hills	United States	The Palace of Auburn Hills	7,969
December 2, 2011	Cincinnati		U.S. Bank Arena
December 4, 2011	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena	5,769	******
December 5, 2011	Southaven		DeSoto Civic Center		Cancelled
December 7, 2011	Youngstown		Covelli Centre
December 8, 2011	Indianapolis		Conseco Fieldhouse		*******
December 11, 2011	Broomfield		1stBank Center
December 13, 2011	West Valley City		Maverik Center
December 16, 2011	Seattle		KeyArena
December 17, 2011	Vancouver	Canada	Pacific Coliseum
December 21, 2011	Inglewood	United States	The Forum
December 27, 2011	Phoenix		Comerica Theatre
December 30, 2011	Paradise		The Joint	3,000±
December 31, 2011				3,895	Sold Out

#		Source
*	First show since the release of Chinese Democracy.
**	Longest GN'R show ever - 3 hours, 37 minutes.
***	Rescheduled from March 14 due to stage collapsing in extreme weather.
****	Duff McKagan plays with Guns N' Roses for the first time since 1993. He plays bass on You Could Be Mine and guitar on Nice Boys, Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Patience.
*****	First performance of Estranged in 18 years.
******	First performance of Civil War since February 1993.
*******	Zakk Wylde joins the band for "Whole Lotta Rosie".

Supporting acts

• 2001 (Rock in Rio): Pato Fú, Carlinhos Brown, IRA! e Ultraje a Rigor, Papa Roach and Oasis
• 2002 (Europe): Weezer
• 2002 (North America): CKY and Mix Master Mike
• 2006 (Europe): Living Things, Sex Action, Funeral For A Friend, To My Surprise, The Darkness, Xutos e Pontapés, Pitty, Oddzial Zamkniety, Shakra, Amulet, 4Lyn, Sebastian Bach, Papa Roach, Bullet for My Valentine, Melrose, Shakerleg, Avenged Sevenfold and Towers of London
• 2006 (North America): Phantom Planet, Hoobastank, Sebastian Bach, Papa Roach, The Suicide Girls, Die Mannequin, Novadriver, Modern Day Zero and Helmet
• 2007 (Mexico): The Volture and Maligno
• 2007 (Oceania): Sebastian Bach and Rose Tattoo
• 2007 (Japan): Mucc
• 2009 (Taiwan): Matzka
• 2009 (Korea): GUMX
• 2009 (Japan): Mucc
• 2010 (Canada): Sebastian Bach and Danko Jones
• 2010 (Latin America): Sebastian Bach, Puya, Vivora, Angelus, Armand DJ, Océano, Los 33, Black Drawing Chalks, Rockvox, Viuda Negra, León Bruno, Electrocirkus, Pixel, Gaia, Space Bee, Massacre, La Mancha de Rolando, Killterry, Vendetta, ReyToro, Rosa Tattooada, Rock Rocket, Forgotten Boys, Khalice
• 2010 (Europe): Danko Jones, Murderdolls, Sebastian Bach, Imperial State Electric and Night Shift
• 2010 (Australia): Korn, Spiderbait, Shihad and The Delta Riggs
• 2010 (United Arab Emirates): Juliana Down
• 2011 (Rock in Rio): System of a Down, Evanescence, Detonautas and Pitty
• 2011 (Latin America): Dion, Utopians, La Mancha de Rolando, El bordo, Poc, The Volture and Agora
• 2011 (North America): Buckcherry, The Sword, Reverend Horton Heat, Hinder, Adelitas Way, Asking Alexandria, Sebastian Bach, Black Label Society, The Pretty Reckless, Loaded, Steel Panther and The Crystal Method

Songs played

Guns N' Roses relied on an Appetite for Destruction heavy set list whilst adding new songs from the upcoming album Chinese Democracy, such as "Street of Dreams (The Blues)", "Madagascar" and the title track. In 2006, with regard to the leaks, Rose commented, "This is for all you downloading fuckers" and added "Better" and "I.R.S." (more often than not played) and "There Was a Time" (less often) to the set list.

In 2007, the Bumblefoot solos were completely altered, with his variation on "Don't Cry" being made into the full and original song, thus speculation abounds as to whether the set list would contain more Use Your Illusion–era material, as this was a significant record. Two more songs from these records were added to the set list in 2011 when they started playing "Estranged" and "Civil War" regularly.

• Songs played since 2001: "Welcome to the Jungle", "It's So Easy, "Nightrain", "Out ta Get Me", "Mr. Brownstone", "Paradise City", "My Michelle", "Think About You", "Sweet Child o' Mine", "Rocket Queen" (from Appetite for Destruction); "Patience" (from G N' R Lies); "Live and Let Die", "November Rain" (from Use Your Illusion I); "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", "You Could Be Mine" (from Use Your Illusion II); "Oh My God" (from End of Days soundtrack); "Chinese Democracy", "Madagascar", "Street of Dreams (The Blues)", "Riad N' The Bedouins" (from Chinese Democracy); "Silkworms" (new song that did not appear on Chinese Democracy)
• Songs added in 2006: "Better", "I.R.S.", "There Was a Time" both versions of "You're Crazy", "Down on the Farm", and "Used to Love Her".
• Songs added in 2007: "Nice Boys" and "Don't Cry".
• Songs added in 2009: "This I Love", "Shackler's Revenge", "Sorry", "Scraped", "Catcher in the Rye", "Prostitute" and "If the World".
• Songs added in 2011: "Estranged" and "Civil War" (Played both for the first time since 1993)

Songs played between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2011.

Album	Song	Times
Appetite for Destruction (1987)	"Welcome to the Jungle"	235
Appetite for Destruction	"It's So Easy"	232
Appetite for Destruction	"Nightrain"	229
Appetite for Destruction	"Out Ta Get Me"	136
Appetite for Destruction	"Mr. Brownstone"	234
Appetite for Destruction	"Paradise City"	233
Appetite for Destruction	"My Michelle"	110
Appetite for Destruction	"Think About You"	49
Appetite for Destruction	"Sweet Child o' Mine"	235
Appetite for Destruction	"You're Crazy"	2
Appetite for Destruction	"Rocket Queen"	162
G N' R Lies (1988)	"Nice Boys"	13
G N' R Lies	"Patience"	185
G N' R Lies	"Used to Love Her"	37
G N' R Lies	"You're Crazy"	5
Use Your Illusion I (1991)	"Live and Let Die"	229
Use Your Illusion I	"Don't Cry"	68
Use Your Illusion I	"November Rain"	230
Use Your Illusion II (1991)	"Civil War"	10
Use Your Illusion II	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"	235
Use Your Illusion II	"Estranged"	39
Use Your Illusion II	"You Could Be Mine"	231
"The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993)	"Down on the Farm"	10
Chinese Democracy (2008)	"Chinese Democracy"	181
Chinese Democracy	"Shackler's Revenge"	63
Chinese Democracy	"Better"	187
Chinese Democracy	"Street of Dreams"	231
Chinese Democracy	"If the World"	27
Chinese Democracy	"There Was a Time"	6
Chinese Democracy	"Catcher in The Rye"	8
Chinese Democracy	"Scraped"	12
Chinese Democracy	"Riad N' the Bedouins"	6
Chinese Democracy	"Sorry"	111
Chinese Democracy	"I.R.S."	96
Chinese Democracy	"Madagascar"	186
Chinese Democracy	"This I Love"	100
Chinese Democracy	"Prostitute"	2
End of Days Soundtrack	"Oh My God"	5
Unreleased	"Silkworms"	4

Other songs:

- Angie (The Rolling Stones cover) Instrumental

- Another Brick In The Wall: Part II (Pink Floyd cover)

- Baba O'Riley (The Who cover) Instrumental

- Back In Black (AC/DC cover) Instrumental

- Back in the U.S.S.R. (The Beatles cover)

- Beautiful (Christina Aguilera cover) Instrumental

- Big Sur Moon (Buckethead song) Instrumental

- Black Betty (Iron Head cover)

- Chip Away The Stone (Aerosmith cover)

- Closer To The Heart (Rush cover)

- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey (Sly & the Family Stone cover) Instrumental

- Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House cover) Instrumental

- Don't You Ever Leave Me (Hanoi Rocks cover) Instrumental

- Endless Rain (X Japan cover) Instrumental

- Eruption (Van Halen cover) Instrumental

- Finlandia (Jean Sibelius cover) Instrumental

- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John cover) Instrumental

- Gran Torino Theme (Clint Eastwood cover) Instrumental

- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland cover) Instrumental

- I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown cover)

- I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 cover) Instrumental

- In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg cover, only snippet) Instrumental

- James Bond Theme (Richard Fortus version) Instrumental

- Light My Fire (The Doors cover)

- Like a Hurricane (Neil Young cover) Instrumental

- Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix cover) Instrumental

- Liquor & Whores (Featuring Mike "Bubbles" Smith)

- Mean Street (Van Halen cover) Instrumental

- Mi Amor (DJ Ashba song) Instrumental

- Motivation (Tommy Stinson cover)

- My Generation (The Who cover)

- Never Tear Us Apart (INXS cover) Instrumental

- People Get Ready (The Impressions cover) Instrumental

- Por Una Cabeza (Carlos Gardel cover)

- Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix cover, only snippet) Instrumental

- Redemption Song (Bob Marley cover) Instrumental

- Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell cover)

- Riff Raff (AC/DC cover)

- Rockaria! (Electric Light Orchestra cover)

- Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon cover) Instrumental

- Run To The Hills (Iron Maiden cover, only snippet) Instrumental

- Sailing (Rod Stewart cover)

- Silver, Blue And Gold (Bad Company cover) Instrumental

- Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John cover) Instrumental

- Sonic Reducer (The Dead Boys cover)

- SOS (ABBA cover) Instrumental

- Sossego (Tim Maia cover)

- Star Wars Theme (Buckethead version) Instrumental

- Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 cover) Instrumental

- Sway (The Rolling Stones cover)

- Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver cover) Instrumental

- Take On Me (a-ha cover) Instrumental

- The Ballad Of Death (DJ Ashba song) Instrumental

- The Pink Panther Theme (Henry Mancini cover) Instrumental

- Waiting On A Friend (The Rolling Stones cover) Instrumental

- Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed cover)

- We Want The Funk (George Clinton cover) Instrumental

- When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Buckethead version) Instrumental

- Whole Lotta Rosie (AC/DC cover, B-side of Welcome To The Jungle single)

- Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) (Buckethead version) Instrumental

- You Gotta Move (The Rolling Stones cover) Instrumental

- You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Thurl Ravenscroft cover)

- Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie cover) Instrumental