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Guns N' Roses back in Europe - summer 2012

blueheart — 2012-02-02T13:45:00Z

Guns N' Roses European tour dates 2012

Thursday, 17 May 2012, Dublin, The O2, Ireland

Monday, 04 June 2012, Rotterdam, Ahoy, The Netherlands

Tuesday, 05 June 2012, Paris, POPB / Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, France

Friday, 08 June 2012, Mönchengladbach, Warsteiner Hockeypark, Germany

Sunday, 10 June 2012, Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, France

Monday, 11 June 2012, Strasbourg, Zénith Europe, France

Thursday, 14 June 2012, Toulouse, Zénith, France

Saturday, 16 June 2012, Clisson, Hellfest Festival, France

Monday, 18 June 2012, Montpellier, Park&Suites Arena, France

Tuesday, 19 June 2012, Toulon, Zénith Omega, France

Friday, 22 June 2012, Milan, Arena Fiera Milano, Italy

Sunday, 24 June 2012, Dessel, Graspop Metal Festival, Belgium

Friday, 29 June 2012, Unterpremstätten, Graz. Schwarzlsee, Austria

Sunday, 8 July 2012, Sofia, Sofia's Balgarska Armiya stadium, Sofia Rocks, Bulgaria

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GUNS N' ROSES PLAN NEW YORK TAKEOVER

blueheart — 2012-01-30T13:41:00Z

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 30, 2012) – Seminal rock icons, Guns N' Roses, are set to invade New York during fashion week with a series of intimate shows then continue with additional stops through the northeast, announced today.

Six shows confirmed so far including the historic return to The Ritz (now Webster Hall), 24 years after the filming of their heralded “Live At The Ritz” – the MTV concert continues to be one of the most sought after trades in bootleg circles. For the Webster Hall date, GN'R will celebrate their return by reclaiming the venue as The Ritz with signage and the name appearing on the marquee. The New York takeover in February marks the first time the band will appear at Roseland and Terminal 5, beginning on February 10, 2012. Full list of dates below.

Ticket presale on Tuesday, January 31 at 10:00am ET for the NY run, public on-sale is Wednesday, February 1. Chicago, Silver Spring and Atlantic City presale is Wednesday, February 1 at 10:00am EST, with public on-sale Friday, February 3. Tickets and VIP packages for all six dates will be available at gunsnroses.com.

Guns N' Roses have just come off their sold-out global 2011 arena tour, with more than 30 shows in the US, visits to Latin America and multiple festivals, having played to millions of fans around the globe.

Celebrated worldwide as one of the most important rock acts in musical history, Guns N' Roses are Axl Rose, DJ Ashba (guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboards), Tommy Stinson (bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (guitar), Chris Pitman (keyboards) and Frank Ferrer (drums). Founder Axl Rose started Guns N' Roses over 25 years ago and since that time, they have become one of the biggest bands in music history, selling more than 100 million albums worldwide. GN'R's major-label debut, “Appetite For Destruction,” has sold over 28 million albums in the United States alone. The ground-breaking album changed the course of music with such classic hits as “Welcome The Jungle,” “Paradise City,” and the chart-topping single, “Sweet Child of Mine.” The band's third studio release, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, was the first double album release in history to nab both the top spots on the Billboard chart and went on to remain on the charts for more than 108 weeks while the band spent more than 2 years on the road to support. The ‘Illusion' releases found the band charting new territory in the video arena with the theatrical trilogy, “November Rain,” “Don't Cry” and “Estranged.” The band's most recent release, Chinese Democracy (Black Frog/Geffen Records), released in November 2008 and debuted #1 on the charts in thirteen countries, going platinum in 15 countries! February 2012 - UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

10: New York, NY (Roseland Ballroom)

12 New York, NY (Terminal 5)

15 New York, NY (The Ritz n.k.a Webster Hall))

19 Chicago, Il. (House of Blues)

23 Silver Springs, Md. (The Fillmore)

24 Atlantic City, N.J. (House of Blues)

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Guns N Roses named Tour of the Year 2011 winner

blueheart — 2012-01-03T13:26:00Z

Guns N' Roses have been named the 2011 Tour of the Year winner in the first annual Ultimate Classic Rock Awards. Axl Rose and company beat out Rush and Motley Crue in one of the most highly contested of our ten categories

Almost one-third (32%, specifically) of the voters chose GNR's three-hour marathon concerts over Motley Crue's drum rollercoaster-filled smmer trek (24%) and Rush's ‘Time Machine' tour (22%), with Journey, Alice Cooper and Kiss rounding out the field.

We were lucky enough to catch a show on Guns N' Roses tour a few weeks back, and if we haven't taken the time to file a report about how awesome it was yet, well, there's two good reasons. It's partially because the holiday rush overtook us but mostly because, to paraphrase Cartman, the show “warped our fragile little minds.”

Rose, Dizzy Reed and the rest of the Gunners treated the crowd to an energetic (and nearly exhaustive) tour through the band's entire history, hitting all the “gotta be there” moments while still keeping things lively and not canned. ‘Chinese Democracy' songs like ‘Sorry' proved they belong in the band's impressive canon, and GNR proved they still have great taste in covers by busting out some old AC/DC tunes.

All told, over 230,000 people voted in the 2011 Ultimate Classic Rock Awards.

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Los Angeles Times - interview with Axl Rose

blueheart — 2011-12-27T13:22:00Z

On a recent Saturday morning in Seattle, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose sat down for a long, freewheeling interview after his band's three-hour concert the night before at Key Arena. A sharp, well-spoken Rose tackled many topics, among them what happened to L.A. radio?

What are your listening habits these days?

I like radio, and the vibe of whatever — I like finding some obscure station on the radio dial playing Eric Carmen at 3 a.m., you know? I like that rather than necessarily putting an album on. But the radio died in L.A. Just died. To me, corporate radio killed radio and you hear the same . . . "Carry on My Wayward Son" might be a great song, but there are other songs on that album, and there are other songs on Queen albums.

Have you heard anything recently that surprised you?

There was a station dumping their easy-listeners, and it was the best two weeks of music in L.A. I ever heard. It'd go from Queen's "Dead on Time" to "Fingerprint File" by the Stones, to "Rockaria" by ELO, to "The Theme from 'S.W.A.T.' " Just crazy, fun music. I turned to my friends and everybody was like, "Yes!" I called the station and said, "I will do anything to help promote your station." And they go, "It's not a real station. We're just dumping listeners." I said, "But this is it! This is amazing!"

Pet peeves now?

It kills me when someone will call KLOS from Builder's Emporium on their lunch break going, "Play Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung.' " It's like, why even request it? They're going to play it anyway. And they're going to play ZZ Top's "Legs." And why does everything have to sound old? The only time I hear fresh sounds is in movies. Like "Drive." There are great songs in that — all kinds of stuff in movies where I'm like, "I've never heard this song, and I didn't even know it existed." I really miss that.

www.latimes.com

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Los Angeles Times - interview with Axl Rose

blueheart — 2011-12-22T13:19:00Z

Early Saturday morning in Seattle, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose sat down for a long, freewheeling interview after his band's three-hour concert Friday night at Key Arena. You can read a story about the exchange here, but left on the cutting-room floor was an hour-and-a-half of fascinating conversation in which a sharp, well-spoken Rose tackled many topics that fans have been discussing for years.

Over the course of the interview, which took place from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. in his dimly lit dressing room, Rose talked about the past, present, and future without pulling any punches. (So much so that we edited out some of the more potentially libelous business-industry accusations Rose leveled.)

Pop & Hiss will have a few more excerpts of the conversation in the days to come. Check back.

Los Angeles Times: Can you talk about the L.A. show at the Forum on Wednesday night?

Axl Rose: Well, LA will be interesting. I'm looking forward to it. We had a great time in '06. We did three nights at the Gibson. But this year was very weird because the industry was trying to force us into a smaller show — just one, and then make it two. But the real thing about it is that the sound's not that good at the Palladium — and why are we going down, when we can draw more? So we're doing the Forum, but it really wasn't done right. We had to fight for that. [Rose goes into a long tirade about specific industry executives.]

This whole tour is part of — it's not like there's a lot of money going to Live Nation or anything, but it's part of how we worked out the settlement [with former manager and Live Nation exec Irving Azoff]. And I could have gone on to court, but that was going to block other things, so Live Nation's not getting paid, we're not getting paid, but we're putting it out of the way, so we did this tour. Then we get on the tour and find out that everything that was supposed to be done wasn't done, and managers and agents are selling a show that was supposed to go on at 8 o'clock. They knew I was never going to do that.

And this lack of promotion is one reason I'm here? [Laughter]

Yeah, well, the show's already what it is, so it's not really about that. The show's already basically sold, so ...

And you were talking about adding a second show?

Well, we were talking about it, but I got different numbers at different times from different people, and some of those came from our latest former manager, and they were ..., so we basically decided that we're going to wait until later to do it right and deal with L.A., because I want to deal with L.A. There's places I want to play. I want to play some of the clubs, some of the nightclubs, different places for fun, and I want to play different venues like we've done in New York.

And I know we can do it in L.A., but what happens is people are really good at saying what you want to hear. So you go, yes, yes, yes, yes, and then they do something completely different. "That's awesome. That's a great idea!" And then they do everything they can to block it and make sure it doesn't happen. That really happens. To me, they can't ... do anything and they don't want to do anything unless they feel that they're getting away with a scam. They can't feel they're doing something that's legitimate, and feel that kind of pride, they have to feel like, I got it, I ... them over, da da da. And that's their victory.

All these managers, they know one thing. They know that they can at least ... sell a reunion tour and get their commission. It's just a phone call. It's a half a day's ... work, or however long they want to keep the bidding war going. They get their commission and they don't care if it falls on its face.

Because, really, you can get guys from the "Illusion" thing, but the only thing that would make it would be Duff and Slash, really. It's nothing against Izzy and it's nothing against Steven, or anything like that. Steven may want it, but these guys I'm working with right now, they work really hard and it's hard work. I've toured with the other guys and I've also seen what they've done since, and I just know the difficulties.

I don't have an excitement to work with people that joined in the "Illusion" time. There's behind the scenes that was really, really difficult there with different ones. So it's not really even a full reunion. And these guys have been here a long time, whether the public knows it or not because we haven't done the media like that. Tommy's been on 14 years, Richard's going on 11. That's as long as Duff was in the band. Chris has been in going on 11, Dizzy's on since "Illusion," Frank's going on six, and so's Bumble. These guys have been here. And DJ's going on three.

Plus, we can have our differences, and everybody in the band can be like, ‘I don't understand that guy' and point at one of us, you know? But at the same time, we get along. I don't have to tell these guys what to do onstage. I can suggest something at times, but that's very little.

But it's also that you're clearly the boss in this band — it's your band. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that wouldn't necessarily be the case with the original lineup.

With live, it's not really any different, because there was never really a fight about leading it live, because for whatever reason they were fine with whatever song I was going to do next, singing.

Congrats on the rock hall of fame.

Yeah, that's a trip.

It's a trip that it's 25 years.

Yeah, it's a trip that it's 25 years, that I'm here and alive.

Congratulations on that too. Can you talk about how you found out?

[Rolling Stone co-founder publisher and rock hall co-founder] Jann Wenner was excited about it 11 years ago. So I was pretty sure he wanted it, because he was very excited in — when did I do the Elton John thing, was that '93 or '94? He was excited then. And he's always been a fan, and at the same time Rolling Stone has done some of the worst damage ever.

I've got mixed emotions about what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame actually really is, but at the same time, there's a lot of people — the fans — that it just means something to them, and they're happy. It's like you won the Heisman or something. I have people of all ages — in Indiana, I hadn't been there in 18 years, and you've got elderly TSA guys, a hundred pounds overweight, come up and they're happy. So I don't want to take that away from them.

I think about it in terms of ... when Michael Moore got up at the Academy Awards and said whatever about George Bush. People don't want that associated with their awards shows, even if you have a big audience. In one way it might be right, but it usually backfires on whoever does it. So I really don't want to spoil it for everybody else — and take the beating. [Laughs]

It is kind of a mixed blessing.

It's a lot of people making money. Why do they get to decide? But it's the same with Grammys or Academy Awards, who wins.

www.latimes.com

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Los Angeles Times - interview with Axl Rose

blueheart — 2011-12-21T13:17:00Z

Reporting from Seattle— Axl Rose is wearing a white cotton bathrobe and white tube socks, relaxing on a couch backstage Friday night after a three-hour concert at Seattle's Key Arena, where he'd snaked his way through 34 songs with a version of the band he co-founded a quarter-century ago, Guns N' Roses. It's 3 a.m., and the singer, the sole remaining original member, has shed the bad-ass sunglasses and flat-brimmed Stetson-style hat he wore onstage, pulled off the snakeskin boots and changed out of his faded bell bottoms.

It's been a whirlwind year for the notoriously unpredictable and polarizing Rose. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently announced Guns N' Roses' induction, 25 years after he and former core members Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler set the Sunset Strip, and then the world, on fire. The announcement prompted speculation that at the April 14 rock hall ceremony in Cleveland, the original "Appetite for Destruction" lineup — a historically acrimonious lot with the opinionated Rose at the center — might perform together for the first time in two decades.

But this positive ray comes amid a stormy 2011 that has seen Rose, 49, fire two managers in the last year, the most recent of which, Peter Katsis, was let go in early December. Since the dissolution of that first lineup, the iconic singer has released just one album, "Chinese Democracy," which he spent 13 years and millions of dollars making. And his current tour is part of a settlement agreement with former GNR manager (and Live Nation Entertainment executive chairman) Irving Azoff that dictated the band do a number of performances with Live Nation as the promoter, and Rose is worried that it's not being properly marketed. He and Guns N' Roses bring this tour to the Forum on Wednesday night.

It's the kind of negative energy that can sap a person's creativity, says Rose, sipping on a beer, his auburn hair hanging over his shoulders pretty much the same way it did in the old days, a horseshoe-shaped red mustache complementing it. "Once I get the next things sorted out with the label, then I feel I can get to that creative place that I've been fighting to get to, and to use Guns N' Roses to do so," he says.

The problem is that while he believes that he and his GNR — some of whom, like bassist Tommy Stinson and guitarist Richard Fortus, have been with him for more than a decade — is hitting on all cylinders now, potential business partners are looking at other factors. "Every manager comes in and wants me to make things smaller," says Rose. Guns N' Roses, for example, requires twice as many tour trucks as the budget calls for, he says. Why no one else can understand the band's needs is an obvious frustration for Rose.

More important, he adds, most managers want the same thing that nearly every rock 'n' roll fan of the past quarter-century wants, and the one thing he stubbornly refuses to do: reunite with Slash, Izzy, Duff and the rest of the classic GNR group for a tour. The constant question is an albatross and leaves Rose not only tired but wary of anyone in the business looking to work with him. "All these managers, they all believe in one thing: sell a reunion tour and get their commission. It's just a phone call. It's a half a day's … work, or however long they want to keep the bidding war going. They get their commission and they don't care if it falls on its face."

This mistrust is partially the reason why Rose's current management team is more family than business partner. It's headed by Beta Lebeis, a Brazilian woman Rose met when she was his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour's assistant; she began working for him after his tempestuous relationship with Seymour ended in 1993. Lebeis' two adult children, Fernando and Vanessa, round out the management group. Lebeis says that this arrangement is the result of an ultimatum she gave Rose after Guns N' Roses' most recent manager, Katsis, left the fold after less than a month on the job.

"We decided, 'No more managers,'" said Lebeis a few days after the Seattle concert. "Between me and Fernando and my daughter, we're dealing with the management." Lebeis added that she characterizes Rose as "more than a son to me," and that after Katsis' departure, "I told [Rose] if he hires another manager, I quit." One of the Lebeis three is almost always at Rose's side, be it in paparazzi photos or side stage during concerts, near the little makeshift dressing room that Rose frequently races into during guitar solos, or on that rare occasion when he actually sits down with a journalist.

As the clock pushes toward 4 a.m., Rose's tone has shifted. He still has to do his regular hour-long vocal exercises before retiring for the night, and the venom of earlier in the evening he'd directed against various players in the music industry seems to have left his system.

Asked if music was still the driving factor in his life that it once was, Rose pauses. "Well, it wasn't for a long time. It was hard to make myself want to do the old songs again. It was like, I wasn't going around my house dancing to 'Jungle.' To even figure out how to even make myself move to those songs — and how I was going to move to them — that was a big thing to figure out in '06."

Based on the show earlier in the night, he's figured it out. Rose is proud of the big rock concert he and his band have created. Over the three hours, Rose (though a few pounds heavier than the lithe young rock star of "Appetite" days), moved quickly and deftly, sprinting from stage left to stage right, yowling with delight during "Shackler's Revenge" and "Sweet Child O' Mine," sitting at the piano for "November Rain." He offered classic cover versions of songs by AC/DC, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, and a solo piano rendition of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." And at points, he turned the stage over to his band members for solos and extended riffs. If his voice carried less grace and more heft at 49 than when he was gliding through the intro to "Civil War" two decades ago, he made up for it with sheer determination.

The enthusiasm he feels for this band is evident on his face, which lights up when talking about working with former Replacements bassist Stinson, guitarists Fortus, DJ Ashba, and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and the rest of the '11 Roses.

It's a far contrast to his demeanor when Slash's name comes up. Despite requests from Rose's publicist that he not be asked questions about the former GNR guitarist, Rose himself mentions his ex-bandmate's name minutes into the conversation and locks onto the subject.

Slash was a late arrival into the Guns N' Roses fold, Rose loves reminding people, and apart from a few key riffs, says Rose, the guitarist was much less involved in the songs than Rose and Stradlin.

"It was really a fight with me and Slash," says Rose of the forces that took down the band. "Izzy was doing the same thing, but the fight with me and Slash started the day I met him. He came in, popped my tape out and put his in and wanted me in his band. And I didn't want to join his band. We've had that war since Day 1."

When he's asked the inevitable question — who will perform onstage as Guns N' Roses at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony? — Rose is circumspect. These kinds of honors, while special to him, are also complicated. "I've got mixed emotions about what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame actually really is, but at the same time, there's a lot of people — the fans — that it just means something to them, and they're happy. It's like you won the Heisman or something."

The last thing Rose wants to do, he stresses, is ruin it for others. He refers to Marlon Brando sending an American Indian activist to accept his Oscar and give a protest speech "and everybody getting … off, or when Michael Moore got up at the Academy Awards and said whatever about George Bush. People don't want that associated with their awards shows, even if you have a big audience. In one way it might be right, but it usually backfires on whoever does it. So I really don't want to spoil it for everybody else — or take the beating."

Then he said curtly of the induction performance: "There is no plan yet. There really is no plan. We're still busy with this lineup. We're gonna be busy — we're gonna be busy all next year. We'll be putting out new stuff as soon as we can figure out what our deal is with labels, blah blah blah."

As to whether he feels that he bears any responsibility for the state of limbo he's in, Rose says: "You can say it's my fault, but to me it's like if you're on a plane and somebody trips you and the air marshal arrests you for falling — like it's my fault for allowing somebody to trip me?"

www.latimes.com

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Guns N' Roses to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012

blueheart — 2011-12-07T13:08:00Z

Cleveland (December 7, 2011) - Today, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its inductees for 2012. The inductees are:

Performer Category:

Beastie Boys Donovan Guns N' Roses Laura Nyro Red Hot Chili Peppers The Small Faces/The Faces

Early Influence:

Freddie King

Ahmet Ertegun (nonperformer) Award:

Don Kirshner

The Award for Musical Excellence:

Cosimo Matassa Tom Dowd Glyn Johns

The 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place on Saturday, April 14, 2012 in Cleveland and premiere on HBO in early May. The 2012 ceremony will again be open to the public, as it was – for the first time in the event's history – at the 2009 Inductions in Cleveland.

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Statement from GNR about Rock in Rio

blueheart — 2011-10-12T12:04:00Z

The GUNS N' ROSES publishist has released the following official statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding the reports that the band was two hours late in taking the stage at this year's Rock In Rio festival on October 2 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil:

"GUNS N' ROSES would like to set the record straight on Rock In Rio. The festival's inadequate production and the downpour of rain delayed the event. Anyone who was there knows that SYSTEM OF A DOWN did not leave the stage until close to 1:15 in the morning. SYSTEM's extensive stage production did not finish coming offstage until 1:45 a.m. GN'R's production was up and ready to go at 2:15 a.m. Axl [Rose, GUNS N' ROSES lead singer] got to the venue before 1 a.m. and he came ready to go onstage. The inadequate cover of the Rock In Rio stage caused a further delay when the soundboard went down due to water damage and was replaced as quick as possible. GN'R walked onstage at 2:40 a.m. and played for two-and-a-half hours in the pouring rain. GN'R would never seek to intentionally disrespect anyone, especially their fans."

Guns N' Roses announce first US tour in over five years!

blueheart — 2011-09-22T03:08:17Z

GUNS N' ROSES ANNOUNCE FIRST U.S. TOUR IN OVER 5 YEARS! TWO AND A HALF HOUR SHOW TO FEATURE ALL THEIR HITS

LOS ANGELES, CA (September 21, 2011) - Guns N' Roses have announced today they'll be doing their first US tour in 5 years, kicking off October 28th in Orlando, Florida. The band will perform more than 30 concerts in the U.S. – fueled by Monster Energy - from October to New Year's Eve. Before hitting the states, GNR will tour Latin America, starting with a sold out, headline slot for the closing day of the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 2nd , for 75,000 fans. Guns N' Roses are Axl Rose, DJ Ashba (guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboards), Tommy Stinson (bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (guitar), Chris Pitman (keyboards) and Frank Ferrer (drums). GNR spent most of 2010 touring the globe, performing 71 shows in over 30 countries.

The two and a half hour show played to rave reviews everywhere including South America, Canada, Europe and Southeast Asia, playing close to one million fans worldwide.

Axl Rose started Guns N' Roses over 25 years ago. Since that time, they have become one of the biggest bands in music history, selling over 100 million albums worldwide. GNR's “Appetite For Destruction” has sold over 28 million albums in the United States alone. The band's most recent release, Chinese Democracy debuted #1 on the charts in thirteen countries. Chinese Democracy was released on Black Frog/Geffen Records in November 2008 and reached 3 times Platinum in Canada, Platinum in Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, UK, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. The album is Gold in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Brazil and Colombia. In the U.S., the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 3, 2009.

The tour is scheduled to hit the following cities:

October 28: Amway Center, Orlando, FLORIDA

October 29: American Airlines Arena, Miami, FLORIDA

October 31: Bi Lo Centre, Greenville, SOUTH CAROLINA

November 2: Philips Arena, Atlanta, GEORGIA

November 4: Toyota Center, Houston, TEXAS

November 5: Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, TEXAS

November 8: Qwest Center, Omaha, NEBRASKA

November 9: Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, OLKLAHOMA

November 12: Sprint Center, Kansas City, MISSOURI

November 13: Target Center, Minneapolis MINNESOTA

November 15: Allstate Arena, Chicago, ILLINOIS

November 17: IZOD Center, E.Rutherford, NEW JERSEY

November 19: Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CONNECTICUT

November 20: Mohegan Sun Arena, Wilkes Barre, PENNSYLVANIA

November 23: Times Union Center, Albany, NEW YORK

November 25: DCU Center, Worcester, MASSACHUSETTS

November 26: Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden NEW JERSEY

November 28: Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, CANADA

December 01: The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MICHIGAN

December 02: U.S. Bank Arena Cincinnati, OHIO

December 04: Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TENNESSEE

December 05: DeSoto Civic Center, Southaven, MISSISSIPPI

December 07: Covelli Centre Youngstown, OHIO

December 08: Conseco Field House, Indianapolis,INDIANAPOLIS

December 11: 1STBANK Center, Denver, COLORADO

December 13: Maverik Center, Salt Lake City, UTAH

December 16: Key Arena, Seattle, WASHINGTON

December 17: Pacific Coliseum Vancouver, BC, CANADA

December 21: The Forum, Inglewood, CALIFORNIA

December 27: Comerica Theatre, Phoenix, ARIZONA

December 30: The Joint at Hard Rock, Las Vegas, NEVADA

December 31: The Joint at Hard Rock, Las Vegas, NEVADA

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Gun N' Roses to play in Miami, FL - October 29

blueheart — 2011-08-27T13:08:00Z

BIG 105.9 FM - Miami's Classic Rock Station Live Licks Weekend Contest:

Listen all weekend for LIVE CUTS from Guns N' Roses, then log in below and tell us the time and day that you heard the song. If you are correct, you'll win tickets to see Guns N' Roses LIVE!!!

Guns N' Roses concert is Saturday, October 29th at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Tickets on sale Friday, September 9th at 10am at the box office, all ticketmaster locations, online at ticketmaster.com or charge by phone 800.745.3000.

source: www.big1059.com

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