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INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2006/2007 CHINESE DEMOCRACY WORLD TOUR.

Guns N' Roses played 74 shows in 2006 and 24 shows in 2007.

There was 6 shows cancelled in 2006 and a further 8 had to be rescheduled. In 2007 only 2 shows were cancelled, while 5 were rescheduled.

Izzy Stradlin appeared at 17 shows in 2006 but none in 2007. He normaly played Patience, Think About You, Nightrain, Used To Love Her and Paradise City with the band, but joined them for a few others.

In total they played live to over 1.5 million people (Approx total of information available. Not every show has details of attendance) in 27 countries.

1st Leg:

12 May 2006 - 18 May 2006

Warm up shows in New York, 5 Shows

Attendance (Approx) 15,700 people

2nd Leg:

25th May 2006 - 30th July 2006

Europe, 35 Shows

Attendance (Approx) 700,000

3rd Leg:

16th September 2006 - 16th Janurary 2007

North America, 38 Shows

Attendance (Not alot of information is available for this Leg) 62,808

4th Leg:

14th April 2007 - 22nd July 2007

World Tour, 20 Shows

Attendance (Not alot of information is available for this Leg) 76,827


The opening acts for the tour were:
Avenged Sevenfold - 6 shows
Bullet for My Valentine - 19 shows
Helmet - 5 shows
Melrose - 2 shows
Papa Roach - 2 shows
Sebastian Bach - 30 shows
Shakerleg - 4 shows
The Suicide Girls - 9 shows
Towers of London - 2 shows

The Eagles of Death Metal also opened for Guns, but were not received well by the fans. You can read the press release regarding that incident here.

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The Band Lineup during these shows was as follows:

Axl Rose - Vocals
Robin Finck - Lead Guitar
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal - Lead Guitar
Richard Fortus - Rhythm Guitar
Thomas Stinson - Bass Guitar
Brian "Brain" Mantia - Drums (upto July 2006)
Dizzy Reed - Keyboards
Chris Pitman - Keyboards
Frank Ferrer - Drums (July 2006 - July 2007)

They were also joined onstage by:
Izzy Stradlin
Sebastian Bach - Mainly to sing backup vocals on My Michelle though occasionaly for Nightrain.
Lars Ulrich (Metallica) - Played drums for Out Ta Get Me on 15 December 2006

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Guns N' Roses played all the usual songs at their shows but also included some new songs from Chinese Democracy that wasn't played in 2001/2002 (Full list of what was played live can be found Here).
They were:
Better
I.R.S
There Was A Time (Preformed twice and at a soundcheck once)

They also preformed:
Don't Cry (2006 - Instrumental in Bumblefoot's solo, 2007 - With vocals)
Rocket Queen
Nice Boys

The average setlist for this tour looked something like this:

set: Welcome To The Jungle, It's So Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Live And Let Die, Madagascar, Guitar Solo [Robin], Sweet Child O' Mine, Blues Jam, Piano Solo [Dizzy], The Blues, Guitar Solo [Richard], Beautiful [Robin & Richard guitar duet], You Could Be Mine, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Better, Jam, November Rain, Guitar Solo [Bumblefoot], Out Ta Get Me, Happy Birthday Dizzy, My Michelle [w/ Sebastian Bach], Think About You [w/ Izzy], Used To Love Her [w/ Izzy], I.R.S., Patience [w/ Izzy], Guitar Solo [Bumblefoot], Nightrain
encore: Rocket Queen, Paradise City

Links:
GNRontour - GNRSource - Wikipedia - HTGTH