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GUNS N' ROSES ANNOUNCE "CHINESE DEMOCRACY" NORTH AMERICAN TOUR AND STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ADVANCED MEDIA

Hot on the heels of their sell out shows last week in Las Vegas, San Francisco and KROQ's Inland Invasion in Los Angeles Guns N' Roses announce the first leg of their "Chinese Democracy" North American Tour.

The tour which will kick off on the 20th of October in Jacksonville, Florida finds the band in top form having spent the summer in Europe playing to 700,000 plus people over 32 shows in 18 countries, making it one of the biggest tours of the year on the continent and in the UK. Concert goers were not let down as Axl Rose and his band mates Dizzy Reed, Robin Finck, Richard Fortus, Tommy Stinson, Chris Pitman, Brain and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal burned through classics such as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," "Nightrain," "Mr. Brownstone," "November Rain" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" as well as highlighting soon to be favourites from the forthcoming "Chinese Democracy" album.

Just this week, the Hollywood Reporter's concert review of KROQ's Inland Invasion observed, "when headliner Guns N' Roses took the stage everything old became new again - and everything new on the bill, just couldn't hold a candle in comparison... the night belonged to Guns N' Roses!"

Axl Rose commented, "We had an amazing tour in Europe this summer and last week’s shows here in the US were great. It's been a long time getting here but we look forward to coming to your town and having a lot of fun."

Sebastian Bach who has been guesting with Guns N' Roses on "My Michelle" will open the entire tour with the Special Guest slot going to a number of great bands starting with Papa Roach for the dates through the 3rd of November. The shows have been planned to cater to a Guns N' Roses rock n' roll party atmosphere with Sebastian hitting the stage every night at 8 pm followed by the Special Guest at 9 pm and Guns N' Roses shortly after 10 pm and lots of great music in between.

Guns N' Roses are also delighted to announce that they have partnered with Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB.COM) to provide their fans with premium ticketing opportunities and up to the minute information on the tour and the band's other activities via gunsnroses.com which will be launched as of tomorrow.

As for Guns N' Roses forthcoming "Chinese Democracy" album the only comment at this time is that there are 13 Tuesdays left between now and the end of the year.

The itinerary for the "Chinese Democracy" North American Tour is as follows. Tickets for most dates go on sale on the 30th of September with up to the minute information and pre-sales available now at gunsnroses.com.

October

10/20/06 Jacksonville, FL Vets Memorial Arena

10/22/06 Nashville, TN Gaylord Entertainment Center

10/24/06 Sunrise, FL BankAtlantic Center

10/25/06 St. Petersburg, FL St. Pete Times Forum

10/27/06 Estero, FL Germain Arena

10/29/06 San Juan, Puerto Rico Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum

November

11/2/06 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum

11/3/06 Huntington, WV Big Sandy Superstore Arena

11/5/06 East Rutherford, NJ Continental Airlines Arena

11/6/06 Portland, ME Cumber County Civic Center

11/8/06 Worcester, MA Worcester Centrum

11/10/06 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

11/13/06 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner

11/15/06 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

11/17/06 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank

11/18/06 Quebec Colisee Pepsi

11/20/06 Halifax, NS Halifax Metro Centre

11/24/06 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena

11/25/06 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills

11/27/06 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena

11/29/06 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center

December

12/1/06 Ames, IA Hilton Coliseum

12/2/06 Minneapolis, MN Target Center

12/4/06 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre

12/6/06 Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome

12/7/06 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place

12/10/06 Everett, WA Everett Events Center

12/11/06 Portland, OR Rose Garden

12/13/06 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center

12/15/06 Oakland, CA Oakland Coliseum

12/17/06 Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheatre

12/19/06 Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheatre

January

1/10/07 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena

1/11/07 Bakersfield, CA Rabobank Arena

1/13/07 Reno, NV Reno Events Ctr

1/16/07 San Diego, CA iPayOne Center

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