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Guns N' Roses' St. Louis Cancellation Attributed to Lack of Venue

A spokesperson for Gun N' Roses has confirmed with RFT Music that the band will not be performing in St. Louis this summer as part of its "Not In This Lifetime" reunion tour. She says the show was cancelled due to a lack of a venue that was willing or able to host it.

See also: Guns N' Roses No Longer Coming to St. Louis

"Most tours of this magnitude are planned well in advance, but we're working on GNR time," the rep, who asked not to be named, says. "GNR has every intention of coming back but can't make it happen on this tour."

She goes on to explain that a lot of the details of the tour were still up in the air even when St. Louis was initially announced as one of the stops.

"When Guns N Roses teased the 2016 tour last Friday, the actual tour routing was still in development, and the expectations was that all 21 cities would be included,' she says. "Over the subsequent days as the routing and logistics were being finalized it became evident the calendar would not allow for the tour to make a stop in St. Louis."

It is true indeed that tours of this size are usually planned well in advance ? sometimes by up to a year. And it is also true that Guns N' Roses doesn't generally work on the same timetable as everyone else. Still, it seems interesting that the last time the band came to town the venue suffered $200,000 in damages ? and now they're having a hard time finding a venue to host them again. Furthermore, we know of a certain large-scale St. Louis venue that doesn't have a whole lot on the calendar this year.

But honestly, can you blame St. Louis' venues for being hesitant?

St. Louis' dropped date is not the only thing putting GNR in the news today, though, so it is difficult to surmise if it is related. Time will tell on that one. For now, our source is insistent that the band does plan to come to St. Louis in the future, but that it will not be happening this summer.

"This is not the end; this is just the beginning," she says.


http://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2016/04/01/guns-n-roses-st-louis-cancellation-attributed-to-lack-of-venue

I am a Rams fan, so I can tell you at least one of the problems.

The Edward Jones Dome is a shithole.  That's where they presumably would have played.

It's not the only reason the Rams moved to L.A., but its one of them.

First the Rams bail, now this.   I feel bad for the people of St. Louis.  If the city is being difficult because of something that happened 25 years ago, that is dumb. 

Good to see GNR are very interested in playing there at least.

Edit: Is it the last city they haven't "made up" with? Montreal and Philadelphia have had shows, Philly now again this summer.

Its sad they choose to look at something that happened over 2 decades ago but can't look at he's had no incident in almost 15 years now.

The Rams were moving from the second that guy bought full control of the team in 2012.  That whole thing was such a charade.  The people of St. Louis got played.

But the only other stadium there is where the Cardinals play.  And none of these other venues are baseball parks, for obvious reasons.

I remember  GNR was banned for life playing there...... so... maybe this is bullcrap.

....

What about Vancouver?

They been back to Vancouver?

Rogers Center in Toronto is a baseball stadium.  The only one, though.

San Fran also I think.

YUP, you're right. I took it for granted they would play out in Santa Clara at Levi, and didn't even look.

AT&T Park, is that the same venue as Metallica played the night before the Super Bowl?

More of a multie purpose arena than anything else.  Torontos cfl team played there up until this year.  So it's more than just a typical baseball stadium.

Will be able to sit a solid 55 thousand for a concert