Richard Fortus Comments On Possible GNR Tour [clarification added to first post]

[NicoRourke]

bad ass, a tour that'll last that long is bound to come my way. But with those two years i'm thinkin' its gonna be just that long till the next album comes out, so with that i guess its good and bad news but i'll take it.

They can drop an album while on tour

[FunkyMonkey]

GUNS N' ROSES Tour To Kick Off Late March? - Dec. 27, 2008

GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus has told TheTelegraph.com that the band's world tour in support of "Chinese Democracy" should start late March and will likely last at least two years.

Fortus will take part in a one-night-only reunion of PALE DIVINE, a.k.a. THE EYES, a mega-popular St. Louis, Missouri alt-rock act that broke through nationally in the early '90s. The original four members ? vocalist Michael Schaerer, Fortus, bass player Dan Angenend Jr. and drummer Greg Miller ? will take the stage at The Pageant in St. Louis at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29, after not playing together for 17 years.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=111530

[CheapJon]

GUNS N' ROSES Tour To Kick Off Late March? - Dec. 27, 2008

GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus has told TheTelegraph.com that the band's world tour in support of "Chinese Democracy" should start late March and will likely last at least two years.

Fortus will take part in a one-night-only reunion of PALE DIVINE, a.k.a. THE EYES, a mega-popular St. Louis, Missouri alt-rock act that broke through nationally in the early '90s. The original four members ? vocalist Michael Schaerer, Fortus, bass player Dan Angenend Jr. and drummer Greg Miller ? will take the stage at The Pageant in St. Louis at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29, after not playing together for 17 years.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=111530

amazing shit right there

[ppbebe]

2 years tour?

 

'at least'
according to TheTelegraph.com.

[gnrjanus]

I hope they can pull it off.
2 years.

a lot can happen in 2 Gnr Years.

[thesloth]

Late March should bring a GNR tour

Not to read too much into things, but the last NIN 2009 show is March 2nd so far ......................

Nope NIN has already stated more touring will start in April they will be doing a theater tour with just 4 band members that will go through a few shows in the U.S. then Europe, UK ect.  But then NIN is done.  TR has stated he is going to take some time off, he wants to focus on developing "Year Zero" with HBO.  Considering 2 of the top shows are Tru Blood and then Showtime has "Dexter" it is the right time to get more involved in the process.  At that point I would think Fink would be out of work or will rejoin Guns then. 

[western_chaos]

They could always tour w/o Robin Finck at times, but i wouldn't know how they would be able to pull that one off.

[FunkyMonkey]

Guns n? Roses Guitarist: ?Chinese Democracy? Tour To Start In March, Last ?At Least Two Years?

12/29/08, 8:55 am EST

Buried deep in an article about Guns n? Roses guitarist Richard Fortus and his one-night reunion with Pale Divine is this bit of potentially huge news: A Gn?R tour should start in late March and is expected to last ?at least two years,? according to Fortus. The band had hinted at a possible tour on their official Website in April, saying the fifth Chinese Democracy tour since 2001 was in negotiations ? ?When we begin to put tour plans together, we?ll see where things are,? the band said at the time ? and a source close to the band told Rolling Stone an ?09 tour was in the works. With album sales slumping and Axl Rose still reluctant to conduct any interview outside of message board forums, a tour is just what the album needs for a promotional boost. If the March start date is correct, it puts Guns in a position to headline several huge festivals in 2009 on both sides of the Atlantic.

Fortus has played guitar in some capacity for Gn?R since 2002, when Axl Rose?s friend Paul Tobias left the group?s revolving-door guitarist job. Currently, Fortus is the lead guitarist on Rihanna?s Good Girl Gone Bad tour. A St. Louis native, Fortus says he and Axl joked about returning to the city where, in 1991, Rose caused a riot after he stormed offstage because a photographer in the crowd ticked him off. ?There has been talk of us doing a Love tour, a tour of all the cities where there have been riots, and doing free shows,? Fortus said.

We?ll remain optimistic about a Guns tour but again, this is the gloriously unpredictable Axl Rose we?re dealing with.

www.rollingstone.com

[axl_rose_700]

2 years? 

Come Play Leeds Festival!!

[cineater]

Anybody going to Richard's show tonight?  I have a friend going so maybe we'll get some pictures.

[jarmo]

A clarification on the subject:

"OK, it seems that I am being misquoted once again.  I never said that Gn'R would be playing St. Louis, nor did i say that we will be doing free shows or that we are starting a 2 year tour in March!  Selective hearing.  Never said it. "
richard fortus





/jarmo

[wells]

A clarification on the subject:

"OK, it seems that I am being misquoted once again.  I never said that Gn'R would be playing St. Louis, nor did i say that we will be doing free shows or that we are starting a 2 year tour in March!  Selective hearing.  Never said it. "
richard fortus





/jarmo

and anyone with little common sense should already know that... also with Dexter being online and saying tour is only in 'discussion' faze it was pretty obvious that someone had selective hearing 

thanks for clarification jarmo!

-velimir

[Ali]

A clarification on the subject:

"OK, it seems that I am being misquoted once again.  I never said that Gn'R would be playing St. Louis, nor did i say that we will be doing free shows or that we are starting a 2 year tour in March!  Selective hearing.  Never said it. "
richard fortus





/jarmo

Hopefully, there will be a big tour.  I wonder if the misquote was more along the lines of when the tour was starting, rather than if and how long.

Ali

[DemocracyRose]

A clarification on the subject:

"OK, it seems that I am being misquoted once again.  I never said that Gn'R would be playing St. Louis, nor did i say that we will be doing free shows or that we are starting a 2 year tour in March!  Selective hearing.  Never said it. "
richard fortus





/jarmo

Hopefully, there will be a big tour.  I wonder if the misquote was more along the lines of when the tour was starting, rather than if and how long.
Ali

Yeah let the speculations begin. Its always very unclear what to believe, in the GNR world...

[FunkyMonkey]

GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist Denies Saying Band Will Embark On Two-Year World Tour - Dec. 30, 2008

GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus has denied that he ever said the band will begin a world tour in March that will last for at least two years.

Fortus' original comments about GN'R hitting the road supposedly came as part of an interview with TheTelegraph.com to promote his appearance in St. Louis on Monday night (December 29) with PALE DIVINE, a locally popular act, of which he was a founding member, that has not played together for 17 years.

After the TheTelegraph.com article was published and Fortus' comments got picked up by a number of news outlets all around the world, the guitarist issued the following statement:

"OK, it seems that I am being misquoted once again. I never said that GN'R would be playing St. Louis, nor did I say that we will be doing free shows or that we are starting a two-year tour in March! Selective hearing. Never said it."

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=111640

[cineater]

My friend who was at the show last night said it was really good.  Once he learned who Richard had been touring with he forgot to listen for anything GNR related, go figure.  He has pictures for me when he can figure out how to get them off his phone.  Anyway, it was a good show.

[TomFriend]

No surprises there then.

I thought selective hearing was when you took notice of some things that somebody said and ignored others. From what Richard's saying, it seems like the interviewer just made the whole thing up.

[grog mug]

Sounds like the interviewer once a tour as bad as we do!

[GNR4L]

So many rumor's, so many people, I'll wait for a offical announcement from GnR regarding a tour before I believe the press.

[FunkyMonkey]

My friend who was at the show last night said it was really good.  Once he learned who Richard had been touring with he forgot to listen for anything GNR related, go figure.  He has pictures for me when he can figure out how to get them off his phone.  Anyway, it was a good show.

Some photos from Richard's website...

http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/peterwochniak/gallery-slideshow/G0000.IyacamosUA/?start=