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Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour

The Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour is a North American tour featuring co-headliners American Hard Rock band Guns N' Roses and American Heavy Metal band Metallica , during their Use Your Illusion and Wherever We May Roam tours respectively in 1992. The two had previously collaborated on a one-off supergroup that performed on November 9, 1990; that show was one of few pre-1995 performances where Metallica tuned their guitars down to Eb standard for the duration of the show.

During the summer of 1992, Lars Ulrich and Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash held a press conference announcing the tour, claiming that the two biggest bands in the world touring together is a "no brainer".

Out of the 36 Planned Shows only 10 Were cancelled (July 31st - Aug 5th - Cancelled for Unknown Reasons) (August 9th - August 22nd - Cancelled Due to the Montreal Incident, Read Below for the Incidents information.

The tour would also include the infamous 1992 Montreal riot, on August 8th 1992 GNR&Metallica Played the Olympic Stadium, Then about An Hour and a half into Metallica's Set: 8:05 PM, The Song was Fade to Black, Everything went casually but Lars was confused by James' Onstage Positioning, but it was too Late as I said at 8:05 PM Pyrotechnics Launched from under the stage onto James. They all Ran over Kirk said something among the lines of 'Dude are you alright' but then after a Security Guard walks on James hand, James Screamed and Punched him in the Privates. Jason after James was aborted into an ambulance and they all went backstage, said something like this to calm the crowd 'James isnt okay but we'll come back later I dont know when, Thank you Montreal' Then 1 Minute Later Lars said the Infamous quote from VH1's Behind the Music 'There was an Incident with the pyrotechnics, unfortunately James, is on his way to the hospital right now, Sorry but we cant continue the concert for you guys tonight, But we promise you one thing and we always go by our words, We will come back, Finish our concert and play for you guys as soon as we can in the next couple of months, Thank you Montreal we're sorry Okay.' then to close Metallica's Set once and for All Kirk said 'Thanks for being so Patient, thanks alot' Then they left. After that the Riot ensued.

Despite hardships, the tour would overall be a financial success for Metallica. The band however would swear off touring with Guns N' Roses ever again after the tour was over.

• 1 Typical Setlist
• 2 Tour Dates
• 4.1 July 17 - August 8
• 4.2 August 25 - October 6
• 5 References

Typical Setlist [ ]

• Creeping Death
• Harvester of Sorrow
• Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
• Sad But True
• Wherever I May Roam
• Of Wolf and Man
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Unforgiven
• The Shortest Straw
• Guitar Solo
• Fade to Black
• Master of Puppets Short Version
• Seek & Destroy
• Nothing Else Matters
• Am I Evil? Diamond Head cover
• Last Caress Misfits cover
• Enter Sandman

Tour Dates [ ]

Songlist [ ], personnel [ ], july 17 - august 8 [ ].

• James Hetfield - Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
• Kirk Hammett - Lead Guitar
• Jason Newsted - Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals
• Lars Ulrich - Drums

August 25 - October 6 [ ]

• James Hetfield : Lead Vocals
• Kirk Hammett : Lead Guitar
• John Marshall : Rhythm Guitar
• Jason Newsted : Bass/Backing Vocals
• Lars Ulrich : Drums

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• 1 Dave Mustaine
• 2 M72 World Tour
• 3 Monsters of Rock '88

Guns N' Roses, Metallica and the Greatest Rock Show on Earth

On July 17, 1992 the world’s biggest hard rock band and the world’s biggest metal band kicked off a co-headlining North American tour in Washington DC. Here’s what went down…

As with almost everything Metallica have ever done, the idea to tour stadiums with Guns N’ Roses originated with Lars Ulrich. The two bands had first met in 1987, and bonded during Metallica’s five month residency in Los Angeles recording the … And Justice For All album.

Five years on, the phenomenal success of ‘The Black Album’ and Guns’ Use Your Illusion double-set, released just one month apart in 1991, had firmly established the Californian collectives as leaders of their respective genres, and Ulrich envisaged the creation of a historic touring package akin to a Rolling Stones/The Who bill in the 1960s.

The two bands had actually shared a stage before, on the occasion of a birthday party for (now long defunct) US metal magazine RIP. In the early hours of November 10, 1990, Lars Ulrich, Slash, Duff McKagan and guest vocalist Sebastian Bach from Skid Row ambled drunkenly onto the stage of LA’s Hollywood Palladium and introduced themselves as ‘Gak’ – Hollywood slang for cocaine – before launching into a messy version of Guns N’ Roses’ You’re Crazy . 

The Fucked-Up Four then attempted Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls before Axl Rose took over on vocals for run through Skid Row’s Piece Of Me , and stayed onstage to trade lyrics with Bach on a version of Nazareth’s Hair Of The Dog . This all-star jam session closed out with a shambolic stumble through Metallica’s Whiplash , featuring James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, at the close of which Axl Rose stage-dived into the crowd.

Such boozy camaraderie counted for little, however, when the two band’s managers sat down in LA restaurant Le Dome in the earliest days of 1992 to thrash out the idea for a joint tour. Guns N’ Roses were adamant that they should close the show each night, a demand to which Metallica happily acquiesced. 

The bands were guaranteed equal time on stage and a 50:50 split of the gate receipts – projected ticket sales suggested a gross of between 1 and 1.8 million dollars per night – and by mutual consent, Faith No More were nominated to open the show, though only after a similar offer to Nirvana had been rebuffed by the Seattle band.

Following a convivial bro-down at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert at London’s Wembley Stadium in April, on May 12, Lars Ulrich and Slash co-hosted a press conference at the Gaslight in Hollywood to announce the tour, which Ulrich revealed, would kick off in Washington DC’s RFK stadium on July 17, and close, on October 6, at the Kingdome in Seattle.

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“I’ve always wanted to play with these guys, ever since we met them in 1987,” said hype man Ulrich. “I’m the one who had all the late night conversations with the various members of Guns. 

Back in ’87, we were the bigger band, then they became the biggest band in the universe. Now, in the hard rock scene of 1992, we’re the two biggest bands. Taking the two biggest bands from one genre of music and putting them together is unprecedented.”

When it came time to unveil posters for the tour, the strapline above the two band names told its own story: it read ‘They Said It Would Never Happen’.

Anticipation for what lay ahead was sky high when the package rolled in to the nation’s capital. Metallica took to the stage as the sun dipped behind the Washington Monument, kicking off their set with Ride The Lightning -era favourite Creeping Death , and airing no fewer than four songs from their hugely successful self-titled album before closing out their main set with Kill ‘Em All ’s Whiplash . 

The quartet returned to the stage to conduct stadium-wide singalongs on Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman , exhumed a couple of classic covers – their take on Misfits’ Last Caress and Diamond Head’s Am I Evil ? – then rounded off the evening with thrasher Damage Inc . and explosive anti-war anthem One .

“Metallica seems fully aware that this tour presents a marvellous opportunity,’ wrote Los Angeles Daily News reviewer Bruce Britt afterwards. “In a performance that could only be compared to Attila the Hun’s tour of Mongolia, Metallica storm-trooped its way into the hearts of the crowd.”

Almost two hours separated the closing notes of One and the familiar introductory riff of Guns N’ Roses’ set opener It’s So Easy – two hours in which an increasingly drunken and restless crowd repeatedly cajoled female audience members into exposing their breasts for projection upon the giant screens flanking the stage – and when Axl Rose finally walked onstage energy levels in the crowd had already peaked. 

With Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler now part of Gn’R history, Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan now stood at the core of an expanded thirteen piece touring band featuring three backing vocalists and a three piece horn section. 

At their best, the new look Guns possessed the cocksure swagger of the mid ‘70s Stones - whose Wild Horses was co-opted as one of three covers (alongside Wings’ Live And Let Die and the second Misfits’ song of the night, Attitude ) in the opening hour of the set – but with Rose, Slash and drummer Matt Sorum all granted indulgent solo instrumental showcases in hour two, momentum slowed painfully. Each time Axl pleaded with the crowd to “Wake the fuck up!” his words echoed off increasing numbers of empty, up-turned seats. 

To neutrals, it was all too evident who’d walked away with the honours on the two heavweight’s first bruising encounter, with reviewer Britt cautioning “If Guns N’ Roses isn’t careful, this tour could sound the band’s death knell.”

In truth, the drama was only just beginning…

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica ( Birth School Metallica Death , co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography ( Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.

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Canadians have a reputation for being some of the nicest people on the planet, but even they have their limits. Just ask Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose .

The singer received a firsthand education in the boundaries of Canadian patience on Aug. 8, 1992, when the band's stop in Montreal for the Guns N' Roses/ Metallica Stadium tour ended with both headliners playing shortened sets. This led to a group of particularly frustrated audience members retaliating by starting a riot that ended with looting, smashed windows, fires, plenty of arrests, nearly half a million dollars in damages and GNR being banned from the city's Olympic Stadium for life.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. The tour represented the hard rock event of the summer, bringing together two of music's biggest acts at the peak of their commercial power. With Faith No More , Motorhead , and Body Count along for the ride as openers, ticket buyers were promised hours of heavy riffing and musical aggression, and on most of the 25 dates, that's exactly what they got. The Montreal show, however, was a disaster – in more ways than one.

The problems started during Metallica's set, when James Hetfield was horrifically injured in a scary pyrotechnics accident that sent him to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns. "During 'Fade to Black,' I'm up there playing the part, and all these colored flames are going off," he recalled during the band's Behind the Music episode. "I'm a little confused on where I should be. I walk forward, I walk back, the pyro guy doesn't see that I've walked back there, and [makes whooshing noise] colored flame goes right up under me."

Blasted by a column of fire in front of a live audience, Hetfield was in shock: "I'm burnt – all my arm, my hand completely, down to the bone. The side of my face, hair's gone. Part of my back. ... I watched the skin just rising, things going wrong."

The band cut its set short and called for immediate medical attention, but Hetfield also remembers the journey to the hospital being less than ideal. "The security guys are kinda walking around, and one guy bumps into my hand. I just lost it; I screamed and punched him right in the nuts," he laughed. "This is pain I've never felt in my whole life and it won't go away. I'm freaking at this point, you know?"

Unfortunately, GNR's set took freaking to a different level. Rose's mercurial temper with concert crowds was already public knowledge. Shortly before the Montreal show, he'd been arrested for charges stemming from a 1991 riot that erupted after the band walked off the stage during a stop in St. Louis -- and he'd been complaining of vocal problems since the tour with Metallica started. In fact, it was just getting back on track after a handful of canceled dates. Slash had warned the Montreal Gazette that Rose had a hole in a vocal cord, but promised that the "typhoon of chaos" surrounding the group wouldn't derail the show.

According to the Gazette , GNR took more than two hours to take the stage after Metallica's departure, and things went downhill from there. According to the New York Times , Rose lasted 55 minutes before ending the set, although the Seattle Times timed it at a far less charitable 15 minutes.

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Either way, after standing around waiting to rock only to hear Rose say, "this will be our last show for a long time" then walk off the stage, the crowd turned to violence. "The PA fed back the entire time, the monitors fed back the entire time, the crowd was like, nonexistent," Slash later told MTV .

"We had just stopped the tour because I had throat problems. Came back, and I realized, 'I'm gonna hurt myself,' Rose said. "I told Slash, 'Two more songs, if we can't get it fixed, I gotta go.' We did more than two more songs, and finally I was just, like, 'I don't know what to do.' I looked over and Gilby was like, 'Dude, I can't hear. And Duff [McKagan] was like, 'I can't hear either.' We had a little huddle, and we were like, 'We're outta here.'"

Added Slash: "Montreal was just really creepy. Nothing against the people of Montreal; we had a great time hanging out there. I think it was the building itself."

Ultimately, out of the 53,000 or so in attendance, only an estimated 2,000 were involved in the riot, and aside from grotesque levels of property damage – which reportedly included an uprooted street lamp and an overturned police cruiser – the whole thing was kept from spiraling too far out of control by Montreal police, who showed up in riot gear, sealed off the area and used tear gas to quell the violence. When the dust settled, there were " at least three police officers and 10 rioters injured" and "at least a dozen arrests."

The whole mess made headlines around the world, giving Rose's list of detractors more ammunition and furthering the band's growing reputation for bad behavior. The Montreal Gazette recalls that when U2 visited the city a few weeks later, Bono cracked a veiled joke at Rose's expense from the stage, pausing a few songs into the set and quipping, "What time is it? We gotta go."

Between Hetfield's injuries and Rose's vocal woes, the Montreal catastrophe left the tour in temporary limbo until Aug. 25, when things were finally able to resume in Arizona. Hetfield, eager to get Metallica back on the road, had to stick to vocals, temporarily turning his guitar duties over to John Marshall of Metal Church – an experience that he later admitted was awkward, and not just because of the arm-length bandage he was sporting.

"It sucks," Hetfield told the Columbus Dispatch . "You're up there and you're singing, but a lot of our songs have some pretty long instrumental bits; it's like, 'What the hell am I going to do here? Head back stage, do some laundry?' You can only be a cheerleader for so much, and it looks kind of silly."

Fortunately, the tour was able to make it through the rest of its dates – which concluded on Oct. 6 at the Kingdome in Seattle – without further property damage, and all things considered, still turned out to be a solid moneymaker. According to Slash, however, the members of Guns N' Roses ended up barely breaking even, thanks partly to habitual tardiness and partly because, as he claimed in his self-titled autobiography, Rose insisted on throwing expensive backstage theme parties in an effort to impress their co-headliner.

"Metallica was earning the exact same paycheck as we were every night," Slash said, "but while they pocketed the whole thing, we were blowing 80 percent both on union dues for all of the overtime we cost ourselves going on late and on these stupid theme parties. It was just bad."

Still, there's at least one person who was on the payroll that summer who has fond memories of the tour: Rose's former personal manager Craig Duswalt, who looked back on Montreal and its aftermath in his book Welcome to My Jungle . With the band temporarily off the road and Rose in the mood for a trip to New York, Duswalt tagged along – and on the trip, he ended up connecting with his future wife.

As he put it, "I am married to Natasha because James Hetfield, the lead singer/guitarist of Metallica, stood on top of a flash pot during their set and suffered second-degree burns on his arms and hands on Aug. 8, 1992, in Montreal, Canada."

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Power Trip: Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Metallica to headline October festival. What you need to know

Iron maiden, ozzy osbourne also on the bill.

Get ready to bang your heads. The metal festival Power Trip is officially a go, with a lineup that includes hardrock legends Guns N' Roses, AC/DC and Metallica. The festival will be held Oct. 6-8 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, home of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

The official announcement of the festival, which was made on Twitter Thursday morning, came after a teaser video popped up on social media Tuesday hinting at a metal music event in the desert (complete with rocker cacti). The video sent viewers to a website that invited them to sign up for updates from Goldenvoice.

What artists have been announced?

Friday, Oct. 6

Guns N' Roses

Iron Maiden

Saturday, Oct. 7

Ozzy Osbourne

Sunday, Oct. 8

It was not immediately clear if the announced bands constitute the entire lineup or if other additions were still to be announced. However, a lineup consisting of two bands each night would mirror that of Desert Trip, the 2016 classic rock festival held at Empire Polo Club in 2016 that Power Trip's name seems to be a clear nod to.

When and where can I buy tickets?

Tickets for the festival go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 6 at powertrip.live . But hotel and VIP packages will be available starting at 10 a.m. April 4. Fans can register now at that website to "access tickets" then. The website says tickets will initially be available only to those who register.

Is this going to break the bank?

As anyone who has been to Coachella or Stagecoach surely expected, attending the festival won't come cheap and will require buying a wristband covering all three days. In fact, getting into the event will cost more than going to Coachella, according to ticket prices posted online.

The cheapest general admission wristbands, which include access to the festival and parking lot, are $649. For comparison, that's $21 more than the similar general admission wristband for Weekend 2 of Coachella currently being sold on that festival's website.

Unlike the annual Empire Polo Club festivals, Power Trip will have specific floor, grandstand and pit areas. A wristband with reserved floor seating starts at about $875 while those for the pit begin at $1750. Those passes also offer access to two "lounge areas" of the festival, although the website explains the lounge won't have a view of the stage.

The festival is also selling several VIP packages that include access to the lounge areas, as well as VIP merchandise. The starting price for those packages is $1,749 to $2,999. VIP packages for Coachella currently start at $1,199.

As with the other festivals, camping will be available on site. A car camping spot starts at $234.87 for the weekend, while the cheapest RV spot goes for $1,404.87.

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Has this ever been done before?

Although the polo fields are best known for the hordes of flower crown-wearing 20-somethings who descend in force in April and the country-loving cowboys who follow them, the venue has hosted a big-time metal event featuring Metallica before. In 2011, the band headlined a stop on the intercontinental "Big 4" tour held at the polo grounds, which also featured Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. That event was held between the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals.

However, Power Trip's structure and strategy is more remniscent of potentially the most iconic music event in Coachella Valley history: Desert Trip.

For two October 2016 weekends at the Empire Polo Club, Desert Trip festival featured a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, The Who and Roger Waters — literal legends responsible for the songs that have made up the soundtracks of so many lives.

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Have any of the Power Trip artists played Coachella?

Even though the lineup features metal, most of the bands have performed at Coachella in previous years.

Tool performed at the first Coachella in 1999 and again as headliners in 2006. Frontman Maynard James Keenan has also performed at the festival with his side projects Puscifer in 2013 and A Perfect Circle in 2018.

AC/DC’s 2015 headlining performances came with some baggage. Co-founder and guitarist Malcolm Young officially left the band due to receive treatment for dementia, which was the cause of his death two years later. Drummer Phil Rudd was charged with possession of methamphetamine and cannabis a few months earlier and was replaced by Chris Slade.

Still, the Australian rock band won the crowd over. Horned-hands were thrown in the air, heads were banged, and the crowd shouted at all the right times.

When Guns N’ Roses headlined in 2016, it was the first time the reunited lineup featuring frontman Axl Rose with guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan performed at an outdoor festival together in 23 years.

The band played an epic two-and-a-half hour set both weekends with Rose forced by a broken foot to do it entirely while sitting in a throne loaned to him by Dave Grohl.

Axl Rose also came out as a special guest during Carrie Underwood's 2022 Stagecoach headlining set.

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This article includes previous reporting by Desert Sun staff and USA TODAY.

Desert Sun reporter Brian Blueskye covers arts and entertainment. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @bblueskye.

Paul Albani-Burgio covers breaking news and the City of Palm Springs. Follow him on Twitter at @albaniburgiop and via email at [email protected].

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As expected, a new hard rock festival called Power Trip , from the founders of Coachella, has announced its lineup: Metallica , Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Tool. It will take place at Coachella’s home base of the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., Oct. 6-8.

Basically all of the news that leaked earlier in the week is accurate: Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden will perform on Friday, AC/DC and Osbourne on Saturday and Metallica and Tool on Sunday. The mighty but relatively small lineup seems designed to accommodate long, career-spanning sets from all of the veteran artists.

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The artists also have performed together many times — in fact, in their rough-and-tumble days, Guns N’ Roses were kicked off of an opening slot on an early 1988 Iron Maiden tour because of what one might politely term their nasty habits, not that it caused any harm to their career. But Metallica and Guns N’ Roses toured stadiums as coheadliners in 1992 and GNR lead singer Axl Rose even filled in for ailing AC/DC singer Brian Johnson for North American dates in 2016, with generally impressive results.

Despite the Coachella connection, the festival is more like a hard rock version of Goldenvoice’s 2016 Desert Trip festival, which featured a classic-rock dream team of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Who and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.

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The lineup for October’s PowerTrip metal festival just got twice as heavy.

Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC and Tool will join the previously rumored Metallica, Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne for the inaugural edition of the festival from Coachella promoter Goldenvoice.

Like its classic-rock forebearer Desert Trip, the concert will bring two acts per night to Indio’s Empire Polo Club, on the weekend of Oct. 6-8. The lineup will pair Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden on Friday, AC/DC and Osbourne on Saturday and Tool and Metallica on Sunday.

Three-day general admission tickets start at $599. Tickets go on sale April 6.

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Goldenvoice has thrown a metal festival on the Coachella site before — Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax (the “Big Four” of thrash metal) performed together in 2011.

But this bill more closely follows the format of 2016’s Desert Trip, which brought together Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Paul McCartney, Neil Young and Roger Waters in what became the most lucrative music festival in U.S. history, grossing $160 million.

Word of the fest first circulated on Tuesday, after Metallica and Osbourne posted links to a brief video pointing fans to a new website for PowerTrip. Metallica’s PowerTrip headline gig will follow a two-night run at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in August . Iron Maiden last performed in Los Angeles in 2019, and though the 74-year-old Osbourne’s health issues recently led to canceled tour plans , the onetime Black Sabbath frontman said he’d hit the stage again if he recovered.

Former Coachella headliners Guns N’ Roses last performed in L.A. in 2021, while AC/DC headlined Dodger Stadium in 2015. Tool played in Anaheim last year.

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Why Nirvana Turned Down Metallica Tour With Guns N’ Roses

The 1992 stadium co-headline tour featuring Metallica and Guns N' Roses went down as one of the more famous (and yes ill-fated ) tours of all time, but the tour could have been even more star-studded had Nirvana accepted the opening slot on the run. During an interview with NME , guitarist Kirk Hammett revealed that he had personally reached out to Kurt Cobain to ask if they'd join the run, only to have the Nirvana singer turn down the opportunity.

As fans know, Nirvana's Nevermind was released in September 1991, catching fire and eventually claiming the No. 1 position on Billboard Top 200 Album Chart in early 1992, largely based off the success of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The arrival of that album was so impactful that a shift in heavy music took place over the next several years, with a slew of grunge acts finding popularity. So the addition of the hottest band in music at the time, joining two of rock and metal's biggest act, could arguably have been the considered the top concert billing of all-time.

So why did Nirvana turn down the Metallica-Guns N' Roses tour? Hammett recalled, “I had to make the phone call to Kurt [Cobain] to talk to him about the possibility of joining our tour and he just went on and on about how he just didn’t like what Guns N’ Roses stood for."

The guitarist added, "I said to him: ‘Just go out there and represent Nirvana – just play the show and then that’s it.' I pleaded with him, but he just wasn’t having it. So there you have it. It would have been great if Nirvana was part of that tour – but you know [the actual opening act] Faith No More were great as well.”

While Nirvana skipped the tour, Faith No More, who eventually claimed the opening slot, had their own issues with Guns N' Roses, as singer Mike Patton r evealed in a 2021 interview that he peed on the GN'R teleprompter in retaliation to Guns' treatment of his band.

The beef between Nirvana and Guns N' Roses would come to a head at the 1992 Music Video Awards , where according to Krist Novoselic , when Axl Rose crossed paths with Courtney Love she yelled out while carrying her daughter, "Axl, Axl, you're the godfather." That prompted a confrontation with Cobain in which Rose is alleged to have told the Nirvana singer to keep his woman in line. Later, after the band's performance of "Lithium," Nirvana's Dave Grohl appeared to taunt Rose by shouting "Where's Axl? Hi, Axl."

Grohl and Rose are now on good terms, with the Foo Fighters frontman loaning Rose his guitar throne after Rose broke his foot at the start of GN'R's "Not in This Lifetime" tour. Grohl later revealed that Rose had Slash pick out a guitar for Grohl as a form of thanks. "he picked me an early-’60s Gibson ES 335 Dot, which to this day is the nicest fucking guitar I have ever played in my life," says Grohl. "It was an incredibly kind and classy gesture, and I was very appreciative.”

As for Metallica's relationship with Nirvana, it was more friendly. Hammett recalled, “When we played Seattle on the ‘The Black Album’ tour, I remember calling Kurt to invite him to the show and he said to me: ‘Are you guys going to play ‘Whiplash? That’s my favorite Metallica song!’. When he came to the show, he was in the snakepit with Courtney Love and every time he walked by, he tried to get my attention but my head was somewhere else."

The guitarist recalls, "He was great. I became friends with him right when the first Nirvana album [1989’s Bleach ] came out before people were even calling it grunge, and it’s so sad when I think back to all the guy wanted to do was play guitar and write songs and sing and somehow that all got destroyed for him.”

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Power Trip Festival: Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses to Shake Coachella Grounds

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Some of metal and hard rock’s most celebrated artists will decimate the Coachella grounds this fall for the inaugural Power Trip festival. Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden , AC/DC , Ozzy Osbourne , Metallica , and Tool are all set to play Indio, California’s Empire Polo Club on October 6, 7, and 8. Ticketing begins on April 6 at 10 a.m. PT; full info is on the fest’s website .

The gig marks AC/DC’s first concert since December 2016, which featured Axl Rose as their singer while frontman Brian Johnson recovered from hearing loss. It is unclear who, other than guitarist Angus Young, will be in the band’s lineup for the gig, though Johnson sang on their 2020 album, Power Up .

The Power Trip concerts will also mark Osbourne’s first full gig since New Year’s Eve 2018. Shortly after that gig, he slipped and fell in the middle of the night aggravating an old injury. He has been training to get back into performance shape ever since and has been performing one-offs here in there in recent years. Last year, he made a surprise appearance at England’s Commonwealth Games for a performance with his Black Sabbath bandmate, Tony Iommi, and also played the halftime of a Rams-Bills game . In February, Osbourne announced he was retiring from touring .

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Metallica, who are putting out their newest album, 72 Seasons , next month (and released the album’s title track today), already had a number of gigs planned this year, as do Guns N’ Roses, who have a world tour. Iron Maiden’s only dates this year are in Europe for their Future Past tour, and Tool had just four other festival dates on the books.

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Stars Who Can't Stand Guns N' Roses

Considering the biggest scandals to ever hit Guns N' Roses , it should come as no surprise that Axl Rose and the gang aren't universally popular. The rock band has worn its bad attitude as a tattoo sleeve for decades now, never being afraid of who might be offended or impacted by the shenanigans. This includes the poor concertgoers who are forced to wait for hours on end until Mr. Rose decides it's a good time to take to the stage — or finishes watching an engrossing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie.

While stories of their shocking antics and questionable behavior ensure their place in rock 'n' roll lore, a number of their peers don't find the cute side of any of it. For some artists, such as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Faith No More, they never liked what Guns N' Roses represented and how they conducted themselves. Others, such as Metallica and Eagles of Death Metal, didn't have the greatest experience touring with the Gunners, and still grapple with the nightmares. To be fair, though, most of these issues can be traced back to something the GNR lead singer did or said, and the list of controversial moments Axl Rose will never live down continues to grow as Rose works hard to be the most polarizing man in music.

From beefing with Jon Bon Jovi to the seemingly never-ending feud with Mötley Crüe, let's explore the stars whom Guns N' Roses has heat with.

After the 1992 Olympic Stadium riot occurred in the aftermath of a Metallica and Guns N' Roses concert in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, one can't help but understand the lingering resentment between the bands. The pyrotechnics accident that befell Metallica's James Hetfield's wasn't planned, and all it would have taken to calm down the crowd would be for GNR to take to the stage earlier and play a longer set. This didn't happen because Axl Rose cut the performance short for vocal issues.

A year later, during an interview with Rolling Stone , Hetfield didn't mince his words about touring with GNR, saying, "... it was hard going on, dealing with Axl and his attitude. It's not something we'd want to do again." Speaking about the Olympic Stadium incident in particular, Hetfield added: "I was so disappointed in [Rose]. Because he could have won so many people over by continuing the show. And he went the exact opposite way and made things ten times worse and jeopardized people's lives. There was a lot of unnecessary violence because of his attitude."

The issues between the bands rolled on, but GNR drummer Matt Sorum told  Desert Sun in 2021 that it was mostly down to the bands competing to see who's the best. In the same year, though, Metallica's Kirk Hammett told Kerrang that touring with GNR could be "very stressful" because of Rose's unpredictability: no one knew what time he would show up, or if he would show up at all.

Living Colour

Guns N' Roses' 1988 sophomore album, "G N' R Lies," hit the headlines because of the track "One in a Million." The publicity wasn't because the song was phenomenal or pushed the group in exciting and uncharted waters, but due to the racist and homophobic content of the lyrics. Axl Rose defended the track, refusing to see how offensive the song could be to others.

One band that spoke out against "One in a Million" was the rock group Living Colour. According to ex-bassist Muzz Skillings' comments to the Los Angeles Times , Rose confronted him backstage during a concert in which Living Colour, Guns N' Roses, and the Rolling Stones performed. Reportedly, Rose asked if there was an issue between them while denying he was a racist and going on a diatribe about the reasons for the song. Skillings suggested they chat after GNR's set, but rather than diffuse the situation, Rose went on stage and defended "One in a Million" in an abrasive fashion. Skillings added about the incident: "Something like that does remind you, it does smack you in the face in case you might have dozed off a little bit, that it's reality that certain attitudes don't change."

At the next show, Living Colour's Vernon Reid took to the stage to condemn all forms of racism and homophobia before the group played their hit track, "Cult of Personality." It sounds like Living Colour  wouldn't want to meet Axl Rose in real life again.

Kurt Cobain

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain never liked Guns N' Roses. In fact, Metallica's Kirk Hammett revealed to NME that Cobain turned down touring with Metallica because GNR would be a part of it. "[Cobain] just went on and on about how he just didn't like what Guns N' Roses stood for," Hammett said.

Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl confirmed this fact to Esquire as well, telling the publication that Axl Rose liked Nirvana a lot and desperately tried to convince Cobain to come on tour with GNR and Metallica. "One day we're walking through an airport and Kurt says, 'F***. Axl Rose won't stop calling me,'" Grohl said. "I think it represented something bigger. Nirvana didn't want to turn into Guns N' Roses. So Kurt started talking s*** in interviews, and then Axl started talking back. It went back and forth like tenth-grade bulls***."

This culminated in a much-publicized flare-up between Cobain and Rose backstage at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards. Hammett described his version of events to Revolver , explaining how Rose escalated the matter by angrily confronting Cobain and threatening physical violence. According to Hammett, Cobain brushed it off and just said, "That guy's nuts." In Grohl's conversation with Esquire, he also touched upon the issue and how Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, got into a verbal sparring match with Rose, while Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic almost threw hands as well. According to Grohl, he only participated by screaming "loud, funny s***" then headed off for a drink.

Faith No More

After Nirvana turned down the opportunity to team up with Metallica and Guns N' Roses on a now-infamous tour, Faith No More took the spot. However, the eclectic rock outfit was far from happy about the supporting gig, having already shared the stage with GNR beforehand. Speaking to Select in 1992 (via Louder ), Faith No More bassist Billy Gould said: "Every band in the world might think they want to open for Guns N' Roses, but lemme tell you, it's been a real ugly personal experience, having to deal with all the s*** that surrounds this f***** circus. I've always hated that aspect of rock music and I've never wanted to be part of it, so to find myself being associated with a tour this big kinda sucks."

Nonetheless, Faith No More accepted the tour and still blasted GNR in the press whenever the opportunity presented itself. In an interview with Kerrang (via Louder), Gould said that Axl Rose and Slash eventually confronted Faith No More about their harsh words in the media, telling them they should leave if they didn't want to be on the tour. The band decided to stay on while Gould added how he appreciated Rose's handling of the incident.

Appearing on Regis Tadeu's podcast in 2021, Faith No More's singer Mike Patton stoked the flames again, revealing he urinated on Rose's teleprompter during the tour. The reason for this? He was "bored" and "they treated us like s***, [but] they paid us really well."

Jon Bon Jovi

Both Bon Jovi and Guns N' Roses are quintessential '80s bands. However, there's no disputing that GNR leaned more into the dangerous and rebellious side of rock 'n' roll, while Bon Jovi embodied the radio-friendly vibes. While the rivalry for who will dominate the airwaves and concert circuit is understandable, it doesn't appear like there's much love lost between the groups in general. According to Rolling Stone , Axl Rose is one of the stars who can't stand Bon Jovi , as he punched a person who dared to suggest he looked like Jon Bon Jovi in 1987, despite the latter lead singer being seen as a major sex symbol of the era.

In 2006, Mr. Bon Jovi himself vented to the New York Post (via Blabbermouth ) about the attention that Guns N' Roses receives — even when they do nothing to merit it in his opinion. "You know what p****s me off?" Bon Jovi said. "I was reading this British rock magazine this month and there was a story about Axl Rose and the $13 million Guns N' Roses record that was never made. That m*****f****r hasn't made a record in 13 years and he gets all that attention." He added how he and his band had done a lot in that time, but Rose received the headlines for "the freak show aspect of him."

Inadvertently, Bon Jovi might have spurred on Rose to complete the "$13 million" record, though, as GNR finally released "Chinese Democracy" in 2008.

Eagles of Death Metal

Any music fan knows that the Eagles of Death Metal and Guns N' Roses are like oil and water — they don't mix — and so much so that it surprised people when they were set to tour together in 2006. However, this match made in bizarro heaven imploded after a concert incident resulted in Eagles of Death Metal leaving the tour altogether, or being fired, depending on who's asked.

Speaking to NME , Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes explained how the crowd displayed animosity toward his band because they weren't Guns N' Roses; however, they won them over in the end. When Axl Rose arrived on stage, he proceeded to insult the band by referring to them as "the Pigeons of S*** Metal" and fired them from the tour. "Axl Rose is f*****g out of his mind," Hughes said. "He wasn't even there when we played. He got there about 30 minutes after we got done playing. He waltzed on to the stage and went nuts." As per Hughes' version of events, GNR bassist Tommy Stinson stormed off the stage because of Rose's comments, while GNR's management attempted to smooth things over by allowing Eagles of Death Metal to continue the tour — to which they declined.

Appearing on NME Radio in 2009, Hughes recalled the event once again, stating how he believes it all happened because of Eagle of Death Metal's friendship with Dave Grohl, whom Rose allegedly disliked and blamed for GNR's implosion in 1992.

Scott Weiland

Rock supergroup Velvet Revolver formed out of the ashes of Guns N' Roses as Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum teamed up with Dave Kushner and Scott Weiland in the early 2000s. Rather than wish his former bandmates well, Axl Rose decided to open old wounds and air the dirty laundry in a 2006 press release in which he claimed Slash had disparaged both Weiland and McKagan in a meeting they had in 2005. Taking to Velvet Revolver's now-defunct website (via BraveWords ), Weiland rolled up his sleeves and stuck his hand in the mud to fling it right back at Rose, claiming that it was the instrumentalists who made GNR tick — not Rose.

In 2008, Weiland received the boot from Velvet Revolver, which resulted in animosity between him and the remaining members. Ironically, he expressed sympathy toward Rose, as he drew his ire toward the others and suggested they did to him what they had done to Rose before. "When you think about it, isn't it ironic that the band is regurgitating the same story that they did with Axl Rose in their last band, where the lead singer was being demonized?" Weiland told Classic Rock . "Originally I thought: 'What a troll he must have been. What an evil man.' But you know what? I have to say that I have an entirely different opinion of him today."

Weiland passed away in 2015, becoming part of a notorious club of famous musicians who died in their 40s .

Mötley Crüe

As the self-appointed bad boys of rock, fans would expect Mötley Crüe and Guns N' Roses to be two peas in a pod, bonding over a shared passion for debauchery, hell-raising, and girls, girls, girls. Yet, these groups were at loggerheads for the longest period, including an infamous time in 1991 in which the Crüe's lead singer, Vince Neil, challenged Axl Rose to a public clash of fisticuffs. But where did all this hatred stem?

It all started after GNR's then-guitarist Izzy Stradlin reportedly came onto Vince Neil's ex-wife Sharise Ruddell at a club in the late '80s. Stradlin reportedly touched her inappropriately and Ruddell slapped him, which resulted in Stradlin attacking her. Neil bided his time and unleashed his retribution on Stradlin at the 1989 MTV Music Awards. Allegedly, Neil slugged Stradlin, while a number of people intervened before the issue got further out of hand. Not one to be left out, Rose angrily confronted Neil at the event, but their argument didn't escalate beyond profanities.

Instead, the pair proceeded to fight their war in the press of all places. Eventually, Neil appeared on "MTV News"  and challenged Rose to a televised fight where everyone could watch them battle — presumably for a fee and to a Mötley Crüe soundtrack. Former MTV VJ Riki Rachtman also confirmed to Metal Sludge that there was major heat between GNR and Mötley Crüe in that era.

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun might not be a name familiar to the average rock listener. The Australian-formed band tasted an appetizer of success in the late '80s and early '90s, but they never became a global tour de force like Guns N' Roses. Nonetheless, Kings of the Sun was set to open for GNR when the U.S. band rolled into Sydney, Australia, in 1988. However, the band members had their set cut short and then were dumped out of the venue unceremoniously. Making matters worse, Axl Rose went on stage to explain the reason: GNR wasn't happy about an article in which Kings of the Sun said GNR took a lot of influence from another band, Rose Tattoo. The solution? To publicly embarrass them in front of the audience.

Chatting about the incident to Triple M Rock News in 2024 (via Hot Metal ), Kings of the Sun drummer Clifford Hoad said it was never meant to be a jibe at GNR, but it was intended to draw awareness to what Rose Tattoo was doing. He added how he stands by what he said and that it was simply a case of Rose being too sensitive and overly dramatic over nothing.

"If he was ridiculous and over-sensitive back then, it's the same today and it doesn't wash with people anymore," Hoad said. "Leaving people out there for two hours and not showing up for gigs, doing things that are really disrespectful to his fans and his band members and even himself."

How is it possible that Axl Rose can't stand Guns N' Roses? Well, think about it for a second: Who has had more issues with members of GNR than Rose himself? Whether it be bandmates past or present or even people adjacent to the band, it's likely that Rose has feuded with most of them at some point in the group's history.

For example, in 2009, while speaking to Spinner , Rose called Slash "a cancer and better removed, avoided." He also isn't opposed to using passive-aggression while referring to ex-GNR members as "former employees" rather than musical collaborators or bandmates, as he did to MTV News in 1999.

At least Rose appears to be self-aware of his controversial comments in the past and how the reunited lineup might be gritting their teeth through smiles to just get on with the show for the sake of the big paydays. During a 2018 show (via Loudwire ), Rose proceeded to prattle off a list of people he wanted to thank, quipping the following with a smirk: "I want to thank the band that I'm sure hates me."

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Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, and Iron Maiden Announce Mega-Concert Called Power Trip

Metallica , AC/DC , Guns N’ Roses , Tool , Iron Maiden , and Ozzy Osbourne have announced a three-day mega-concert at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, from October 6-8. The event is called Power Trip , which is ostensibly a reference to the 2016 mega-concert Desert Trip and not an homage to the late Riley Gale’s beloved Texas thrash metal band . Find the Power Trip poster below.

When reached by Pitchfork, representatives for the band Power Trip offered no comment on the California event. Late Thursday night, the band quote-tweeted the poster with one word in response: “pathetic.” The tweet has since been deleted.

The Power Trip artists all teased the festival’s announcement on social media earlier in the week. Desert Trip in 2016 featured Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Roger Waters, and the Who. Like Desert Trip, Power Trip is being put on by Goldenvoice.

Power Trip will take place at the same location as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival . Coachella 2023 is taking place from April 14-16 and April 21-23 with headliners Frank Ocean, Bad Bunny, and Blackpink.

Earlier this year, Ozzy Osbourne canceled some European tour dates and suggested that he was done touring for good due to a spine injury. He left the door open, however, for events like Power Trip that do not require extensive travel. “My team is currently coming up with ideas for where I will be able to perform without having to travel from city to city and country to country,” he explained.

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