At the June 10, 1991, show, at the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Axl Rose requested that the crowd chant "Get in the ring!" This was recorded for the song of that name on
Use Your Illusion II. On June 13, 1991, during the show in Philadelphia, Rose erupted after a fan fought with Guns N' Roses' photographer
Robert John. When the fan kicked the camera out of his hands, Rose cursed him out and challenged him to a fight. After the fan was ejected from the concert, the show continued. On Tuesday, July 2, 1991, at a show at the
Riverport Amphitheatre in
Maryland Heights, Missouri, near
St. Louis, Rose spotted a spectator
recording the concert with a video camera and jumped into the audience after him when concert security failed to respond to his request to apprehend the man. Returning to the stage, Rose declared: "Well, thanks to the lame-ass security, I'm going home!" then slammed the mic on the stage, sparking the infamous
Riverport riot. Rose then stormed off the stage; some people thought when he slammed the mic, because of the noise, that he shot someone. Slash told them, "He just slammed his mic on the floor. We're outta here." He proceeded to throw his guitar pick into the crowd and follow Rose. The band followed. The band was looking to come back out and finish the show, but as police and security tried to calm down the audience, a riot broke out. The footage was captured by Robert John who was documenting the entire tour. Sixty fans were injured. The band lost most of their equipment and Rose was charged with inciting a riot. He was acquitted due to lack of evidence. The band would later express their feelings regarding the incident by including the message "fuck you, St. Louis!" in the liner notes of both
Use Your Illusion albums. On August 3, 1991, the day mixing of the
Illusion albums was finished, the band played the longest show of the tour at the
L.A. Forum. It lasted three and a half hours. On November 7, 1991,
Izzy Stradlin quit the band after the release of
Use Your Illusion I and
Use Your Illusion II; his last show was on August 31, 1991, at
Wembley Stadium. On December 5, replacement rhythm guitarist
Gilby Clarke made his debut in Worcester, at the first show after the release of
Use Your Illusion I and
Use Your Illusion II. On April 13 and 14, 1992, two concerts had to be canceled when a warrant was issued for Rose's arrest due to his behavior at the St. Louis show. On April 20, 1992, the band performed at the
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, an effort for
AIDS Awareness in London. The band was a controversial addition to the lineup, as many in the gay community were still angry over Rose using a homophobic slur in "
One in a Million." The band opened with "Paradise City" and closed with "
Knockin' on Heaven's Door." During the famous "Paradise City" opening, Axl pointed at protesters in the audience and yelled, "SHOVE IT!" He had planned to address the controversy between songs, but was asked not to by the band as it would pull the spotlight from
Queen and
Freddie Mercury. As Slash concluded a short cover of
Alice Cooper's "
Only Women Bleed", Duff McKagan kept an eye on Rose, who approached the front of the stage. When Slash finished the song, then strummed the beginning of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", McKagan walked over to Rose and shook his hand in appreciation. Later in the show, Slash joined
Joe Elliott of
Def Leppard and the surviving members of Queen for "
Tie Your Mother Down." Rose sang "
We Will Rock You" and finished "
Bohemian Rhapsody" with
Elton John and Queen. The show was broadcast live around the world via
satellite, gathering the largest audience for a music concert in history. On November 30, 1992, the band performed for the first time in
Bogotá, Colombia. When they started to play "
November Rain", a soft rain fell over the city and stopped right after they finished the song. Rose later stated this was a special moment for him because "November Rain" was #1 in Colombia for 60 weeks. Rose stated that the band were at risk of electrocution and must stop to dry the stage. The band moved backstage and returned to finish with "
Don't Cry" and "Paradise City." On December 2, 1992, the band performed in
Santiago, Chile, at
Estadio Nacional in front of 85,535 people, breaking an attendance record in the stadium. At their arriving at Chile, Rose attacked some graphic reporters and a cameraman was injured. Before the concert, Rose got drunk and arrived at the stadium two hours late. While the band performed "
Civil War" some people threw bottles to the stage, and Rose stopped four minutes into the show. The concert ended with 50 people arrested outside the stadium, and a teenage fan with several injuries, dying two days later. On February 1, 1993, the band performed at the
Calder Park Raceway in
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia. The concert started late due to earlier heavy rain, with minimal shelter available for those attending. The concert was fraught with controversy, including reports that security staff had prohibited patrons from bringing their own food, drinks and sunscreen into the venue; this most seriously affected a diabetic teenage girl, whose medication and carefully portioned food were confiscated. The weather was very hot on that day, reportedly , and reportedly 1000 people were treated for heat-related illness. Many concertgoers went to the venue on special shuttle buses, which left the venue shortly after Guns N' Roses performed their final song. This, combined with a refusal to extend train timetables, left many concertgoers stranded. There are reports that they walked all the way down the Calder Highway back to Melbourne, looting a
7-Eleven on the highway for food. An inquiry into the conditions was held, with the findings published by
Ombudsman Victoria in May 1993. To this day, this was the last ever concert to be performed at Calder Park. In February 1993, Gilby Clarke told
BBC Radio 1's
Friday Rock Show: "For the last year and a half, we had a film crew with us. They do film every show and things backstage: hotel rooms, everything. And what we're gonna do at the end of the whole tour – which is actually after we're done in Europe – is put it all together, and we are gonna make a movie. It's pretty candid right now, so it's gonna be really great. The difference between ours and
Madonna's is that ours isn't scripted. This movie is actually things that are happening around us." He also said Guns N' Roses would record an
MTV Unplugged during their stay in Russia. Neither of these plans came to fruition. On April 3 1993, in Sacramento, the concert was abruptly ended after an audience member hit McKagan with a urine filled bottle forcing him to be hospitalized. Rose informed the audience and angrily walked off. A few minutes later Slash further addressed the audience about the situation. To prevent another riot from occurring, he told the audience to leave without any violence or hostility towards any of the crew, staff or audience members. Stradlin returned for several shows in 1993, deputizing for an injured Clarke. "It was weird," he recalled. "We toured Greece, Istanbul, London
[sic]. I liked that side of it – seeing some places I'd never seen… [But] money was a big sore point. I did the dates just for salary… [At the end] I didn't actually say 'See you', cos they were all fucked up… It was like playing with zombies." On July 17, 1993, the band performed in
Buenos Aires, Argentina at
River Plate Stadium in front of 80,000 people. It was their last show with most of the
Use Your Illusion-era lineup (Rose, Slash, McKagan, Sorum, Reed, and Clarke). The tour was renamed the "Skin N' Bones Tour" for the last couple of legs and included an unplugged performance in a living room set. A highlight of the night was
Cozy Powell dressed as a
Domino's Pizza delivery boy playing drums with Sorum. ==Tour dates==