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Edited by Jonathan Cohen
/ May 10, 2001,
4:00 PM
Guns N'
Roses Euro Tour Up In The Air
| A planned 15-date European
Guns N' Roses tour is in limbo due to health concerns relating to
guitarist Buckethead. A management spokesperson tells Billboard.com
that the dates -- set to begin June 1 at the Rock Im Park festival
in Nuremberg, Germany -- are "all on as of right now." The
spokesperson added that the band is waiting to receive results of
Buckethead's medical tests before making a decision about the
tour.
The statement is contrary to
published reports suggesting that Buckethead's health has already
been deemed too fragile for the trek to go off as planned. The
guitarist was healthy enough to play a solo show late last month in
San Francisco, and is due to release a solo album, "Somewhere Over
the Slaughterhouse," next month on Stray Records.
As for Guns N' Roses' eternally delayed
Interscope/Geffen/A&M album, Merck Mercuriadis of Sanctuary
Music Management told Billboard earlier this month that the project
should be completed this fall. The group, which now includes lone
original member lead singer Axl Rose, has not released a new album
since 1993's "The Spaghetti Incident," a collection of covers.
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
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