Guns N’ Roses bypasses Cleveland for Columbus on new tour

Do you know where you are? It’s not Cleveland, baby.

Guns N’ Roses has announced a 25-city tour that will include a Sept. 23 stop at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus. The opening act at 7 p.m. will be Wolfgang Van Halen’s new band Mammoth WVH.

Tickets go on sale to the public at noon Friday.

The band includes the classic triumvirate of vocalist Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan, along with guitarist Richard Fortus, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese.

While Guns N’ Roses was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, the band is bypassing Cleveland this tour — at least so far.

The tour will kick off July 31 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Many of the shows are makeup dates after the pandemic forced cancellations last year, but the Ohio concert is newly added.

If you don’t mind driving, the tour will also stop Aug. 8 at Comerica Park in Detroit.

Known for such songs as “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” “Paradise City” and “November Rain,” Guns N’ Roses broke records with its sold-out “Not in This Lifetime” reunion tour from 2016 to 2019.

For tickets or more information, go to ticketmaster.com.

Mark J. Price can be reached at mprice@thebeaconjournal.com.