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Welcome to the jungle: Ticket sales start Friday for Guns N’ Roses show
YOUNGSTOWN
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a Guns N’ Roses concert at the Covelli Centre.
The hard-rock band’s concert is Dec. 7 at the city-owned facility with about 6,000 tickets available for the show.
“Youngstown loves rock,” said Eric Ryan, the center’s executive director. “It’s a big show for us.”
The last rock concert at Covelli, a July 29 show with Motley Crue and Poison, was a 6,000-ticket sellout.
Ryan expects Guns N’ Roses to also be a sellout.
Tickets will be available on ticketmaster.com on the web, by phone at 800-745-3000 and at the Covelli Centre box office.
Tickets are $45, $59.50 and $75.
“It should be a really good show for us,” Ryan said. “We’re excited to have it.”
The band hasn’t toured in North America in five years. Guns N’ Roses spent the last year playing concerts around the world.
Axl Rose, the lead singer, is the only founding member still in the band. The last of the other original members left in 1997. Since then, the band has released only one studio album, “Chinese Democracy.”
The band enjoyed tremendous success between 1987 and 1993, with major concert tours and hit songs such as “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Paradise City” “November Rain,” and “Don’t Cry.”
The Guns N’ Roses show isn’t the only concert coming to the Covelli Centre in the next few months, Ryan said.
Ryan said in the next few weeks, the center will announce at least two concerts for early 2012.
“We have a few concerts in the bag, and we’re just finishing the details,” said Ryan, who declined to discuss those shows.
Other concerts already booked at the center with tickets on sale are: Straight No Chaser, an a cappella singing group, on Nov. 4; country musician Trace Adkins on Nov. 18, and the Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis, the group’s founder, on Dec. 9.