Chinese Democracy Tour Europe, Asia and North America consisted of: After the 2002 tour was cancelled the band went into hiatus until they were scheduled to play at Rock in Rio Lisboa 1 in May 2004. However lead guitarist Buckethead left the band in March 2004 and their appearance was cancelled and Axl Rose made the following statement: Buckethead left Guns N' Roses, according to his manager, due to "Guns' inability to complete an album or tour". The Chinese Democracy Tour 2006 was a concert tour by Guns N' Roses promoting their upcoming album "Chinese Democracy". It started in May 2006 when the
Chinese Democracy However, plans fell through and only the "art edition" was released in limited quantities. By the time "Chinese Democracy" was released, only 3 of the 14 songs had not been leaked or played live. Music blogger Kevin Cogill streamed nine tracks of "Chinese Democracy" on his website Antiquiet for "an hour or two" in June 2008. Shortly after the leaked files were made available, the website server crashed because of the high volume of user traffic and the tracks were later removed. In August, the FBI arrested Cogill under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act for releasing copyrighted material. According