Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  While originally slated to commence in Las Vegas on April 8, 2016, a previously unannounced warmup gig at the Troubadour in Los Angeles took place on April 1, 2016. Rumors of the secret show had started the night before, and fans were starting to gather outside the old Tower Records building at Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Rumblings that a ticket sale for the show would take place there started a line of people that grew during the night and into the early morning of April 1. Then, during the morning, the announcement came that the rumors were true and tickets for the club 
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  The Not in This Lifetime... Tour was a concert tour by hard rock band Guns N' Roses, spanning from April 1, 2016 to November 2, 2019. It featured classic lineup members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, marking the first time since the Use Your Illusion Tour in 1993 that the three performed together. After the previous tour in 2014, guitarists DJ Ashba & Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, bassist Tommy Stinson and keyboardist Chris Pitman left Guns N' Roses, leaving the band with several open spots. Former members Slash and McKagan rejoined the band and Melissa Reese joined as keyboardist. The group embarked on a world tour that spanned all continents except Antarctica. They performed 175 shows making 
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  tour was honored at the Billboard Touring Awards in November 2017, winning Top Tour/Top Draw and being nominated for Top Boxscore. The Tour was also nominated for Top Rock Tour at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, with the band being nominated for Top Touring Artist and Top Duo/Group as well. In 2018, they were nominated for Top Touring artist and Top Rock Tour. The band also received the inaugural Ticketmaster Touring Milestone Award in 2019. The tour wrapped up after 158 concerts with $584.2 million grossed and 5,371,891 tickets sold. It became third highest-grossing tour in the history of Billboard's Boxscore.
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  with more than 565,000 tickets sold. They played 13 shows in 11 cities, selling out 8 of them. By the end of 2016 the band had played for over 1.8 million people and grossed $192 million. The 2017 European and North American legs of the tour sold one million tickets just 24 hours after going on sale in late 2016. The tour was the highest earning per-city concert tour in 2016, making $5.5 million per show, as well as the fourth highest-grossing tour of 2016. Additionally, the tour was the second highest grossing North American Tour (the highest grossing of any band) 
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  2016, grossing $130.8 million in North America. The shows at MetLife Stadium on July 23 and 24 were ranked as the 9th highest grossing of the year by Pollstar, earning a combined $11.2 million. In Australia and New Zealand, the sold-out shows amounted to over 350,000 tickets. During the first half of 2017 dates have grossed a total of $151.5 million, while the single biggest concert gross of the year, so far, is Guns N' Roses' London Stadium shows which sold 139,000 tickets and grossed $17.3 million over two nights. The tour has of now surpassed $480 million in gross revenue. 
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  their third longest tour ever, just behind the Use Your Illusion Tour and the Chinese Democracy Tour. The group welcomed former drummer Steven Adler to the stage for several shows as a guest spot, the first time he had played with the group since 1990. The tour has been a financial success, grossing over $584.2 million, making it the third-highest-grossing concert tour of all time. The tour was 2016's highest-earning per-city global concert tour as well as the fourth-highest-grossing overall that year. In 2017 the tour ranked as the second highest grossing worldwide tour. The tour was honored at the Billboard Live Music Awards in November 2017, winning Top Tour/Top Draw and being nominated for Top Boxscore.
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  tour dubbed "Not in This Lifetime...". The tour's name is a reference to a 2012 interview in which Rose, when asked about when a potential reunion would happen, responded "not in this lifetime." The reunion was billed as a "regrouping" by the band instead of a full reunion, since Slash and McKagan were filling empty spots in the existing band lineup. Additional dates in Chicago, New England, New York, and Los Angeles were announced on April 25 due to shows selling out. On May 18, Alice In Chains and Lenny Kravitz were announced as openers for select shows of the tour. Two weeks 
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  joined the band as co-headliners. The eighth leg of the tour did not feature any opening acts, allowing the band to play earlier. Leg 9 of the tour featured returning opening act Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown, and new opening acts such as Volbeat, Gojira, Nothing More The Dead Daisies (a band Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Dizzy Reed were previously a part of) Jonathan Davis of Korn, Ghost, Graveyard, Rival Sons Manic Street Preachers, Greta Van Fleet, Russian band Other Noises, and The Pink Slips A new tour with The Smashing Pumpkins as openers was planned for 2020; however it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  the tour began, The Cult, Chris Stapleton, Billy Talent, and Skrillex were announced as additional openers for select shows. On June 30, Wolfmother and Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown were announced for several shows. Zakk Wylde was added as an additional opener to the band's show of August 15 in Glendale, Arizona. Additional legs of the tour were announced throughout the year, including Latin American, Asian, and Oceanian legs. Babymetal was announced as openers for the Japanese shows in 2017. In late November, commercials started airing in the United States with footage from the tour with the tagline "They're back for more in 
Title: Not in This Lifetime... Tour
Content:  at the Troubadour – some questions were answered. They did bring back "Double Talkin’ Jive" from Use Your Illusion I, while they also played tracks from Chinese Democracy, "Chinese Democracy" and "Better". This development continued at the first arena-sized show at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas where they further extended the setlist with songs like "Coma" and "This I Love", where the former had not been performed by the band since 1993. "The Godfather theme", which used to be a staple Slash solo number during past tours, was also brought back into the set. A few shows into the first leg, during the second show in Mexico City, they debuted "There Was 

Question: when did the not in this lifetime tour start?
Answer: April 1, 2016.
April 8, 2016.
April 1, 2016.