GUNS N’ ROSES kicked off their highly anticipated 2025 world tour on Thursday night at Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in Incheon, South Korea. The show marked a new chapter for the legendary rock band, not only as the first stop on their global trek — titled Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things — but also as the live debut of drummer Isaac Carpenter.
Carpenter officially joined the band in March, replacing longtime drummer Frank Ferrer. Though new to the GN’R lineup, Carpenter is no stranger to its orbit. He previously played with bassist Duff McKagan‘s side project LOADED from 2009 to 2011 and appeared on their 2011 album The Taking.
The most significant surprise during GUNS N ROSES‘ performance, aside from the usual, was the rearranged setlist. For the first time since 2012, they kicked things off with the iconic “Welcome to the Jungle,” a shift from their more recent go-to opener, “It’s So Easy,” which appeared later in the show according to setlist.fm.
As expected, their groundbreaking debut album, Appetite for Destruction, formed the core of the set, with seven of its twelve tracks making the cut, including classics like “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Nightrain,” and their customary closing number, “Paradise City.” Fans were also treated to the Use Your Illusion epics “November Rain,” “Coma,” and “Estranged,” along with the less frequently played “Bad Obsession.” Their Chinese Democracy era was represented by “Better,” “Sorry,” and the album’s title track.
Full setlist was as follows:
1. “Welcome to the Jungle” (first time as opener since Feb. 10, 2012)
2. “Bad Obsession”
3. “Mr. Brownstone”
4. “Chinese Democracy”
5. “Live and Let Die” (Wings cover)
6. “Slither” (Velvet Revolver cover)
7. “Perhaps”
8. “Estranged”
9. “Double Talkin’ Jive”
10. “Coma”
11. “Sorry”
12. “Better”
13. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan cover)
14. “It’s So Easy”
15. “Rocket Queen”
16. Slash guitar solo (“Pride & Joy” by Steve Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble)
17. “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
18. “November Rain”
19. “Wichita Lineman” (Jimmy Webb cover)
20. “Patience”
21. “Nightrain”
22. “Paradise City”
Source: metaladdicts.com
