Guns N’ Roses are in the midst of their 2023 world tour, which stopped in East Rutherford, NJ on Tuesday night (8/15) for a show at MetLife Stadium with The Pretenders (who played a much more intimate NYC show at Bowery Ballroom last night) and surprise guest opener Andrew Dice Clay. Andrew told People it was a “full circle” moment after the comedian had opened for the band “back in the day,” 30 years ago at Pasadena, CA’s Rose Bowl. See pictures from Guns N’ Roses’ set by Guilherme Neto, their setlist, and attendee-taken video below.
In 2021 the band released their first new songs in 13 years, “Absurd” and “Hard Skool,” both reworked tracks from the Chinese Democracy sessions. They’ve announced “Perhaps,” which a press release says was “written and recorded by Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan this year,” and is their “first collective new composition and recording together in thirty years since 1993’s The Spaghetti Incident?” The song leaked on bar jukeboxes that use TouchTunes over the weekend, but it hasn’t made its way to streaming services officially yet; at the moment it’s only playing on Audacy stations. Stay tuned.
SETLIST: GUNS N’ ROSES @ METLIFE STADIUM, 8/15/2023 (via)
It’s So Easy
Bad Obsession
Chinese Democracy
Slither (Velvet Revolver)
Hard Skool
Mr. Brownstone
Welcome to the Jungle
Pretty Tied Up
Absurd
Double Talkin’ Jive
Estranged
Down on the Farm (UK Subs)
Live and Let Die (Wings)
Rocket Queen
Reckless Life
You Could Be Mine
T.V. Eye (The Stooges)
Anything Goes
Civil War
Slash Guitar Solo
Sweet Child o’ Mine
November Rain
Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)
Catcher in the Rye
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan)
Nightrain
Encore:
Coma
Walk All Over You (AC/DC)
Patience
Paradise City
