Weapons N’ Roses kicked off their 2023 world tour on Thursday at Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Area and dusted off just a few hardly ever heard tunes within the course of.
The rarities started with the second track of the night time, as GNR rocked by way of their Use Your Phantasm I album reduce “Unhealthy Obsession” for the primary time in greater than 30 years. Later, “Fairly Tied Up” from Use Your Phantasm II made its first set checklist look since 1992. In the meantime, “Down on the Farm,” initially launched on The Spaghetti Incident?, was carried out for the primary time since 2006.
The oldest track the band unearthed was “Something Goes,” a observe from Urge for food for Destruction that, in line with Setlist.fm, has been carried out by GNR solely 40 occasions. The group final performed the track in live performance in 1988.
The Abu Dhabi present additionally featured a stay debut, as GNR lined the Stooges’ “T.V. Eye” for the primary time. The gig marked Weapons N’ Roses’ first live performance in practically six months. You may see the complete set checklist and movies from the efficiency beneath.
Watch Weapons N’ Roses Carry out ‘Unhealthy Obsession’ in Abu Dhabi
Watch Weapons N’ Roses Carry out ‘Something Goes’ in Abu Dhabi
As a result of room needed to be made for these new additions, current set checklist mainstays “Higher,” “Shadow of Your Love,” “Sorry,” “Coma” and “I Wanna Be Your Canine” (one other Stooges cowl) had been eradicated from the present.
Weapons N’ Roses will play Tel Aviv on Monday earlier than heading to Europe, the place they will keep by way of late July. They will spherical out the tour with a sequence of North American dates lasting from early August by way of mid-October. The rockers might be supported on numerous dates by the Pretenders, Alice in Chains, Carrie Underwood, Soiled Honey and others.
They will additionally play a handful of festivals, together with the inaugural Energy Journey in Indio, California, alongside Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica and Device.
Watch Weapons N’ Roses Carry out ‘Fairly Tied Up’ in Abu Dhabi
Weapons N’ Roses, 6/1/23, Etihad Area, Abu Dhabi
1. “It is So Straightforward”
2. “Unhealthy Obsession”
3. “Chinese language Democracy”
4. “Slither”
5. “Fairly Tied Up”
6. “Welcome to the Jungle”
7. “Mr. Brownstone”
8. “Arduous Skool”
9. “Double Talkin’ Jive”
10. “Reckless Life”
11. “Absurd”
12. “You May Be Mine”
13. “Down on the Farm”
14. “Rocket Queen”
15. “T.V. Eye”
16. “Something Goes”
17. “Civil Battle”
18. “This I Love”
19. “Reside and Let Die”
20. “Estranged”
21. Slash Guitar Solo
22. “Candy Baby o’ Mine”
23. “November Rain”
24. “Wichita Lineman”
25. “Road of Desires”
26. “Good Boys”
27. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
28. “Nightrain”
29. “Endurance”
30. “Do not Cry”
31. “My Michelle”
32. “Paradise Metropolis”
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