Guns N’ Roses Kick Off 2025 World Tour in South Korea
Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2025 "Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things Tour" Thursday evening at Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in Incheon, South Korea. The setlist will be similar to anyone who has seen the band during their reunion era, but it was their first time opening a show with "Welcome to the Jungle" since Slash and Duff McKagan re-joined the band in 2016.
More importantly, it was their first appearance with new drummer Isaac Carpenter. He replaced longtime drummer Frank Ferrer earlier this year for reasons that were never publicly explained. Ferrer wrote to fans in March, expressing immense gratitude and love for the band, while also feeling disappointment that this chapter came to an end.
Carpenter, 45, played in a Guns N’ Roses cover band in high school called .22s and Tulips. In 2009, he joined McKagan’s side project Loaded, placing him in a position to live out his high school dreams once Guns parted ways with Ferrer. This is the first change in the Guns N’ Roses touring band lineup since the start of the reunion period in 2016. Carpenter is the band’s sixth drummer following Steven Adler, Matt Sorum, John Freese, Bryan “Brain” Mantia, and Ferrer.
The tour continues May 5 at the K Arena in Yokohama, Japan. Unless more dates are added, it wraps up July 31 at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. They’ll be joined along the way by Public Enemy, Rival Songs, and the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter.
Guns N’ Roses have released a series of singles over the past few years, including "Absurd," "Hard Skull," "Perhaps," and "The General," but they all date back to the Chinese Democracy sessions about two decades back. They have yet to release any songs written since Slash and McKagan came back. There has been talk of a new album, but no solid evidence that one is in the works.
From Rolling Stone US
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