By Drew Carrano
The Guns N’ Roses 2020 North American Tour is scheduled to begin in early July in Philadelphia. The summer tour will hit stadiums across the country, including Boston’s Fenway Park and New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. We’ll have to wait and see if these shows will even happen, but while we wait, let’s re-visit the last time they played here in Connecticut.
Today’s Throwback Concert:
Guns N’ Roses
Not In This Lifetime Tour
Monday October 23, 2017
The XL Center – Hartford
About The Tour: In late 2015 rumors were swirling across the internet of a possible Guns N’ Roses reunion. It wasn’t until early January 2016 these rumors became reality when Coachella announced a Guns N’ Roses lineup that included Slash and Duff McKagan, along with singer Axl Rose. The “Not In this Lifetime Tour” officially kicked off at the tiny Troubadour (capacity 500) in West Hollywood on April 1, 2016. An April Fools Joke it wasn’t. The band was indeed back together and ready to take over the world again.
The tour would visit nearly 160 cities over a three-and-a-half year period. Many of the show, like in Hartford, were three hours long. Fans were treated to classic GNR anthems like Welcome To The Jungle and Paradise City, to fan favorites like Civil War and Yesterdays, to fantastic covers like AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie (which in Hartford Axl dedicated to the late George Young, who passed away the day before) and The Who’s The Seeker.
According to Pollstar, Guns N’ Roses had the highest grossing global tour of 2017. Not a bad way to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Appetite For Destruction!
Setlist*
- It’s So Easy
- Mr. Brownstone
- Chinese Democracy
- Welcome To The Jungle
- Double Talkin’ Jive
- Better
- Estranged
- Live and Let Die
- Rocket Queen
- You Could Be Mine
- New Rose (The Damned cover)
- This I Love
- Prostitute
- Civil War
- Yesterdays
- Coma
- Slash Guitar Solo
- Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From The Godfather) (Nino Rota cover)
- Sweet Child O’ Mine
- Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb cover)
- Use To Love Her
- My Michelle
- Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd cover)
- November Rain
- Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden cover)
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan cover)
- Nightrain
- Madagascar (encore)
- Patience (encore)
- Whole Lotta Rosie (AC/DC cover) (encore)
- Don’t Cry (encore)
- The Seeker (The Who cover) (encore)
- Paradise City (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Watch: Guns N’ Roses at XL Center