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The Guns N’ Roses tour is going awesome, according to Duff McKagan
The first video update from Guns N’ Roses’ 2025 world tour, which began on May 1 at Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in Incheon, South Korea, has been released by bassist Duff McKagan. In March, Frank Ferrer, the drummer with the longest tenure in Guns N’ Roses’ legendary career, was replaced by Isaac Carpenter, who made the band’s first live performance.
These first few dates of the GUNS tour have been fucking awesome, starting in Korea, which I’d never played before, in Seoul, which was super cool. I really, really like that country. I like how they roll. It’s fucking awesome. The crowd was amazing. Back to Tokyo… I’m writing now for Hit Parader. Hit Parader’s relaunching, so the first issue is [coming out] June 1st. And I’m a columnist for the new Hit Parader, so we’ll see how that goes. But I wrote an article — hopefully it’s okay — about sort of the rock and roll history of Tokyo and Japan. And then with my own experiences dating back to 1988, to now. Tokyo right now is so fresh in my mind ’cause I just finished the column. Yeah, while I was in Tokyo this time, my wife and daughter Mae were there and a couple of her friends. So we did some fun stuff. But I had a Fender event at the only Fender store in the world. It’s a three-story, very impressive store, right in Harajuku, where my favorite kind of punk rock clothing shop is. It’s called Jim Sinn. It’s in Harajuku. It’s right by the Fender store. They’ve become friends of mine over the years. They love Susan. We’ve made that our pilgrimage to that punk rock clothing store. Then at the Fender event, I had Isaac come and play. Instead of me just playing bass and having like a clinic, I had Isaac come, and he played drums and we played little bits and pieces of a bunch of GUNS songs. And it was super fun. Playing Taiwan again was great. Taipei’s a great city. We are now in Bangkok, and more to come on that.