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Photo by Shawn Macomber<\/p>\n
You\u2019re in the jungle, baby. You\u2019re gonna\u2026thrive?<\/p>\n
Seriously, though, there is something enlivening and life-affirming, healing and inspiring, about a Guns N\u2019 Roses concert<\/a> in the year of our lord two-thousand-and-twenty-six: Once upon a time, the group \u2014 which raised the \u201980s Sunset Strip glam-infused hard rock scene to apotheosis and essentially drove the money-changing poseurs out of the rock n\u2019 roll temple \u2014 may have lived up to its designation as \u201cThe Most Dangerous Band in the World.\u201d In the decade since the iconic trio of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash<\/a>, and bassist Duff McKagen set aside twenty-three years of acrimony and recrimination to launch the 2016 Not in This Lifetime\u2026Tour, however, the band serves as something of a traveling revival, showing sellout crowd after sellout crowd who arrive to hear \u201cMr. Brownstone\u201d and \u201cParadise City\u201d but instead are given a subtextual sermon on the dividends real forgiveness, ego-death, and comity can pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sign up for the Music newsletter to get the latest stories delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n THANK YOU!<\/p>\n You’re all set.<\/p>\n CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n As Rose sang Thursday night during the quote-unquote \u201cofficial kickoff concert for the 2026 Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix\u201d at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino<\/a> Hollywood on \u201cEstranged,\u201d the final single off 1991\u2019s sprawling and initial implosion-priming 1991 album \u201cUse Your Illusion II\u201d:<\/p>\n When you\u2019re talkin\u2019 to yourself This isn\u2019t to say the work any of the classic lineup players did\u2026well, not alone, but separately lacked value. (Sorry, but the 2008 Axl-helmed Guns N\u2019 Roses epic Chinese Democracy and the 2004 Scott-Weiland-plus-reconstituted-Gunners Velvet Revolver debut Contraband are fucking great.) Yet the power of the re-drawing of the three under the Guns banner is undeniable. First of all, the well of legacy, influence, and visibility the band draws from is almost impossibly deep: Not only is 1987\u2019s Appetite for Destruction the best-selling debut album in U.S. history, but only a few months ago the album simultaneously returned<\/a> to the Billboard 200, Top Hard Rock, and Top Rock and Alternative charts\u2026nearly forty years after its release. In an atomized and distracted culture, Guns N\u2019 Roses still has our attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n And then there is the remarkable live show which, though surely lucrative on an almost inconceivable level, is anything but a cash grab.\u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u2019s start first with Exhibit A, the setlist. A Guns N\u2019 Roses cynically chasing filthy lucre would show up, play the hits with one or two curveballs and a cover, and be back on the bus in an hour and ten. No one is showing up to play a wild, unpredictable almost three-hour set of twenty-seven songs that pays respect to both their work together (virtually all the MTV-era hits; deeper cuts like Use Your Illusion Is \u201cComa\u201d; the December 2025 single \u201cAtlas\u201d) and apart (Chinese Democracy stemwinders \u201cBetter\u201d and \u201cThis I Love\u201d; Velvet Revolver\u2019s \u201cSlither\u201d) as well as several scorching covers ranging from Wings\u2019 \u201cLive and Let Die,\u201d Dylan\u2019s \u201cKnockin\u2019 on Heaven\u2019s Door,\u201d and Glen Campbell\u2019s \u201cWichita Lineman\u201d to The Misfits\u2019 \u201cAttitude\u201d (which appeared on Guns\u2019 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident? and a left field tribute to Ozzy Osbourne via Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cSabbath Bloody Sabbath,\u201d complete with the deep, grinding staccato crunch of the closing stanzas and Axl believably roaring \u201cYou bastards!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n As for Exhibit B, I simply point you to the easy rapport and camaraderie the current lineup has on stage, intermingling between each other with the casual, easy swagger of old pros with little if anything to prove. Axl seems \u2014 dare we say \u2014 not just content but truly happy. Jovial, even. His voice does bear the marks of years of hard riding in service of an unmatched rasp n\u2019 howl, but he still sounds great and in no way resembles the diminishment some asshole clickbait dishonest clip harvesters present. Age is real (Rose is 64) but so is this man\u2019s very-much-living legend. The stage no longer seems for him like a battleground upon which he is fighting an all-out war with the world or his demons. The vibe is more like a platform from which Rose shares with the world his incredible musical gifts as well as the tools and anthems to bolster the crowd in their own battles.\u00a0<\/p>\n If W. Axl Rose can find and share peace, what in the ever-living hell is our excuse?<\/p>\n Guns N\u2019 Roses returns to the Hard Rock on Tuesday, May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The well of legacy, influence, and visibility the band draws from is almost impossibly deep. 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Guns N\u2019 Roses performs at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix kickoff concert at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.<\/p>\n
And nobody\u2019s home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone<\/p>\n![\"Photo:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Guns-N-Roses-3.jpg\")
Guns N\u2019 Roses performs at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix kickoff concert at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.<\/p>\n![\"Photo:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Guns-N-Roses-4.jpg\")
Guns N\u2019 Roses performs at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix kickoff concert at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.<\/p>\n![\"Photo:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Guns-N-Roses-5.jpg\")
Guns N\u2019 Roses performs at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix kickoff concert at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.<\/p>\n