Watch Guns N’ Roses Kick Off 2025 Tour With 1st ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ Opener Since 2012

Guns N’ Roses launched their Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things Tour at Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in Incheon, South Korea on Thursday. The renowned rockers delivered the first “Welcome to the Jungle” opener in 13 years to kick off the show.

Guns N’ Roses last began a show with the opener off their 1987 debut album Appetite for Destruction on February 10, 2012, as per Setlist.FM. Also noted on the website, the Incheon concert was the first to not feature customary opener “It’s So Easy,” since 2014. As the first song of the concert, “Welcome to the Jungle” was the first song new touring drummer Isaac Carpenter played with the band in public.

Watch Guns N’ Roses kick off their 2025 Tour with “Welcome to the Jungle” below:

Elsewhere in the concert, GNR delivered their hit covers of Paul McCartney & Wings’ “Live and Let Die” and Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” led by frontman Axl Rose. Guitarist Slash’s solo section saw him tackling “Pride & Joy” by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Additional favorites performed included “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” “November Rain” and closer “Paradise City.” Watch the latter below:

Guns N’ Roses’ Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things Tour continues on May 5 in Yokohama, Japan. Scroll down for GNR’s itinerary and ticket info.