Axl Rose has kicked and thrown his mic at new Guns N’ Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter’s kit and stormed off stage at a show in Argentina.
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The band are in the middle of a South American tour and on Saturday (October 18), they played the second of two shows at Estadio Huracan in Buenos Aires. During the show’s opening number ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, the frontman appeared to lose his temper and take it out on the drumkit.
After finishing the song’s chorus, he threw his microphone at the kit, tore off his leather jacket and stormed off stage. Elsewhere in the show, he walked up the drum riser and directly kicked the bass drum.
“So, I’ll just try and wing this,” he told the crowd in one clip that has surfaced online. It is unclear if he was angry at his bandmates or the sound on stage. Watch footage here:
In March, the band’s long-term drummer Frank Ferrer, who had been with them since 2006, left the band in what was initially described as an “amicable exit”, although he later shared his “disappointment” that his time with the band had finished.
One day later, AWOLNATION’s Carpenter was announced as their new drummer, having previously worked with GNR’s bassist Duff McKagan’s band Loaded.
Last week, Slash hinted that a new Guns N’ Roses albums is “coming”, saying that “everybody [in the band] is thinking about it”. The band have not released a full-length album since 2008’s much-delayed ‘Chinese Democracy’, while the last LP that either Slash or McKagan appeared on was the 1993 covers album ‘The Spaghetti Incident?’.
“There’s so much material at this point – it’s a matter of having the discipline to sit down and fucking get into it,” he said. “But the thing with Guns is, in my experience, you can never plan ahead. You can never sit down and go, ‘We’re going to take this time, and we’re going to do this.’ Every time we’ve done that, it falls apart.”
NME caught the band’s Glastonbury headline performance in 2023, calling it “one of their strongest sets in recent years” in a three-star review.
“To any G’N’R fan, the Glasto set undoubtedly marks one of the strongest sets that the rock veterans have given in recent years — completely devoid of sound issues, Axl Rose’s vocals in pretty good form, Slash at the top of his game and, probably the second biggest shock of the night, the band beginning the performance bang on time.”