Guns N’ Roses Play Rare Deep Cut Live for First Time in 35 Years at São Paulo Show

Guns N’ Roses unearthed a deep cut during their recent South American tour stop.

While headlining Monsters of Rock Brazil at São Paulo’s Allianz Parque on Saturday (April 5), the rock icons performed the Use Your Illusion I track “Bad Apples” live for the first time in 35 years.

This marks only the second live performance of the song, which they debuted at Brazil’s Rock in Rio in 1991, according to Rolling Stone. Slash has also revisited the gritty track with his side band Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.

Saturday’s show also featured the rarely heard “Dead Horse,” from Use Your Illusion I, as well as Appetite for Destruction’s “Rocket Queen.”

During an interview earlier this year with Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3, Slash promised that Guns N’ Roses would play both new and old songs on their 2026 world tour, which launched March 28 at the Tecate Pa’l Norte festival in Monterrey, Mexico. That opening show featured the live debuts of last December’s “Atlas” and “Nothin’,” the first new songs from GNR since their 2023 one-off singles “The General” and “Perhaps.”

During the interview, the famed guitarist also teased that GNR may be releasing new material in the near future: a possible collection of older tracks the band has been slowly releasing over the past few years, as well as the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s Chinese Democracy.

“I think in this instance it’s what we’re doing, because we only re-recorded those songs — like a couple of songs here, a couple of songs there. These were the last two that are left to do, and we actually did them not even back to back,” Slash said of “Nothin’” and “Atlas.”

“And then there’s really no more of that sort of old rehash stuff to release,” the musician added of the vault-clearing. “But I think what we’re gonna do, we’re gonna take all those songs and put them on something and release that as a package. And then the next record that we’re gonna do is gonna be all new original stuff, and that’ll be an actual album.”

Guns N’ Roses’ next performance is scheduled for April 7 in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, followed by several more Brazilian stops before heading to Florida in late April.