Watch Slash play Guns N’ Roses ‘Use Your Illusion’ deep cut live for the first time

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Slash has played a Guns N’ Roses deep cut live for the first time – watch the footage below.The Guns N’ Roses guitarist has just kicked off his 2024 world tour with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, where he began in Mexico City on January 23.There, he treated fans to a surprise performance of ‘Don’t Damn Me’ – the first time it has ever been played live. ‘Don’t Damn Me’ is a deep cut from the 1991 album ‘Use Your Illusion I’.According to a 2014 interview, Slash said the reason why the song had never been played before was because it had “too many words”. “You know, it’s a cool song and everything,” he explained. “I think even [with] Axl [Rose], we never did it because it was just too many words without a breath, and it just makes it really impossible to do it live.”Myles Kennedy seems to have handled the job pretty well – watch the moment below:Recently, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has defended the band’s tendency to play three-and-a-half-hour sets.“Don’t get me wrong – my body would love it if we only played two-and-a-half-hours,” he explained. “Most bands, like, play two hours.

Two hours and 10 minutes or something, and we’re playing three [hours and] thirty [minutes]. I’d love to play shorter because, just, I’d be in less pain the next day.“But, there’s just too many songs, and people stay for the whole thing.