Guns N’ Roses opened their 2026 North American tour with a 29-song concert at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, on 23 July. The lengthy show combined the band’s biggest hits, newer material and several covers, signalling the scale and retrospective focus of a tour that runs until 19 September in Atlanta.

The set began with “Welcome to the Jungle” and ended with “Paradise City”, with eight songs drawn from Appetite for Destruction. The band also paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Black Sabbath’s “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, displaying his image on screens, and marked guitarist Slash’s 61st birthday with “Happy Birthday”; Public Enemy opened the Raleigh date with a 10-song set.