GUNS N’ ROSESĀ played its new songĀ “Hard Skool”Ā live for the first time during last night’s (Sunday, September 26) concert at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below.
“This is something about lower education,” frontmanĀ Axl RoseĀ told the audience before launching into the track.
Written byĀ RoseĀ and co-produced byĀ RoseĀ andĀ Caram Costanzo, the trackĀ “Hard Skool”, which had the working titleĀ “Jackie Chan”, was originally recorded duringĀ GN’R‘sĀ “Chinese Democracy”Ā era but was eventually omitted from that album. Short clips of the song were later posted online and a full version was leaked in August 2019.
More recently, the partially reunited classic lineup ofĀ GUNS N’ ROSESĀ rehearsed the track during soundcheck at several concerts on the band’s summer 2021 tour but has yet to perform it live.
Rumors of the new song’s imminent release began to circulate earlier in the month after a fan was reportedly told about it byĀ RoseĀ when they met backstage at a recent show in Atlantic City.
OnĀ “Hard Skool”,Ā AxlĀ sings: “But you had to play it cool, had to do it your way/Had to be a fool, had to throw it all away/Too hard school and you thought you were here to stay/ If that were true, it wouldn’t matter anyway.”
“Hard Skool”Ā is the title track of a newĀ GUNS N’ ROSESĀ four-song EP which will be released on February 25, 2022. The effort, which is exclusive to theĀ GUNS N’ ROSESĀ official store, contains the two new songs the band released in the last two months āĀ “Hard Skool”Ā andĀ “Absurd”Ā (stylized asĀ “ABSUŠÆD”) ā as well as live versions ofĀ “Don’t Cry”Ā andĀ “You’re Crazy”.
“Absurd”, a reworked version of a previously unreleased track calledĀ “Silkworms”, came out on August 6, three days after the band performed the tune live for the first time during its concert at Boston’s Fenway Park.
GUNS N’ ROSESĀ last performedĀ “Silkworms”, which was also reportedly written during theĀ “Chinese Democracy”Ā sessions, in 2001.
The band is now said to be working on a new studio album ā the first under theĀ GUNSĀ banner sinceĀ “Chinese Democracy”Ā and the first to featureĀ Rose, guitaristĀ SlashĀ and bassistĀ Duff McKaganĀ since 1993.
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