Duff McKagan was joined by The Wallflowers’ Jakob Dylan for a live cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ this week – check out footage below.
The Guns N’ Roses bassist announced his current solo US tour in May, which is in support of his 2023 album ‘Lighthouse’. The string of shows began on Monday (November 4) in Boston, and that show at the Paradise Rock Club saw him joined by Dylan, son of music legend Bob.
Dylan took on rhythm guitar and vocals on the cover, while McKagan also played acoustic guitar on the track and lent his own vocals too. See fan-captured footage of it here:
McKagan’s opening show of the tour also included covers of Johnny Thunders’ ‘You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory’, The Crickets’ ‘I Fought The Law’ and The Stooges’ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’.
Duff McKagan played:
‘Forgiveness’
‘Chip Away’
‘This Is the Song’
‘I Saw God on 10th St’
‘Tenderness’
‘Feel’
‘Holy Water’
‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’
‘All Turning Loose’
‘I Just Don’t Know’
‘Fallen Ones’
‘Fallen’
‘Wasted Heart’
‘Longfeather’
‘Just Another Shakedown’
‘True to the Death’
‘I Fought the Law’
‘You’re Crazy’
‘Lighthouse’
‘You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory’
‘Heroes’
‘Don’t Look Behind You’
In September, McKagan shared his studio version of the 1977 Bowie classic. “We thought it was good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour,” he wrote at the time. “Choosing David Bowie’s HEROES seemed to be a natural subject matter for me (I am of course, a massive history nerd)…star-crossed lovers in the shadow of the mid-70’s cold-war era Berlin Wall.”
‘Lighthouse’, which is his third album following 1993’s ‘Believe In Me’ and 2019’s ‘Tenderness’, featured guest appearances by Iggy Pop, Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, and longtime Guns N’ Roses bandmate Slash, among others.
In March, McKagan shared how Iggy Pop helped him through a “bad mushroom trip” when he was a teenager. “I went to an Iggy show way too high on mushrooms, thinking I was going to have to go to the hospital, freaking out,” he said on a podcast.
“I just watched Iggy the whole, just tripping way too much on psychedelics. But he brought me down. And I was already a big Iggy fan, but then I was like, he means more to me. He’s a waypoint for me in my life.”