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Guns N’ Roses<\/a> and country superstar Chris Stapleton<\/a> performed at each other’s shows in Toronto, Canada this week.<\/p>\n The artists had back-to-back shows at the city’s Rogers Stadium, with Guns N’ Roses playing Wednesday night (Aug. 5) and Stapleton the following evening. During Guns’ show<\/a>, Stapleton came onstage to join the band during their rendition of Bob Dylan’<\/a>s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and sing a duet with Axl Rose<\/a>.<\/p>\n The next night, Stapleton told the crowd about his performance with GN’R about halfway through his set<\/a> and said that he wanted to play one of their songs to honor it. He introduced the\u00a0GN’R Lies\u00a0<\/em>track “Patience” as one of his favorite Guns songs, started to play it and then said it didn’t feel right.<\/p>\n Slash<\/a> and Duff McKagan<\/a> walked out onstage to play the acoustic song with Stapleton and he said, “This feels better.”<\/p>\n See fan-filmed videos of both performances below.<\/p>\n Guns and Stapleton do have a bit of a working history together, as the country artist was one of several acts that opened for GN’R during their reunion tour in 2016. Stapleton told\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>how “cool” it was when he got to meet Rose backstage.<\/p>\n “He was great. Very polite and gracious and we got to say hi for a few minutes. I\u2019m sure he was tired and had to go get cleaned up before the buses or planes rolled out, but he was a gentleman and we had a brief conversation about music and both went on our way. It was a good night,” Stapleton said.<\/p>\n \u201cI asked him how many nights in a row he can possibly scream like that and do all the high, high rock ‘n’ roll singing that he does. Because I know for myself I have limits and how many nights in a row I can actually sing. Then we discussed him doing stuff with AC\/DC<\/a> a little bit. It was conversations you don\u2019t think you\u2019re ever going to have.\u201d<\/p>\n Several years later, Slash called Stapleton out of the blue to ask him to sing on his solo blues covers album\u00a0Orgy of the Damned,\u00a0<\/em>which came out in 2024.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a012 Rock + Country Artist Collaborations That Go Hard<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Stapleton sang a cover of Fleetwood Mac<\/a>‘s “Oh Well” with the guitarist for the album.<\/p>\n \u201cHis singing cadence and that drawl that he has for this particular song, in my mind\u2019s eye, it sounded perfect,\u201d Slash told\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>of the collaboration. “I had to get his number and cold-call him and he was really gracious about it and really bent over backwards to help me get it done… I think it was one of the best ideas I\u2019ve had in recent memory, was to have him sing that song.”<\/p>\n See which other rock and metal artists are touring the rest of 2026 in the tour guide below.<\/p>\n These are the biggest rock and metal tours happening in 2026 so far, including Metallica, Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Lauryn Schaffner<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGuns N’ Roses + Chris Stapleton, ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ (Live 2026)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Chris Stapleton + Guns N’ Roses, ‘Patience’ (Live 2026)<\/b><\/h3>\n
What Is the History Between Guns N’ Roses and Chris Stapleton?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2026 Rock + Metal Tour Guide<\/h2>\n