Lighthouse: Live From London is an all new live album and full-length concert film recorded last October during Duff McKagan’s sold-out Lighthouse Tour ’24, due out on Friday 31st October.
The 19-track collection will be available in a wide variety of formats, including digital, CD digipak, CD + Blu-ray digipak (with live audio and the complete Lighthouse: Live From London concert film), 2LP 180g black vinyl (with gatefold sleeve and ticket replica), and limited edition 2LP 180g black vinyl (with live audio, complete concert film, gatefold sleeve, and autographed ticket replica signed by McKagan).
The actual recording of the show took place on 5th October 2024, before a sold-out crowd at England’s historic Islington Assembly Hall. McKagan and his band performing songs from throughout the musician and songwriter’s legendary career, notably including renditions from his acclaimed third solo album, 2023’s Lighthouse. Among the live album’s many highlights is a take on the plaintive fan favourite ‘Longfeather’, the official live performance video of which you can check out here at RAMzine.
Joining McKagan’s “murderer’s row of musicians” was guitarist Tim DiJulio, guitarist and keyboardist Jeff Fielder, bassist Mike Squires, and drummer Michael Musburger, with live sound engineered by longtime collaborator Martin Feveyear. Recorded and mixed by Feveyear,
Lighthouse: Live From London collects in-concert versions of such McKagan originals as ‘I Saw God On 10th St’, ‘Lighthouse’, ‘Chip Away’ (a personal favourite of Bob Dylan himself), along with breakneck performances of The Stooges’ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, The Crickets’ (by way of The Bobby Fuller Four and The Clash) ‘I Fought The Law’, and Guns N’ Roses’ ‘You’re Crazy’ – The recording also features a very special guest appearance by The Sex Pistols’ co-founding guitarist Steve Jones that sees the two friends (and Neurotic Outsiders bandmates) joining forces for once-in-a-lifetime renditions of Johnny Thunders’ ‘Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory’ and David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’, the video for the latter which can also check out here.
A founding member of both Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, solo artist and New York Times best-selling author, Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse: Live From London can be ordered here.
