Kings of Chaos, the international all-star rock supergroup founded by former GUNS N' ROSES and VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum, performed at The Show at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, California, on August 1.

The show featured a lineup of top rock talent, including guest vocalists Richie Sambora (BON JOVI), Jack Blades (NIGHT RANGER), Kevin Cronin (REO SPEEDWAGON), and Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE), alongside guitarists Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) and Phil X (BON JOVI), keyboardist Mike Mangan (THE CULT), and bassist Eliot Lorango (DOROTHY).

Sorum revealed the setlist structure during an interview with the Coachella Valley Independent: "The way we roll it out is we do about four or five songs from each singer, and it'll be a good hour and a half show, and then Kevin Cronin will come up and do a set of REO SPEEDWAGON songs — and then I got Richie Sambora to come, which is very rare, [because he has not] been out playing much.

That's going to be pretty special.

After leaving BON JOVI, he's done some solo stuff, but hasn't been in a band formation that much.

I'm really excited to have Richie, and of course we're going to be doing songs he co-wrote with Jon Bon Jovi, and all the greats — 'Livin' On A Prayer' and 'Wanted Dead Or Alive' — so it's really a set filled with hits.

We're going to play the best of DEEP PURPLE, the best of NIGHT RANGER, the best of REO SPEEDWAGON, the best of BON JOVI, and then probably finish up with a couple of cool encores." Sorum also reflected on the significance of the performance, noting: "We did one show for the firefighters after the big fires in L.A., and that was the first time Richie and Phil had ever met, and it was nice.

It's interesting, because we all come through different situations, and then you meet the guy that replaced you or something.

It's like how I met the drummer a while back who replaced me in GUNS N' ROSES, and he's like, 'Hey, man, how's it going out there?' It's an interesting life we've led, being guys coming in and out of bands." Kings of Chaos recorded only one song prior to the 2022 release of "Judgement Day" — a cover of DEEP PURPLE's "Never Before" for the 2012 tribute album "Re-Machined: A Tribute To Deep Purple's 'Machine Head'".

The group's formation began as a personal project for Sorum, who described it as a way to pursue fun: "I decided, 'I'm going to pull a bucket list, [and] I'm going to call guys that I never had the balls to call, and have no fear.

There's one or two answers that you can get — yes or no.

And you've got to be able to accept no.

Don't take it personal.

I called Keith Richards.

I called Jimmy Page.

I called [Robert] Plant.

I didn't care.

I was just, like, finding them and calling them.

And some of them said yes — not Robert Plant, dammit [laughs] — but Steven Tyler, Robin Zander, Billy Gibbons, Joe Elliott, Slash, the DeLeo brothers.

I go and play with my friends, and it's a blast." Sorum, who has recorded the highly successful albums "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" (1991) and "The Spaghetti Incident" (1994), was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012.

He is not involved with GUNS N' ROSES' current reunion tour, which features Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, and drummer Isaac Carpenter, among others.

His autobiography, "Double Talkin' Jive: True Rock 'N' Roll Stories From The Drummer Of Guns N' Roses, The Cult, And Velvet Revolver", was released in May 2022 via Rare Bird Books."