Duff McKagan
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Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964 in Seattle ) is an American bassist . He became known as a member of the rock band Guns N 'Roses , in which he played bass from 1985 to 1997. Since 2016 he has been an integral part of this band again.
Life
McKagan was born the youngest of eight children to parents Elmer and Alice Marie McKagan. He began playing drums in his first band, Fastbacks, in Seattle at the age of 16 . In the next few years he also played bass and guitar in other bands such as 10 Minute Warning , Loaded , The Racketeers , Neurotic Outsiders and The Gentlemen .
From 1985 to 1997 he was the bass player with Guns N 'Roses.
In 1993 McKagan released his solo album Believe In Me and then went on tour. The album called Beautiful Disease was completely recorded, but never officially published due to differences with his record company. It later became public as a bootleg . In 1994, McKagan narrowly escaped death from acute pancreatitis after his pancreas was damaged from years of excessive alcohol and drug use.
From April 2002 he played bass in the band Velvet Revolver , together with his former Guns-N'-Roses colleagues Slash and Matt Sorum as well as Scott Weiland , the former frontman of the Stone Temple Pilots , and Dave Kushner (formerly Wasted Youth ). He could also be heard together with his ex-bandmate from Guns N 'Roses, Izzy Stradlin , on the track Strange Religion on the Mark Lanegan album Bubblegum .
In 2002, his band Duff McKagan's Loaded debut album entitled Dark Days was released. Due to his activities with Velvet Revolver, this band paused until the EP Wasted Heart in 2008 and the album Sick in 2009 . In 2010 he also played in the rock band Jane's Addiction .
In the spring of 2008, the Fender company had offered the Duff McKagan signature bass model , which is called Duff McKagan P Bass .
McKagan has been a member of Guns N 'Roses again since 2016. Since then he has been on the stages of the Not In This Lifetime World Tour with the band around the world - almost with the original line-up .
Private life
Duff McKagan has been married to Susan Holmes for the third time since August 1999 and has two daughters. He is an avowed investor and owns shares in Starbucks and Amazon , among others .
literature
- Duff McKagan: It's So Easy (and other lies) - The Autobiography . Touchstone, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-0664-5 .
- Duff McKagan: It's So Easy (and other lies) . Luftschacht, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902373-99-1 .
- Duff McKagan, Chris Kornelis: How to Be a Man (and other illusions) . Da Capo Press, Philadelphia 2015, ISBN 978-0-306-82387-9 .
Web links
- Velvet revolver
- Raw Power Official Duff McKagan Fan Club
- Duff McKagan's Loaded Official homepage of the band Duff McKagan's Loaded
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ^ Duff McKagan: It's So Easy (and other lies) - The Autobiography . Touchstone, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-0664-5 .
- ↑ http://www.deraktionaer.de/aktie/duff-mckagan-von-guns-n--roses-rockt-die-boerse-besser-investieren-kann-man-nicht-122600.htm
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| SURNAME | McKagan, Duff |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKagan, Mike; McKagan, Michael Andrew (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician, bass player for the rock band Guns N 'Roses |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |