Duff McKagan
| Duff McKagan | |
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McKagan in West Hollywood, California, on March 1, 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Andrew McKagan |
| Also known as | Duff "Rose" McKagan |
| Born |
February 5, 1964 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Genres | Hard rock, punk rock, hardcore punk, alternative rock, heavy metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer, columnist, investment advisor, author |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | UZI Suicide, Geffen, RCA, Maverick, Sub Pop, Century Media, Armoury |
| Associated acts | Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Izzy Stradlin, Loaded, Neurotic Outsiders, 10 Minute Warning, The Fartz, Fastbacks, The Gentlemen, Jane's Addiction, Walking Papers |
| Website | duffonline |
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Fender Jazz Bass Special Fender Precision Bass Fender Frank Bello Bass |
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Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and author. He is best known for his twelve-year tenure as the bass guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. McKagan rejoined the band in 2016, following their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Towards the end of his first tenure with Guns N' Roses, McKagan released a solo album, Believe in Me (1993), and formed the short-lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders. Following his departure from Guns N' Roses in 1997, McKagan briefly reunited with his pre-success Seattle punk band 10 Minute Warning, before forming the still-active hard rock band Loaded, in which he performs lead vocals and rhythm guitar. Between 2002 and 2008, he played bass in the supergroup Velvet Revolver with his former Guns N' Roses bandmates Slash and Matt Sorum. He briefly performed with Jane's Addiction in 2010 and joined the supergroup Hollywood Vampires in 2016.
In addition to his musical career, McKagan has established himself as a writer. He has written weekly columns on a wide variety of topics for SeattleWeekly.com,Playboy.com, and ESPN.com. A former high school drop-out, he attended Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics in the early 2000s, and subsequently founded the wealth management firm Meridian Rock. He was a high school honor student, but dropped out early to pursue a career in music.
Michael Andrew McKagan grew up in Seattle's largely working-class University District, the youngest of eight children born to Alice and Elmer "Mac" McKagan. He has been called "Duff" since toddlerhood, to which he once referred as "an Irish thing". Following his parents' divorce, his mother supported the family by taking a job as a medical stenographer. He was taught how to play bass by his brother Bruce, further developing his skills by playing along with the albums 1999 by Prince and Damaged by Black Flag. In his autobiography, It's So Easy (And Other Lies), McKagan said he was influenced by bass driven bands such as that of Barry Adamson in Magazine.
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