Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
VELVET REVOLVER star DUFF MCKAGAN has revealed he and his bandmates are struggling to find a permanent replacement for fired frontman SCOTT WEILAND.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
VELVET REVOLVER star DUFF MCKAGAN has revealed he and his bandmates are struggling to find a permanent replacement for fired frontman SCOTT WEILAND. Weiland was kicked out ...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Photo: Miller/Getty With Chinese Democracy fever sweeping across the country, Axl Rose’s old Guns N’ Roses band mate Duff McKagan has commented on the album’s self-titled single. “I just heard the single, ‘Chinese Democracy’, and I heard it at the gym when I was working out. It wasn’t like I sat down in a quiet room [...]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
VELVET REVOLVER star DUFF MCKAGAN is relieved his candidate, BARACK OBAMA, was elected U.S. President on Tuesday (04Nov08) - because the alternative would have been "dangerous".
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
VELVET REVOLVER star DUFF MCKAGAN is relieved his candidate, BARACK OBAMA, was elected U.S. President on Tuesday (04Nov08) - because the alternative would have ...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
When he lived the rock and roll lifestyle by putting in time in Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, the Duff McKagan lifestyle was inaccessible to me. But now, as Duff's "loving parent" side comes out with pieces like the one in the Seattle Weekly music blog Reverb about broaching the delicate topic of sex with his daughter , I'm starting to feel some kinship. Last week, I was...
F-News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Last week, I was faced with a hurdle every parent must eventually face. You see, my wife and I have two daughters, the older one just entering middle school this year. With middle school comes the sudden pressures of acting “grown up,” looking “cool,” and talking about. . . wait for it. . . SEX. The dreaded moment has come for me as a father: the moment for THE TALK. Somehow it got back to my wife...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Former GUNS N' ROSES star DUFF MCKAGAN is a massive fan of British pop band GIRLS ALOUD - and has offered to support the group on an upcoming tour. The rocker, who now ...
Buzz Patrol (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Guns N’ Roses bass player Duff McKagan is a fan of Girls Aloud. He likes them so much that he even ask to support the girls on tour. Maybe he likes them for a different reason. According to Cheryl Cole: “He offered to give us his band to take with us on tour. I mean, Guns N’ [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
In an eerie reversal of fortune, it is now better to be Axl Rose than to be any of his former Guns N’ Roses bandmates. On Tuesday the band Velvet Revolver, whose membership includes the Guns N’ Roses refugees Slash, above right, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, announced that it had parted ways with RCA Records, which had released its two studio albums; the band had asked in June to be released...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
As we trudged through Chinese Democracy ’s dubious early sales reports and reactions to the record from various luminaries ( Jimmy Iovine – likes it, Duff McKagan – sorta likes it; the Chinese government – not so much), we thought we’d check in with that other guy from Guns N’ Roses. With Velvet Revolver in limbo at the moment, Slash (known to his mother as Saul Hudson) is busy working...
Kings of A&R (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
13 years later, Guns N’ Roses ‘Chinese Democracy’ can be streamed in its entirety on myspace. Guns N’ Roses began to write and record new music in 1994. Ex-bassist Duff McKagan is quoted as saying, “The band was so splintered at that point that nothing got started”. Slash has criticized Rose for making the band seem [...]
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
BLABBERMOUTH .NET has received word from a reliable source that RCA Records (a Sony BMG label) has dropped VELVET REVOLVER , the band featuring former GUNS N’ ROSES members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. VELVET REVOLVER released two full-length albums through RCA /Sony BMG — 2004’s “Contraband”, which has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan;...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... work on "Chinese Democracy."1996: Guitarist Slash quits the band. Drummer Matt Sorum and bassist Duff McKagan follow. "That sort of seemed like the beginning of this album," Brunner said.1998: Rose assembles a new band. They begin making music at Rumbo Recorders, where GNR's original lineup recorded parts of its multi-platinum 1987 debut, "Appetite for Destruction.""That's when people...
Make me Heal (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
... is now 43 and has the deep lines of living hard to prove it, as do the former members of G N’ R Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum that help make up the line up for rock band Velvet Revolver. Although Slash is not as craggy-looking as a life-long rocker could be, his long curly hair that is in his face most of the time protects him from the sun, as does his rather nocturnal occupation. (Left:...
