Michael mckagan biography

Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964), is an American musician, best known for being the bass player 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.^[1]

Discography

Solo albums

with Guns N' Roses

with Neurotic Outsiders

with Ten Minute Warning

with Loaded

with Velvet Revolver

with Walking Papers

References

Other websites

American conductor (born 1964)

Musical artist

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Duff McKagan

He is a huge fan of Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols and punk in general.

In 1990 Duff and Slash co-wrote and played a few songs on Iggy Pop "Brick by Brick" Album.

He got married for the first time On May 28, 1988 to Mandy Brix, she was a hostess in a Japanese restaurant in LA and also had her own all female rap-trio, "The Lame Flames". They got divorced in 1990. He married again in Sept. 1992 to Linda Johnson, (I believe she was a playmate) and got divorced in Sept. 1995.

In 94 his pancreas blew up he was hospitalized in Seattle and he was forced to stop drinking for good. His doctor told him that one more drink and he was going to die at that point Duff didn't have choice. He had to quit drinking once and for all.

In 1995 he collaborate with Slash and his new band "the Snakepit", he co-wrote a song called "beggars and hanger's on", which he also played live at the Palace during a Snakepit show in May 95. He formed "Neurotic Outsiders", they played some clubs in LA and toured the US in 1996. They also played clubs in 1998 and 1999. They have an album out, called "Neurotic Outsiders" that came out in Sept. 1996. After that he put together different bands, like, Duff McKagan's Black Dog, and 10 Minute Warning