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“He was living in his mom’s basement because he’s like 18. And he starts playing guitar… and then he brings out his snake”: Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on the moment he met Slash (and his plus one)

Duff McKagan recalls a teenage Slash bringing along an unexpected guest to their first-ever meeting

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“If you’d given me a handful of résumés, I’d avoid the ones that said ‘irretrievable junkie’ on them”: the unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds

Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground

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"As unvarnished and unshowy as a multi-millionaire rock star can get": Duff McKagan keeps it intimate on Tenderness Live In Los Angeles

GN’R bassist Duff McKagan scales things down on solo live double album

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Duff McKagan announces solo UK and European tour

The Guns N' Roses bassist will play 15 shows in 11 countries in support of last year's Lighthouse album

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"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

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"We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together

The Guns N' Roses and Alice In Chains men have contributed to each other's solo releases in the past and are now considering taking the relationship further

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“If you’ve ever seen Slash give that look to whoever when they hit a bad note… You get that look once, man. You don’t want it twice”: Gilby Clarke survived a baptism by fire in Guns N’ Roses – but one day the pay checks stopped coming

The guitarist played with GN'R during their chaotic Use Your Illusion era. Now he discusses his heart-stopping audition, the early-’90s Guns album that never was and why he was never actually fired from the band

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"I was deeply in love with the lady that became Duff McKagan's wife": The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor explains how Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash ended up on his band's new album, Rockmaker

The story behind one of the year's most unexpected collaborations is now revealed

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The 20 greatest rock supergroups ever

From Cream and ELP to Temple Of The Dog and Velvet Revolver, these are history’s greatest supergroups

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"The near-mythical aura that surrounds him was stripped away in that 40 minutes": What happened when Axl Rose gave his first TV interview in more than a decade

Presenter Eddie Trunk tells the story the time Guns N' Roses leader Axl Rose gave a rare interview on VH1's That Metal Show

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"The countless lives he’s touched, healed, helped and saved will continue his spirit and legacy" – musicians praise the life and legacy of MC5 guitarist and activist Wayne Kramer

The co-founder and guitarist of the influential Detroit band died at the age of 75 on February 2

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Guns N' Roses launch wild animated video for recent single The General

Guns N' Roses have just made their impossibly epic single The General even more epic with a dystopian AI-powered video

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"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

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16 famous musicians who almost joined very famous bands

Best of 2023: What could have been: featuring The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Beatles, Van Halen, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and more

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“I called Keith Richards about doing it. His manager said: ‘Keith has already got a band. They’re called the Rolling Stones’”: the epic story of Kings Of Chaos, rock’s billion dollar supergroup

Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos are rock’s most high-profile covers band

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"I was always looking for something beautiful to grasp on to": Duff McKagan on love, God, and the truth of punk

Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse album might be a long way from the music he’s best known for with Guns N' Roses, but it still reflects the punk rocker in him

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“No man was cooler than Geordie, one of the very best and most influential guitarists ever”: Martin ‘Youth’ Glover leads tributes to late Killing Joke Guitarist Geordie Walker

Kirk Hammett, Duff McKagan and Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe are among those to pay their respects to Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker, who died on 26 November, aged 64

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“Geordie was a true inventor of a massive sound that has influenced so damn many of us”: Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker has died, aged 64

Tributes pour in for the post-punk trailblazer whose influence was felt far and wide across rock and metal, with the likes of Metallica and Nirvana indebted to his vision for guitar

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"He called Chad Smith 'drummer'. Like, 'Drummer, can you hit that on the up beat?' And this is Chad Smith!" Duff McKagan on what it’s like being in a band with punk rock don, Iggy Pop

The Guns N' Roses bassist has played on two Iggy Pop records, and now the former Stooges man has returned the favour

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"We figured, if we make this record some of our heroes can get some royalties": Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan on the making of "The Spaghetti Incident?"

Duff and his Guns N' Roses bandmates thought their 1993 covers album would be a good way to shine a light on their punk rock heroes

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“Here’s my record. And if you ever want to write a song together…”: Bob Dylan said he loved Duff McKagan’s last album. So Duff McKagan asked him to collaborate

Duff McKagan reacted to Bob Dylan’s praise by suggesting they write a song together, plus he reveals he wants to make an album with Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell

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Dolly Parton: The Queen Of Country on assembling rock's A-List for her mammoth, hugely anticipated rock album: only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Geddy Lee, The Struts, Duff McKagan, David Bowie, Guns N' Roses, ZZ Top, The Gaslight Anthem, Clutch, KK Downing and more

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Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell does his best Hendrix impression with a grungy, wah-driven Star-Spangled Banner at a Seattle Seahawks game

Signature single-pickup G&L Rampage model in hand, one Seattle guitar god tips his cap to another

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How the voice was silenced, surviving an elephant attack, and culture wars of the Renaissance

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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