In addition to his musical career, McKagan has established himself as a writer.

In addition to his musical career, McKagan has established himself as a writer.

McKagan has been involved " The Heroes Project ", founded by his friend Tim Medvetz, which is dedicated to helping soldiers and their families.

McKagan has also used the Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass, the Duesenberg Star Bass, the Gibson Les Paul bass, and the Gibson Thunderbird bass.

McKagan has used Gallien-Krueger amplifiers throughout his career ; his first a GK400RB model.

He has participated, and performed, as head counselor in the Rock Fantasy Camp with other musicians including Roger Daltrey, Steven Tyler, Todd Rundgren, Jack Blades, Kelly Keagy, Bruce Kulick, Bill Leverty, Steve Lukather, Duff McKagan, Mark Slaughter, Carmine Appice, and Rudy Sarzo.

Laurelhurst has had several famous residents, including Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas, who rented a house on the waterfront one summer while filming a movie ; Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side, who lived in Laurelhurst before moving to Windermere ; musician Duff McKagan, bassist for Guns N ' Roses ; and Bill Gates, who was born in Laurelhurst and lived in a waterfront house in the neighborhood until about 1994.

Released in March 1998, the album was recorded in fits and starts over a period of two years and featured his former band mates Duff McKagan and Rick Richards, as well as former Reverend Horton Heat drummer Taz Bentley, whose work Stradlin admired.

Stradlin then released two more albums through iTunes: Smoke, which came out in December 2009, and Wave of Heat, which followed in July 2010 and again featured McKagan, who appears on seven tracks.

The front cover consists of a photograph of two of the band members, Duff McKagan and Axl Rose ( from left to right ), with an early Guns N ' Roses logo, designed by Slash, overhead.

On May 28, 1988, McKagan married his first wife, Mandy Brixx ; the couple divorced less than two years later on April 1, 1990.

After reuniting with Axl in 2010 for the first time in seventeen years on stage, Duff McKagan joined Guns N ' Roses on part of their tour for two Seattle shows on December 16 and 17, as well as having his band Loaded open for Guns N ' Roses.

#* With Duff McKagan on bass ; performed live at Jupiter Studios, Seattle WA, winter 2000.

Jeff Beck, Duff McKagan, Jack Rose, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Cub Koda, Marc Bolan, Neil Young and Bob Dylan have all cited Wray as an influence ; Dylan's song " Sign Language ", which he sang with Eric Clapton on Clapton's No Reason to Cry album, mentions Link Wray.

In 1979, at the age of 15, McKagan formed the punk band the Vains, in which he played bass ; they released the single " School Jerks " in 1980.

Also in 2010, McKagan appeared on Slash's eponymous debut solo album ; he played on the track " Watch This " with Dave Grohl on drums.

A high school drop-out, McKagan enrolled in a basic finance course at Santa Monica Community College in 1994 ; he explained that going over the financial records from his Guns N ' Roses days had made him want to understand the process more, stating, " I couldn't make sense of it.

When Velvet Revolver took off in his final year as an undergraduate student, McKagan took a hiatus from business school to go on tour ; he is still one semester short of graduating.

On October 14, 2010, McKagan appeared on stage with Guns N ' Roses for the first time since 1993 at The O2 Arena in London.

In 1999, he appeared in Anthony Scarpa's documentary film Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing True Life Adventures, which focuses on the all-female hard rock band Betty Blowtorch, whose debut EP Get Off McKagan produced the same year.

After the release of the 1982 LP, Duff McKagan replaced Loud on drums and appeared on some demo recordings that were not released until years later.

Dederer collaborated with former Guns N ' Roses bassist Duff McKagan as The Gentlemen and in McKagan's perennial hard rock band, Loaded, including contributing to the album Dark Days.

Weiland first became associated with former Guns N ' Roses members Slash ( guitar ), Matt Sorum ( drums ), and Duff McKagan ( bass ) and former Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner in 2002, who were looking for a singer to start a band.

The band began working with Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan on new material.

Together with his former Guns N ' Roses band mates Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, they formed The Project, that eventually became the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver following the addition of former Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner, and then-former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland.

", with McKagan performing vocals and playing all instruments.

On February 28, 2010, McCready performed at the Hootenanny For Haiti at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle along with the likes of Velvet Revolver, Jane's Addiction and former Guns N ' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Fastbacks bassist Kim Warnick, Loaded and former Alien Crime Syndicate, Sirens Sister and Vendetta Red bassist Jeff Rouse as well as Truly and former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel among others.

To promote the album, Stradlin — with McKagan, Richards, and Bentley — played four shows in Japan the following April.

Although he contributed to the songwriting process while the band was in its formative stage, Stradlin ultimately declined to join due to his aversion to life on the road and his unwillingness to work with a lead singer, although he offered to split vocal duties with McKagan.

The ' 80s saw such Seattle heavy metal acts as Queensrÿche and Metal Church gain popularity, while Seattle native Duff McKagan went on to massive success with Guns N ' Roses after relocating to Los Angeles.

In 2001, Brian James along with Wayne Kramer ( guitar ), Duff McKagan ( bass ), Stuart Copeland and Clem Burke ( drums ) as The Racketeers recorded the album Mad For The Racket.

On March 6, 2006, Anselmo made an appearance along with Guns N ' Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan and the surviving members of Alice in Chains at a VH1's Decades Rock Live concert, in honor of fellow Seattle musicians such as Alice in Chains ' Layne Staley and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart

However, a distancing relationship with singer Axl Rose resulted in Slash, in 1996, and McKagan, in 1997, leaving the band while Sorum was fired the same year.

Following their departures, the trio focused on separate projects with Slash reforming Slash's Snakepit and McKagan reforming 10 Minute Warning, as well as recording his second solo album while Sorum rejoined The Cult.

McKagan reformed Loaded, previously his band for the tour in support of Beautiful Disease, with Geoff Reading.

When musician Randy Castillo died from cancer in 2002, Slash, McKagan, and Sorum performed at a benefit concert to raise money and commemorate Castillo with Josh Todd and Keith Nelson of Buckcherry as well as B-Real and Sen Dog of Cypress Hill.

The band were also interested in auditioning Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, who had become friends with McKagan after attending the same gym.

Slash, McKagan and Sorum made a performance at the Road Recovery benefit concert on September 13 with a guest appearance from Kushner.

McKagan reunited with previous band Loaded in 2008, releasing an EP entitled Wasted Heart the same year McKagan also released the band's second album, entitled Sick, in 2009.

After playing in 10 Minute Warning with Duff McKagan ( The Fartz, Guns N ' Roses ), Steve Verwolf, Paul Dana, Bob Groves, and David Garrigues, Gilmore decided to join his friend Duff McKagan when he announced he was leaving Seattle for a new life in L. A, and accompanied him in his early auditions, as well as hanging with Guns N ' Roses in the early days, and it is often wondered that after GN ' R's first drummer left, why did Gilmore himself not offer to take the seat instead of Steven Adler.

* 1964 – Duff McKagan, American musician ( Guns N ' Roses and Velvet Revolver )

In issue 66 ( May 2011 ) of Bass Guitar Magazine Duff McKagan of Guns N ' Roses and Velvet Revolver cites Magazine's album Real Life as an influence, particularly on tracks where McKagan uses a chorus effect.

* Loaded ( band ), American hard rock band formed by Guns N ' Roses ex-bassist Duff McKagan

Stradlin was then asked by his former Guns N ' Roses band mates Duff McKagan, Slash, and Matt Sorum to join the supergroup Velvet Revolver.

In addition to his regular collaborators, Stradlin also invited his former Guns N ' Roses band mate Duff McKagan to play bass on three songs, including the title track.

" This song was originally written by Hollywood Rose, which had included all the members of Guns N ' Roses except Duff McKagan at one point or another.

Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N ' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth and Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland who left the band in 2008.

Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum were members of hard rock band Guns N ' Roses.

Rumors quickly arose of a Guns N ' Roses reunion, however, McKagan stated that they " just here to play.

The Los Angeles shows were all sold out in less than half an hour, and the audience included future Guns N ' Roses members Duff McKagan and Slash.

On February 28, 2010, McCready performed at the Hootenanny For Haiti at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle along with the likes of Velvet Revolver, Jane's Addiction and former Guns N ' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Fastbacks bassist Kim Warnick, Loaded and former Alien Crime Syndicate, Sirens Sister and Vendetta Red bassist Jeff Rouse as well as Truly and former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel among others.

McCready plays guitar in the band Walking Papers which includes former Guns N ' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Screaming Trees / Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin, and singer Jeff Angell.

Although these three band members remained fairly constant, they went through numerous drummers, including Duff McKagan, later of Guns N ' Roses.