We did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted Patience.
We had a tour bus! We had a couple of real hotel rooms! And catering! Fuck, yes!
Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And
Loyal people have a mom they think is a saint.
In 1988, MTV aired a concert in which Axl introduced me—as usual—as Duff the King of Beers McKagan. Soon
At the end of the European leg, our lead guitar player pulled a knife on our bus driver in England. I
We ended up closing the show with the cover song we had tried during sound check that afternoon, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.
Endangering someone else was unacceptable. I was not going to participate in any situation where an innocent third party was being harmed.
I swiped the Communion chalices to use as pimp cups for my cocktails. That
When I was thirty, I asked a nurse to let me die. In a couple days, I’m going to play Cheap Sunglasses alongside the man who wrote it.
TRY TO LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AT HOME BEFORE BED. DID I DO EVERYTHING TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY TODAY? WAS I HONEST ABOUT EVERY ACTION AND WORD SPOKEN TODAY? REALLY? WHO YOU LYIN' TO? YOURSELF...
Sweet Child was bumped from number one by Don’t Worry, Be Happy, but Appetite climbed back to the top of the album charts and stayed there for a few weeks that fall. Our lives began to change irrevoca...
Grace has already told me and her mom to stay completely invisible. Her exact words: You’re not invited.
A production company working on a new animated series called me to ask if they could use the name Duff for a brand of beer in the show. I laughed and said of course, no problem. The whole thing sounde...
It happens in a flash, life does. Only the ever-deepening lines on my face tell me that I have been alive for a while. I
We were never any good at communication, especially when that meant confrontation. If we could have developed those skills then, the story of GN’R might have been very different.
Only later did we hear the news: two fans had died, suffocated beneath other fans in the mud. Oh, fuck, no, no, no. Those two fans, Alan Dick and Landon Siggers, had just come to see a rock concert. T...
Don't be a pussy. don't shy away from a situation just because it's tough. if you need to protect the one you love or things are tough at work... pin those ears back and remember who the fuck you are.
On Christmas Day, 1989, I gave Mandy the Halliburton luggage Aerosmith had given me and asked her to get out. I was adamant. And I was keeping the dog. Merry fucking Christmas.
I had grown up idolizing Prince, who played over twenty instruments on his debut album, which featured the amazing credit line written, composed, performed, and recorded by Prince.