Duff's Getting Married...
News
has just reached me that Duff is set to be married again in August to SuperModel Susan
Holmes. It will be held in Seattle as an exclusive lake-side wedding as announced by Susan
in her website which you can check out at www.susanholmes.com
I will post news of this great event as
soon as I find out more details...
Duff Release's Live Album
Duff truly loyal to his many devoted fans has released a live version of his new solo album Beautiful Disease to try and relenquish their long wait his music company to release his album.
Duff's Very Own Website
Well it is now offical, Duff
McKagan has now finally got his very own website where you can chat with other Duff
McKagan fan's, as well as catch all the latest news and gossip, listen to sounds from his
forecoming album and a whole host of other things for you to check out... so what are you
waiting for, click the link below to be transported to Duff McKagan Online:
Will Duff's Second Solo Album
Ever Be Released?
What does Duff think about all the trouble surrounding the release of his second Solo Album? Dont know, well here's your chance to find out.....
Duff McKagan Reflects On Corporate Mergers, Beautiful Disease, GNR
December 29, 1998
Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan is awaiting word on the
fate of his second solo album, Beautiful Disease, in light of the recent Universal/
PolyGram merger, which will effectively shut down his record company at the end of this
month.
Originally slated for
a Jan. 26 release on Geffen, the disc was quietly pushed back to a March 9 release date;
however, that can change. "My first instinct was, Oh shit! I've done all this hard
work and now what?" McKagan recalls. "You're not going to work here? This is not
going to be a company? This building is not going to be here?"
Beautiful Disease is an important
album for McKagan, following the critical and commercial failure of his first solo outing
in 1993, and his less- than- exemplary work on albums by the Neurotic Outsiders and 10
Minute Warning (not to mention his brief acting debut as a "punk-rock vampire"
on the sci-fi television series Sliders).
"I put all my eggs into this basket," McKagan says. "I finished my last
semester of school last spring and I told them I'm not going to be back for a few years
because I'm going to go work this record. It was hard work. I recorded at home, mostly by
myself. I spent 10-12 hours a day on it, every day for a year." McKagan gave up
alcohol and drugs four years ago, following a near-death experience where his pancreas
ruptured. In that time he enrolled in school and took up kick-boxing. In light of this,
Beautiful Disease is an unusually dark piece of work, focusing on the seedy underbelly of
life in Los Angeles much in the
same vein as Hole's Celebrity Skin and Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals.
"This album is kind of like my diary, and I guess that's where you vent,"
McKagan says. "When I sing the songs live, I feel really good afterwards. It must be
like hitting the heavy bag or something. It's just a an objective view of stuff I went
through over the last 10 years." One song, "Who's to Blame," deals directly
with the dissolution of Guns N' Roses. "About a year ago, Axl and I met and made
tapes and met with Slash, but he's hired all new guys now," McKagan says. "I'm
probably just as confused about the situation as anyone. It all stems from big business
stuff. I chose not to go that route. I'm not in it for the money. I backed way away from
it because it's the real ugly side of music."
Meanwhile, McKagan has
taken time out to write some songs with Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan, for an
undisclosed future project. He will also make an appearance on Izzy Stradlin's next solo
disc.
"I'm just going to keep moving forward and pretend nothing is going to happen,"
McKagan says. "Until I'm told differently, [Beautiful Disease] is coming out in
March. I've got people
reassuring me that it's going to be fine and that Interscope [the label that will now
decide the fate of his Geffen album] wants to put it out.
"Then again, I know the record industry. I might get a call tomorrow saying they're
passing on it. There's nothing I can do about it. I worked too hard to let a corporate
merger get in my way. I've got a band together and I'm ready to go.
Source: Allstar
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