Duff McKagans Loaded

Former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan is launching a money management firm that will offer advice to musicians on how to maximize and maintain the money that they make. McKagan came up with the idea while recovering from a burst pancreas back in 1994...

Getty Images for Activision Out on tour promoting 'The Taking,' the latest album by Loaded, the band he fronts playing guitar and handling vocals, Duff McKagan spoke with our sister site, Spinner. In the piece, the legendary musician talks about his experiences working with Scott Weiland, Perry Farrell, and Axl Rose...

"I have to play or I'd jump off a cliff or hurt somebody," laughed Duff McKagan, describing to what drives him to make music in a recent chat with Noisecreep. "It's my ultimate outlet. If I couldn't make music, I'd go crazy." McKagan is Grammy and American Music Award-winning songwriter and recording artist who has sold over 100 million records and helped shape the music of an

Drummer Geoff Reading has left Duff McKagan's Loaded. Reading has been fighting cancer and made the decision to leave Loaded to better support his family. In a statement to fans, Reading said the pressures of being in Loaded were "thrilling" but held back his progress to become the performer he was pre-cancer...

Leave it to Duff McKagan to stretch a dollar. "Anybody that spends too much on a record these days, that's fool's money spent," asserts Loaded creator Duff McKagan. "Nobody sells records like we did in the 90s or 80s. It's not the business model anymore...

"I think tonight we're going to change the new of the stadium from C-R-E-W to C-R-U-E stadium" said Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee backstage, just before the band's headline set at Rock on the Range 2009. Columbus, Ohio hosted the two-day, 38 band festival of all things rock and Metal. Day one ...

"We're really excited to play one of America's great rock festivals," says Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe bassist. Sixx made the statement in a recent press release announcing the two-day Rock on the Range lineup. Around 35 bands will play the festival, slated for May 16 and 17 in Columbus, Ohio. Unlike ma...

"We thought it would be funny to look like we were getting ready for a big gig at Madison Square Garden and then we walk out to a bingo hall," says Duff McKagan of Loaded's video treatment for "Flatline." Truth be told, Duff McKagan is as wickedly funny as he is deadpan smart...

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Yeah, you know Duff McKagan. The former Guns n' Roses bassist now spends a lot of his time playing with Duff McKagan's Loaded and a little band you might know called Velvet Revolver. Duff McKagan's Loaded will release the album 'Sick' next month and today Noisecreep premieres the video for "Flatline...