You can never have a s—ty time with her. When Duff is at home, the couple loves going on date nights together. Since they live by a lake, they'll sometimes boat to dinner or watch a good classic movie at home. And when he's on the road with the Axl Rose-fronted band, Susan makes sure to not go two weeks without seeing her husband. Like who goes to that or knows about that? That was kind of a kinky, fun date. As for what the couple has learned after being together for so long, Susan says it's that "true love is unconditional.
He loves me when I wake up and have bad breath, just, the not glamorous Sue. We're very old-fashioned in a lot of respects, I guess," she says. Adds Duff, "There was something when we met, there was a deeper thing and I knew I was going to love her. I knew it. And then four weeks went by, I'm like, 'I'm completely overwhelmingly in love. Turn off the news. When the band got out on the road, McKagan started trying to see the world firsthand. He ventured onto swamp boats and took tours of cities in carriages.
As he met people all around the U. As he met new people and got fresh perspectives, he considered writing columns or a book about his life on the road. So he started writing the beginnings of essays about everything from homelessness to the MeToo movement. McKagan had been close to Cornell.
It was one of those things, like, you could see it coming, but when it happens, it still fucking hurts. That sense of loss. But then Prince died a few months later, and to me, Prince was everything. I fucking cried. And then Chester [Bennington]. What makes Tenderness interesting is how many of the problems McKagan addresses are left with open-ended solutions. The message throughout is that people should try to make more of an effort to get to understand one another, and McKagan is never too preachy.
And he also recognized his privilege, saying that the only way the Trump administration was affecting him was by making it harder for him to get some Italian marble to remodel his house because it had passed through China. Since the record is more about the world at large, he hopes people can feel a shared empathy about the problems he presents on Tenderness. Have you heard about Parkland? Axl [Rose] just totally commands the stage and he also paces himself vocally.
I think by seeing how comfortable he is on stage, I think that has really helped. I worry over every last word. But being a bass player is really more my thing and I suppose what I am known for. On a scale of , how happy are you right now? Man, pretty good. I mean, my relationship with my wife [Susan] is amazing. And my girls are adults now and they are kick-ass young ladies.
She had a launch party and Debbie Harry came Have you ever been on zero? I have. I was 29 years of age and really I was probably sub-zero, if that is possible. Living day in, day out like that is really the lowest place you can be. Can you remember the overriding emotion you felt? I had no emotion at all. And that is no way to live. As everyone knows, my pancreas burst and all of that, but after it happened and I realised I would have a chance at leading a sober life, living a life without those chains on me, I embraced it fully.
I was lucky to get a second chance at life. It was a revelation to me and it was all-encompassing in terms of mind, body and spirit.
And I was very fortunate that it happened to me. To look at my life then and my life now, it is truly extraordinary. Are you still working out as much as you were? You are in your mid-fifties now, but you look great.
Thank you. You know, I do still go hard. I know how to pace myself these days and I think that happens when you get older. But let me tell you this But, man, I was cramping the next day That can be our secret But I am also looking out for what I eat, taking supplements and electrolytes and all that stuff. Did turning 50 bother you? My football team is the Seattle Seahawks and they have never been to the Super Bowl before. So when all my buddies were giving me a hard time and reminding me that I was going to be 50, my football team just kept winning and winning.
And then when they got to the final and won it, I was just so happy. And three days after they won it, there was a victory parade and that was on my birthday. So any negative feelings I might have had about turning 50 were completely nullified by the Seahawks. The Seattle-born musician, 48, experienced the "insanity" of life inside a million-selling juggernaut when Guns N' Roses' debut album, "Appetite For Destruction", became a global phenomenon.
Trapped on a tour bus with Rose, a volatile, tantrum-prone singer, McKagan responded by indulging in cocaine and drinking half-a-gallon of vodka a day, before switching to red wine 10 bottles daily when he reluctantly embarked upon a health-kick. Yet the Duff who strides into the Pall Mall hotel lobby looks the picture of health, as befits a musician who has a new career as a best-selling author and financial adviser to his less numerically-literate, guitar-toting peers.
McKagan discovered his acumen for business when the years of bad living caught up with him in He was hospitalised with a ruptured pancreas, which left him with third-degree burns, and a doctor's warning that he would die if he had another drink. That turned me around. McKagan found a new obsession — income tax returns. I wanted to learn how to read these but I didn't trust anybody," he says. That began my journey, taking accountancy and business classes at Seattle.
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