WHEN YOU'RE GONE,
I FOUND A PART OF ME
IS THERE WITH YOU
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan
(born February 5, 1964)
is an
American musician.
He was the bassist
of hard rock band
for twelve years,
with whom he
achieved
worldwide success
in the late 1980s
and early 1990s.
McKagan
rejoined the band
in 2016,
following their
induction
into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Toward the end of his
first tenure with
Guns N' Roses,
McKagan released
the solo album
Believe in Me
(1993)
and formed
the short-lived
supergroup
Neurotic Outsiders.
Following his departure
from
Guns N' Roses
in 1997,
McKagan briefly
reunited with his
pre-success
Seattle punk band
10 Minute Warning,
before forming
the hard rock band
Loaded,
in which he performs
lead vocals
and rhythm guitar.
Between 2002 and 2008,
he played bass
in the supergroup
Velvet Revolver
with his former
Guns N' Roses
bandmates
Slash
and
Matt Sorum.
He briefly performed with
Alice in Chains in 2006,
with
Jane's Addiction
in 2010,
and with
the supergroup
Hollywood Vampires
in 2016.
He has also
collaborated
in several
short-lived projects
with fellow
Seattle-native musicians
Mike McCready
(primarily of Pearl Jam)
and Barrett Martin
(formerly of Screaming Trees),
including
Walking Papers
and
Levee Walkers.
In addition to
his musical career,
McKagan has
established himself
as a writer.
He has written
weekly columns on
a wide variety of topics for
SeattleWeekly.com,
Playboy.com,
and
ESPN.com.
Girl
were an
English
Glam Metal band
formed in
London in 1979.
They split up in 1982
with
band members
going on to join
Def Leppard
and
L.A. Guns,
among others.
Girl
were formed in 1979
by vocalist
Phil Lewis,
guitarists
Gerry Laffy
and
Phil Collen,
drummer
Jonathon Trevisick
replaced shortly
thereafter by
Dave Gaynor
and bassist
Mark Megary
replaced shortly thereafter
by
Simon Laffy
Collen had
previously been in
the bands
Lucy,
Tush,
and
Dumb Blondes.
Girl
were first discovered
and managed
by Jon Lindsay
who was looking
for bands for
former manager
of The Who,
Kit Lambert,
for a proposed
new record label.
Lindsay and Girl
separated over
managerial decisions
when the band
wanted to sign a
recording deal
with
Don Arden
instead of a
recording contract
negotiated by
Lindsay with music
figure
Simon Napier-Bell's Nomis
Publishing.
The band
were signed by
Jet Records,
releasing two singles
prior to their
debut album
Sheer Greed
(1980),
which reached
number 33
in the
UK Albums Chart.
The band's profile
was raised by tours
with the
Pat Travers Band
and
UFO,
in the midst of the
new wave of
British
Heavy Metal explosion.
Girl
recorded a
pre-L.A. Guns version
of the song
"Hollywood Tease",
Barnacle himself
was replaced by
Bryson Graham
during the recording
of the next album.
Both Barnacle and Graham
appear on
Girl's second album
Wasted Youth
which was
released in 1982
and reached number 92
in the UK.
Pete Bonas
replaced
Phil Collen,
who left to join
Def Leppard,
though the
band broke
up soon after.
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