![]() ![]() I started getting into that rhythm of writing weekly columns-at one point I had three deadlines a week-and I really loved it. Noisey: Why did you decide to write another book after It’s So Easy?ĭuff McKagan: I found a whole other art form in writing when I started writing for Playboy in 2008 and then writing for the Seattle Weekly. ![]() ![]() “I was turning 50 as I wrote the book,” he explains, “So I was dealing with a lot of questions like, ‘Where the fuck am I at? Have I learned anything? Am I applying it now?’ A lot of How To Be A Man is me trying to figure out what that even means.” In it, McKagan dishes priceless advice on traveling, the veracity of Bon Jovi lyrics, and why it’s not a good idea to smoke crack on a private jet. Now he’s back with his second book, How To Be A Man (and Other Illusions), which offers life lessons and hard-won wisdom from the former hard-partying high-school dropout who found sobriety through martial arts, family, and-of all things-sports radio. Over the last several years, the former Guns N’ Roses bassist and current Velvet Revolver/Loaded/Kings Of Chaos/Walking Papers member has taken up a second career as a writer, penning columns for, the Seattle Weekly, and in a flurry of activity that led up to the release of his best-selling 2011 autobiography, It’s So Easy (and Other Lies). Duff McKagan is leaving a meeting in Hollywood when we ring him on the Duff Hotline. ![]()
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