Sometimes it feels like I’m playing with a percussionist and a drummer if you know what I mean.ĭid you know they sound they were going for when you joined the band? I’ve played with some really great drummers over the years, but Barrett is just one of the world’s best drummers. Playing with all of these guys in the same band is really powerful, but playing with Barrett is like an entirely different animal. It’s an honor to play with Barrett – he’s killer. Let’s start off with Walking Papers, which isn’t at all what I expected it to sound like, and you seem to lock in really, really well with Barrett. They open up the whole front of it, it’s sort of a garage door that opens up into the street it was just one of those really killer hometown gigs. Michael Christopher: How did the show at Easy Street go last night?ĭuff McKagan: They have really cool in-stores and it was, like, 80 degrees – perfect weather.
Set to hit shelves in September, it’s a stunner of a novel set at the height of the grunge era, billed as “a tale of love, heroin and redemption” - three words McKagan is all too familiar with. We talked punk rock, relationships between local bands in different cities and the audiobook reading he did for In Case We Die by longtime Seattle music scene fixture Danny Bland.
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Vanyaland caught up with McKagan last week, early in the morning west-coast time, but he was already on the go, heading to a photo shoot after playing a free show at Seattle’s legendary Easy Street Records the night before to celebrate the release of Walking Papers’ album. The band is slotted on the Zippo Encore Stage for Wednesday’s Uproar Festival at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, with Alice in Chains and Jane’s Addiction headlining. The players know their roles and perform them with aplomb, resulting in one of the more extraordinary releases of the year. When the volume goes up – and it does – it’s with more of a Zeppelin-esque crunch peppered with sparse instrumentation. It’s a surprising record, mainly because the expected hard rock punch is immediately tempered by the slow burning blues of opener “Already Dead.” This month saw the eponymous debut from Walking Papers, with Jeff Angell and Benjamin Anderson from the Missionary Position on vocals and keyboards, respectively, and ex- Screaming Trees and Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin.
McKagan brought a punk edge to the more famous bands he played in, which stemmed from time spent in his native Seattle where he was in 10 Minute Warning, later evident in the Neurotic Outsiders alongside Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, his solo efforts, and the rock group Loaded. He squared his focus on cleaning up, went back to college to study business, started his own financial planning company and began writing, from 2011’s It’s So Easy: And Other Lies to a regular column for the Seattle Weekly.īut it always comes back to the music. Go a bit deeper, and not only did that little incident in 1994 serve as a wake-up call, it was the impetus for McKagan turning his entire life around.
Maybe some people are familiar with the story of how he was such an enormous drinker back in the day that his pancreas exploded. Duff McKagan is always going to be best known for being the bass player in Los Angeles bands that had mercurial frontmen, first in Guns N’ Roses and later in Velvet Revolver.
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