Only four years separate the release of Guns N' Roses' first full-length record, 1987's Appetite For Destruction, and Pearl Jam's 1991 debut, Ten. But in the narrative of rock history, these albums represent signposts for completely different eras; 2...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. Not being able to attend a game of your favorite MLB team until June can be a bummer. If you travel or otherwise have work commitments like myself, this will be the case some ...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. Around the time that Guns N' Roses was getting our thing going in mid-'80s Los Angeles, there was one other band that was the perfect angry counterpart to what we were doing: ...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. This past Monday was Memorial Day, of course, and most of us got to see or experience a moment or two that commemorated our Armed Forces veterans. From the Indianapolis 50...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. There seem to be so dang many sports topics over the last week that it is now too difficult for me to choose only one to write about. I will just shoot from the hip here: &...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. In August 1987, I was headed out to play my first-ever arena tour. The Cult gave GN'R the opening slot for a tour that would cross Canada, come down the West Coast, and then ...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. With the much-too-early passing of Junior Seau last week, we lost a giant of a football player. We lost a guy who was good outside of football, too. A mentor. A philanthropis...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. We do things a bit differently up here in Seattle. We built a building in the shape of some weird needle as our major landmark. We have houses that float. We drink too much c...

Musician Duff McKagan's column runs every Wednesday on Playbook Sounds. To start off: You will read that I am far away and on the move, and it is tough for me to keep up on American sports, or really anything else for that matter. But I did see th...

In 1987, Guns N' Roses exploded on the music scene with "Appetite for Destruction," an album that sounded nothing like the hair/glam metal groups dominating radio and MTV. In fact, "Appetite's" edgy, raw songs didn't sound like much of anything popul...

Editor's note: This column was published prior to Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose's statement that he would not attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, and wished to decline induction. Some of you may know that my band Guns N' Roses will be...

Editor's note: This column was published prior to Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose's statement that he will not be attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, and is declining induction. Some of you may know that my band Guns N' Roses will be in...

Duff McKagan heads to Cleveland, anxious to see what awaits at induction ceremony.

Duff McKagan discovers new places to play, fans to see.

Duff McKagan makes appearance with Jim Rome, who he says helped him get clean.

I love the text message expression that often pops up on online forums. It is spelled "meh" and, practiced in real life, can be accompanied by a shoulder shrug or a snarky sneer. Meh, simply put, means "average." Meh seems to be more often used with...