“It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.”

American musician

Duff McKagan is an American musician best known as the bassist for Guns N' Roses. Born Michael Andrew McKagan, he was associated with the band for 12 years and became part of its worldwide rise in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He rejoined Guns N' Roses in 2016, after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His public profile is tied above all to that long run with one of hard rock's most widely recognized groups.