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#439:Duff McKagan/Guns N' Roses

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

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🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Today on Let There Be Talk the great Duff McKagan returns for Part 2 of our conversation on the history of Guns N' Roses.

Back when Duff was on 4 years ago Oct 6th 2014 we dug deep into the first part of GNR's amazing history and he promised to return and cover the USE YOU ILLUSION era and today he kept that promise.

Tune in and hear all about how the Illusion records were made and also many other amazing Guns N' Roses stories.

This is by far one of my all time favorite episodes so do not miss it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What up everybody? Welcome to another episode. I'll let the be talk today is Monday, September 17th.

0:09.0

How is everybody? You guys all, you all doing good? You guys out there doing it? You live? You got to smile on your face? What is happening?

0:19.0

Great guest today. Oh my God.

0:24.0

Let's see, obviously if you've listened to this podcast for the last six years, you know Guns and Roses is one of my favorite bands of all time.

0:34.0

And about four years ago, I got to interview my man, Duff McKagan. I can't believe it's been four years already.

0:44.0

I swear, I was looking it up and I go, yeah, I think that was like a couple years ago.

0:50.0

And I started digging through the catalog and it was four years ago. What the fuck, man?

0:59.0

I still think that that's wrong. I don't know. I mean, it was, what was it? Let me look it up here.

1:06.0

This is just insane. October 6, 2014. That's just insane. How I mean, I say it over and over. Tom Flaz, man. It really does. It really does.

1:22.0

But anyway, I was lucky enough to interview him four years ago.

1:27.0

And we dug way deep into the appetite record and the early history of Guns and Roses and all that stuff.

1:37.0

And then he was busy recording a new record for the walking papers. I was at the studio doing the episode.

1:45.0

And after about an hour and a half or so, he had to get back to work and there were so many more questions I had.

1:51.0

And he said, we'll do a part two. And of course, about a year later, Guns and Roses gets back together, reunion tour, slash, Duff and Axel.

2:05.0

And I was like, gosh, shit, probably not going to happen now.

2:09.0

And then about two weeks ago, I'm at JFK in New York City and I run into Duff and a giant smile on my face whenever I see that, man, because I just, I love him.

2:20.0

He's just an amazing human. And he said, hey, man, come by the house. Let's do that part two. And I was just fucking so happy, man.

2:31.0

And sure enough, Monday, I went over to his house and we did this interview. And I think it could be one of my all time favorite.

2:42.0

Duff just, what a great, what a great, great person him and his wife, his family, his band, his music. I love it all.

2:52.0

Anyway, that's, that's about to happen here. And I hope you guys enjoy it. Don't forget to, you know, share this episode with all the Guns and Roses fanatics out there in the world. There are millions of them.

3:06.0

Believe me. Speaking of Guns and Roses, you've been looking for Guns and Roses T-shirt, a vintage one. I got the illusion one and you'll hear about that story here on today's podcast with Duff. I got a Luzion 2 tour original.

3:23.0

You want an original rock and roll t-shirt? Maybe you went to a concert when you were young and you bought a shirt and you wore it like me and it just disintegrated because you wore it every day or maybe you outgrew it or maybe you lost it.

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