Here Today... Gone To Hell!

https://duffonline.com/live/


September 30, 2024   
Academy, Dublin, Ireland

October 2, 2024   
The Garage, Glasgow, UK

Oct   3, 2024   
Academy 2, Manchester, UK

Oct   5, 2024   
Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK

Oct   7, 2024   
Utrecht Grote Zaal, Utrecht, Netherlands

Oct   8, 2024   
Kantine, Cologne, Germany

Oct   9, 2024   
Freiheitshalle, Munich, Germany

Oct 11, 2024   
Sono Centrum, Brno, Czech Republic

Oct   13, 2024   
Stodola, Warsaw, Poland

Oct   14, 2024   
Heimathafen, Berlin,Germany

Oct   16, 2024   
Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy

Oct   17, 2024   
Kofmehl, Solothurn, Switzerland

Oct   19 2024,
OM, Liege, Belgium

Oct   20, 2024   
Trianon, Paris, France

Oct   22, 2024   
Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden


/jarmo

I know it's not unusual or mean anything but it just doesn't feel right with GNR off the road.  Not even Slash and Duff are touring together.  Feels all wrong.

Tickets for London sorted

I think it feels right! Duff's solo stuff is great. Hope to catch one of the shows.

Stockholm is on!

It's great that their touring. I saw Slash last month and will see Duff again in September in the Academy. The guys are way more accessible to fans when they're not with GnR and they play the smaller venues.

Due to overwhelming demand, the venue for Glasgow on October 2nd has been changed.
New venue: The Garage




/jarmo

I went to The Garage years ago after seeing Pearl Jam in Glasgow and bouncers wouldn't let me in at first as there were footprints all over my white t-shirt. Had to explain that I was near the front and the crowd went down, hence the footprints, they let me in eventually. On the Glasgow live album 2000 you can hear it happen during Given to Fly.

Interesting track list for his upcoming live album:

01 You Ain’t The First
02 Breaking Rocks
03 Tenderness
04 Chip Away
05 Feel
06 Wasted Heart
07 River Of Deceit
08 Dust N’ Bones
09 Last September
10 It’s Not Too Late
11 Falling Down
12 Cold Outside
13 Parkland
14 Clampdown
15 Dead Horse
16 Don’t Look Behind You
17 Deepest Shade

US dates:

Nov. 4, 2024
Boston, MA
Paradise Rock Club

Nov. 6, 2024
New York, NY
Le Poisson Rouge

Nov. 8, 2024
Chicago, IL
Outset

Nov. 10, 2024
Denver, CO
Bluebird Theater

Nov. 13, 2024
Los Angeles, CA
El Rey Theatre

Nov. 18, 2024
Portland, OR
Aladdin Theater

Nov. 20, 2024
Seattle, WA
The Showbox





/jarmo

Why? Duff toured on his own in 2019 too.


Got tickets for Boston!
 

https://youtu.be/g7_OWLherc8?si=Kuj3DmDAoE46KTin (https://youtu.be/g7_OWLherc8?si=Kuj3DmDAoE46KTin)  :smoking:

https://x.com/DuffMcKagan/status/1811037796314018082

We are excited to announce special guests for the upcoming Lighthouse Tour ‘24, including exclusive performances from iconic punk legends Lee Ving’s Range War, who haven't performed in 35 years, and acoustic performances from Joe Keithley, leader of D.O.A. The electrifying Grace McKagan joins in Los Angeles and support on all EU/UK dates comes from Cardiff, Wales’s James and the Cold Gun.

All dates are on-sale now. Get your tickets and VIP packages at http://duffonline.com/live





/jarmo

If anyone is going to the show in NY let me know.  Going solo, and would be cool to see others from the boards there.

European tour starts this month. Anyone going to any of Duff's shows?





/jarmo

I'm considering Cologne. Not sure if I'll make it though. Love all his solo material, but never seen a show. What about you?

I plan on catching his last European show in Stockholm. Like you, never seen his solo show.





/jarmo

Oct   13, 2024   
Stodola, Warsaw, Poland - I'll be there  :)

I'll be at the London show!

https://www.loudersound.com/features/duff-mckagan-gospel

 
"Smile at your scared opponent and help them. If he's swinging wildly, chill him out": The Gospel according to Duff McKagan

By Emma Johnston

( Classic Rock )

 

Addiction can be beaten. Understand money. Put your partner first. Don’t hold grudges. Clothes maketh the man. These are among the things that shape Duff McKagan's world view

 

There are wild scenes in the McKagan household as Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan logs in to a video call for a chat with Classic Rock. Hadley, his puppy, is chewing up the room – which has stunning, peaceful views over a Seattle lake – desperate for someone to throw him a ball. It’s a scene of domestic contentment a million miles from the chaos of GN’R at their most hedonistic, and it’s the perfect backdrop for McKagan as he prepares to tour with songs from his solo albums Tenderness and Lighthouse, which themselves show his softer side.

“The way I wrote these songs is with an acoustic guitar up against my chest,” McKagan says. “I finally learned to listen to that reverberation of the guitar against your chest cavity, and that’ll tell you what to say and what melodies to sing. It just comes to you, guiding you.”

With this in mind, it seems like a good time to channel that inner voice and discover what wisdom he’s learned over the years.

 

Everything you need to know about rock’n’roll, you can learn from the Rolling Stones

My god, Mick moves like he’s thirty years old. I’m an athlete, I work out every day. You have to be an athlete to do what we do, three-hour shows. You’ve got to be fit and you’ve got to train in really smart ways. Be lighter than you are. And he’s just next-level on that. His posture’s straight and his feet are really light and he sings great. Ronnie and Keith’s guitar sounds are amazing. The band’s really gelling right now. It’s great to see.

Seattle is a city of survivors

The early days here, the punk rock days into what’s called the grunge days, all this heroin came into this area. It was a port city. That’s why I left for Hollywood. I found out going to Hollywood, you couldn’t pull a geographical on heroin, it was there too. But it really did a number on this city. So there’s a lot of survivors that are my friends. And that kind of thing is heavy.

The secret to a happy marriage is putting each other first

I’ve been with Susan [Holmes] twenty-seven years. I think the secret is we really like each other, we really dig each other. But what I’ve discovered in the last ten or fifteen years is she’s got my back no matter what; my best interests are her best interests. And the same the other way around. We trust each other. If one of us wants to make a move on something, it’s for us. It’s not a selfish thing.

 

Ayone can develop a business brain

I delayed myself in my twenties with the drink and the drugs. And I knew, even during that time, there’s way more to you than getting loaded, and I hated being addicted. But when I came out of that, and met Susan, I’m like, I’m gonna go to college, I’m gonna stop going on the road loaded, and we’re gonna be here for our children.

I went to Seattle University, the business school. You know, business school, there’s no big secret. It’s just there’s terminology and stuff that’s unneeded, and it kind of blocks the average people like me and you. Business school just unlocked all those dumb terms.

I really went to business school for selfish reasons. In my twenties I made money. I didn’t know what money was, I was afraid of it. I didn’t know if it’d last. Like: “How do I do any of this?” So that’s why I went in the first place, and then that kind of ballooned out a little bit to “I’m [an] expert guy in the business”, which I’m really not, but I’m attentive to it. I know how things work.

Addiction can be beaten, you can get sober

If I can do it, anybody can do it. Because I was just really a lost cause, I couldn’t figure out a way out. And I finally did, and once I got out around the corner there was no looking back on that. So there’s hope for you.

Making time for downtime can be tricky

I have to talk myself into chilling. I came up in a family with a work ethic and depression-era values: work hard, never let up. So I’m in the studio right now. I can’t just come to Seattle and do nothing. I stay busy. My wife and I finally went to Hawaii. I did want to put my feet in the sand after that long Guns N’ Roses tour. I brought my guitar, I wrote a lot of lyrics and songs, but I kind of learned how to just play ball with my dog, take him for walks. I was like: “I can actually do this. This is kind of amazing. I don’t feel like I need to do something.” But that’s a first.

Mothers are wise when it comes to world politics

I grew up in an interesting time; two of my brothers were in the Vietnam War when I was a little kid. I would ask my mom: “Why? What’s a war?” She said: “Well, two old guys don’t agree, and they send all the young men to go fight.” And I’ve found no better answer than that, to this day, that is the correct answer. It’s still the old fucking men doing this, for the most part.

I can see bullshit where I see bullshit. And there’s just so much bullshit right now. I get to travel a ton, and what I found is people are mostly polite. Nobody asks you about your politics. I can’t watch CNN over here. In America, the news has become so divisive and Trump-centric. There’s just too much. It’s too much to watch on anybody. Biden or Trump or anybody. These guys are all full of shit.

 

Punk rock is a great teacher

I borrowed a Stiff Little Fingers record from a friend when I was fourteen or so, and I was playing it on our living room stereo. My mom’s dad came from Cork, so she was connected with what was going on in Ireland at that time, and she heard me playing this record. I didn’t know it was political. I didn’t know what a ‘suspect device’ was, I didn’t know it was a bomb. She heard this and she read the lyrics. She said: “Oh these poor boys. They’re growing up in war in Belfast.” So I learned history through Stiff Little Fingers and my mom. I got to get my worldview education through a lot of punk rock.

Fatherhood is a life-changing experience

It’s an honour to be a father of daughters. It’s a responsibility. When they’re growing up, what they spot in the male species comes from you, you’re gonna inform them. And it becomes pretty apparent early on. I gotta be careful what I say, what I do. My actions around them have been very pure and straightforward, and I gotta think first before I do anything. Which is always good, think first before you do. But it’s just been such a joy raising these girls. It’s super-fun. They’re really great young women. Susan and I are both really very pleased.

Artificial intelligence isn’t much of a threat to rock’n’roll

As far as music goes, for a rock band like Guns N’ Roses it doesn’t apply. I don’t think it could. There’s nothing better than sitting down and writing a song on an acoustic guitar. There’ll never be anything better than that. I see there’s AI art on Instagram on Guns N’ Roses, and some of the stuff’s great, and my skin always looks amazing in it. I’m like: “I like this AI, my hair! That coat! I wish I had that coat!” But in seriousness, I don’t know enough about it. As far as it applies to music, I don’t see it at all.

A sense of style never goes out of fashion

I like good clothes. I like a good cut of a suit jacket. I like a good button-down shirt. It’s got to hang just right. I look at style, and mine probably came from the punk-rock scene, Generation X and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. Those guys looked so cool. I still just try to look as cool as that.

 

Life’s too short to hold a grudge

I don’t hold grudges. There’s no time for that. I learned this in my teenage years. I know how I learned it, but that’s not important. What’s important is that I was able to move on from it, because I felt it was really causing tightness in my chest and not letting me be a full person. And when you’re sixteen or seventeen and you learn something like that, it kind of stays.

There’s things I’ve had to work on in my life, like big events that happened to me that left a mark. I’ve done some work about that. There was a waterskiing accident I got into where I almost drowned, that kind of fucked me up a little bit. We all have things like that in our life that we’ve experienced, and that was one of mine. So I did some work later on, but that’s not a grudge, that’s just working on some things that get trapped inside you, and those things can be a bit caustic. I didn’t see a reason to hold on to them.

Pactising martial arts can make you a better person

I do a martial art called Ukidokan. It looks like kickboxing. Being in the ring is just a representation. When you’re sparring with somebody in the ring, and you don’t know who that person is, and you see fear or you see anger, you can see it all. The more years you put into it, you can see the whole person, you know what they’re gonna do.

Outside of that ring, you apply all these lessons to life: relax and breathe, and smile. Smile at your scared opponent and help them. If he’s swinging wildly, chill him out. You’re gonna make him a better fighter if you show him the way, as opposed to knocking him out. There’s two different ways to do that. You can get angry too, and just start swinging wildly as well, or you can calm the situation down. You duck, you block them and you calm them down. You teach them how it’s done. And that’s fighting.

And it really works outside in life. It works in my family, being a dad. I’ll always reference that first, then it helps with your wife and kids and it always helps my friendships, it helps in business. It helps every facet of my life.

 

Duff McKagan’s solo UK and Europe tour begins on September 30. Tickets are available now. The expanded edition of Lighthouse is out now via UMe.

 

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/jarmo

Er, mother's aren't wise per say, just once you've lived through the tantrums of a two and three year old, it's easy to spot in the grown up child.   :hihi:

Unfortunately, I’m no longer to attend Duff’s show in London on October 5.

As such, I’ve got two tickets going spare.

If anybody fancies them, I’m happy to let them go for £30 each. (Face value is £55.98)

Couch Riffs podcast - Ep 272 Duff McKagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7npYpDbCVVk






/jarmo

Cool interview, thanks for posting
Am looking forward to Duff's show next week, go and see it if you can - the Tenderness shows were great.  Always liked Duff's solo ventures

duffmckagan
New Single Heroes Streaming Now

From Duff: “We thought it was good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour. Choosing David Bowie’s HEROES seemed to be a natural subject matter for me (I am of course, a massive history nerd)…star-crossed lovers in the shadow of the mid-70’s cold-war era Berlin Wall. To try and compliment this era, I chose a sort of 70’s glam-rock song that I wrote some time last year, TRUE TO THE DEATH ROCK N ROLL BALLAD, another lyric where love and lust and time are the central figures. We hope you dig this ‘single’ and thank you all for just being you!”

Stream Heroes + the b-side True To The Death Rock N’ Roll Ballad at https://duffmckagan.ffm.to/heroes

#DuffMcKagan #GunsNRoses

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/jarmo

Pretty good.

The first show of the tour is tomorrow in Dublin.





/jarmo

Looks like there was a deep cut from Use Your Illusion II in Duff’s set last night

Really?

The only GN'R song I saw on Setlist.fm was You're Crazy.





/jarmo

Pretty sure you're right and that's the only guns song. Here's a link to almost the entire concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_5oSBMlyI

Apparently someone added "Breakdown" on setlist.fm, but it was fake, so it was removed.

Wouldn't be the first time that happens.




/jarmo

The Dublin show was amazing. The Academy is a relatively small, intimate venue so everyone had a pretty good view and it was very comfortable. Duff played 'You're Crazy' and 'Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory', The rest were all from the new album and a few other covers, "I Fought the Law', 'Heroes' and 'I Wanna be your Dog'. The banter was good between Duff and the crowd. Someone looking for an after party shouted 'Where are we gonna afterwards?' and Duff replied, 'We're going to Glasgow'. Susan Holmes was behind the soundboard for the whole show and people were able to talk to her afterwards, I spoke with her myself and she was happy to let me take get a selfie with her. Well worth going to. The songs sound great live.

Nice! Thanks for posting. :)




/jarmo

The first show in mainland Europe is tonight in Utrecht. From there the tour continues to Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France and ends in Sweden.





/jarmo

Duff's European tour ended last night. Was a great show in Stockholm.  8)

If you have the chance, go see him and his band on the US leg. :)




/jarmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1KxogOQPc

Duff McKagan - Heroes Live from Islington Assembly Hall feat. Steve Jones of Sex Pistols






/jarmo

I was in Warsaw. Great show, great band, great setlist and of course great crowd  ;D

I didn't see the Tenderness tour, but on this tour, the band rocks.

Not sure if some think Duff is a country artist now or something, but this is a rock tour for sure.







/jarmo

For those into podcasts...

Duff is a guest on the latest episode of Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast.

I saw Duff at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston last night.It was a great show, you should go if you have the chance!  He did songs from Tenderness, Lighthouse, some covers and GnR's " You re crazy" ;)

Totally agree.


Did you see him on the Tenderness tour? If you did, how do the shows compare?





/jarmo

Duff sent out an email yesterday.  You can stream one of his upcoming shows.  Not sure what the price was.

It's a stream of the show they did in London.



Watch The Lighthouse Tour '24 Live From London Exclusively on Veeps
Duff McKagan brings his signature blend of rock and punk influence to London during his recent Lighthouse Tour. Tune in for a mix of your favorite classic tracks as well as newer material.

Join us for a special Q&A before the show with Duff via live video answering your questions from the chat! Submit your questions in real time or across socials for your chance to have Duff respond!

All ticket purchases also include a 7 day on-demand viewing period. If you are based in the US you may enjoy the show on demand for at least 2 years by choosing the Veeps All Access Subscription!

https://veeps.com/duffmckagan




/jarmo

No, I didn't go to any of the Tenderness shows unfortunately.



Also, I have never seen any of the GnR guys in such a small venue so this was a bonus for me.  Small venues make for such a unique experience!At the end of the show Duff walked into the crowd and shook hands with us haha  ;D

It definitely is a different kind of experience.

Glad you got to experience it! :)




/jarmo

Axl went to see Duff last night at the Los Angeles show.





/jarmo

Lets make a plan here.  Next time Axl's in the audience, heft him up and let the crowd surf him up to the stage for the encore.   :hihi:  We'll just stay there all night.