Recently it was announced that former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan would be working with his former band mate guitarist Izzy Stradlin. The two will be putting out a 3 song EP called How to Be a Man on the 12 of this month. To tide us over however, McKagan has put up one of the tracks titled How to Be a Man on his SoundCloud page.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, McKagan was asked what it was like to be playing with Stradlin once again. McKagan says:
"His guitar playing is so fucking good. Not that it surprises me, but it's like, 'Oh dude, you've been playing a lot of fucking guitar. What are you doing out there?' He's got a little creative zone out where he lives, and I think he probably sinks himself into that. I write books, I write columns, I'm pretty public, and, of course you can write and still remain private, but he is really just off the grid. His comfort zone is off the grid. He doesn't do any press, he doesn't have a publicist, and he just puts out a record every couple of years on iTunes. He's pretty pure."
The track How to Be a Man is linked at the bottom of the page. It's pretty good. I wouldn't say it was outstanding, but it was of the high caliber you would expect of these two musicians. It had a bit of a Use Your Illusion era of Guns N' Roses undertone to it. Stradlin does some fantastic acoustic guitar work and McKagan's vocals are as pure punk rock as they ever were. It's worth having a listen to if you have a few minutes to spare.
How to Be a Man stream link:
http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2015-05-06/duff-mckagan-streams-izzy-collaboration
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