It's So Easy: and other lies By Duff McKagan

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In his New York Times bestseller, Duff McKagan, founding member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, shares the story of his rise to fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his life-saving transformation via a unique path to sobriety.In 1984, at the age of twenty, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle—partly to pursue music but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdoses then decimating his closest group of friends in the local punk scene. In LA only a few weeks and still living in his car, he answered a want ad for a bass player placed by someone who identified himself only as “Slash.” Soon after, the most dangerous band in the world was born. Guns N’ Roses went on to sell more than 100 million albums worldwide. In It’s So Easy, Duff recounts Guns’ unlikely trajectory to a string of multiplatinum albums, sold-out stadium concerts, and global acclaim. But that kind of glory can take its toll, and it did—ultimately—on Duff, as well as on the band itself. As Guns began to splinter, Duff felt that he himself was done, too. But his near death as a direct result of alcoholism proved to be his watershed, the turning point that sent him on a unique path to sobriety and the unexpected choices he has made for himself since. In a voice that is as honest as it is indelibly his own, Duff—one of rock’s smartest and most articulate personalities—takes readers on a harrowing journey through the dark heart of one of the most notorious bands in rock-and-roll history and out the other side.

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I've been on a rockstar bio kick for a couple of months now and have read several of them. Duff's book is interesting but I hate to say somewhat formulaic and very self-consciously written.... It's almost as if he is keenly aware of the conventions of the 'bio genre' and tries very hard to stick to them. Every life changing moment has to come with an epiphany of some sort. "Once I saw my kid after they were born, everything changed instantly"....."I went back to college to study finance and now suddenly I'm a financial wizard"......etc...There are a lot of motivational speaking type quips about pushing yourself to the limit through fitness and it gets very very repetitive...For the last 100 pages or so, it's as if nothing new happens in his life.....His time in Velvet Revolver (which briefly highlights Scott Weiland's destructive tendencies through Duff's sober eyes) gets quickly glossed over....And then it suddenly all ends and of course with a positive, uplifting finale. Surprisingly, there was not much new information on the inner workings of Guns N Roses either which is disappointing but somewhat telling. It was a fast, quick rollercoaster ride and many of participants didn't have time to reflect on what was happening to them until it was over. I thought that Slash's book covered their most creative and turbulent period much better and seemed much more raw, honest and streetwise.The most interesting part of Duff's bio is definitely when he talks about his panic attacks and how he believes that it is rooted in witnessing his father's infidelities as a child. This is when he is at his most exposed and most vulnerable, but again, he quickly pulls back and sugar coats it all. He writes that he 'forgave his dad and moved on'. I wish that he had explored this period of his life much more deeply than he did. Perhaps the pain and the shame of this period runs too deep? Who knows. Only Duff knows I guess.Much stronger biographies that I read of late are Keith Richard's Life (excellent), Paul Stanley's A Life Exposed (great when Paul talks about coming to terms with his ear deformity much later after he had achieved everything that he wanted to in life), Lemmy's White Line Fever (unapologetic, raw and bare bones...much like the man and his music) and Mike Oldfield's Changeling (probably the best written, most psychologically complex and most enlightening biography written by a musician that I have read in a long time).We naturally gravitate towards reading about musicians because we want to know what makes them tick and understand why they make the decisions that they do. As much as I wanted to like it, this bio seemed to be safe and in the end strictly written by the numbers. Duff btw comes across as a much more interesting person when he is being interviewed about his life than when he is writing. He may be trying too hard to be a wordsmith now, what with all of the books and the newspaper column that he has been releasing lately....

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