TODAY’S BIRTHDAY BOY WAS BORN IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON ON THIS DATE BACK IN 1964 IS A ROCK BASSIST LEGEND WHO LEFT SEATTLE IN THE MID 80’S DUE TO THE DRUG SCENE AND HEADED TO L.A WHERE HE ANSWERED A LOCAL NEWSPAPER AD FOR A BASS GUITARIST AND THAT IS HOW HE MET GUITARIST SLASH AND DRUMMER STEVEN ADLER AND THAT IS HOW DUFF MCKAGAN BECAME THE BASS PLAYER FOR THE ROCKERS GUNS N ROSES IS 1985. HE WAS BORN MICHAEL ANDREW MCKAGAN AND WAS NICKNAMED DUFF AS A TODDLER…DUFF SPENT 12 YEARS WITH GNR AND REJOINED IN 2016 AND CONTINUES TO ROCK WITH THEM TODAY. HE WORKED AS A SOLO ARTIST, COLLABORATED WITH OTHER GROUPS LIKE ALICE IN CHAINS, JANES ADDICTION AND FELLOW SEATTLE NATIVES LIKE PEARL JAM’S MIKE MCCREADY AND BARRET MARTIN OF SCREAMING TREES. MCKAGAN ALSO RECEIVES WRITING CREDIT ON A LARGE PORTION OF GNR’S CATALOG, INCLUDING THEIR 1987 HIT SINGLE “WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE”…HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY DUFF…ROCK OUT AND CELEBRATE WITH “WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” IT’S ROXY’S ROCK REWIND ON 105.7 THE X
