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Guns and Roses is arguably one of the best bands of the 90's music scene.  I remember the first time I heard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite_for_destruction" target="_blank">Appetite for Destruction</a>.  My world was changed much the way I imagine people felt when the Beatles released the White Album.

Duff McKagan, the original bassist for the band has a new book out called <a href="http://www.duff-itssoeasy.com/" target="_blank">It's So Easy, And Other Lies</a>. Rock Star biographies are a dime a dozen, but this looks good.

From his site:
<blockquote><strong>“It certainly wasn’t a given that my story would amount to anything more than a lurid cautionary tale. It had all the elements: sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and fame, fortune and a fall. But instead, the story became —well, it became something else.” —DUFF McKAGAN</strong>

A founding member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his phoenix-like 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 L.A. 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.

[<a href="http://www.duff-itssoeasy.com/" target="_blank">more</a>]</blockquote>
The book came out October 4th and is available everywhere.