2024.06.12 - SiriusXM's Trunk Nation - Interview with Duff

Excerpts from Hot Metal:
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Duff McKagan says Guns N’ Roses have new material – and that the Rolling Stones may have shown them how to release it.

The GN’R bassist seemed hesitant about going into detail when asked on Sirius XM about the chances of the superstar rockers putting out entirely new material any time soon, as opposed to reworked version of older unreleased songs which they’ve done over the past two years. Asked on the Faction Talk station if he supported the release of ‘newly written’ songs, he said: "Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. You’re wanting me to add more to that, aren’t you? There’s new material. I don’t know how we’re going to put it out. I think that’s a question, too. Do you put out a record? Do you just keep putting out singles. I don’t know if the right answer is there in this day and age. But I do know there’s a new Pearl Jam record, I know Pearl Jam put out Dark Matter and I think that record was the perfect record for them right now because they’ve got a whole new energy. The same with the Stones – new record, putting out a whole new record.”

The Stones’ Hackney Diamonds was described by McKagan as their best in more than 40 years.

“The band seems to have a whole new energy,” he continued. “I think doing that record with (producer) Andrew Watt was key for their new energy because Andrew Watt’s got a lot of energy. So, you know, hopefully we can do something like that.”

https://hotmetalmag.com/stones-may-have-shown-gnr-how-to-do-a-new-album-says-duff-mckagan/