BASSIST Duff McKagan insists Guns N’Roses remain determined to release newly-written material despite sticking to reworked earlier compositions since the reunion in 2016.
McKagan was speaking on Sirius XM’s Trunk Nation program, during which he also spoke of the need for GN’R tours to not go on so long that everyone starts to get on each other’s nerves.
“There’s definitely a desire and a plan for new music,” McKagan told host Eddie Trunk, “yeah for sure.”
On touring, he said: “You can go on a tour and you can have peaks and valleys on the tour. And we never do. It’s always, like, every gig is super special.
“Even when we extended our tour – after touring for so much, extending it for another four weeks, that can destroy a band. I’ve seen it happen. That’s too long. You went too long. And everybody’s starting to snap at each other and the crew and all that stuff.
“But it doesn’t happen with our band or our crew. So we ended on this really highlight, which was Mexico City, this huge gig we did. And we played two nights at the Hollywood Bowl right before that. It was really special.
“We had The Black Keys opening at the Hollywood Bowl — a really cool, different sort of show. So I think we ended and were, like ‘oh, man. Let’s not end. Let’s get back to this soon.’ But I think for me, I know I had to rest — I had to rest my body. A lot of hours on stage. A lot of traveling. And I’ve gotta listen to my body these days. I’ve gotta listen. So I had to rest.
“I think we all need to rest. Slash, he’ll go out and tour, like, four weeks later and do it all over again. I’m, like ‘OK, dude. More power to you. I’m gonna go to Hawaii. I’m going to Hawaii, man.'”
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