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  • It's So Easy

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  • By: Duff McKagan
  • Narrated by: Christian Rummel
  • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (194 ratings)

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It's So Easy

By: Duff McKagan
Narrated by: Christian Rummel
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In his New York Times best seller, 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 20, 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 fans 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.

©2011 Duff McKagan (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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couldn't stop listening

Not really a die hard GnR fan, but big fan of Duff as a man. Amazing story!!

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Better than his joke of the week .

Awesome auto biography of a really interesting person. Great stories and some really positive messages

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Huge Guns n Roses fan

Loved this book, some great deals of life in and out of G n R . A story of recovery and transformation highly recommended.

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Absolutely captivating

Such a great book to listen too. The more you listen the more you feel like you’re there, five stars doesn’t do this book justice

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loved it

Thought this book was going to be another rock star brag about how they smashed hotels etc... but it was so good. It was deep, funny and interesting. Loved it.

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Wow, This book delivered

like some other reviewers i didn't expect much but this book delivers in spades. its awesome. Raw and honest look not just at Guns N Roses but his whole life before and after guns and Roses much respect to Duff, thoroughly enjoyable. well read. This is certainly not just about sex, drugs and rock and roll, its about the journey of this man finding himself and how he got himself out of the depths of despair. Actually quite inspiring.

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Great story and performance

I have been a bit of a fan of GnR back in the days but never of Duff himself. I think the book is very enjoyable regardless. Very surprised by the depth of this man. I got the book just to give it a shot and devoured it in a day. It’s a very human and quite inspirational story.
The narrator has given it the perfect tone.

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Awesome!

Loved this story and admire how Duff has told it. Big fan of GnR growing up and continue to be so. I hope to see them live one day!!

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Loved it

Well done Duff. Great to hear that things worked out for you. Just seen you with GNR in Brisbane and loved your stooges cover. Stay cool my man.

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Surprisingly motivational

Duff has done a lot, his path to becoming a great father and human is something I didn’t expect to hit me the way it did.

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