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Duff McKagan quits Jane’s Addiction
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 8 September 2010
Now look here, Jane’s Addiction, if you can’t look after your bassists, you won’t be allowed any bassists at all. How many is it you’ve lost now? Don’t give me that look! You’re asking to go to bed without any dinner. Oi! Come back here!
That’s just the sort of thing Jane’s Addiction’s mum probably said earlier this week when the band shuffled in and announced that Velvet Revolver and former Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan had left the band. By ‘mum’ I mean ‘fans’. And by ‘shuffled in’ I mean ‘sent an email’.
McKagan joined the band in March, after the departure of original bassist Eric Avery, and worked on new songs for their forthcoming new album. But now he too is gone. The band announced this week: “We wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record. We love the songs we worked on with him – and the gigs were a blast – but musically we were all headed in different directions. From here Duff is off to work on his own stuff so we wish him all the best”.
There’s no word on a replacement as yet. Rumours that they’ve been unable to recruit a new member because their mum has grounded them stretch this whole imagined scenario a little too far.
