Former GUNS N' ROSES, current VELVET REVOLVER bassist DUFF McKAGAN has issued his latest blog for Seattle Weekly. An excerpt reads as follows:

"Last Sunday (February 28th), I was more than honored to be asked to take part in a show here in Seattle that benefited Haiti relief efforts - honored because of the sheer talent of the other performers that I would be playing a bunch of different songs with.

Where do I start? When Debra Heesh, Jeff Rouse, Mike, and his wife Ashley McCready first came up with the idea of doing a Hootenanny for Haiti, it was going to be loosely based on some acoustic jams that some of us had done together over the last year or so. On top of this, Deb organized a Patsy Cline tribute show at Columbia City Theater last year and enrolled the help of Kim Virant, Star Anna, and Kristen Ward to be Patsy for the occasion. Gary Westlake, brothers Rick and Chris Friel, Ty Bailey (my daughters' piano teacher!), and Jeff Rouse were the band that night.

I have for the most part been out of town except for two of the hootenanny rehearsals, but I was kept in the loop as the talent pool started to grow outward from this core group. Matt Cameron came in for the cause. Star Anna's band from Ellensburg, too. Stone Gossard and then his old band Brad (Shawn Smith is the most mysterious and powerful male singer out of Seattle... period). Tim DeJulio, a local ringer guitar player, came in too. And last but certainly not least, Kim Warnick came out of retirement to sing Belinda Carlisle's 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth' and fucking killed it!"

To read the rest of Duff's blog, including his admission that he was "too fucked up when GN'R toured with SOUNDGARDEN back in the early '90s," click here.