Earlier this week, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED wrapped filming on their video for the song 'Flatline', from their forthcoming album 'Sick', due in stores on March 30th (Europe) and April 7th (USA) via Century Media.

'Flatline' is actually the second video Loaded has filmed, as last year they issued a clip for 'No More', a song that initially appeared on the limited edition Wasted Heart EP. That tune is also featured on Sick.

Vocalist/guitarist Duff McKagan (ex-GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER) spoke exclusively to BW&BK; scribe Aaron Small and provided the following update:

“We have a sense of humour and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. The fucking killer thing about Loaded is, we made a record for under $20,000 – mastered and mixed. You record on the same shit. There’s no Town Cars picking you up. There’s no catering everyday. You get a trail mix and water; tap water at that. But it’s still the same record, the same passion and the same equipment.

We made that ‘No More’ video for $2500, not $200,000. It’s the same cameras. But for the 'Flatline' video, we actually had a budget of $7500, a ton of money for Loaded making a video. So all these directors started sending us treatments. They all had a love interest in it or a strip club – some bullshit. They were all so on the nose of what the song was. Really? That’s the best you’ve got there? So we had an idea and that’s what we used.

Our idea was: we’re getting ready for a rock show. We’re backstage and we’re really serious, putting our fucking eyeliner and wristbands on. Geoff (Reading, drummer) is taping up his fingers, playing his sticks on the countertop. Mike (Squires) is playing guitar. We’re stretching out. Then we’re walking down the hall – in slow motion of course. It’s like we’re playing Madison Square Gardens. We go out and boom! We’re in a bingo hall with all these old fuckers playing bingo. We go in and we start fucking with these guys. We actually are running a con ‘cause we want to win bingo. All these really creepy old dudes, I don’t know where they found these guys, find out we’re cheating and they beat the shit out of us! That’s the denouement of the song. Then in slow motion, we’re walking back to our dressing room, taking off our shirts, all sweaty. It’s like, good gig. So it’s just a piss take on ourselves really.”

To listen to 'Flatline', click here.