On October 4th, Duff McKagan (ex-GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED) will issue his autobiography, It's So Easy (And Other Lies), via Touchstone Books.

Sam Comen of Bloomberg Businessweek recently profiled the Albers School of Business and Economics graduate who at one time, "drank his own vomit, because it had alcohol in it." An excerpt follows:

The college courses have also helped him manage his two bands, Velvet Revolver and Duff McKagan’s Loaded, which takes more business savvy than it did when he was in Guns N’ Roses. “We were playing shows then where shows were a loss leader to sell albums. Now it’s completely the opposite,” he says. “You make the most off your ticket receipts and T-shirts. Now the sexy thing is ‘How many T-shirts did you sell,’ not records. No one talks about records.” He knows that in the middle of the US, people like big shirts that hang loose and are made of thicker material than the thin, tight style on the coasts: “It’s like you’re a garmento, too.”

Click here to read the article in its entirety.

McKagan has scheduled the following book-signing events:

Tuesday, October 4th

Strand Book Store Event at 7 p.m.

828 Broadway

New York City

Wednesday, October 5th

Bookends Event at 7 p.m.

211 E. Ridgewood Ave.

Ridgewood, NJ

Thursday, October 6th

Book Revue Event at 7 p.m.

313 New York Avenue

Huntington, NY

Saturday, October 8th

Barnes & Noble Costa Mesa Event at 2 p.m.

901 B South Coast Drive

Costa Mesa, CA

Sunday, October 9th

Barnes & Noble Santa Monica Event at 2 p.m.

3rd St. Promenade, 1201 3rd St.

Santa Monica, CA

Tuesday, October 11th

Book Soup Event at 7 p.m.

8818 Sunset Blvd.

West Hollywood, CA

Sunday, October 16th

Mall of America Event at 2 p.m.

60 E. Broadway

Bloomington, MN

Tuesday, October 18th

Powell's Books Event at 7:30 p.m.

1005 W. Burnside

Portland, OR

Wednesday, October 19th

University Book Store Event at 7 p.m.

4326 University Way NE

Seattle, WA

Thursday, October 20th

Third Place Books Event at 7 p.m.

17171 Bothell Way NE

Lake Forest Park, WA

Friday, October 21st

Elliott Bay Book Company Event at 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 22nd

Warwicks Event at 6:30 p.m.

7812 Girard Avenue

La Jolla, CA