eGigs.co.uk has issued the following report:

Previously of GUNS N' ROSES, Duff McKagan, bass player with VELVET REVOLVER has been one of the most successful bass players ever, eGigs spoke to him before he headed to the UK for the Velvet Revolver tour, which begins at the middle of this month.

Q: Hi, Duff describe where you are right now!

A: "I'm in LA, and today it's like 80 degrees."

Q: What made you decide to take up bass playing?

A: "That's a good question. in my teens I started playing everything because I was the last to be a kid at home, everyone was older than I was. All my older brothers and sisters were older than I was, all of them played or sang. So there was guitars hanging around, there was a bass and drums, so I kind of everything.

In my early punk rock bands, in my teens, I played guitar one band, I played drums in another, and I played bass in another. When I decided to make the move to L.A. when I was nineteen, I could have really come down and played any of those three instruments. But my drum kit was a piece of shit, and at that point in 1984 guitar players down in L.A. were doing Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen shit and I wasn't, I was more Steve Jones, Johnny Thunder style.

So, I thought I would get my foot in the door playing bass, at least meet some people you know. I had a good bass, so I sold everything else and used that money to finance my trip, it wasn't that much money about $300.

The first band that we formed when I moved here, the first people I met, were Slash, Steven and Izzy and we formed Guns'n'Roses. So, that's how I really started to become a bass player."

Read the full interview at eGigs.co.uk.