Tenderness

Guns N' Roses legend Duff McKagan takes a moment to reflect on mellow solo album, Tenderness

Rolling Stone reviews Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan's new album 'Tenderness.'

While his bandmates in Guns N' Roses brought the sleaze, swagger, and rock & roll decadence, bassist Duff McKagan was always the punk component.

The immediate mental image most of us draw of Duff McKagan traces back 30 years. The 20-something was draped with a hairspray-stiff mane. A cigarette regularly dangled from his lips. He was — and once again is — a key member of dirty hard rock/heavy metal icons GUNS N' ROSES. He looked the part. He...