Days of Drugs and Debauchery

Duff McKagan shared a sleazy Hollywood apartment with his girlfriend years before Guns N' Roses became the world's biggest rock band. Pimps, prostitutes, and junkies surrounded. Upstairs lived a cautionary tale. A once-famous neighbor befriended the soon-to-be-famous bass player. He shared demo tapes with the younger musician and then without invitation started sharing his bathroom. "I watched the illusions I had about one of my idols evaporate before my eyes," Duff McKagan writes in It's So Easy (and Other Lies). "Was the great Sly Stone living the good life, jamming in a home studio tucked away somewhere in his sprawling mansion? Nope, he was sneaking past my girlfriend to smoke crack in my bathroom."