Forty years and two months ago, Duff McKagan first arrived in Los ... The band’s 1987 debut, “Appetite for Destruction,” remains an album inextricably linked with Los Angeles.

There were no shades of grey with Duff. He was either going to live or die. He was drinking a gallon-and-a-half of vodka a ...

But then 1987’s game-changing ‘Appetite for Destruction’ proved ... All three of the latter would soon be replaced by Slash, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler, respectively, and so powerful ...