The former members of Guns N' Roses reportedly came close to bringing Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong to stand in for Axl Rose during their performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last month.
In his weekly blog post for Seattle Weekly, Duff McKagan explained how the band "devised a plan" to connect with Armstrong before settling on Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy.
"For Slash and me, it was the first time we'd played our songs with Steven Adler in something like 22 years," he inked. "We had to wonder: Would it work? Would we be able to get our mojo back with only 14 hours to spare before playing in front of an audience of 7,000, and be filmed for an HBO Special!?" McKagan wrote in the post.
Ultimately McKagan says that he was "very satisfied about the outcome."
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