Michael "Duff" McKagan, the former bassists of Guns N' Roses, tells his personal story of how he reached his fame and fortune and then almost lost his life from years of drug and alcohol abuse. It also tells us how Slash (Guitarist), Steven Adler ( Drummer) and himself created GN'R only to have it stolen from them by Axl Rose. It explains how they were not only a band but friends until Axl Roses greed and ego and the other band members drug abuse tore them apart.

He also shares with you how he got himself clean, sober, and healthy, met his third wife and started a family, and picked himself up musically and created, with GN'R guitartist Slash, a new band called Velvet Revolver that has gained it's own brand of success.

I must say that the book itself was a hard read because at times his thoughts often seem incomplete and jumbled, but once you get past that it is a good read and you gain some insight to why GN'R faded away.