After Only Six Months Duff McKagen Leaves Jane's Addiction

Just five months after officially joining the band, bassist Duff McKagan is hanging up his guitar strap and saying goodbye to Jane’s Addiction.

McKagan, who was a former member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, was added to Jane’s Addiction’s lineup to replace original member Eric Avery.

After Avery left the band in March, McKagan made his live debut in April by jamming along with a few members of Jane’s at frontman Perry Farrell’s birthday party.

During the past few months McKagan played several gigs with Jane’s Addiction and helped work on its upcoming album.

  Jane’s Addiction released a statement explaining that the band and McKagan were going their separate ways because of (what else?) musical differences.

“Hey we wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record,” the band told Reuters via email. “We love the songs we worked on with him – and the gigs were a blast – but musically we were all headed in different directions. From here Duff is off to work on his own stuff so we wish him all the best.”