American hard rock band Duff Mckagan’s Loaded’s album “The Taking” is released on April 19, 2011 via Eagle Records. A feature length film about the album, as well as Loaded, by filmmaker and documentarian Jamie Burton Chamberlin is currently being filmed, with the album serving as the films soundtrack.

Duff McKagan said, "I really can’t say that I’m influenced by one thing or another when I write songs. I don’t even listen to one type of music more than another. I think it’s just being on the road seeing all bands perform live, from Slipknot to Sound Track of Our Lives, which is a wide range of styles. It’s really live bands that influence me". 

"We also have a little known first CD from 2000. After a few starts and stops we made a group effort in 2008 to write and record Sick. We said to ourselves, we’ve been a band for eight years, let’s see if we can find a something that’s a culmination of those shared years. I’m really proud of the song writing on Sick. It was really fresh. We made it in two and a half days of preproduction."

At the time of energy in Velvet Revolver will tilt and it was nice to be involved in something with a group of fresh and vibrant, and it was not the least of Velvet Revolver. That's just how life goes. They go out touring and did not have much help from the record company.

The tour actually confirmed them as a band. They come from the street with all the songs or at least part of the song that made ​​The Taking. Loaded directly into the studio and start demoing them, with the energy from the top left of the high caffeine, testosterone, loneliness, happiness, sadness, and madness. These songs are the temptations of what happened on the road.
‘The Taking’ is not just an album, it’s a bold statement from McKagan. While Velvet Revolver look for a new singer and DJ Ashba looks for Axl Rose backstage well past stage time, Duff brings back what has so far been considered his ‘side project’ and releases the record Chinese Democracy should have been. ‘The Taking’ is an album that is not afraid to dive into commercial territory and back out again, an album that proudly displays the ageless passion and experience of his creators and sets in stone Duff McKagan’s iconic status – a status Guns’n’Roses are today only a small part of.
They have some dates in the UK and Europe in open June to Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. Then in August they have run in these countries.