When he lived the rock and roll lifestyle by putting in time in Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, the Duff McKagan lifestyle was inaccessible to me. But now, as Duff's "loving parent" side comes out with pieces like the one in the Seattle Weekly music blog Reverb about broaching the delicate topic of sex with his daughter, I'm starting to feel some kinship.
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Velvet Revolver-related factoids that you can slip into your happy-hour chatter. 1. Ex-Spacehog vocalist Royston Langdon will probably not be the band's new lead singer, despite the guys getting along famously. 2. The band is working on new music, and feeling closer than ever now that Weiland is falling into drum risers that don't belong to Matt Sorum. 3. Duff McKagan hasn't heard those Guns N' Roses tracks that leaked in June, claiming ignorance about blogs, BitTorrent sites, or any of those other places on the computers where one can find illicit files. [RS]
Guns N' Roses to release new album next month! Duff McKagan talkin' about a reunion! Not really and not really, but with Axl, news is news even when it's not news. First off, Guns N'Roses is re-releasing Greatest Hits in England on June 2, just in time for Father's Day. And that's not a coincidence, as the press release notes: "it's most definitely the only album of choice for any serious rockfather." Actually, any serious rockfather already has Appetite For Destruction and doesn't need to sully his ears with that remake of "Sympathy For The Devil," whether he's enduring an hour-long commute or enjoying a beer in the backyard with his feet in a kiddie pool.
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Forty Percent Of Original Guns N' Roses Lineup To Appear On Upcoming Album
And it's my two favorite members! Let the conspiracy theories/reunion chatter/talk of Chinese Democracy being completely scrapped and recorded over the course of a bourbon-soaked weekend flower anew! [chopaway.com; HT Sleaze Roxx]
Despite naysayers' predictions, Saturday night's party celebrating the 20th anniversary of Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction did, in fact, have Steven Adler, Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, and Slash in attendance. (Axl Rose was, perhaps unsurprisingly, nowhere to be found, although apparently someone decided to attend the show in Axl-impersonator gear.)
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When Duff McKagan left Guns N' Roses in 1994, he was looking for a better monetary future than The Spaghetti Incident? had afforded him. After some finance courses at Seattle University (15 short of a degree) taught him the importance of spreading out his holdings beyond the low-risk Treasury bills he'd previously invested in:
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