DUFF MCKAGAN - "The Family Business Is Booming"
October 21, 2010, 14 years ago
DUFF MCKAGAN, formerly of GUNS N' ROSES and JANE'S ADDICTION, currently in VELVET REVOLVER and LOADED, has updated his Seattle Weekly blog. An excerpt follows:
"I do not like reality shows. No, I actually despise what little I have seen and think that some of this stuff has really poisoned our perception of reality. But then again, I have a ton of male rock friends who watch this stuff and fucking LOVE it. I don't believe that there is a real place for 'rock guys' on an E! show, and Dave Navarro will be the first to tell you that if he could have done it differently, he would have never done the 'Carmen and Dave' show. He has had to claw his way back into legit musical circles, as he sees it. (I think Dave is just so good at what he does musically that NOTHING could ever do THAT much damage to him).So then that day came - the day Susan (Duff's wife) asked if I would be on her new show 'just for one episode, baby. PLEASE! I know that you don't like this stuff, but they want me to ride a motorcycle and I thought we could do it together?' The show IS called Married To Rock, right?
Since we had both immediately decided that our daughters would NOT be a part of the show (that would go against our ethos of privacy for them and for any 'celebrity' that they might come upon, which would be of their choosing AFTER THEY ARE AT LEAST 18! Grace of course was BUMMED - but I digress).
How could I say no to my wife? How DARE I? This woman who has backed ME and taken care of ME and believed in ME? No, baby, whatever you need from me, I will do (of course, within reason).
We both decided that showing me with any band I was in would be fucking tacky and seen as gross commercialism. I suppose Loaded could USE a little gross commercialism, but not of this sort."
To read the blog in its entirety, click here.
