DUFF McKAGAN - "I Thought The Huge Fruit Bats Were Monkeys With Wings"
February 28, 2013, 11 years ago
In his latest blog for Seattle Weekly's Reverb titled, My Time In The Bush, Duff McKagan (LOADED, VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) reveals that "I am currently in the midst of a 10-day travelling festival tour of Australia called Soundwave. Extraordinary in its pure logistics, and in its' 6th year-now, a finely tuned mechanism.
The highlight of the festival experience so far has been the fellowship between the acts. With so many people in one place at a time, and so many who don't know each other - I have witnessed a great amount of fraternity between bands: Metal dudes hanging out with pop-punkers, and grind-core badasses hanging out EDM DJs and so on.
Ah, but Australia is a long, long ways away from Europe and the US (where most of the music acts are from). The jet-lag factor with just about everyone there in the first few days, was a pretty hilarious thing to bare witness to. (Personally on my second night in-country, I was so out of it from sleep deprivation, that I thought the huge fruit bats in the trees were monkeys with wings, and that they were surely going to at any time, swoop down and bite my face off. No, I don't drink and don't smoke the crack)."
To read Duff's blog in its entirety, click here.
