Anyone reading/has read Duff McKagan's new book?

ryco · #1 10-20-2011, 08:51 PM

"It's So Easy +and Other Lies+"

Got this from a friend as a gift from Amazon today. Not a big fan, but I'll read it. He went to school with my brother and was in a bunch of Seattle bands in the eighties.

I'm a little older. I went to high school with Nikki Sixx, although he was two years behind me. Read his book "Heroin Diaries" when it came out. Not a big Motley fan, but Nikk's a good guy!

All these stories are kinda the same. <insert rock star here> Start on the street in Seattle, get hooked and smashed and hang on the streets. Move to LA, get an apartment, answer an ad in the classies, join band, get signed to a major, have a hit, see the world, end up at rock bottom, clean up and get straight and live a good life from then on.

I admire Duff for going to Seattle U and getting a degree in finance. A very good, and hard, private college and not an easy subject. Two things I kinda wonder about 1) on the other end of Broadway from Seattle U is one of the country's finest Art/Music schools - Cornish 2) when you end up in LA and have access to all those studio cats, why not take the opportunity to learn from those guys?
Not judging in any way - just curious. Maybe the book will tell me.

Staredge · #2 10-20-2011, 09:50 PM

I got it the day it came out. Enjoyed it. Interesting guy. Quite a few stories from the GnR days that I had already read about in Slash's bio......interesting to see it from a different POV.

lunarpollen · #3 11-03-2011, 05:19 PM

Does he write about his time drumming with the Fastbacks?

normalized · #4 11-04-2011, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by lunarpollen

Does he write about his time drumming with the Fastbacks?

Just saw them last weekend, they still rock, Kurt's a maniac and Mike Musberger is an AWESOME drummer (probably better than Duff was back in the day).

Bob C · #5 11-04-2011, 08:03 PM

The thing is, EVERYBODY has a book out. I say "more power to them", but question their motives.

Ace Frehley was just on the Today Show plugging his memoir. (SNL alum) Darryl Hammon has a memoir out. Florence Henderson has a book out.

I just finished Chuck Panozzo's book. I enjoyed it. He is likeable. But I didn't learn much new. Mick Fleetwood's and Phil Lesh's books left me with a bad case of the "Who cares?"

Nothng against Duff. I'm not a fan, but maybe it's a great read. I didn't know he was a drummer.