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Duff McKagan Comments on Staying Faithful on the Road

Posted 04/08/2009 at 10:17am | by GuitarWorld Staff Member

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In an exclusive Dear Guitar Hero segment with Guitar World, former Guns N' Roses bassist -- and current Loaded guitarist -- Duff McKagan repsonds to an anonymous question about how to stay faithful on the road.

"I don’t have a problem with that," says McKagan, who is married. "You turn road-gay on the road. After about 10 days, the fellas in your band start looking really good. [laughs] I don’t know. For me, I’ve got kids. I think cheating would be bullshit, just to get your d**k in something else. And to live with that guilt...

"Back when I was single and Guns were on the Illusions tour, chicks were, like, left and right. They were falling over themselves. And I saw the sadness in that. The first six months of that, it’s like, 'Killer! Chicks are hot. They’re into me.' And then you realize they’re not really into you. They’re into the guy they saw on the JumboTron. They look at you like you’re not human -- like you’re some rock god. Which you’re not. You’re just a guy. So I do meet a lot of killer people on the road. I just don’t f**k ’em." [laughs]

The complete Dear Guitar Hero interview with Duff -- in which the rocker also talks about his airport run-in with Kurt Cobain shortly before the Nirvana frontman's suicide, his feelings on working with volatile vocalists Axl Rose and Scott Weiland, and his battle with alcohol abuse -- will appear in the July issue of Guitar World, on sale May 5.

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myscarf

February 28, 2011 at 7:06am

i live in one of the closest cities to Milan, it's in a small province of Como.
u can contact me and i will help u.
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myscarf

February 26, 2011 at 7:52am

But at any rate, this is to commend you of that great proposal. Hehe, I'm also answering in the Womens Section, wonder if they ever get to think of a symposium also.
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myscarf

February 26, 2011 at 5:40am

The weren't satisfied with that and then proclaimed they were African-American (althouh many would be hard pressed to find Africa on a globe).
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Blackened213

April 08, 2009 at 1:24am

Yeah that's pretty interesting. I've always wondered what's done for sex if you're on the road and in a relationship and have to leave your partner behind. I've even thought why can't the wives and girlfriends come on tour as well? I still listen to Gunners and have done for the past 16 years. It's a shame about Velvet Revolver... they were a good band IMHO!

carodon

April 07, 2009 at 7:20pm

He does a financial article for Playboy Magazine that's really good. He was on That Metal Show the other night and seems like really down to earth rock star. Kurt maybe would still be alive if he took Duffs offer, but then again no one will ever know. Duff's one of the good guy's in my opinion.