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Re: Duff McKagan interviewed on 93.3 WMMR
I was listening to the morning show on my way to work, and they said they were going to take a call froma rock star. Then they say 'ladies and gentlemen, Duff McKagan'. I was pretty stoked.
The interview was cool, they mentioned a show they played last year (WMMR-B-Q) which Duff mentioned he played while having a 103 degree fever. Then he said the guy from Presidents of the USA was with him. They are in a business venture together, sounded pretty cool, it's a website (www.nutsie.com)where you can upload your ipod songs, so you can later hear them wherever you are (although, won't you have your ipod with you??). Also, you can listen to other people playlists, inlcuding Duff's.
Then when wrapping it up, the host Preston ( a pretty cool guy) joked, well is it safe to say there isn't any STP in Duff's playlist?! They laughed but Duff said no, STP is a good band and Scott's a good guy and great frontman. It just didn't work out in the last year. And the whole taking the stage late was getting annoying, and that he did it before (everyone laughed and knew what he was talking about). He said he didn't start playing music at 9 years old so they could come onstage 2 hours late. Preston asked about VR & if the Bach thing was true, Duff said no & didn't know where that came from, but he heard it too. Mentioning they worked with him before Scott. They asked if they will take their time & be a while, Duff stated no, they worked with a few people & things went really well with one of them.
That's about it, they usually podcast bits from their show so I'm sure it'll be on the website soon. I'll try looking for it later today or tonight.
Re: Duff McKagan interviewed on 93.3 WMMR
this is from bookerfloyd @ HTGTH
Duff was on Opie and Anthony yesterday, and said that a leading contender was somebody well-known and currently living in New York.
to which Falcon chimed in
Brett Scallions is well known and lives n NYC...
fpr those who dont know the name...he used to be the singer for Fuel 
Re: Duff McKagan interviewed on 93.3 WMMR
more indepth Duff w/ opie and anthony interview details from Booker Floyd
Since I doubt many people on here heard it, heres more of a recap of Duffs interview on the Opie & Anthony:
- Is with Dave Dedderer of the Presidents of the United States.
- The bands been working with a couple of guys over the past month. "Anybody we know?" Opie asked. "Yeah, probably."
- The band's collective tension with Weiland drew them closer with each other musically. "Under the common oppressor, you become tighter." "We were in a situation that was really difficult, and we came together and wrote some amazing music."
- "We had decided back in January to move on without Scott." Uses careful wording to aviod insulting Weiland. Opie asked "Was it his drugs?" "Uh..It was the combination of a lot of things that just made it really hard to do business and go out and tour." Duff then says he loves Scott, they have a lot in common, hes a hell of a frontman, but their visions were different.
- "Was he isolating himself from the rest of the band?" asked Opie. "Very much so."
- Opie then describes his experience at the Stone Temple Pilots show in New Jersey, which Duff said hed been sent a link to. An hour after Filter ended their set, Weiland was still in his bus. Robert DeLeo screamed at him - calling him "Axl" - and a female companion.
- "Its just an unfortunate place hes in in his life and I hope he pulls it together."
- "We will persevere through this."
- Asked about Guns N' Roses: "Theres nothing in the cards."
- When Velvet Revolver started, he began checking the fansites message board and thought it was kind of cool. He then saw that many of the posters were 14 and 15 years old.
- Talks about Guns N' Roses experience, and says the band ended when it should have. Did it end too soon? "No. It had run its course."
- Tells story about a black woman in 1990 who asked him if he was a racist because of the "One in a Million" controversey.
- About the breakup, "Its nobodys fault. It just happened."
- Talks about GNRs outlook and approach to music in the early says.
- Dave Dedderer on new Loaded material: "It is fucking killer - Guns, Appetite-level..."
- Duff: "I got really re-inspired last December, January, I started taking bass lessons and really learning my craft. Been playing guitar a ton...started even playing drums again."
- Talks about unspoken musical bond with Slash.
- Jim Norton asked whats the longest Duff had to wait for a lead singer to reach stage: "Four hours."
- Says the waits during the GNR shows were "dark times" that led to a lot of drinking. "I was already predestined to be a alcholic, so Im not blaming that..."
- Dave Dedderer talks about Duffs dedication to playing.
- Discusses pancreas problems. He saw "some heavy things" at the rehabilitation center he attended afterward.
- Told Kurt Cobain story. He somehow lost his custom "Duff" shoe on the plane
- Dave Dedderer talks about seeing Alice In Chains with Pearl Jam (then known as Mookie Blalock).
- Opie brings up Layne Staleys death, and Duff refrains from talking about it, only saying its "a sensitive subject."
- Dave talks about nutsie.com.
- They discuss the decline of the traditional record industry. "I think as soon as a band mixes a song, it could go straight to the consumer" says Duff.
- Duff praises Lemmy Kilmeister.
- Celebrities who intimidate Duff: Lemmy, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop.
- Robert Plant offered to substitute for Weiland one night and play bues songs.
- O&A play "Taurus" by Spirit, the song that inspired "Stairway to Heaven."
- Opie asks about Josh Todd and Sebastian Bach as candidates: "Neither."
- Duff listens to "Pendulum," a song by the shows executive producers old band, and politely says its no good.
- He praises Corey Taylor and Slipknot.
- "Alice in Chains, probably the best songwriting band in rock in the last 30 years."
- Duff says the new Alice In Chains material is great...a song he thinks might be called "Hollywood" is one of the best hes heard "in a long, long time."
- The last 25 minutes of the segment is Ron & Fez producer East Side Dave, a hardcore GNR fan, professing his love for Duff. He begs Duff to hang out with him and let him fill in for Matt Sorum on drums. Dave breaks into a rendition of his favorite GNR song, "Get in the Ring," for Duff, the songs main writer. He even recites the spoken rant in the breakdown. He asks Duff if he still plays with Izzy Stradlin, and Duff says he played on his latest record about a month and-a-half ago. He does an impression of Duff performing, which Duff thinks looks like Krist Novoselic. He then sings a section from "You Aint the First." He does an impression of Slash performing, to the tune of "Estranged." Duff agrees to have dinner with him on Wednesday (hes leaving New York on Tuesday). To affirm his affection for Duff, Dave abuses himself and does inappropriate things with a banana.
- Before leaving, Duff discusses Slashs book, saying they remember some things differently, and it gave him interesting insight on that time. He says hes sure Slashs new material will be amazing.
