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I swiped the Communion chalices to use as pimp cups for my cocktails. That
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It happens in a flash, life does. Only the ever-deepening lines on my face tell me that I have been alive for a while. I
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In 1988, MTV aired a concert in which Axl introduced me--as usual--as Duff "the King of Beers" McKagan. Soon"
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a production company working on a new animated series called me to ask if they could use the name "Duff" for a brand of beer in the show. I laughed and said of course, no problem. The whole thing sounded like a low-rent art project or something--I mean, who made cartoons for adults? Little did I know that the show would become The Simpsons and that within a few years I would start to see Duff beer glasses and gear everywhere we toured."
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endangering someone else was unacceptable. I was not going to participate in any situation where an innocent third party was being harmed.
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I had grown up idolizing Prince, who played over twenty instruments on his debut album, which featured the amazing credit line "written, composed, performed, and recorded by Prince."
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Sweet Child" was bumped from number one by "Don't Worry, Be Happy," but Appetite climbed back to the top of the album charts and stayed there for a few weeks that fall. Our lives began to change irrevocably."
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Only later did we hear the news: two fans had died, suffocated beneath other fans in the mud. Oh, fuck, no, no, no. Those two fans, Alan Dick and Landon Siggers, had just come to see a rock concert. They had tried see us, to sing along with us. And now they were dead. All
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We were never any good at communication, especially when that meant confrontation. If we could have developed those skills then, the story of GN'R might have been very different.
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When I was thirty, I asked a nurse to let me die. In a couple days, I'm going to play "Cheap Sunglasses" alongside the man who wrote it."
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On Christmas Day, 1989, I gave Mandy the Halliburton luggage Aerosmith had given me and asked her to get out. I was adamant. And I was keeping the dog. Merry fucking Christmas.
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At the end of the European leg, our lead guitar player pulled a knife on our bus driver in England. I
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we ended up closing the show with the cover song we had tried during sound check that afternoon, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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Axl introduced me--as usual--as Duff "the King of Beers" McKagan. Soon after this, a production company working on a new animated series called me to ask if they could use the name "Duff" for a brand of beer in the show. I laughed and said of course, no problem. The whole thing sounded like a low-rent art project or something--I mean, who made cartoons for adults? Little did I know that the show would become The Simpsons and that within a f..
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We had a tour bus! We had a couple of real hotel rooms! And catering! Fuck, yes!
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loyal people have a mom they think is a saint.
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we did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted "Patience."
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Grace has already told me and her mom to stay completely invisible. Her exact words: "You're not invited."
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don't be a pussy. don't shy away from a situation just because it's tough. if you need to protect the one you love or things are tough at work... pin those ears back and remember who the fuck you are.
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Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And
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