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Duff McKagen Releasing Tell All Memoir

Duff McKagen is ready to release his memoirs about his life in the music industry and beyond. It's So Easy (And Other Lies) will be released on October 4th and I am eager to read it. Duff has always told it like it was.

Rolling Stone conducted an interview with Duff and asked him if had any reservations about telling his story and he had this to say:

"Well, here's the deal. I wrote the book myself. You write alone. You don't write with someone else sitting there. I was sitting there like, 'I'm not going to sit here and throw someone under the bus.' No one else that is part of my story asked me to write about them here, ya know? In making that sort of my mantra, I started to discover my part in things. I had reservations about confidences of old bandmates and friends. If you are a bandmate or a friend of someone, you don't leave that band or friendship and start telling everyone things. That is sorta like gossiping. Kinda like 'chick shit.' But whatever, that isn't the point. I wouldn't do that. I think that my story is interesting enough and will have relevance to the people. I think that 'rock people' will like the book. You know, I'm a dad and I think that parents will like the book. The book starts off at my daughter's 13th birthday and then unravels to the past and comes forward again. I don't know if you have read any of my Seattle Weekly columns but, like I said, it is told in that voice, from now. My reservations were, 'What does the book company want? Do they want a GUNS N' ROSES book?' because if they want that, there are enough of those out there. I don't need to write another one of those and I don't have a burning desire to unleash and I don't have some burning secret that I need to tell."

Duff writes a weekly column for Seattle Weekly, which is informative and hilarious. Check it out on SeattleWeekly.com.