Former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagen just wrote an interesting bit for Seattle Weekly. In this column, Duff talks about the horror of just having given his two daughters, aged 8 and 13, “THE TALK,” and he also admits to kinda-sorta spying on their online instant-messaging sessions. Understandably, the guy is freaking out about this stuff:
I don’t know how many people read this column, and I also don’t know if anyone who reads this is a parent, but let me tell you guys something: Apparently, oral sex in middle school is approached as nonchalantly as maybe kissing was back when I was that age. There is no way my two angels are gonna be ANY part of that nonsense, believe you me! If iChat and YouTube are the new hiding places for extracurricular activities such as this, how do I find out? Fuck, my mind starts to go a million miles an hour thinking about the responsibilities and safeguards we “information age” parents have to juggle. I don’t want to spy on my kids. There HAS to be trust. They are dealing with so much more data than we did at that age. I will, however, shut down anything that brings harm to my daughters. If I were to find out that anything bad was happening, all of my Utopian hubbub would go out the window, and it would get real 1950′s in the McKagan household, and in a hurry. On top of that, I’d have my shotgun at the ready and you’d better bring an army!
How very militant of him, and I do feel for the guy, but I’ll also admit to finding his reaction pretty fucking hilarious as well, considering the whole “groupie factor” at play within rock bands. Hell, in the early days of Guns N’ Roses, these particular starving musicians scored dough by pimping out their groupies. The group not only made some cash from this makeshift prostitution ring but, while these girls were, uh, working, their purses were duly emptied by band members. Oh, and you know that one track, “Rocket Queen,” that contained the audio recording of a live sex act? That was actually Duff McKagen nailing a groupie in the recording studio. So, in conclusion, I suppose that it’s awfully, uh, fitting that Duff’s got some nervousness about his own daughters. After all, only a father really knows how teenage boys tend to think, or not think, as the case may be.
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the eijit is actually 100% right. i used to teach middle school, and heard nasty things on a regular basis. People, WATCH OUT for your kids and RAISE THEM to make their own choices!
Obviously this guy doesn’t put together the fact that his own daughters can be treated as horribly as he treated his groupies….that part IS pretty ironic. hope his daughters have a solid mom, at least…is that possible???
I’m comment on this but I have to go rest… I have a busy day with Monica Belluci tomorrow.
Oh, jvon.
I have a daughter that turned 13 this week and fortunately she has a good mom to explain these things and have “the talk” with her because I would be worthless. When I was told it would about time to have “the talk” with our 11 year old son, I told her I wasn’t ready.
“When will you be ready?”
“As soon as my dad has the talk with me.” I guess he’ll be getting his information on the streets like I did.
Okay, I feel his pain, but yeah…the irony kills it. Those groupies are SOMEONE’S daughters…
Here’s to hoping his daughters turn out all right. I have to wonder…it can’t be a particularly “50′s” upbringing they’re having with a rock star dad (see also: Ozzy’s kids), so it’s probably going to be a bit too late if and when he decides to crack down (he should have worried about that long before middle school!).
I so hate being reminded of this shit, having only a couple good years left of (relatively) worry-free parenting.
I was just speaking to a 19 year old who claims she is a virgin but told me that has been giving boys head since the 6th grade, and did anal all through High School. She feels she saved herself. I asked her if the boys reciprocated and she said no, but if you didn’t do it you were socially ostracized. So here in Marin County very young girls are very sexually active with very sophisticated sexual experience – they trade servicing boys for dates and being cool.
My how times have changed. What got me is the acceptance of it all. He’s on the right track at the right age, Duff you are a lot smarter than I ever gave you credit for! So many parents just don’t want to see this.
Slug, I never got the talk either. In fact, most of my friends claim that their parents were too uncomfortable to do so as well.
So…… I guess we can just blame the downfall of society on them, eh?
I mean, I think I’d have died if my father would have actually sat me down for something like this, but it probably would have done something for me as far as respect goes.
I never got “the talk” either, but I can tell you with utter certainty that there weren’t girls going around giving out blowjobs to random guys in my junior high school, either.
I didn’t lose my virginity until my senior year of high school, and I most certainly wasn’t trying to hang onto it. Times have changed.
I never got the talk either. Everything I learned came from sneaking out to the TV after my parents went to bed. Yay late night cinemax. And from various step-mother that thought they were doing the right thing. Don’t read into that;) If it was like that, I would’ve started this out by typing “Dear Penthouse”.
Also, just to play devil’s advocate here, I think its pretty presumptuous to assume that he treated all his groupie like shit. Its not that I believe he was chaste or anything, but find me a groupie that says he was an asshole to her and I’ll believe it. Otherwise its propaganda. Heresay. I mean if it was Tommy Lee, I’d shut up about it. Tommy’s had more groupies than I’ve had pairs of underwear. Total. Like all the drawers I’ve ever owned in my life equal a fraction of his groupies. And some of my undies might be as old…I don’t know. I’m saving them all up to make a quilt. A quilt that smells like ass no matter how many times you wash it. Then I’m sending it to McCain.
Wow, an ass quilt sounds even more gross than the syflitic moaning of daddy Duff on the Rocket Queen track. Very much impressed with the dirty minds on this site. I for one am taking notes!