Meet The New Financial Columnist For Playboy

Duff McKagan is the new go-to guy for money matters, when reading Playboy. What a perfect fit. Duff, the former Guns N' Roses bassist and current Velvet Revolver bassist, is a really smart guy. When GNR broke up he went to business school at Seattle University. And for a while now he's penned a weekly column for Seattle Weekly. Playboy realized Duff's potential and asked him to contribute:

"If someone were to tell me 5 months ago that I'd be busy thinking up things to write about on a weekly basis, I would have actually been happy to hear it. As of this week, I will not only be continuing my Seattle Weekly commitment, but also starting a new endeavor as a financial columnist at Playboy.com."

"How the hell is it that I will to be writing about money matters for Playboy? Well, over the last few years, I have been doing more and more TV and print interviews regarding some faction of finance. It started in 2004 when a writer for some music newspaper asked me about my experience going to business-school after my career with GN'R. That interview in turn prodded other writers to ask me about money issues within the music biz. From there, PBS's 'Frontline' interviewed me about the 'valuation of a rock band' and the cork was officially off the top of the bottle as far as me being an ersatz 'go-to' guy for anyone looking for financial insight from inside the music industry. Sometimes I DO wish more artists would go to business school just so I wouldn't always be getting the calls to do these interviews."

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