{"id":2300,"date":"2012-11-13T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/13\/ex-guns-n-roses-bassist-duff-mckagan-i-could-have-made-a-fortune-from-simpsons-beer\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:05:21","slug":"ex-guns-n-roses-bassist-duff-mckagan-i-could-have-made-a-fortune-from-simpsons-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/11\/13\/ex-guns-n-roses-bassist-duff-mckagan-i-could-have-made-a-fortune-from-simpsons-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Guns N&#8217; Roses bassist Duff McKagan: &#8216;I could have made a fortune from &#8216;Simpsons&#8217; beer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/77\/Duff_McKagan_2012.JPG\/220px-Duff_McKagan_2012.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"103\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Ex-Guns N&#8217; Roses bassist-turned-financial advisor Duff McKagan has admitted he regrets not officially licensing his name \u2013 because he has missed out on a fortune in royalties from The Simpsons.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Speaking to the Independent, the rocker revealed that an official from Fox TV contacted him in the 80s to tell him that one of the station&#8217;s new shows had named their fictional beer &#8216;Duff&#8217; in honour of his former fondness for booze. <\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I knew nothing about branding yourself then or the royalties off it. I just thought cool, they wanna use my name and boom, The Simpsons was born. Yeah, if I had a nickel for every time\u2026 but it&#8217;s fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In September of this year, McKagan revealed that he used to suffer from depression. The Velvet Revolver rocker admitted that he had &#8220;sunk into a thick, black state of being&#8221; after the terrorist attacks which took place in America on September 11, 2001, but said he had since overcome his problems. <\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Guns N&#8217; Roses bassist-turned-financial advisor Duff McKagan has admitted he regrets not officially licensing his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}