Duff thinks he's "too old" to comment on todays music

[KeyserSoze]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/duff-mckagan-new-music-comment/

nice little 15 minute interview in the link (watch video in the link if you don't have a youtube account)

“I started to muse, like, ‘What does that mean, 50? What does it mean to be a 50-year-old man? What does it mean to be a man these days?’” recalls McKagan. “I’ve made every goddamn mistake out there. But did I learn anything, and am I applying that to the me of now — my friendships with my wife and my kids? Have I learned anything there? … It’s not an advice book at all, it’s just common things that I think all of us go through as dudes, especially in this modern era.”

While he’s perfectly comfortable advising dudes to put down their cellphones every once in a while, one aspect of the modern era McKagan refuses to comment on is the current state of rock ‘n’ roll.

“Frankly, I’m probably just too old to make a comment on it,” he tells Kade. “I know what’s genuine, and that can be rock; it can be R&B. I think Bruno Mars is awesome. I think that’s genuine R&B. ‘Uptown Funk’ is the best R&B song in 30 years or something, maybe — since [the Prince hit] ‘Little Red Corvette.’ It’s the best genuine R&B song that I’ve heard in a long time.”

[Towelie]

Uptown Funk WAS a jam. But that was more thanks to Mark Ronson than Bruno Mars as his own music is excruciatingly derivative.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Towelie

[Scumcat Esq.]

Yes, he is.

[Johnny Drama]

Uptown Funk is the best thing since sliced bread nowadays. I remember Duff also giving Single Ladies props when it came out though.

[Len Cnut]

He's right and i respect him for having the perspective to admit that. I feel that about myself too and contemporary music.

[Strange Broue]

As long as an old man doesn't use the "everything was better in my decade/youth" their opinion is as valid as anybody's opinion
So, no need to derogate himself

Edited May 27, 2015 by Strange Broue