There’s been one other volley within the seemingly countless back-and-forth between Duff McKagan and The Simpsons creators over the inspiration for Duff Beer — this time from unique present author and producer Jay Kogen, who has but once more denied any connection to the Weapons N’ Roses bassist.
McKagan reignited the controversy final week, telling Stereogum: “So I used to be Duff, the King of Beers. However that is 1988, 1989 and our administration, I bear in mind they known as me and mentioned some arthouse-like cartoon desires to make use of your identify because the beer, like a university arthouse cartoon. There weren’t any grownup cartoons at this level.
“I did not find out about branding or something like that, however that present took off,” McKagan continued. “After which they began promoting merch and stuff. I by no means went after him, however I am like, ‘Hey, motherfuckers,’ you already know?”
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Jay Kogen’s Response to Duff McKagan’s Duff Beer Claims
Kogen lately denied McKagan’s affect over Duff Beer, telling TMZ that the reasoning behind the identify was not that deep. “We named it Duff as a result of it is a synonym for butt, tushy, booty and so forth,” he mentioned. “Duff is a beer for individuals who sat on their fats ass all day.”
Moreover, Kogen mentioned The Simpsons writers and producers on the time did not know any members of Weapons N’ Roses in addition to Axl Rose. Conserving in thoughts that Urge for food for Destruction had already bought 8 million copies by the point The Simpsons debuted in December 1989, that may not be one thing to proudly promote. It appears unbelievable that some of the pop-culturally astute writing groups in tv historical past wasn’t a minimum of aware of iconic top-hatted guitarist Slash by that time.
Nonetheless, Kogen is sticking to his weapons (pun supposed). “It’s totally bizarre this Duff McKagan man desires to assert credit score for Duff Beer,” he advised TMZ. “He had zero to do with it.”
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