Duff looks cool, per usual
The Vera Project is exactly the kind of place that didn’t exist when I was 15 years old.
All-ages shows, summertime rock school, lots of music for young people.
I’m all for it.
Last summer and again a few days ago, Duff McKagan, Mike McCready, Kelly Van Camp and I (collectively known as Bison) got together to play a few songs and answer questions for the kids who attend Vera’s Rock Camp.
One of the handful of known mammals cooler than Duff
We do it for two reasons. One, getting together and playing some songs you like with guys you like is fun. Two, I think we all feel some sense of responsibility or obligation to share whatever wisdom we’ve gained in our years in the rough-and-tumble music business.
Why Bison? It’s an old joke band name that my friend Kermit and I came up with many years ago. We also had a career’s worth of album names: Stampede, Put Your Ear to the Ground, Over the Edge, etc.
Vera is a community-driven project backed by the City of Seattle. If we can do it here, you can do it in your town, too.