Former bassist of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, Duff McKagan, made a visit to Seattle University last week to promote his new autobiography It’s So Easy and Other Lies, and in the meantime got heckled by a local attendee.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (via SPIN), a man named Richard Lee was the heckler, and apparently is well known for believing that Kurt Cobain’s suicide was a murder. Lee, an independent journalist from Seattle, is so passionate in his Cobain murder theories, that his actions have caused legal problems in the past. Lee has had restraining orders placed on him, including one from former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic in 2000. He has also been arrested numerous times (once outside a court hearing for Courtney Love, where Lee harassed her about ‘killing her husband’).
McKagan, also a Seattleite, revealed several years ago that he was one of the last people to see Cobain alive before his suicide in 1994. McKagan and Cobain apparently shared a flight from L.A. to Seattle just days before Cobain’s death.
“He said, ‘Man, I just escaped from Exodus’ [a treatment facility]. I didn’t have any foresight that the guy was going to do what he did. I could tell he was bummed out, and I’d been that way before. We were at baggage claim, and I thought I’d ask him to come stay at my house. I turned around and he was gone.”
Anyway, after Lee began his tirade of conspiracy questions, McKagan apparently had enough and quickly told him, “Get the f**k out of here”, before Lee was escorted out of there.
And that was that! I guess he told him!
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