Your new financial guru
One day in 1994, while recovering from a ruptured pancreas, Guns `N Roses bassist Duff McKagan was puttering around his basement when he happened upon GnR`s financials from the previous six years. Flipping through the reports he had a bit of a panic attack when he realized, "I couldn`t make sense of it.
I didn`t know how much we had made or lost on the tour," and got himself into still more of a fret when he though about admitting to someone, "I don`t know what the fuck I`m doing."So he decided to get some finance classes at Santa Monica Community College and while fronting his new band, Velvet Revolver, started giving financial advice on the side.
_word started spreading that he knew something about managing money. He began getting regular calls from musician friends with questions about everything from whether to buy a signal to where they should put their money.
It was almost that time that McKagan realized a coupla things. 1) That he was pretty good at this money management stuff and 2) fellow musicians were comfortable being counseled by him because he didn`t "wear a character" and therefore wasn`t representative of The Man. And that`s when a lightbulb went off.
He would team up with someone who had a little bit but not much more financial wisdom to have but who wouldn`t scare off anti-Establishment rockstars with his fancy degrees and experience in the industry because Duff would be there to separate them the guy was cool. McKagan found him in former banker Andy Bottomsley. Together the two will launch Meridian Rock, which will "educate rockers about their finances instead of pandering or lying to them," and will be straight with colleagues re: whether or not they`re completely broke. The mansion is actively seeking money managers in Europe and the US. Here`s what will be expected of you.
McKagan says Meridian Rock`s advisors will talk directly to the talent, in orbit and simple terms. The company`s three tenets, he notes, are righteousness (i.e. not screwing people over), transparency, and education.
No word on comp but it seems as though you could easily form in some guarantees for a few groupies at year`s end.
Duff McKagen Launches Wealth Management Firm [Fortune]
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