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How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars
Episode 20

How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars

Tape Spaghetti

August 12, 20251h 6m

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Show Notes

Does 15 years plus $14 million equal perfection? Axl Rose was willing to ditch his Gun N' Roses bandmates to find out.

On this week’s Tape Spaghetti, Blake & Scott unravel the unwieldy tale of Chinese Democracy, the album born of Axl’s unrelenting vision… but at what cost??

With endless lineup changes and a vicious cycle of revisions, this Slash/Izzy/Duff-less GNR record looms large as a passion project pit against some extremely lofty expectations. Did Axl pull it off?

Was Chinese Democracy doomed by its own hype, or is it somehow a massively overlooked gem of ambition?

Tune in for a cautionary tale about chasing perfection with a bucket on your head. (And a chicken coop in your studio?)