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Back to EpisodesHow Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars
Episode 20
Published 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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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?)