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How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars

How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars

Update: 2025-08-12
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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?)

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How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars

How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars

Blake Wyland & Scott Marquart