The Spaghetti Incident?

As the fifth Guns N’ Roses studio album, The Spaghetti Incident? is notable for comprising entirely of older punk and hard rock song covers, and would be their last release until Chinese Democracy 15 years later. This was the only album to feature rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke following the departure of Izzy Stradlin, and the last recorded with guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum before their departures from the band in 1996 and 1997 respectively.

The title references an event during the summer of 1989 when Axl Rose relocated the band to Chicago for the writing of Use Your Illusion I and II. At the time, original drummer Steven Adler was heavily using crack cocaine. He awoke after one session to find that his bandmates had taken all of his stash, code-named “Spaghetti”, and left him none. During Adler’s lawsuit against the band in 1993, much was made of this, with the drummer claiming the drug problems leading to his removal from GN’R were actually the fault of the band. The events were referred to by an attorney as “the Spaghetti Incident”.

A controversial hidden cover of Charles Manson’s “Look At Your Game Girl” was included on the album, and faced much criticism critics and members of the public. Despite statements stating that the track would be removed, it is still featured on pressings of the album. in addition to this, a code written with the Zodiac Killer’s cryptogram symbols was printed on the lower portion of the cover art. It has since been deciphered as “fuck'em all.”