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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Scott Rowley

Psychic tests! Pet wolves! Chicken coops! Guns N' Roses and the wild ride towards Chinese Democracy

Buckethead and Axl Rose onstage.

In 1994, Guns N' Roses began work on the follow-up to The Spaghetti Incident?, the 1991 stopgap release that followed the Use Your Illusion albums. Chinese Democracy didn't emerge for another 14 years, a period during which musicians came and went, many millions of dollars were spent, and chaos reigned supreme. This is the story of just one of those years.


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