"The Spaghetti Incident?"

1993 studio album by Guns N' Roses The Linguini Incident April 2016 "The Spaghetti Incident?" studio of cover songs Guns N' Roses Guns n' Roses; Spaghetti Incident? cover.jpg November 23, 1993 1990–1993 A&M Studios Record Plant Studios Rumbo Recorders Can-Am Recorders Sound Techniques Triad Studios Conway Recording Studios Ocean Way Recording (Los Angeles)June 2013 Hard rock punk rock 46:03 Geffen Mike Clink Guns N' Roses Duff McKagan Jim Mitchell Garden of Eden: Strictly Limited Edition 1993 Use Your Illusion 1998 "The Spaghetti Incident?" studio Ain't It Fun November 1993 Since I Don't Have You February 1994 "The Spaghetti Incident?" is the fifth studio album by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. The album is composed of covers of older songs mostly in the punk rock and hard rock genres.Abbott Jim https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1993/11/26/heres-whats-new-in-the-record-racksguns/ June 21, 2013 Here's what's new in the record racks:Guns N' Roses Orlando Sentinel November 26, 1993 June 27, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150627032656/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-11-26/entertainment/9311240056_1_janis-haddaway-kiki-dee live "The Spaghetti Incident?" is the only studio album to feature rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke, who replaced original Guns N' Roses member Izzy Stradlin (some of Stradlin's parts are on the album) during the band's Use Your Illusion Tour in 1991, as well as the last album to feature guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Matt Sorum, following their departures in 1996 and 1997, respectively (though Slash and McKagan later returned in 2016). It is also their final album to date featuring longtime producer Mike Clink. It is the only Guns N' Roses album release not backed by a tour. Although generally well received critically, it is the band's worst-selling studio album, having sold one million copies in the United States by 2018. Background Initially, the band planned to release an EP of covers in 1992 or 1993; however, they decided to record a full album instead. To sort of alleviate the pressure of being in the studio, and trying to get the new songs recorded, and all the other fuckin' barrage of fuckin' hassles that go into making a record, we would just get together and jam on old songs, to sort of loosen up. And we ended up recording four songs. And we thought this would make a great EP... So we kept the four songs, finished Use Your Illusions, went out on the road. Then, somewhere along the line, we started recording more of them – in between gigs and stuff – and, at the very end of it, we had 13 songs. Slash Q March 1994 68 Many of the tracks were recorded during the same sessions as the Illusions albums, which were intended to produce three or four albums.2001 Here Today, Gone To Hell http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/misc/recordingsessions.html Guns N' Roses Recording Sessions live https://web.archive.org/web/20091231224809/http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/misc/recordingsessions.html December 31, 2009 March 9, 2013 Izzy Stradlin's guitar parts were reportedly re-recorded entirely by Gilby Clarke.Clarke later disputed the claim, stating "Izzy didn't play on a lot of them, so I got to just put my parts on songs that were recorded. So it was a little bit of both."25 Facts About Guns N' Roses' 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Dave Liffon Ultimate Classic Rock November 22, 2018 https://ultimateclassicrock.com/guns-n-roses-spaghetti-incident-facts/ September 6, 2021 Slash described the recording as "spontaneous and unpainted", http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/articles/showarticle.php?articleid=13 Guns N' Roses: Okej interview Anders Tegnér November 1993 Okej; Here Today, Gone to Hell live https://web.archive.org/web/20150924025752/http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/articles/showarticle.php?articleid=13 September 24, 2015 May 7, 2015 and recording the songs served as "a purpose to alleviate the pressure of making the Illusions records". Inside Guns N' Roses' Scrappy Covers Album 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Weingarten Christopher R. Rolling Stone November 23, 2016 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-guns-n-roses-scrappy-covers-album-the-spaghetti-incident-108881/ September 6, 2021 The band wanted to increase the profile of some of their favorite bands and help them financially via royalties with the tracklist selection, and considered naming the album "Pension Fund". Rose concedes that the proposed title was because the group were "helping these guys pay some rent". Speaking to an interviewer, Rose related the album's motives: "Some of those songs I liked, I got ridiculed and criticized for at the time those songs were out. So, it was kinda like, well, now maybe some of those people will listen to it. It's the energy and the defiance that punk rock had and that it didn't really hit the mainstream all that much. And we are, whether we like it or not, in some ways in the mainstream, so we've got to bring certain songs to people's attention." The album is a collection of punk and glam rock covers. 27 Years Ago: Guns N' Roses Release 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Jon Wiederhorn Loudwire November 28, 2020 September 6, 2021 https://loudwire.com/guns-n-roses-the-spaghetti-incident-anniversary/ The album features songs by punk artists such as U.K. Subs, The Damned, New York Dolls, The Stooges, Dead Boys, Misfits, Johnny Thunders, The Professionals, FEAR, as well as T. Rex, Soundgarden and The Skyliners. Of the Sex Pistols song "Black Leather", Slash remarked, "I thought we did a much better version than him [Pistols guitarist Steve Jones]. That's the only song I can say that about." Q March 1994 71 The record has a more scaled-back sound than Use Your Illusion I and II (both 1991); Entertainment Weekly wrote that this was evidence that the group "aims to prove it doesn't need two padded CDs, a horn section and a bevy of backup singers to make a joyful racket".Review: 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Entertainment Weekly New York November 26, 1993 62–3 The Spaghetti Incident? scales everything back a notch ... Guns 'N' Roses aims to prove it doesn't need two padded CDs, a horn section and a bevy of backup singers to make a joyful racket... The lead single, "Ain't It Fun" featured Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe as a guest vocalist.MICHAEL MONROE 'Never Wanted Any Money' For His Guest Appearances On GUNS N' ROSES Albums Blabbermouth.net October 4, 2019 August 11, 2021 https://blabbermouth.net/news/michael-monroe-never-wanted-any-money-for-his-guest-appearances-on-guns-n-roses-albums/ During the sessions, the band recorded instrumental tracks for "Beer and a Cigarette", originally by Hanoi Rocks. The vocals were not recorded and the song was left off the record because the band did not want songwriter Andy McCoy to receive money.http://www.slashparadise.com/discography/albums-guns-n-roses-1993-the-spaghetti-incident.php The Spaghetti Incident? slashparadise.com November 10, 2012https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq7sZt9tz4EC&q=%22hanoi+rocks%22&pg=PA162 Off the Record Sue Welfare January 28, 1999 Univ. of Queensland Press 9780006513490 January 28, 2019 Google Books The band also did an instrumental version of "Down on the Street" by The Stooges. This too went unreleased. http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/misc/recordingsessions.html Recording Sessions on Here Today... Gone To Hell heretodaygonetohell.com April 25, 2016 Title and artwork The title references an incident Steven Adler had in 1989 while the band was temporarily staying at an apartment in Chicago. Adler stored his drugs in a refrigerator next to the band's takeout containers, which contained Italian food. McKagan explained that Adler's code word for his stash was "spaghetti". In his lawsuit against the band, Adler's lawyer asked the band to "tell us about the spaghetti incident", which the band found amusing and used as the title of the album.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-wildest-guns-n-roses-moments-20151124/summer-1989-the-actual-spaghetti-incident-20151119 Summer 1989: The Actual Spaghetti Incident November 24, 2015 Rolling Stone At the bottom of the album cover, a message is written in a code created by the Zodiac Killer. Years later, it was decoded as reading "Fuck 'Em All".Lifton Dave 25 Facts About Guns N' Roses 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Ultimate Classic Rock November 22, 2018 https://ultimateclassicrock.com/guns-n-roses-spaghetti-incident-facts/ January 17, 2025 Controversy The album includes a hidden track, a cover of "Look at Your Game, Girl", originally by cult leader Charles Manson. The track was kept secret and left off advance tapes sent to reviewers.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-21-ca-59128-story.html It's No Illusion: Guns N' Roses Does Charles Manson Hochman Steve November 21, 1993 Los Angeles Times May 7, 2015 live http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20150509200759/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-21/entertainment/ca-59128_1_charles-manson May 9, 2015 The inclusion of the song caused controversy, with law enforcement and victims' rights groups expressing outrage.https://www.baltimoresun.com/1993/12/03/guns-n-roses-under-fire-for-manson-bonus-song/ Guns N' Roses under fire for Manson 'bonus' song Considine J.D. December 3, 1993 baltimoresun.com Tribune Publishing May 7, 2015 live https://web.archive.org/web/20171222000420/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-12-03/features/1993337105_1_charles-manson-record-a-song-spaghetti-incident December 22, 2017 Rose stated "...we wanted to downplay it. We don't give any credit to Charles Manson on the album". Label president David Geffen commented, "[If] Rose had realized how offensive people would find this, he would not have ever recorded this song." Slash mentioned that the song was "done with naive and innocent black humor on our part".https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-08-ca-65317-story.html Guns N' Roses to Stick With Manson Song on Album: Convict's royalties from 'Girl' will be paid to the son of one of those killed in a spree masterminded by the cult leader Philips Chuck December 8, 1993 LAtimes.com Tribune Publishing live http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20150509190452/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-08/entertainment/ca-65317_1_charles-manson-song May 9, 2015 May 7, 2015 Rose stated he would donate all performance royalties from the song to a nonprofit environmental organization. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-01-me-62793-story.html Guns N' Roses May Remove Manson Song From Album Philips Chuck December 1, 1993 Los Angeles Times live http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20150508204553/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-01/local/me-62793_1_charles-manson May 8, 2015 May 7, 2015http://www.oocities.org/rattlesnake_suitcase/qmanson94.htm Bring Out The Manson March 1994 Q Magazine oocities.org May 7, 2015 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073224/http://www.oocities.org/rattlesnake_suitcase/qmanson94.htm May 18, 2015 The band was planning to remove the song before learning that royalties would be donated to the son of one of Manson's victims.https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/26/us/victim-s-son-gets-manson-royalties.html Victim's Son Gets Manson Royalties December 26, 1993 The New York Times May 7, 2015 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130611/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/26/us/victim-s-son-gets-manson-royalties.html April 2, 2015 Geffen Records stated their share of royalties would be donated to the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau. Live performances Although Guns N' Roses never toured in support of "The Spaghetti Incident?", some of the songs were performed live prior to its release. The first track, "Since I Don't Have You", was performed a few times as an intro to songs "Sweet Child o' Mine" or "Paradise City" in 1992 and 1993. "Down on the Farm" was performed once in its full length during the band's 1990 performance at Farm Aid IV. The band later played the track a few times during the Chinese Democracy Tour in 2006. They also played it during their 2023 World Tour, including their headline slot at The Glastonbury Festival, on June 24, 2023. This was a nod to literally performing on a farm. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/2023/worthy-farm-pilton-england-6ba6669a.html Guns N' Roses Setlist at Worthy Farm, Pilton, England setlist.fm On May 27, 2025, "Human Being" was performed live by the band for the first time in their career. Saint_of_FaTe 2025-05-27 definitely their best cover song http://www.reddit.com/r/GunsNRoses/comments/1kx0ltd/definitely_their_best_cover_song/ 2025-05-28 r/GunsNRoses The band performed "Hair of the Dog" once in 1988, and again in 1990, during the only known performance by "The Gak" (a band featuring members of Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Skid Row). "Attitude" was performed frequently during the Use Your Illusion Tour and the Not in This Lifetime... Tour, and McKagan played it with his side project Loaded and his solo career. Other songs played live by McKagan are "New Rose", "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" and "Raw Power". The other songs were never played live by Guns N' Roses, but might have been played by some of the members' side projects, like Matt Sorum's supergroup Camp Freddy, which plays cover versions of famous songs, as well as Neurotic Outsiders, the supergroup Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum were part of. Guns N' Roses played "Attitude" and—for the first time—"Raw Power" live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in April 2014 with Duff McKagan on vocals.http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/2014/estadio-ferrocarril-oeste-buenos-aires-argentina-53c247ad.html Guns N' Roses Setlist at Estadio Ferrocarril Oeste, Buenos Aires, Argentina setlist.fm "Raw Power" and "New Rose" were played during the Not in This Lifetime... Tour. 2026, many of the album's songs have been played sporadically over the decade since the band reunited, with "Down on the Farm" being the most played, and "Human Being" and "Black Leather" receiving their live debuts. Commercial performance and reception AllMusic 2 5https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-spaghetti-incident-mw0000105038 The Spaghetti Incident? - Guns N' Roses - Songs, Reviews, Credits AllMusic January 28, 2019 Calgary Herald B+Muretich, James (November 28, 1993). "Recent Releases". Calgary Herald. Entertainment Weekly A−Review: 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Entertainment Weekly New York November 26, 1993 62–3 The Spaghetti Incident? scales everything back a notch ... Guns 'N' Roses aims to prove it doesn't need two padded CDs, a horn section and a bevy of backup singers to make a joyful racket... Music Week 5 5Andy Martin Market Preview: Rock — Pick of the Week Music Week November 27, 1993 19 February 3, 2023 https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1993/Music-Week-1993-11-27.pdf NME 7/10Review: 'The Spaghetti Incident?' NME London 31 November 27, 1993 ...a bizarre mixture of swagger, nihilism and bad attitood which is as funny as it is exhilarating... Q 3 5Review: 'The Spaghetti Incident?' Q London 92 ...relatively faithful cover versions... February 1994 Rolling Stone 3.5 5Gold Jonathan Guns N' Roses: The Spaghetti Incident? Review https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-spaghetti-incident-19931209 Rolling Stone 9 December 1993 29 June 2011 Select 2 5 U+25A0.svg U+25A1.svg medalClark Collis https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/07/albums24.jpg New Albums Select January 1994 74 15 December 2024 The Village Voice A−Christgau Robert Robert Christgau January 18, 1994 http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv194-94.php Consumer Guide The Village Voice New York June 21, 2013 Vox 6/10Stephen Dalton Pasta joke Vox 40 January 1994 77 "The Spaghetti Incident?" debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, selling about 190,000 albums in its first week of release, significantly fewer than their previous releases.Hasty Katie December 3, 2008 Kanye Edges GNR, Ludacris For No. 1 Debut https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-edges-gnr-ludacris-for-no-1-debut-266167/ live billboard.com https://web.archive.org/web/20100122142056/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/kanye-edges-gnr-ludacris-for-no-1-debut-1003918838.story January 22, 2010 mdy-all 2010-01-16 The album was certified platinum by RIAA on January 26, 1994.https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/ Gold & Platinum Riaa.com January 28, 2019 Slash contends that the album was "killed" in the US by the controversy surrounding "Look at Your Game, Girl", especially as "everybody in LA and who was 30 or older was in complete upheaval. Not to mention David Geffen, who said, 'Don't work the record'."Rosen Steven Slash: Trigger with Attitude Guitar February 1995 https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/slash-trigger-with-attitude January 17, 2025 The album reached No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart, behind Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.Official Albums Chart on 28/11/1993 28 November 1993 - 4 December 1993 https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19931128/7502/ Official Charts January 17, 2025 Reviews of the album in the specialist press were cautious, with Kerrang! deemed the album to be "average". Caren Myers of Melody Maker dismissed the band's desire for credibility and their determination to "impress their authentic punky pedigree" on listeners, resulting in a "hideously sincere effort to honour their roots" that instead reveals "how little they understand them".Myers Caren Living in the Pasta Melody Maker 27 November 1993 39 For Select critic Clark Collis, the group's method of "disinterring...punk classics and subjecting them to the old GN'R treatment" meant recording faithful covers but with extra guitar riffs, resulting in the overall impression of "pub-rockery gone mad". Roger Morton of NME wrote that the knee-jerk reaction to a "Guns N' Roses-go-punk LP" would be to compare it to "George Michael [going] busking", but conceded that it works on a "primal, inebriated, reptilian brain level" and noted how the choice of covers "zig-zags from the obscure to the predictable to the preposterous", resulting in "a bizarre mixture of swagger, nihilism and bad attitood which is as funny as it is exhilarating". Describing "The Spaghetti Incident?" as "an album of mostly punky cover versions of drunkrock classics", Rolling Stone reviewer Jonathan Gold commented that the album was the band's attempt to "reassert their roots in hard-edged rock & roll — some punk rock, some not — the way that U2 tried to with Rattle and Hum when their 'authenticity' had become suspect. But in recording half an album's worth of punk-rock songs, Guns n' Roses reveal themselves as a glam-rock band, and a good one, as if T. Rex and the Dolls had come out of early punk rather than the other way around." Robert Christgau praised the album in The Village Voice, highlighting the unlikeliness of Fear, UK Subs and Nazareth songs belonging on the same record and quipping: "As someone who never thought punk had much to do with musicianship or musicianship much to do with GN'R, I remain impressed even with the excitement worn off." Some critics contextualized the material more broadly; Eric Weisbard wrote in Spin that the band's choice of covers demonstrated their belief that "early-'70s metal and its sworn enemy, punk rock, were essentially the same beast, connected through glam and testosterone", and added that while this view was unradical in the wake of grunge, the group's move from metal to punk "took more guts and imagination than Seattle's reverse".https://books.google.com/books?id=76xCnQy_X-0C&pg=PA67 June 21, 2013 Spins Weisbard Eric 67 Spin New York February 1994 Deeming the album an "exercise in nostalgia", Simon Reynolds opined in The New York Times that, by covering punk songs, Guns N' Roses was not only paying respects to bands that influenced them but was "trying to rewrite its place in rock history as a descendant of punk as opposed to heavy metal".Reynolds Simon Pop View: The Perils of Loving Old Records Too Much The New York Times December 5, 1993 https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/pop-view-the-perils-of-loving-old-records-too-much January 17, 2025 In his retrospective review for AllMusic, music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that, "As punk albums go, "The Spaghetti Incident?" lacks righteous anger and rage. As Guns N' Roses albums go, it's a complete delight, returning to the ferocious, hard-rocking days of Appetite for Destruction." Classic Rocks Howard Johnson finds that only eight of the thirteen songs could be loosely considered punk, with the remaining cuts revealing Guns N' Roses' "traditional eclecticism" by covering songs by hard rock, grunge and doo-wop bands, meaning "that's where the punk rock really exists on The Spaghetti Incident? – in attitude more than music." Johnson believes the album has "stood the test of time rather well" and that its energetic sound showed how the band avoiding becoming "bloated by the sheer enormity of their success".https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/guns-n-roses-the-spaghetti-incident Guns N' Roses: The Spaghetti Incident? March 2014 ClassicRock March 1, 2014 In The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1997), Colin Larkin calls it a "much vaunted collection of covers with a punk foundation" that is nonetheless a "perfunctory affair" mostly notable for the Charles Manson cover and for "lining the pockets of several long-forgotten musicians" like UK Subs, Nazareth, Misfits and Fear.The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin Colin Larkin (writer) Virgin Books 1997 Concise 1-85227-745-9 Guns N' Roses 554 In The Rough Guide to Rock (1999), Essi Berelian deemed it a "trawl through the band's personal record collections" and an "interesting insight" into their influences, chiefly worth hearing for Rose's "hilarious attempt at an English accent" on "Down on the Farm".Berelian Essi Buckley Jonathan Duane Orla Ellingham Mark Spicer Al The Rough Guide to Rock 1999 Rough Guides London 1-85828-457-0 436 2nd Guns N' Roses Legacy 25em right "The reviews that greeted The Spaghetti Incident? upon its release in November 1993 veered between the perplexed and the hostile. It sold just a million copies in the US – small change next to Appetite For Destruction, but enough to boost both the profile and the bank balance of those who wrote the songs that GN'R had covered on it." —Dave Everley, Classic Rock (2024) padding:10px; Dave Everley of Classic Rock credits "The Spaghetti Incident?" for "[bringing] a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience", and comments that it was "a curve ball from one of the biggest rock bands on the planet".Everley Dave "If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most misunderstood album https://www.loudersound.com/features/guns-n-roses-spaghetti-incident-songs Classic Rock January 17, 2025 January 10, 2024 The Guns N' Roses cover of "Ain't It Fun" revived the fortunes of the Dead Boys; as the song's co-writer Gene "Cheetah Chrome" O'Connor later explained: "At that point, the Dead Boys were kind of becoming a footnote. At the time, it was kind of nice that somebody actually remembered us. ... Having your song on a Guns N' Roses album is a considerable chunk of change. I moved down to Nashville, got resettled down there and was able to live and not work for a while. Definitely turned my life around a little bit. It got me through a rough time." Duff McKagan, who was the central inspiration behind The Spaghetti Incident?, released his first solo album Believe in Me in the same season as "The Spaghetti Incident?". In 2025, Uncut ranked "The Spaghetti Incident?" at number 141 in their list of "The 200 Greatest Heavy Rock Albums".Robinson John Uncut: The Ultimate Record Collection May 2025 9 21 Kelsey Media The editors wrote that, regardless of whether the album is "best deemed as a bid for critical reassessment or a cavalier stopgap", the "enjoyably messy" record is, amid slim competition, the group's most satisfying release since Use Your Illusion. Track listing Original artist Since I Don't Have You Joseph Rock, James Beaumont, Jackie Taylor, Janet Vogel, Joe Verscharen, Lennie Martin, and Wally Lester The Skyliners 4:20 New Rose Brian James The Damned 2:38 Down on the Farm Alvin Gibbs, Charlie Harper, Nicholas Garratt U.K. Subs 3:29 Human Being Johnny Thunders, David Johansen New York Dolls 6:48 Raw Power Iggy Pop, James Williamson The Stooges 3:12 Ain't It Fun featuring Michael Monroe Cheetah Chrome, Peter Laughner Dead Boys 5:06 Buick Makane (Big Dumb Sex) Marc Bolan / Chris Cornell T. Rex / Soundgarden 2:40 Hair of the Dog Dan McCafferty, Pete Agnew, Manny Charlton, Darrell Sweet Nazareth 3:55 Attitude Glenn Danzig Misfits 1:27 Black Leather Steve Jones Sex Pistols 4:09 You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory Johnny Thunders Johnny Thunders 3:35 I Don't Care About You Lee Ving Fear 2:17 Look at Your Game, Girl hidden track starting at 2:17 of track 12 Charles Manson Charles Manson 2:34 46:03 Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes."The Spaghetti Incident?" Guns N' Roses 1993 Geffen Records Guns N' Roses W. Axl Rose – lead vocals, keyboards on "Since I Don't Have You", kazoo on "Human Being" Slash – lead guitar, co-lead vocals on "Buick Mackane (Big Dumb Sex)", talkbox on "Hair of the Dog", backing vocals on "Attitude" Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, lead vocals on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory", "New Rose" and "Attitude", co-lead vocals on "Raw Power", drums on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory", production Matt Sorum – drums, percussion on "Hair of the Dog", backing vocals on "Human Being" and "Attitude" Dizzy Reed – keyboards, piano on "Since I Don't Have You", percussion on "Look at Your Game Girl", backing vocals on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" Gilby Clarke – rhythm guitar, backing vocals except on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" & "Look At Your Game, Girl" Production Mike Clink – production on all tracks except 1 and 11 Jim Mitchell – production on track 11 Bill Price – mixing George Marino – mastering Kevin Reagan – art direction; graphic design Dennis Keeley, Gene Kirkland & Robert John – photography Additional musicians Michael Monroe – co-lead vocals on "Ain't It Fun" Mike Staggs – additional guitar on "Ain't It Fun" Mike Fasano – percussion on "Hair of the Dog" Eddie Huletz – backing vocals on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" Blake Stanton – backing vocals on "I Don't Care About You" Eric Mills – backing vocals on "I Don't Care About You" Rikki Rachtman – backing vocals on "I Don't Care About You" Stuart Bailey – backing vocals on "I Don't Care About You" Carlos Booy – acoustic guitar on "Look at Your Game, Girl" Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar, vocals on "Black Leather", "I Don't Care About You", "New Rose", "Attitude", and "Down on the Farm" (uncredited) Charts Weekly charts Chart (1993)PeakpositionAustralia 1 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Austria 4 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Netherlands 4 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Germany 5 1732 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Hungary 3 1993 47 true November 25, 2021New Zealand 3 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Norway 2 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Spanish Albums (AFYVE)Salaverri Fernando Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959-2002 1st September 2005 Fundación Autor-SGAE Spain 84-8048-639-22Sweden 2 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016Switzerland 3 Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? true June 16, 2016UK2 2 19931128 true June 3, 2026Billboard200 4 Guns n' Roses true June 16, 2016 Year-end charts Chart (1993)PositionAustralian Albums (ARIA)https://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/1993/albums-chart ARIA End of Year Albums Chart 1993 Australian Recording Industry Association August 21, 202029Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1993&cat=a Jaaroverzichten – Album 1993 dutchcharts.nl August 21, 202037 Chart (1994)PositionDutch Albums (Album Top 100)https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1994&cat=a Jaaroverzichten – Album 1994 dutchcharts.nl August 21, 202067German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1994 Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts de GfK Entertainment offiziellecharts.de August 21, 202056Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)https://hitparade.ch/charts/jahreshitparade/1994 Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1994 hitparade.ch August 21, 202048US Billboard 200https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1994/top-billboard-200-albums Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1994 Billboard January 2, 2013 August 21, 202061 Certifications album Australia Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1993 1993 16 November 2021 album Austria Guns Spaghetti Incident Gold 1993 1993 16 September 2019 album Brazil Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1997 1993 16 September 2019 album Canada Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1993 1993 3 16 September 2019 album Finland Guns Spaghetti Incident Gold 1993 1993 33,935 16 September 2019 album France Guns Spaghetti Incident Gold 1997 1993 2 16 September 2019 album Germany Guns Spaghetti Incident Gold 1994 1993 16 September 2019 album Italy Guns Spaghetti Incident Gold 2017 1993 since 2009 16 September 2019 album Japan Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1993 1993 12 16 September 2019 album Netherlands Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1994 1993 16 September 2019 album New Zealand Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1993 2009-02-20 newchart 2024-11-20 "RMNZdemocracy" album Norway Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1994 1993 16 September 2019 Spain Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum album 1993 1994 Salaverrie Fernando September 2005 http://www.mediafire.com/file/vqzno2c0fe48zam/Spanish+Certifications+for+1991-1995.pdf Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 es 1st Madrid Fundación Autor/SGAE 937 84-8048-639-2 16 September 2019 album Sweden Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1994 1993 July 13, 2022 album Switzerland Guns Spaghetti Incident Gold 1993 1993 16 September 2019 album United Kingdom Guns N' Roses Spaghetti Incident Gold 1993 1993 16 September 2019 7334-145-2 album United States Guns Spaghetti Incident Platinum 1994 1993 16 September 2019 See also List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1990s Notes References Further reading Sullivan Jim November 26, 1993 https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61837496.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+26%2C+1993&author=Jim+Sullivan%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Guns+N%27+Roses+dips+into+history&pqatl=google https://archive.today/20130624191756/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61837496.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+26,+1993&author=Jim+Sullivan,+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Guns+N'+Roses+dips+into+history&pqatl=google dead June 24, 2013 Guns N' Roses dips into history The Boston Globe Living section, p. 79 External links album 9620 Category:1993 albums Category:1990s covers albums Category:Guns N' Roses albums Category:Albums produced by Mike Clink Category:Geffen Records albums Category:Metaphors referring to spaghetti Category:Obscenity controversies in music Category:Articles with quotation marks in the title Category:Punk rock albums by American artists