sword&tulipz Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 On the bottom of the SI cover there is a semaphora. Duff has said he didnt even notice it, while Slash has said he forgot what it stood for. Anyone know its meaning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword&tulipz Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 I have always wondered what the meaning behind that name was until i found this article. Also I didnt know Axl wanted to move to Chicago back in 1989: I have looked far and wide for the meaning of the title to Guns N’ Roses “The Spaghetti Incident?”–please enlighten me!“It’s a very silly story,” warned Duff McKagan (formerly the bassist for Guns N’ Roses, now a member of Velvet Revolver) when I asked. The title originates from the summer of 1989, when singer Axl Rose wanted the band to relocate to Chicago. “The idea was Axl was from over the border in Indiana and he wanted to be close to home. So we got two condos and rehearsed above the Metro, and Axl never showed up.”While McKagan, guitarist Slash, and drummer Steven Adler were waiting for Rose, they wrote a bunch of songs for Use Your Illusion, and ate a lot of Italian takeout. “And Steven was doing a lot of crack cocaine at this point, and he’d keep his blow in the refrigerator. So his code word for his stash was ‘spaghetti’,” McKagan told me. “Steven spiraled out of control. We said, Steven, we’re fucked-up individuals and we’re telling you that you gotta shape up, so you must be really fucked up.” Adler was fired in July 1990, the first member of the group to get canned (placing him years ahead of the GN’R curve).Adler then sued the band under the novel premise that his drug addiction was their fault. Giving a deposition for the 1993 trial, McKagan was asked to cite instances of Adler’s bad behavior, and mentioned the Chicago drug stash. “So then I’m in court, with a jury and the whole thing, and this fuckin’ lawyer gets up, and with a straight face says, ‘Mr. McKagan, tell us about the spaghetti incident.’ And I started laughing.” The band ultimately settled out of court, writing Adler a check for 2.5 million dollars. When McKagan read through the trial transcripts, he was struck by the straight-faced absurdity of the phrase “the spaghetti incident,” which is how it ended up as an album title (complete with quotation marks) later that year.You may have also wondered about the small semaphore message on the bottom of “The Spaghetti Incident?”‘s cover. McKagan never even noticed it was there; Slash peered at it and then told me, “It does have a meaning, but I’ve forgotten what.” Only Axl Rose knows what it means now, and he’s not talking.(Excerpted from the 2006 book Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton’s Little John?: Music’s Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed, published by Three Rivers Press, written by Gavin Edwards.)http://rulefortytwo.com/secret-rock-knowledge/chapter-3/the-spaghetti-incident/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russel Nash Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Fuck them all? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Diet Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) Look on this threadhttp://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/129045-spaghetti-incident-secret-code/page-6 Edited October 8, 2013 by Crash Diet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Diet Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 C'mon man, alomst everybody on this forum reads/knows/heard about this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword&tulipz Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 C'mon man, alomst everybody on this forum reads/knows/heard about this...hahaha really? well i didnt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManetsBR Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 It means Fuck'em All in the Zodiac alphabet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword&tulipz Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 It means Fuck'em All in the Zodiac alphabet.Yeah thanks i read the old thread now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Merged the two topics started about The Spaghetti Incident into one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 It was actually MyGNR which formally deciphered the coded message featured on Spaghetti's cover. Axl availed of the coding system used by the infamous Zodiac killer to issue the statement 'Fuck Em All'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlsalinger Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Don't remember hearing this before. Has this song ever leaked at all? Be kind of interesting to hear Guns' take on a Hanoi Rocks song.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22The_Spaghetti_Incident%3F%22During studio sessions the band recorded a cover of "A Beer And A Cigarette" from Hanoi Rocks but the song never came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saber_ Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Look on this threadhttp://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/129045-spaghetti-incident-secret-code/page-6That is one of my favorite threads on this forum. I remember reading it from start to finish, not knowing what the code meant when I began. Lotsa fun reading people's ideas and theories as they zero in on the cypher and ultimately the translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dariablue Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 C'mon man, alomst everybody on this forum reads/knows/heard about this...He's new. Idle down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlinkafayette Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Great thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Fuck em All would be a great title for the next record. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword&tulipz Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Fuck em All would be a great title for the next record.In the old thread it said they always left something on the album that would later appear on the next record. Wonder if there is anything on CD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Diet Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 C'mon man, alomst everybody on this forum reads/knows/heard about this...He's new. Idle down.I'm new too (at least for the thread in the link, but i find that with the good old google...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Fuck em All would be a great title for the next record.In the old thread it said they always left something on the album that would later appear on the next record. Wonder if there is anything on CD?I guess fuck em all was the mission statement of CD. I havent noticed anything on CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlsalinger Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Axl probably included a modern-day Fibonacci sequence coded message to save the world on the wall behind the bicycle. But the label put out the wrong booklet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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