THIRTY YEARS AGO ON THIS DATE , GUNS N ROSES BASSIST DUFF MCKAGAN WAS TESTIFYING IN COURT AGAINST HIS FORMER BANDMATE STEVE ADLER…YOU SEE, ADLER, THE FORMER GNR DRUMMER HAD BEEN FIRED BY THE BAND DUE TO HIS OPIODE ADDICTION AND INABILITY TO PLAY DUE TO THE DRUGS…ADLER DIDN’T LIKE BEING FIRED AND BROUGHT A LAWSUIT AGAIN THE BAND FOR LOSING PATIENCE WITH HIM…SO BACK TO MCKAGAN’S TESTIMONY…HE WAS ASKED ABOUT A TIME WHEN ADLER MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE EATEN MCKAGAN’S LEFTOVER PASTA BACK IN 1989 WHEN THE BAND WAS TEMPORARILY STAYING AT AN APARTMENT IN CHICAGO…ADLER STORED HIS DRUGS IN A FRIDGE NEXT TO THE BAND’S TAKEOUT CONTAINERS AND HIS CODE WORD FOR HIS STASH WAS ‘SPAGHETTI’…WHILE MCKAGAN WAS TESTIFYING, HE WAS ASKED TO TALK ABOUT “THE SPAGHETTI INCIDENT”…THE BAND FOUND THAT HYSTERICAL AND NAMED THEIR NEXT ALBUM JUST THAT “THE SPAGHETTI INCIDENT” THE ALBUM OF PUNK & HARD ROCK COVERS WASN’T A CRITICAL SUCCESS, BUT WHAT A GREAT TITLE…AS FOR ADLER, HE EVENUTALLY WON OVER $2 MILLION AND WAS INCLUDED IN THE BAND’S ROCK HALL INDUCTION…I GUESS ALL IT TOOK WAS A LITTLE PATIENCE
