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#111 Guns N' Roses » Poster of (9) Leaked GNR tracks gets visit from FBI! » 898 weeks ago
- bazgnr
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http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i … fbi-visit/
Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin Skwerl posted nine newly leaked Chinese Democracy tracks, including three previously unheard songs allegedly from Guns n' Roses long-awaited album. Skwerl '” who used to work in the distribution department of Universal Music and is now a Web designer '” runs the blog Antiquiet, and says he received the tracks from 'an anonymous online source.'
Yesterday Skwerl was surprised to find himself face to face with two FBI agents who paid a visit to his day job. 'It was kind of an ambush,' Skwerl tells Rolling Stone. 'When I came back from lunch they were waiting in the lobby for me. It's a little creepy they know where I work.' Two young FBI officers, who Skwerl describes as 'Mulder and Scully types,' questioned him for 15 minutes about where he got the tracks and made plans to visit his house at 7:00 a.m. this morning.
'I wasn't sure if they were going to come by with a warrant and trash the place, like in the movies,' he says. 'It was nothing like that.' The FBI officials wanted to see the original files, but Skwerl erased them last week per instructions from Axl Rose's attorneys. Skwerl ultimately gave them second-hand files that are now widely available on the Internet.
Last week Skwerl's blog crashed from the traffic flood that resulted from his controversial posting. 'My host contacts me and says, '˜What the fuck did you do?'' I go, 'Uhhhh. I posted some music.' He goes, 'What exactly did you post?' I go, 'Uhhhh. [Meek voice] New Guns n' Roses.' He goes, 'Motherfucker.' Before long his cell phone rang with an unfamiliar 323 number. 'It was a really cool guy from the Gn'R camp that was a middle man between someone who was very angry and me. He was trying to reach out and see if I'd go without a fight, which is more or less what I did.'
Skwerl agreed to take them down, but a cease-and-desist letter soon followed threatening possible legal action. 'I'm not so worried about that,' Skwerl says. 'It's a legal grey area since it wasn't for download, it wasn't a finished product. We aren't sure who owns the recordings. I feel like I might survive this.'
#112 Re: Guns N' Roses » If The World parodied, hilarious » 898 weeks ago
Sorry, that's just awful.
#113 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl's "Tirade" in Rolling Stone - Bach speaks out » 898 weeks ago
Also, Bach just posted the RS article (the one from the website, not the actual magazine which has yet to come out) on his myspace page:
#114 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl's "Tirade" in Rolling Stone - Bach speaks out » 898 weeks ago
is this going to be printed in the magazine?
interesting, considering print is not the same as internet, they need a whole load more lead time to get a story to print....lots more....anyone find this a little strange?
also, how the fuck did that first RS article hit the web so soon as well?accidental leaks?
maybe not.
The RS site claims it will be part of a larger story that will be in the new issue, out sometime this week. We'll see.
#115 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Sorum says GNR reunion will happen "eventually," but without him. » 898 weeks ago
The other thing is...he then goes on to talk about VR for ages and the upates there...so i mean a reunion can't be happening if VR is continuing. Unless we're talking a one-off show or something.
I think that's where the word "eventually" comes in. I think it's both hypothetical and paranoia-driven at this point...
#116 Re: The Garden » Had a medical emergency last night » 898 weeks ago
Again, I just now caught this. I'm very sorry you went through this, but so glad you came out okay and have a change to figure out what might have happened. Best of luck in getting answers and peace of mind.
#117 Re: Guns N' Roses » your current tracklisting » 898 weeks ago
1. Better
2. Chinese Democracy
3. If the World
4. IRS
5. The Blues
6. Madagascar
7. Riyahd
8. Song #2
9. There was a Time
...it's just too hard to space out all the slower, light-rock sounding tracks, you know?
#118 Re: Guns N' Roses » $1,000 For 'Sorry' Demo » 898 weeks ago
Saikin wrote:bigbri wrote:I didn't think it would work a second time, but it did, so I'm not ruling this out again.
Did this really cause the leak?
No, it was a freak coincidence if you ask me.
We'll have to see if it happens again, then. Just plain weird.
#119 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl's "Tirade" in Rolling Stone - Bach speaks out » 898 weeks ago
I would like to say it is GREAT news to hear that we won't be seeing an Axl Rose reality show! I would hate for him to have his own VH1 show!
Imagine it... "The Jungle of Love"- Axl gets 25 girls to choose from to find his 'soul mate'.
Come to think of it, i wouldn't be surprised if VH1 approached him with that very idea.
Except if would take 15 + years for the first episode to air, as Axl would demand that VH1 signs over total creative control before he walks on camera, then disappears into the editing bays, never to be seen again.
#120 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Sorum says GNR reunion will happen "eventually," but without him. » 898 weeks ago
bazgnr wrote:To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that so many people are taking Sorum's words semi-seriously. Phrases like "I'm sure it will happen *eventually*" and "they COULD be meeting right now" are nothing new from the VR camp, given the inner turmoil and paranoia of the past few years.
And why would Kushner be involved if it were to happen? I remember the RS article from last year (for AFD's 25th Anniversary) where Kushner basically said, "yeah, if everybody else goes back to their old bands, I'm screwed."
To be honest, the *last* thing I want is another reason to delay the release of Chinese Democracy, even if that includes the possibility of a reunion. I'm happy with the GNR of the here and now.
But the GN'R of here and now isn't the GN'R that did CD... it's not 01, it's not 02, it's not even 06 GN'R...
Axl, Dizzy, Pitman, Frank, Ron Thal, Richard Fortus, Tommy Stinson ... it's as unreal to CD as newGN'R is to old GN'R if you ask me. I'll take a re-union.
Point made. I still see it differently, I suppose, simply because I want a new GNR album in my hands. You're right, the current GNR isn't the group that recorded every note of CD, but the *current* members have been involved in the recording of the new album(s) to one extent or another. At a bare minimum, any truth to these never-ending reunion rumors would only mean the shelving of CD material, re-writing, recording, etc. It's maddening to even think about right now.
