So uhh... you like Guns and Roses?

eyedclaar

fanch75 wrote:

Looks like Mr. Firecloud got some FBI activity!

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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 followedthreatening 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."

That is so NOT how you respond to the feds knocking on your door. Where's the claymores, the small-arms fire, the "death to all pigs" battle cry? C'mon, get it together.

fanch75

eyedclaar wrote:

That is so NOT how you respond to the feds knocking on your door. Where's the claymores, the small-arms fire, the "death to all pigs" battle cry? C'mon, get it together.

Yeah, no shit. I bet Axl is pissed that such a wuss leaked his tunes. He's probably more pissed about that than anything.

He should have been blasting "Cop Killer," at least.

Firecloud

Haha I didn't have the honor of them raiding my house. Thank god.
And I wouldn't be so quick to talk shit on Skwerl. He's the reason the world is listening to these songs right now, and he's got balls the size of ostrich eggs.

mole1985

Firecloud wrote:

Haha I didn't have the honor of them raiding my house. Thank god.
And I wouldn't be so quick to talk shit on Skwerl. He's the reason the world is listening to these songs right now, and he's got balls the size of ostrich eggs.

Now they are BIG balls.

UKDave

mole1985 wrote:

Now they are BIG balls.

Did this just turn into an AC/DC thread??

Firecloud

haha good god i hope not.

Matty Boy

You should have thrown on IRS when you were talking to the FBI agents. Axl still freaking kicks ass. People out there just love to hate on Axl but he's a musical genius. I hope Eminem and Dr Dre do a remix of If The World.

searchlightsoul

holtz wrote:

It doesn't really matter how good the songs are there will be people who will automatically hate them just because they don't like Axl.

And fair enough. GnR's were always overrated, eventually it was always going to bite him in the ass.

Firecloud

The songs are exactly as good as I expected them to be, and I'm thrilled with what we've got.