Guns ‘N Roses Canada tour
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- If you’re Canadian and you’re looking for a concert to avoid, what better than the upcoming GNR shows?
Skwerl, p2pnet posted in March. Now that`s a hardcore name for a hardcore Internet pirate, if ever there was one!
Known to his mum and girl-friend as Kevin Cogill, FBI agents, acting for the corporate music industry, arrested Skwerl in his jammies last year.”
His alleged crime?
Uploading nine unreleased tracks from the not eagerly awaited then upcoming Guns N` Roses album Chinese Democracy to his blog.
The RIAA, FBI and Guns ‘N Roses wanted Kevin jailed but, “To their anger, he was instead ordered to serve two months of home confinement and a year of parole for breaking federal copyright law.”
But, “now it`s Skwerl`s turn to laugh,” we said, adding:
“In an ironic twist, Guns N` Roses is being accused of, you guessed it, copyright infringement.”
Guns N` Roses and Universal Music Group`s Interscope-Geffen A&M label were sued by British label Independiente and the U.S. arm of Domino Recording Company, who own the licensing rights to songs by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss, said Billboard.
Singer Axl Rose and Guns N` Roses band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss` songs — `Wherever You Are` and `A Strangely Isolated Place` — for a song used on the band`s last album called `Riad N` the Bedouins` according to the lawsuit, it says.
But Guns N` Roses manager Irving Azoff says the band vigorously contests the claims, says a second Billboard post.
Rilly? 
Besides Rose, who is the only original member in the band, the other current and former band members named in the suit include guitarist Brian `Buckethead` Carroll, bassist Tommy Stinson, and Robin Finck, who currently plays lead guitar with rock act Nine Inch Nails, the story adds.
Now, Axl Rose “and his latest lineup of Guns N’ Roses” are planning to hit Canada early in the new year with Winnipeg as the first stop, says Sun Media, going on:
“The tour kicks off Jan. 13 at MTS Centre and winds its way across the country to Halifax on Feb. 4.”
Ticket prices? $50, $70 and $90.
Better to spend your money on something else.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet Skwerl owes $2 million! RIAA, March 16, 2009
nine unreleased tracks – GNR uploader Kevin Cogill pleads `guilty`, November 11, 2008
Skwerl`s turn to laugh – Guns N` Roses sued for copyright violation, October 8, 2009
andBillboard Guns N` Roses Sued For Copying Songs, October 6, 2009
Billboard Guns N` Roses `Vigorously Contests` Lawsuit, October 7, 2009
Sun Media – Rose & GN’R to start tour in Winnipeg, October 20, 2009
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October 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hmm he chose the “pirate haven” to start a tour? Hmm… I wonder what’s up their sleeve!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Axl who??
