Comments on: AXL ROSE, PLAGIARIZER?

By: Deni

Deni — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:01:28 +0000

That’s what I want to know…
Just because someone does a Cover Album doesn’t mean
they steal songs or music…
And, just for the record, I like Chinese Democracy…
It may have taken a bit long for what ever all the reasons were,
and it may not be the G-n-R sound from before but get over it…
Things change, people grow, new ideas develop.
If you don’t like it, that’s cool, but people should not
speak of what they do not know….

By: hater_guy

hater_guy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:45:04 +0000

What part isn’t the stolen one. heh. You remember “the spaghetti incident?” album, not one song was their own. i mean a whole album of nothing but cover songs. that was the album that gave me the ”what the fuck?” moment and lose all hope in GNR. doesn’t surprise me that Axl would steal someone else’s shit. Rose that is.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:45:47 +0000

wtf, what part is the stolen one ?!

By: Some Random Dude

Some Random Dude — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:20:14 +0000

wheres my ‘leave the stage and not do my job’ body guard hand book?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:33:29 +0000

Can I sue Trent reznor for ripping of a bunch of tunes from my mind?
I remember singing ‘I can’t stop slipping’ in the shower like 6 months
before he even recorded the song!

That mind reading bastard!

And I mumbled something about ‘see the animal in his cage that you made’ when I was 12!

Goddam you Trent!

By: vegan goes vegetarian

vegan goes vegetarian — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:06:38 +0000

i heard that gnr stole riffs from hanoi rocks

By: pigchop

pigchop — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:49:06 +0000

My saying the album is not a flop is based on actual world wide sales – 2.6 million so far as I can tell via soundscan statistics. I actually thought it was more – hence my saying “several million…”. Oh well – in today’s market a couple million sold is a long way from a flop. I firmly believe that had Axl not used the Gn’R name AND got up off his ass to work the promotion train, it would have been the year’s biggest seller.Damn shame that Axl Rose chose to not present his record for what it is: a solo project featuring a long list of mostly guest performers.

By: masterofpuppies

masterofpuppies — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:25:20 +0000

You can copyright music – I’m pretty sure it’s to do with how many notes in a row you use that are the same. I thought the number of notes you can use is 4, but thinking about it, loads of songs would break that rule, so maybe I’m talking crap!

By: T

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:47:14 +0000

You numbnuts, it was Joe Satriani…know what you’re talking about or shut the fuck up

By: Stabitha C.

Stabitha C. — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:42:03 +0000

Didn’t stop Coldplay from settling with Steve Vai for ripping off the riff from that one song for that other song that was in the iTunes commercial. And Coldplay paid Kraftwerk to use a melody from “Computer Love” on the same album. You can’t copyright chord progressions but if there is a key riff or melody, I think you can indeed.

By: Stabitha C.

Stabitha C. — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:59:52 +0000

Pretty sure units shipped counts towards gold or platinum certification. Becomes a problem when those units come back as returns, of course. But I don’t know the terms of the Best Buy deal.

By: Sandy Duncan's Glass Eye

Sandy Duncan's Glass Eye — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:52:27 +0000

Yeah, it sounds the same, but I’m a big Ulrich Schnauss fan who was pleasantly surprised to see him mentioned on this site. Anyone who likes Shoegaze-y/Ambient stuff should get his albums asap.

By: timmah

timmah — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:49:07 +0000

I’m pretty sure the album was declared platinum before it ever hit shelves largely due to the Best Buy worldwide exclusive. Unfortunately I’m having a hard time citing the source right now but I seem to recall that the units SHIPPED was counted as sales before they were actually SOLD.

Whether or not they all sold I don’t really know, but the album overall still was a gigantic disappointment. It was up and down the charts blindingly fast.

By: mburden1216

mburden1216 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:29:40 +0000

I thought that artists couldn’t copyright music, just lyrics. Seeing how that all music is really only a progression or embelishment of some other piece of music. MaYbe I’m wrong, but I don’t know. Does anybody else?

By: brian roach

brian roach — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:27:17 +0000

Very true, this guy is amazing. Axl is a dick, but at least he’s ripping off some great artists!! :)

By: pigchop

pigchop — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:57 +0000

“flop of epic of proportions”…? Let’s keep it real – years in the making withstanding – in today’s market, no – it was certainly not a flop. World wide sales (including (shit stain on the universe) itunes sales) have seen to the record selling several million copies. Not too bad…in today’s market. Of course the sales figures don’t mean it’s a good record through and through – there are some good tracks. Still, the record cover was all wrong. Here is the ‘correct’ cover:

large version:

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/732/chinesedemocracylh1.jpg

Small(er) shot – for you poor saps with antiquated internet connections:

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4628/chinesedemocracycf0.jpg

No need to say thank-you – I am just making right what was wrong.

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:47:09 +0000

Ulrich Schnauss makes some great music. No wonder Axl would totally rip parts from his songs.

By: Kuranes

Kuranes — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:38:27 +0000

That’s hard to dispute, but it is only a few seconds of ambient noise at the beginning of the song. And I would bet that Tommy Stinson just wrote the guitar part and wasn’t involved in the production where the alleged plagiarism was perpetrated.

By: tyler09

tyler09 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:37:02 +0000

haha agreed

By: We Love Metal

We Love Metal — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:33:47 +0000

I would be scared to tell anyone that he stole my music if it was as bad as Democracy