Slash spits venom at Chinese Democracy leaker
September 2nd, 2008 by Chad Radford in Music news
On Fri., Aug. 29th The Los Angeles Times ran a follow-up story on Kevin “Skwerl” Cogill who is best known as the blogger who leaked Guns ‘n Roses perpetually forthcoming album, Chinese Democracy.
As a result of his leakage Cogill now faces up to three years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
In the Times‘ story former G-n-R lead guitarist and apparent professor of both law and philosophy, Slash is actually quoted saying, “I hope he rots in jail. It’s going to affect the sales of the record, and it’s not fair. The Internet is what it is, and you have to deal with it accordingly, but I think if someone goes and steals something, it’s theft.”
Thanks, professor… You know what else hurts album sales, sitting on a record for almost 15 years!
According to The Times‘ story the current incarnation of G-n-R cryptically addressed the situation with this, “Presently, though we don’t support this guy’s actions at that level, our interest is in the original source. We can’t comment publicly at this time as the investigation is ongoing.”
To read the full story in The Times, click here.
(Photo courtesy of www.greenfield-sanders.com.)
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
You attach Slash for his remarks, but you seem to have no problem illegally using my portrait of Slash.
Do you really think that just stealing my copyright protected image of Slash is OK? Does putting my name on the image make you feel that you have not stolen it?
My studio is very reachable. They would have responded to your request for usage.
Shame on you.
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hey Tim,
Sorry about that. I did send an e-mail out to the studio on Saturday morning but didn’t hear anything back.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I hope that “portrait” of Slash rots in jail.
Actually I’m going to let it rot on my Myspace page… without permission.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
That’s a great photo and the T-shirt is too perfect for the subject matter. And after making contact the photographer is cool with us using it. So where does that leave Slash?