All yall haters need to stop hatin on mah boy lil axle rizos. Eat ya hatertots and hush ya lips. Aint nobody in the hood listenin to no techno music by some dud named sausages.

if you listen to the tracks its clearly been lifted direct. the ulrich schnauss masters will have a digital signature that they can match up.

Why would anyone admit their music sounded like axl’s?

hahahaha axl rose sucks

Well, what isn’t pointed out in the article, is that the demos that leaked last year were dated to 2004, and that crappy intro wasn’t on there. It seems the intro was added after 04. While this suit is a bit ridiculous, it isn’t entirely frivolous. Axl will pay a couple hundred thou and get back to work on Taiwanese Sovereignty for the next 27 years.

I didn’t hear anything similar by listening to “A Strangely Isolated Place,” but the beginning of “Wherever You Are” and “Riad N’ the Bedouins” are exactly the same. Regardless – I still love “Chinese Democracy,” and hope to see them perform live sometime soon.

Unless you consider a shared generic intro as stealing, i dont hear it. Shoot, at that rate, they better start suing over every Brian Eno song ever…

new gnr sucks

As a fan of Ulrich I can assure you that’s definitely his material in the beginning of the song. Now, while it isn’t a key component of the song it is a sample used for a commercial release. An artist has to get clearance for that as many court cases before have shown.
I’m no legal expert either but you have to protect your copyright or else anyone can use what you’ve created at will. A mill is a bit too much though.

I played all three songs together and there is barely any kind of a match up. I have heard so many songs that start sounding the same but they were not. This guy thinks he is going to make some dough and there is no way he will get it from what I heard!!!!!! Does anyone really think Axl and his crew would be sampling a german guys music, heck we have plenty of our own!!!

greedy some poeple are

Axl is no songwriter. Izzy Stradlin was the genius. Izzy wrote most of the big hits like “Patience” and “You Could Be Mine.”

Izzy left after Use Your Illusion was released, and it’s no surprise that it took axl 17 years to produce one album sans Izzy.

It’s also no surprise that he had to steal another artist’s work to do so.

For shame.

New GnR is bad really really really bad

I’m stuck in 1987 and I can’t get out. Why won’t Axl Rose stay here with me? What? Does he think he’s too good for my mullet and my white-leather fringe, fat-ass girlfriend? Go ahead, get all modern, Axl. I’m going to sit here in my mom’s basement and watch a laser discs.

I’m gonna sue both Ulrich and Axl, what audacity to lift my work and release it TWO times independently. Long arm of the law is reaching out Ulrich and Axl!

My music is MY music and I CAN CHARGE MONEY for it. Gimme my money!!!

Coldplay is a group of rip off pop dorks.

good point about izzy and his songwriting but let’s not forget axl wrote a lot of their hits as well such as “novemeber rain” and “Estranged”…my point is, izzy wrote all their great classic rock tracks, while axl was more of their ballad writer

To: speaking for a certain segment

Typical straw-man argument.

Axl used a sample without permission.

In response, you resort to name-calling and cliched insults … why?

Axl was the most credited songwriter from the AFD and UYI days. He was credited with writing 41% of their work according to their system, more than any of the others. It is completely untrue that Izzy wrote all their great rock tracks. Axl co-wrote “You Could Be Mine”, “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Paradise City”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, “My Michelle”, “Nightrain”, “Rocket Queen”, etc.

Wow. Can you say irrelevant?

“it seems like countless artists such as Boards of Canada, M83 and Fennesz could have easily filed a similar suit.”

Er, those 3 bands actually aren’t really that similar to each other. The article’s author’s argument seems to be that this is ‘generic music’ and I suspect that if this goes to trial that argument will come up before a jury.

P.S. But Ulrich Schnauss does sound a lot like M83.

P.P.S. But that G’N'R intro does sound pretty much exactly like “A Strangely Isolated Place”.

Ulrich Schnauss is an ambient legend.. not just some german guy. It is so obvious that GNR just copy and pasted the samples into the beginning of the song. Fucking lame

New Guns are great

guns new & old suck

Those samples are definitely Mr.Sausages own work.

RollingStone Magazine: Your article is most embarassing and a joke.

“…half the stuff on Chinese Democracy has existed for the better part of the last decade, while the two Schnauss songs came out in 2001 and 2003…”

Yeah, whatever, It is a SAMPLE RIPPED FROM ULRICH SCHNAUSSES CD, easy, do a CRC check yourself! Jeez.. It’s not a “maybe” question, it’s simple digital proof for gods sake.

It’s not like it ’sounds mysteriously’ the same, it is a 45 cd extraction of Ulrich Schnausses track.

Amazing how many morons and ignorance exists in the world.

Hilarious, dude get your hearing checked, that is clearly Ulrich Schnauss. No wonder they ripped it off, it’s the only part of GnR’s crap album worth listening to.

It’s just a sound effect,it’s not a melody or lyric! And the Chinese Democracy album is amazing, the songs are so beautiful and emotional..This I love, Street of dreams,Catcher in rye,Prostitute, There was a time,Madagascar and so on, I ‘ve never heard so great and touching music after November rain, Estranged,Don’t cry! Thanks Axl for released Chinese Democracy and for have chosen so talented new member!! I wait for listen live all the fantastic album live,and listen to Dj performances!! THANKS GN’R YOU’RE GREAT!!!!

Your right the Chinese Democracy album is amazing. Amazingly crap!!!

Dear GoGone,you don’t like the old Guns,you don’t like the new Guns, but you spend your time for to listen to an album of a band that you’ve never liked and for write here “guns new & old suck” ahahah!!!You don’t have nothing to do!! When you really decide to listen to Chinese Democracy you’ll see that you will like the new Guns.

How much are stupid the haters that speaks without knowing.Or that knows, but is too much envy for admit that Chinese Democracy is a great album!! It must be deaf to say that it’s not beautiful!

This I love,There was a time,Prostitute,Better, Sorry,Catcher in the rye,Madagascar,Street of dreams,Chinese Democracy,Shackler’s Revenge,I.R.S.,Scraped,Riad,If the world(..oops..all the album!)aren’t great?? Are you crazy or what?? You haters say it because there isn’t a video and there isn’t rotation at radio of the songs,but I would like to see what you haters will say when all the people start to know the album.. they will say that you must wash your ears.

Ulrich Schnauss is amazing, Im not surprised they tried, actually.. -Josh

I am 110% sure the intro is a direct copy of 2 of Ulrichs songs as I’ve listened to his work a 1000 times. As a producer I can tell you I would have acted exactly the same a Ulrich. You can’t just rip 2 parts of someone’s work and expect to get away with it… And to people who don’t appreciate ambient or don’t hear there is actually a melody in the sampled work, or think the work was not sampled because Ulrich isn’t from the US… You are lame and ignorant.

This is definitely Ulrich’s work don’t GNR have a trailer park somewhere to sample music from?

Maria, what the hell does “but you spend your time for to listen to an album of a band that you’ve never liked” mean

Blatant rip off! Listen to the GNR song first then the youtube vids