Last week, I reported on the leak of some more disappointing songs from Guns N’ Roses still unreleased Chinese Democracy album by a guy named Skwerl (a former employee of Universal), via his blog. Now, it seems Axl Rose’ management is spending some serious time and money in investigating the leak, can’t have those songs released right?

I think Axl Rose might be trying to do the world a great service, by going to such lengths to prevent people from hearing this record for 15 years. God bless him for that at least. The ridiculous and retarded Chinese Democracy saga continues…more info courtesy of Stereogum.

“First, about Skwerl. The guy’s a web designer who used to work in Universal’s distribution department. However he insists the CD tracks came to him via an “anonymous online source.” Rock Daily gets some quotage:

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.

Guns N’ Roses haven’t released an album of original material since, oh around 1991. The band’s struggle to release their “Chinese Democracy” album have been pretty well publicized since 1994, when they began. The album remains unreleased.

Axl Rose has burned through around $14 million in production costs, supplied by Geffen/Interscope over the years, and has kicked out every original member of the band. He apparently recorded massive amounts of material, with an equally massive amount of musicians, a revolving door lineup.

Supposedly, he wanted the album to be one of the “greatest albums ever made”, whatever that means. This, to him, apparently meant layers of electric guitars, superfluous industrial noises and other somewhat ridiculous concepts. This is pretty apparent as large parts of mastered tracks have just now leaked.

Tracks had been leaked before, but not as complete as the current leak. Also, it appears this current leak features a few songs not previously leaked earlier. Needless to say, its a huge letdown, which I believe everyone expected. And at this point these “new songs” are probably 10 years old anyway. This album has become something of a running joke, something I thought Guns N’ Roses were anyway.

Here’s a link to Stereogum who have YouTube versions of 3 of the leaked songs.