Who the fuck cuts Brian May from an album?

Axl Rose does.

I may have downloaded leaked versions of "Chinese Democracy" last month and it contained early versions of tracks which will be released on 11/23. One of which had a guest appearance by Brian May, of Queen, and it was awesome.

I would post the original version of Catcher in the Rye, but a combination of my computer crashing and fear of Axl going Metallica on me, you will have to find it yourself.

At any rate, the original version was far superior.

/rant