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Mind the introductory shagpile!

I don't have any problem at all with people making money, hell, I'm an entrepreneur myself, but as others have said in this thread, it's about -how- you make them.

I'd be utterly disappointed if I saw Eldritch do a commercial like the one Iggy is doing...it's simply humiliating, Iggy shouldn't -need- to do this for a living. I can very well understand if some jobless 20-year-old (like I was in those days) have to walk around with a plate saying go eat at KFC, dressed like a chicken - certainly not the coolest job on earth, but maybe you have to suffer to survive - but Iggy making a clown out of himself, saying things he doesn't mean (I presume), when he doesn't even need it (I presume), is extremely disappointing and embarrassing to watch.

No matter what you think about capitalism or making money.

Can't remember the company, but Lemmy hawked the services of some insurance firm back in the early 90s. The ad was pretty good, as I recall. Not to mention them using Ace of Spades and Phil Hartman to sell NotPoodle - the fact that it gave some viewers seizures just seemed appropriate.

Intense

EvilBastard wrote:Can't remember the company, but Lemmy hawked the services of some insurance firm back in the early 90s. The ad was pretty good, as I recall. Not to mention them using Ace of Spades and Phil Hartman to sell NotPoodle - the fact that it gave some viewers seizures just seemed appropriate.

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And Walkers Crisps and Kit Kats

Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.

Bartek wrote:Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.

Weird - I would never have bought that pretty blue gun from Smith & Wesson if it hadn't been for Tom Waits' track on the ad...

the-happening wrote:

Silence is platinum wrote:Wasn t Peter Murphy doing an advertisement for batteries i think..
and Lou Reed for motorcycles..

Peter Murpy did maxwell tapes back in the day.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUIxGJ-ykI

Nice advert

Yeah, that one's fine (yes I am a bit biased)

Ozzy doing World of Warcraft? Mind you, he joins such thesps' as Bill Shatner and Mr. T!

Bartek wrote:Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.

Not to mention The McCain campaign here in the US using 'Running On Empty'. Of all the people who would never vote for John McCain under any circumstances, Jackson Browne is the exemplar. He was not amused

And of course, VW and 'Pink Moon'...but it's hard to protect your rights when you're dead I just always found it perversely amusing that people loved that ad without having the first clue what the song was about (my boyfriend at the time being one of them... )

timsinister wrote:Ozzy doing World of Warcraft?

Yeah but Ozzy sold all his credibility a long time ago.

Sharo-o-o-o-o-on!

Hom_Corleone wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:aye

its often the case when ad agencies take a song out of context in order to use it's main chorus

A bit like the BBC using Perfect Day.

Or the NFL using Every Day is Like Sunday. It's a cover, not actually Morrissey's version, but still... And I'm even a big (US) football fan.

5 quid to the first person to name an ad with a Beatles tune...

Proof of purchase required.

But then again I'm a big Muse fan and you can't watch TV for more than an hour without hearing one of their tunes behind some ad or another. Same goes for the Editors. Ho hum. I think I'll have to think it out agian...

markfiend wrote:

timsinister wrote:Ozzy doing World of Warcraft?

Yeah but Ozzy sold all his credibility a long time ago.

Sharo-o-o-o-o-on!

True - Shatner, Special K, and Mr. T, Snickers?

Bartek wrote:Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.

He's even successfully sued for companies using "sound alikes" - not even his own voice or even songs but apparently just for sounding too much like him.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/n ... guys-again

Why?

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Ultimately, why not?
He can't have that many more touring years left in him, so earning a bit of retirement cash doesn't strike me as particularly heinious.

As for Von - frankly, I doubt enough people know/care who he is these days for any self-respecting company to part with cash for him to endorse their product. If he's lucky, he might just get to explain why the cats prefer brand x!

Actually, if Eldritch advertised Whiskas or some good alcohol or some good parfume, I would have nothing against, especially if the advert itself was cool.
But Iggy Pop and insurance? WTF?

Christ there's billboards too

Car insurance company Swiftcover, which features Iggy Pop in its adverts has admitted it refuses to cover musicians

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... cians.html

"Advertiser makes misleading advert" shock.

In other news, Pope still Catholic.

markfiend wrote:"Advertiser makes misleading advert" shock.

In other news, Pope still Catholic.

AND A PEDO...

and a nazi

...still, they all seem to de sooner or later.

an update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8023358.stm

Iggy Pop advert deemed misleading

A TV commercial for insurance featuring rock star Iggy Pop has been ruled as misleading by the advertising watchdog.

and

The company said that it had now become one of the few insurers to offer policies to performers in the music industry.