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my big black and white poster of rotten from '76 stayed blu-tacked to the wall by the skin of it's teeth.
Bill Hicks wrote:Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the capitalist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink.
it's not goodeuphoria wrote:I almost don't wanna know the background to this thread, as I have always liked Iggy - but still, when I read things like these I find it easier to accept that Eldritch doesn't want to release anything new. That's only the downside of a very independent charachter.
Nothing special against capitalism, I just find it extremely off-putting when artists I like do commercials.
Except for Willie Nelson though, right?markfiend wrote:Bill Hicks wrote:Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the capitalist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink.
Corporate Iggy?paint it black wrote: it's not good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYnydYrZPp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olaCvcl0CRQ
That's just blatantely offending. He owns a gas station about an hour south of here, where he sells bio-diesel.EvilBastard wrote:Except for Willie Nelson though, right?markfiend wrote:Bill Hicks wrote:Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the capitalist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink.
They've been using it here in the States for years. One assumes they don't know what the song is about.Quiff Boy wrote:"Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines" have been using Lust For Life for the last few months...
http://spinner.aol.com/photos/caribbean ... g-iggy-pop
A bit like the BBC using Perfect Day.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
It's not that there's anything wrong with money per se. It's that Iggy has been paid to say "you should buy this insurance." So now, whatever he says, whatever he does, there's always going to be a suspicion that it's something he's been paid to shill, rather than from his own ideas.sultan2075 wrote:On the broader subject, I don't see anything wrong with money.
But he is paid to shill. Usually it's his own records. If he's on stage and he's extolling the virtues of Depends Adult Diapers, I will feel pretty confident he's been paid by them. If he's extolling the virtues of Shure microphones, well, it's 50/50. And if he's singing 'Lust for Life,' extolling the virtues of heroin, I will assume he's not been paid. I understand why you might have that sort of suspicion, but it seems a little excessive to me. You can tell most of the time when someone is a paid shill. Incidentally: what about Ben, Chris and ENGL? They're being paid to shill those amplifiers by putting them on the website as an endorsement. It's pretty clear that they're sponsored by them; in the gear section, when Von goes through, say, the inner workings of the Doktor, it's pretty clear that he's not being a paid shill. It's all about context.markfiend wrote:It's not that there's anything wrong with money per se. It's that Iggy has been paid to say "you should buy this insurance." So now, whatever he says, whatever he does, there's always going to be a suspicion that it's something he's been paid to shill, rather than from his own ideas.sultan2075 wrote:On the broader subject, I don't see anything wrong with money.
Bill did a riff on celebrities who take money for appearing on commercials - his target was Jay Leno for doing the Doritos ad. He was prepared to give Willie a pass on this given that the IRS had just landed him with a massive fine and backtaxes.sultan2075 wrote:He owns a gas station about an hour south of here, where he sells bio-diesel.EvilBastard wrote:Except for Willie Nelson though, right?markfiend wrote:
Bill Hicks wrote:"If you do a commercial you're of the artistic role call forever and that goes for everyone ... except Willie Nelson. 24 million dollar tax bill, Willie was a little looser than the rest of us. I just avert my eyes when Willie sings about Tacos, you know what i mean ... ' Im sittin here, sellin Tacos, oh wait for the women in the rose tattoo. My butt is so loose...' Oh Willie. Poor fuckin Willie. Oh God lets pass the hat. Get him off the Taco bell commerical. We gotta save Willie."
Peter Murpy did maxwell tapes back in the day.Silence is platinum wrote:Wasn t Peter Murphy doing an advertisement for batteries i think..
and Lou Reed for motorcycles..
Really?Silence is platinum wrote:...and Lou Reed for motorcycles..
Now I really have lost all faith in humanity. 
boudicca wrote: I feel myself and my freewheeling values being patronised by the Man, and I'm not down with it.
I hear ya Sister. 
