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Itchinjim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:17 PM
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Goddamn you Townsend, it's Rock and Roll,
not a fucking car commercial.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:27 PM
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1. I admire the surviving Doors for not selling "Break On Through"...
...to Cadillac. The company had to go with an ill-fitting Led Zeppelin song instead.

NGU.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:29 PM
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3. Yeah, but they made a shitload of money off that commericial
:shrug:
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:39 PM
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9. That's the proverbial trade-off: money or your soul...
:shrug:

NGU.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:28 PM
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2. ?
:shrug:
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:29 PM
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4. What now?
Couldn't be any worse than that godawful Happy Jack Hummer ad they had on a couple years ago.
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:31 PM
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5. "...it's only teenage wasteland..."
Even though my thing is Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music, I love "Baba O'Reilly".
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:31 PM
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6. I don't understand people who don't want to hear great music
in commercials.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:36 PM
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8. Bingo! and see #7
It's only Rock and Roll....


But I like it!
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:40 PM
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10. Wasn't music invented to sell t-shirts at $40 a pop?
Or is it the beer, at $6.50 per sixteen ouncer?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:34 PM
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7. It's not just Rock and Roll
survival plays a part, as well.

Your songs are your product....

If you can sell them...

Sell them, if you must.

That shit is not your property...

But I certainly understand your feelings.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:42 PM
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11. Funny thing about that.. I read an interview with Townsend recently
where he said he reunited the Who in the 90's because John Entwistle really needed the money. then he went and blew it all on coke and died. I agree though, sell the tunes if you need the money, especially 25 and 30 year old songs. After 25 years, please get rich off of it if you need to.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:42 PM
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12. No idea what you're talking about, but Townsend has earned an easy paycheck.
I'd rather a rock artist get a whopping sum of cash for a commercial than some idiot marketing major whose done nothing but polute the airwaves with crappy jingles his whole career.
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:49 PM
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13. At least
those guys still own their songs....a lot of the old catalog is owned by Michael Jackson...
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 11:56 PM
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14. I'm not singing for Pepsi, I'm not singing for Coke, Won't sing for nobody,
Who makes me look like a joke;

This notes for you!
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:01 AM
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15. if you really cared, maybe you'd learn to spell his name
Its Townshend. And why shouldn't he make money off of his work?
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