Is your favorite band a sellout?...

[racewalker]

Heard an interesting take on this by Joe Strummer of The Clash, sometime back. He said that he had licensed the use of some song (I forget which one), not because he wanted the money - he said he had more than enough - but rather so that the people who were peripherally involved (e.g. session musicians) would get paid as some of them needed the money.

Not sure how the Truth-O-Meter registers that one, but it came off as quite sincere.

[Marlow]

Re: Is your favorite band a sellout?...

There is a misconception that Tom Waits did a Purina Butcher's Blend TV ad. I worked on the ad and Waits turned it down. The voiceover was done by Martin Sheen.

Excerpts:

It was close, real close. I couldn't see it yet, but I could feel it, as if the bowl were being sucked uproom and the waterbowl was flowing back into the jungle. Whatever was going to happen, it wasn't gonna be the way they call it back in the Rec Room.

Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a bone, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice bone, and when it was over, I never wanted another.

Never get out of the doghouse. Absolutely godd*mn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Fido got out of the doghouse. He split from the whole f*ckin' program.

Everybody wanted me to eat it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to clean the bowl. He just wanted to go out like a good owner, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the mommy wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway.

Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would do when I got there. I knew the risks, or imagined I knew. But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear, was the desire to eats the kibbles AND bits.

Someday this meal’s gonna end. That'd be just fine with the boys in the pound. They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I'd been back there, and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore.

In a game of fetch there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action - what is often called ruthless - what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it.

(apologies to Francis Ford Coppola]

[cullman]

Re: Is your favorite band a sellout?...

... take the quiz:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 01&sc=1000

Yes...the Beatles are a sellout according to this quiz. :lol:

"The shining beacon of light in this wasteland was Tom Waits. I covered three of his lawsuits, and each one involved fighting against his music or a sound-alike being used in commercials."

There is a misconception that Tom Waits did a Purina Butcher's Blend TV ad. I worked on the ad and Waits turned it down. The voiceover was done by Martin Sheen. :shock:

cman

[SQUACKEE]

Now this is a crime!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/2 ... 39030.html

Plant suggested he might tour in 2 years, i think he's worth waiting for.

[Dietmar239]

Now this is a crime!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/2 ... 39030.html

[SQUACKEE]

Re: Is your favorite band a sellout?...

... take the quiz:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 01&sc=1000

As soon as he said Ozzy sold out i knew this guy has no idea what he's talking about. Ozzy's last 2 c/d's are truely great. I dont care if he does a commercial or a bloody tv show, he still rocks in well crafted and brillantly produce songs.

If Clapton had done a commercial right after recording Layla do we throw the album in a dumpster?

To me sold out means you gave up your art for money.

[gh]

... take the quiz:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 01&sc=1000