Rock "SELL-OUTS"!

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One feels disdain toward the rock band Journey for allowing their hit "Any Way You Want It" to be used as a musical sales pitch to hawk Ford automobiles. Likewise, jeers to every musician that has similarly prostituted their music to sell products. Even the historic mega-rock band Led Zeppelin has traveled this troubled road; rest assured, mates, that whenever I hear the classic "Been A Long Time," I no longer think of a talented and historic group of four hard rock/blues musicians and the unique musical craft they cultivated and produced so prodigiously--instead, I am now cogently and immediately reminded of Cadillac automobiles. Is this to be the legacy of this historic supergroup?
This inappropriate and misdirected commercialism may have been embodied most pointedly in a remark I heard recently from Gene Simmons, notorious bassist of the rock band Kiss, during a radio interview. He actually stated: "Why be a band, when you can be a brand?" I guess Gene means it, because one of my most depressing moments was the day, about a year ago, that I saw Kiss hawking Pepsi-Cola in a television commercial.
The youth and countercultures in America (and elsewhere) have historically criticized, or even rejected, what they viewed as the uptight, money-centric attitudes of the "older generation," specifically their parents and other authority figures, and this nonconformity and rebellion has always comprised part of the impetus and driving force for rock-n-roll.
Has everyone forgotten?

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Topic - Rock "SELL-OUTS"! - Icom 756 16:49:32 03/02/07 (7)

Re: Rock "SELL-OUTS"! - Tom Brennan 17:46:37 03/04/07 (0)

it's now mainstream or classic - jefe 07:44:00 03/03/07 (0)

about that Cadillac commercial: - Prisoners 06:27:32 03/03/07 (1)

and to Judge Zintra Janavs who ruled correctly: - Duilawyer 12:06:33 03/03/07 (0)

All I know is... - mishmashmusic 17:49:05 03/02/07 (0)

sometime in the mists of history... - dave c 17:23:53 03/02/07 (0)

Old news, man: selling out is long, long ago; buying in has been the fad for - musetap 17:10:41 03/02/07 (0)

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