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  5. 5.

    capelza

    I just saw the same commercial.

    If there was ANY album overplayed in the 70’s, at parties it was Frampton Comes Alive….cheap jugs of Red Mountain wine and nefarious other substances and that god damned “I want youooouuu to show me the way”….

  6. 6.

    Pug

    That’s bad, bud not as bad as Cadillac commercials featuring Led Zeppelin tunes or Dennis “Easy Rider” Hopper doing retirment commercials.

    Those really make some of us feel ancient.

  7. 7.

    Jake

    Do you, you,
    Feeeel like I do?

    I feel old.

    Yes you do.

    I officially felt old and not a little queasy when they started using Led Zep’s “Rock n’ Roll” to sell Caddys. I mean. Really? WTF?

    My only comfort is that it could be worse. Thanks to the fact that many rock legends are dead we don’t see Jim Morrison selling bathtub cleaner or Joplin hocking Mercedes.

  8. 8.

    Ned Raggett

    I admit this is where I enjoy the fact that I tend to listen these days to obscure stuff released in editions of 150 CDRs. Likelihood of being featured in ads: not impossible but not exactly high.

  9. 9.

    Bombadil

    My only comfort is that it could be worse. Thanks to the fact that many rock legends are dead we don’t see Jim Morrison selling bathtub cleaner or Joplin hocking Mercedes.

    Too late — Mercedes-Benz did use Janis Joplin in a Mercedes commercial back in 1995. Her sister owned the rights and gave the permission.

  12. 12.

    Jake

    Too late—Mercedes-Benz did use Janis Joplin in a Mercedes commercial back in 1995. Her sister owned the rights and gave the permission.

    [sigh]

    Reasons I Avoid TeeVee #3,006,978,852.

  14. 14.

    Xenos

    I am too depressed hearing The Clash’s version of “Pressure Drop” used to sell car insurance to care much about Frampton. What was the point about Frampton anyway – noodly tunes to encourage girls to fool around?.

    Still, “Pressure Drop” might be appropriate for hurricane insurance.

  15. 15.

    RSA

    When I saw Frampton on the Colbert show, representing a guitar hero, I thought, “That balding geezer is Frampton?”

  17. 17.

    capelza

    RSA…the same here. Unrecognisable.

    Now Robert Plant, he still looks the same, except worn and creased, but when you see him…you know him. Maybe it’s the hair. (full disclosure: my 13 y/o self thought he was a God).

    I read somewhere that either Plant or Page, can’t remember which one, really likes Cadillacs so they were happy to let them use the song in the ad.

  19. 19.

    sal

    Ramones selling Pepsi, Iggy Pop selling cruise trips, The The selling M & M’s. This is the Modern World.

  20. 20.

    Bombadil

    Iggy Pop selling cruise trips,

    That’s the one that always got me! Who decided that a song about a junkie who just scored was a good song to sell cruise tours?

  21. 21.

    The Other Steve

    You know what makes me feel old? My 18-year-old thinks Caddy and Chrysler are hip cars.

    That doesn’t make you old. It just means you must live in a small rural town.

  22. 22.

    jcricket

    I actually remember all the outrage when Michael Jackson (in his in-between Black to White transformation) sold the Beatles’ “Revolution” for that commercial back in the 80s. Now the musicians have all realized licensing is big money and more important than any previous “artistic integrity” they might have argued for in the past :-)

    Moreover, you’re not old until your rock heroes are doing ED ads. I can just hear Bob Marley’s “Get Up Stand Up” for Cialis now.

  25. 25.

    Svensker

    The Other Steve Says:

    You know what makes me feel old? My 18-year-old thinks Caddy and Chrysler are hip cars.

    That doesn’t make you old. It just means you must live in a small rural town.

    NYC? Well, it IS provincial.

    And I can never listen to James Brown’s “If Feel Good” again without thinking of a bowel movement — isn’t that great?

  26. 26.

    Tom Shipley

    “Now the musicians have all realized licensing is big money and more important than any previous “artistic integrity” they might have argued for in the past”

    I think more and more artists are looking at commercials as a way of getting exposure… especially artists who have been squeezed out of commercial radio.

    Sting had a hit with that mid-east yodelling song soley because it was used in that Jaguar commerical. And it was probably a big part of the reason Wilco sold all those songs to Volkswagon.

  31. 31.

    Chuck Butcher

    God this is depressing, I was just young enough to find the girls’ reaction to Beatles’ arrival in the US for Ed’s show silly… In ’71 I was graduated and driving a ’63 Impala SS 409 with hair down to my shoulders and a seriously radical left attitude. That car is long gone, still lots of hair but only an inch and a half long, politics – well, you be the judge…

    (that was a fast car, I built and own a faster one)

  32. 32.

    Tax Analyst

    I recall Richie Havens pitching “cotton” products and Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Teach Your Children” being used in some type of commerical, although I can’t remember what it was. And of course, the late Nick Drake’s ‘Pink Moon’ for the VW Jetta (I think, anyway). Anyone remember the album, “The Who Sell Out”? The cover photos were pretty much about this, Peter Townshend with a giant “Odorono” deodorant stick shoved up under his armpit and Roger Daltrey sitting in a giant tub of Heinz Baked Beans.

  33. 33.

    Tax Analyst

    hmmm…maybe the CSN song was “Our House”. Memory a little fuzzy there-abouts for some reason. But it was one of those Graham Nash songs.

  34. 34.

    brendancalling

    you know what’s going to make ME feel old?

    That day in the not-too-distant future when the Beastie Boys “Whatchu Want” becomes an ad for Buick.

    “Comfortable leather seats..” whatchu want whatchu want?

    “Front and drivers side air bags…” whatchu want whatchu want?

    “All for a low APR. Come on in to your local Buick dealer. Buick: It’s whatchu whatchu what YOU want.”

  35. 35.

    Tom Shipley

    “Anyone remember the album, “The Who Sell Out”?”

    That might be my favorite Who album. Gonna have to dig for that CD and put it on my iPod now…

  36. 36.

    Libby Spencer

    Now Robert Plant, he still looks the same, except worn and creased, but when you see him…you know him. Maybe it’s the hair. (full disclosure: my 13 y/o self thought he was a God).

    I once started dating a guy based solely on his pick up line. Our eyes meet over a rack of tiedye tshirts and he said, “Excuse me, but do you realize you look just like Robert Plant?” Sadly, I was a late bloomer and I really did look just like him.

    “Anyone remember the album, “The Who Sell Out”?”

    Like it was yesterday. But then I also saw them do Tommy live on the original tour.

  38. 38.

    jcricket

    Who’s Peter Frampton?

    He’s a bald comedian who plays the guitar that appeared on a VH1 “I love the 70s” special or two.

    Right?

    :-)

  39. 39.

    Eric

    Just saw the commercial last night, then just downloaded the 13 minute live version of Do you feel like I do? Freaking awesome rockin song. Good to see him back!

    Made want to light a joint. Oh wait, I never did that before.

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