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| From | "Jason Damas" <jason.damas@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Kinks |
| Date | Fri, 13 May 2005 12:12:58 -0400 |
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<< > The irony is that this list has been fawning over the frickin' ROLLING
> STONES, the biggest commercial sell-outs in HISTORY (remember the Windows
> '95 "Start Me Up" campaign?) for about 200 messages or so. --Jason
Or - the irony could be that the other version of the commercial you are
defending uses a Stones song ... so why are the Stones sell-outs and The
Kinks not?>>
I think the fact that the Stones are already making $200/ticket on stadium
tours implies that they didn't really NEED the, what, $12 million, $13
million? they made from that ad campaign. Ray Davies might. Still, more
power to em, even if the Win95 ad campaign didn't have an ounce of the
artistic merit that the HP campaign does. I honestly didn't really care
about the Stones doing it then or The Kinks doing it now, I was just
pointing out that the crowd was being harsh about one instance but giving a
pass on another--one that was one of the BIGGEST music/advertising deals in
history. I seriously doubt that Ray Davies is getting nearly as much for
this as they got for that.
In other words, I didn't really mean to pick on the Rolling Stones, but they
were a *very* notable example, and *do* make plenty of money on album
sales/merchandising/touring already, which is something that most others do
not. --Jason
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