actually this quite pisses me off! The other day I heard the original Howlin Wolf version of Smokestack Lightnin' on a fucking damned Viagra commercial! What the fuck!
The nerve of these greedy corporations, exploiting a bunch of dudes going through a midlife crises by playing good music from their youth to remind them of a more active sexual time in their lives and guilt them into buying a product they don't need. Hey, newsflash erectile dysfunctional sufferers, stop thinking about
work already and let it happen!
I blame Led Zeppelin, who started this trend with that Cadillac commercial years ago, before that TV ads had to use imitation music for commercials, and real artistic music had its integrity in tact. This shit embarrasses me as a musician.
I would be offended if someone wanted to use my art to further crass commercialism! I can understand as a musician creating pointless licks and riffs for commercials, just for the paycheck, but to take an artists serious song, a real artistic creation, and debase it into such boring commercialism, well shit isn't this why we had a pop-art/post-modernist movement in the first place?
Lord Have His Mercy,
I like Jim, I miss his personal contributions to SY, but this shit is ridiculous, and truly I feel sorry for him now
