Has anyone else noticed that almost every freakin commercial

[the Princess]

these days has a *Who* song as background music??????????????

Hubby calls it "The Pete Townshend retirement fund"

*sigh*

Pete - Pete - Pete - Why????????????????????????

I mean I love the man - but I wanna slap him.

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. I still think "Pictures of Lily" would make a great theme song

for the next CSI spinoff.

[the Princess]

3. That's so fuckin' funny

You made me spit out my water. LMAO

[Radical Activist]

7. I thought it would be better for Viagra n/t

[intheflow]

2. I knew the 60's were dead when

Dylan had Visa sponsor his tour in the '90's. :(

[woofless]

4. Someone asked Pete about that a few months ago.

Pete (paraphrase) "I fuckin' wrote 'em, I'll do what I want with them."

It bugs me too but I will forgive Pete a lot for all the pure joy he has given me for 40 years.

[the Princess]

9. Oh I agree about forgiving him

And I do understand that it's his music he can do what he wnats with it. I've been a fan since I was 14 I'm 44 now and I love the man like he's a part of my family. But it is disappointing to hear songs that are special to me selling cars. *sigh*

[XNASA]

5. Nobody in the history of Rock has undertaken as many huge....

...unprofitable projects as Pete.

I mean, just the tab on all of the shattered guitars must amount to $$Millions$$.

Pete gets a free pass. Always.

[redqueen]

6. I know...

how much money do these guys need?

Did anyone post here about Russell Crowe's recent comments on celebs selling out?

[dbt]

8. Look up an album titled "The Who Sell Out"

It explains everything.

:evilgrin:

[last_texas_dem]

10. Always disappointing

The newest disappointing one is The Band's "The Weight" being used to advertise something or other that seems to have no relation to what the song's about.

Probably the worst is when Wrangler used CCR's "Fortunate Son" as a patriotic anthem to sell jeans. Wrong on so many levels: the choppy editing to cut out the song's message, the use of an anti-flag waver song as a pro-flag waver song, and the fact that John Fogerty doesn't own the rights to his songs so has no say in what kind of crap they are used to sell. The latter has to be the biggest travesty of all.