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[MojoPin]

Neil Young has practically made a second career out of crowing against his contemporaries for "selling out".
His "This notes for you" was aimed right at Budwieser.
But then again, he's always complaining about one thing or another.
Personally, I've been prepared to sell out for years...
So far, no takers....

Yeah but he had no problem selling 50% stake in his entire catalog to Hipgnosis giving control over the publishing rights and royalties to those songs recently. Young has said alot of stupid stuff over the years that he does an about face on later in his years like in the 80's when he said “You go to a supermarket, and you see a f—ggot behind the f—kin’ cash register; you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” and I doubt he feels that way now though he has never apologized in public for the comment. I just ignore moral posturing from people in general.

 

[Zooberwerx]

Are we talking low-class or sell-outs? I don't even notice the tunes anymore.

Riis
"...like a rock"

 

[S-Bigbottom]

It's all good.

 

[RVRSCO]

I have to disagree. If I wrote a song that was popular enough to sustain me financially for the rest of my life every time it’s played or in a commercial, I’d be fine with that. Means I wrote something that mattered and made an impact. Yeah, it’s in a cheesy commercial, but I still got bills to pay.

 

[brianrost]

Sometimes it goes the other way around.

Paul Williams wrote and sang on “We’ve Only Just Begun” for a bank’s TV commercial.

He ended up with even more money when the Carpenters decided to record it, took it to #1 on Billboard’s Top 40 where it stayed for 7 weeks. He’s probably still getting royalty checks every time another Carpenters compilation gets released.

 

[SDC1-ClickClack]

i was working at a coffee house twenty some-odd years ago and Pat MacDonald from Timbuk 3 came in an did a couple of sets (just him on an acoustic). I'd heard he'd turned down like a million dollar offer to lisence "The Future's so Bright" to like Microsoft or something. In between sets I asked him about it. And he just chucked and said "I'd do it again too." As far as I can tell, he stuck to his guns on that.

Ooh, you were SO close.

 

[turf3]

If you’re a musician and don’t want think about money corrupting your allegedly pure soul, then you should just sit in your garage and play music and don’t sell records or tour.

Or you can just focus on free jazz, Dixieland, and traditional bluegrass.

 

[SDC1-ClickClack]

I have to disagree. If I wrote a song that was popular enough to sustain me financially for the rest of my life every time it’s played or in a commercial, I’d be fine with that. Means I wrote something that mattered and made an impact. Yeah, it’s in a cheesy commercial, but I still got bills to pay.

The legendary actor Michael Caine was very talented, but he also knew that a career as an actor could mean working intermittently with long dry spells (i.e., no income), so he adopted a practical view and said 'Yes' to most projects. In 1987, he was one of the actors who starred in "Jaws: The Revenge," a film that was critically panned, a commercial flop, and widely regarded as merely a lame, cheesy attempt to cash in on the earlier box office success of its predecessors. When he was asked about having appeared in that film, Caine reportedly said: "I have never seen the movie.... but I have seen the house it paid for, and it’s fabulous."

 

[JimmyM]

Or you can just focus on free jazz, Dixieland, and traditional bluegrass.

I’ve made money playing both Dixieland and trad bluegrass on upright, and especially with the bluegrass band. That bluegrass band used to get top dollar because they would play songs like Rocky Top and Mountain Dew, which modern bluegrass bands wouldn’t touch because they wanted to be cool. And I was a fill in sometimes and I still made good money.

Which proves once again that there’s good money in music that musicians hate.

 

[Michedelic]

Just saw a wallmart commercial which used The Who's, "Who Are You". in a commercial.

Who Are You was used for Nissan in 1999. And Shlitz beer in 1982.
Won't Get Fooled Again was used in Gateway commercials.
Magic Bus was used in Dell commercials.







Back then they got approximately $500,000 for each song placement.

Remember when 'The Who Sell Out' was an ironic take?

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Don’t forget all the CSI shows.

 

[Michedelic]

...in the case of The Who, they made their millions but spent them about as quickly, on street drugs and other indulgences. The Rolling Stones, at least Mick and Keith, might've been living even larger but they were making considerably more money, and probably more to the point Mick's college studies were in economics rather than art and he's long been committed to running the band like a proper business rather than a hang with his buddies that somehow provides them with food and shelter.

As far as both bands are concerned, they are businesses with employees and annual revenue expectations, and since royalties from record sales have tanked the businesses have to make their money elsewise and that means licensing and touring. Roger, Pete, Mick and Keith are probably not *that* enthusiastic about doing more concerts since they're all in their eighties but it's either that or dissolve their businesses and put quite a few people out of work aside from themselves.

Exactly which street drugs were they on, especially when they made their millions? What was Roger on in particular? When was it that they made their millions, anyway?

 

[JimmyM]

Exactly which street drugs were they on, especially when they made their millions? What was Roger on in particular? When was it that they made their millions, anyway?

Are you not familiar with their history? Pete did heroin and coke, John at the very least was a big coke user and died from heart failure brought on by it, and Keith did pretty much everything. And there was also plenty of alcohol. Roger says he didn’t do much and claims never to have done coke, and has often said how he worked with three addicts.

 

[MrAB4003]

The legendary actor Michael Caine was very talented, but he also knew that a career as an actor could mean working intermittently with long dry spells (i.e., no income), so he adopted a practical view and said 'Yes' to most projects. In 1987, he was one of the actors who starred in "Jaws: The Revenge," a film that was critically panned, a commercial flop, and widely regarded as merely a lame, cheesy attempt to cash in on the earlier box office success of its predecessors. When he was asked about having appeared in that film, Caine reportedly said: "I have never seen the movie.... but I have seen the house it paid for, and it’s fabulous."

I'm sure this one helped him out immensely in the 2000s. As a younger millennial, this is the way I re(gold)member him:

 

[klejst]

If the check is big enough, there is always someone willing to sell out...

 

[Tim Schnautz]

I for one am shocked that pop artists would sell their work for money

/s

Well, I don’t think they’d sell it for celery

 

[Tim Schnautz]

Crissie Hynde was absolutely furious when she found the pretenders band sold the rites to the song “My City Was Gone" for Limbaugh to use. But the cash was there.
I don’t kniwff bf what the Stones thought bought Trump using their “You can’t always get what you want” for his campaign theme but I betbtheynpsidvsvwsf for it.
Then there’s Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the sky” that pays him $5000.00
For every commercial play…

 

[ardgedee]

I don’t kniwff bf what the Stones thought bought Trump using their “You can’t always get what you want” for his campaign theme but I betbtheynpsidvsvwsf for it.

You might want to slow down your typing so the spellchecker can catch up

Anyway, there's a pretty massive Wikipedia article about the times that his campaign used music without permission. Many more musicians than just Mick and Keith have been affected.

 

[FretRiff]

Crissie Hynde was absolutely furious when she found the pretenders band sold the rites to the song “My City Was Gone" for Limbaugh to use.

That story isn't true. Limbaugh used the song without license and Hynde didn't take legal action because her father Melville Hynde was a Limbaugh fan, until one day Limbaugh opened his mouth a little too wide: he stated in 1997 that he liked playing the song because Hynde was an "environmentalist, animal-rights wacko" and it was a way of taking "a liberal song and [making] fun of them at the same time."

Hynde then threatened legal action but offered a compromise: he would need to forward all royalties she was due to PETA, an organization Limbaugh despised.

Limbaugh's check to PETA was reported to be around $100,000.

 

[Tim Schnautz]

Who Are You was used for Nissan in 1999. And Shlitz beer in 1982.
Won't Get Fooled Again was used in Gateway commercials.
Magic Bus was used in Dell commercials.







Back then they got approximately $500,000 for each song placement.

Remember when 'The Who Sell Out' was an ironic take?

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Can you imagine sitting in a tub of beans like that?

 

[Tim Schnautz]

That story isn't true. Limbaugh used the song without license and Hynde didn't take legal action because her father Melville Hynde was a Limbaugh fan, until one day Limbaugh opened his mouth a little too wide: he stated in 1997 that he liked playing the song because Hynde was an "environmentalist, animal-rights wacko" and it was a way of taking "a liberal song and [making] fun of them at the same time."

Hynde then threatened legal action but offered a compromise: he would need to forward all royalties she was due to PETA, an organization Limbaugh despised.

Limbaugh's check to PETA was reported to be around $100,000.

Thank you. I stand corrected!