A little myopic there aren't you Bill?... The Burger & Beverage companies
have been doing this long before they Japanese car companies got into the
act. They are plenty of other "American" enterprises who are just a re
quick to "polute" the airwaves. If you really want to blame somebody, how
about Walt Disney? Can you really say you can hear The Nutcracker Suite
with visualizing all the cartoon images from Fantasia?
Gerard
At 8:56 AM +0000 8/5/00, Bill & Cindy wrote:
>> Am I the only one disturbed by the sound of the greatest American
>blues
>> guitar man ever playing "Voodo Chile" for a nissan commercial?
>> Jim K. (livin' my life by the drop)
>
>
>...no Jim...you are not alone. It has always bothered me the way
>various Japanese auto manufacturers have appropriated classic American
>and British music to lend an air of Anglo/American essence to their
>advertisements. The latest being "Vodoo Chile" and "Babba O'Reilly"!
>
>Pisses me off! They already have most of our money...now they want our
>culture too!!!
>
>Bill
>>
>>
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