The one I thought was the funniest was Billy Gates and the Rolling Stones
"Start Me Up" for the Win 95 intro. First the Stones put what they thought
was a huge figure on the rights, which Billy paid out of the M$ petty cash
fund. Then they cut the song off right before the refrain "Make a grown man
cry" I think they shoulda left that in.
Larry
78 Midget
----- Original Message -----
From Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith at gerardsgarage.com>
To: Bill & Cindy <fatboy@metro.net>; Spridgeteers <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Off Topic Semi-Auto Related
> 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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