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Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
If Slash gets 10 offers for commercials, he'll be in every one of them. As long as money is involved obviously. I doubt he'd do something for free. Wouldn't be surprised if someday he appeared in a baby diapers commercial.
Doesn't bother me anyway. Money is money. You never know what might happen in the future, so you might as well make as much as you can.
Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
polluxlm wrote:I wouldn't exactly call raking in cash as a PR puppet for big business playing old material flourishing. Selling out perhaps.
In fact I truly detest the path some of the members of my favorite band are taking. Izzy, and to a degree Axl, seems to be the only ones with a shred of integrity left.
Now that's a pretty dumb post. It's just wrong on so many levels.
Maybe he "Slash" should concentrate more on music.
I mean "Libertad" wasn't a masterpiece by anyones account...
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Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
Backslash wrote:I don't get this "artistic integrity" vs. "selling out" bullshit that people go on about. People go into the music business for money and fame above all else. If GNR or anyone else got into it to be artists and relay a message, we'd have never heard of them, plain and simple. In any event, they released music to appeal to the masses for fame and fortune. Instead of becoming a broke has-been, Slash has chosen to embrace his celebrity and earn money in the process. What's wrong with that?
I'd say the love for music is the triggering factor for pursuing a musical career. The other shit is of course a big draw for most, but in the end it is secondary. At least it should be (that one's for you Gene).
I accept that every artist needs to make compromises. I don't expect them to be supermen. World is what it is. The line is drawn at necessity. Do you need to make commercials? Do you need to make a fool of yourself with Bill Gates? No, I absolutely don't think so.
Bottom line, all of them are guilty of artistic compromise. But while some seem to have a somewhat conscious relationship to it, others take just about anything they get thrown.
Nowadays you have to do this sort of thing to make money, Duff said it himself in an interview when he talked about "selling out". Times are a changing and this is what some musical artists choose to do to keep up with the lost revenue.
I see nothing wrong with it, I tell ya I wouldn't be surprised to see Slash and his family the next reality show on VH1 and knowing me, I'd watch it. That may be going a bit far but selling out is a thing of the past, it has nothing to do with integrity nowadays, so people hate Ozzy because he did the first reality show about a rock family? I don't think so.
Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
nugdafied wrote:polluxlm wrote:I wouldn't exactly call raking in cash as a PR puppet for big business playing old material flourishing. Selling out perhaps.
In fact I truly detest the path some of the members of my favorite band are taking. Izzy, and to a degree Axl, seems to be the only ones with a shred of integrity left.
Now that's a pretty dumb post. It's just wrong on so many levels.
Maybe he "Slash" should concentrate more on music.
I mean "Libertad" wasn't a masterpiece by anyones account...
i thought there was about 6-7 really awesome songs on Libertad...so its a pretty great record as far as i'm concerned
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Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
While all of this talk of selling out, commercialism and integrity is going on, the Harley Davidson company crosses my mind... not sure why though.
Karma, that's very true. Plus today I just heard an advert for a video game using PC.
Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
AtariLegend wrote:nugdafied wrote:Now that's a pretty dumb post. It's just wrong on so many levels.
Maybe he "Slash" should concentrate more on music.
I mean "Libertad" wasn't a masterpiece by anyones account...
i thought there was about 6-7 really awesome songs on Libertad...so its a pretty great record as far as i'm concerned
See to me, thats what people said about "Contraband", I just heard a few days, for the first time in a while... and although I don't think it's a classic either, I think it makes "Libertad" look like such a stepdown.
Slash still done some promotional stuff around then, but it wasn't as many as he must have in the past year.
Re: How many commericals will Slash appear in for 2008?
It was cool when my wife was making me sit through Trading Spaces when Teddy Zig Zag was on. Sure enough, Slash found a way to show up. I get why people think he's a media whore - I don't agree, but I get it. At least the only attention he gets isn't for biting a security guard or being the butt of a joke on why you can't release an album after 10 years of working on it. Axl chose one path and Slash chose another. There's nothing wrong with either one.
Axl could have had all of this too if he wanted it. He doesn't and that's fine. It doesn't fit his personality for whatever reason (which I think is odd for such a great frontman). Was Steven Tyler a sell out for appearing on Two and a Half Men or for writing that brutal Don't Want to Miss a Thing song? What about the Nickelback dude for whoring himself out to Santana? What about the Goo Goo Dolls? Metallica? Ozzy? How about all the artists that started with a band but decided to go solo? Did they all do it for the integrity of the music? Why do they still release Beatles and Elvis compilations to this day? Money plays a part whether we like it or not. I say you make it while you can...if enough people are making money off of you, you may as well get your share.
Athletes are as guilty as musicians. Look at Michael Jordan. Greatest basketball player of the 90s, and he was on far more commercials than Slash. He even did that Space Jam movie. He marketed himself well and made a shitload of cash doing so. What's wrong with that?
