Posted July 9, 200619 yr Chilis drummer slams U2, Peas In Scotland for the T in the Park festival, Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith lashes out at U2 and Black Eyed Peas for licensing their music to iPod commercials. You won't be seeing a Chili Peppers iPod. As long as their drummer has a say in the matter, you won't be seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers starring in the next iPod commercial. In Scotland this weekend for the T in the Park festival, drummer Chad Smith told the Glasgow Daily Record that bands like U2 are treading in dangerous waters by licensing their music for things like iPod commercials. He also labeled the Black Eyed Peas "a bunch of idiots" for doing the same. U2 licensed the song "Vertigo" for an iPod commercial last year and participated in a cobranding effort to create a U2-branded iPod, while the Peas licensed "Hey Mama" for an iPod ad. Smith said that it's a compromise artists should never make. "I'm fine with getting our music out to people but I don't want to be on a TV commercial with some guy bowling and then music comes out of his phone," Smith told the paper. "There's no artistic credibility. I'd feel like a jerk if we did that. But they're all lining up to do it." "I think Black Eyed Peas look like a bunch of idiots," he continued. "It's dangerous. The U2 song on the iPod when it came out was weird and it was longer and it had more parts. It's dangerous to tie yourself in with a product and also the visuals that go along with it." Smith, 44, admitted that the decline of traditional radio stations has forced bands to consider new ways to promote their music, but that commercials shouldn't be the way to do it. "A lot of rock radio stations are gone so you have to find new avenues to get your music out there," he said. "You have to do phone commercials or something, but there have to be other ways to get your music out to people. There has to be a way to do it. A little ring tone thing is fine--it's like playing at half time at a car racing show. "I think young people, not old guys like myself, think it's normal now to have Led Zeppelin on jeans commercials," he continued. "Oh, no! That's not normal to me." The Chili Peppers continue to promote their 28-song double album, Stadium Arcadium, with a 27-date North American tour set to kick off August 11. Edited July 9, 200619 yr by Scotty.
July 9, 200619 yr I don't really see the problem with it myself :unsure: I don't even get where he is coming from at all. I guess it's just Chad having one of his crazy moments again.
July 9, 200619 yr Author Yeah i don't see the problem either, Oasis acted like that for years and slagged off everyone who did it, yet only a few months ago thery let some American company use "All around the world" for an add :rolleyes:
