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This whole nanny state thing has GOT to go.  Just heard on the news that a a California state assemblyman (Democrat, of course  WinkLOL) wants to install a major tax on alcohol---one that would break down to about 30 cents per can of beer---so that the government can cure people's addictions.

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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Originally posted by violetlightning violetlightning wrote:



*Did you know he wrote Crown of Creation when the Humphrey campaign asked JA to write a song for them? "Soon you'll obtain the stability you strive for in the only way that it's granted - in a place among the fossils of our time . . ."
Needless to say the Humphrey campaign decided not to use it. LOL
 
I didn't know that.  Funny, though!  LOL
 
Have you ever heard the song the Airplane did for a Levi's commercial?  If not, here 'tis:
 
 
 
 


Yeah, they kind of got in trouble for that because it was right around the time that workers in a Levi's factory somewhere were protesting their treatment. The band didn't know about that when they recorded it, and Paul wanted to do the commercials because a) they gave them ridiculous amounts of freedom (as I'm sure you can tell from the resulting ads. . .) and b) he wasn't allowed to wear jeans in school when he was growing up, so to him they were kind of a symbol of rebellion. (He went to really strict schools. His elementary school was a Catholic Military boarding school. Really. "Nuns and Guns. As a result, I now fear nothing.") I read in some book of essays about the sixties how the person who had written that particular essay thought it characterized hippie hypocrisy or something, but I really don't think they knew - and who would think to demand a tour of all their factories to check on conditions there before doing a couple of :30 spots? Well, maybe today you would, but probably not so much then.Wink
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At the time the commercial came out, I was about 11, and wouldn't have cared about "hippie hypocrisy".  Probably wouldn't have cared later, either.  I've never begrudged struggling musicians their money (never even bothered me, in theory, when musicians "sold out" their music to be used in commercials.  I just dislike hearing the songs in those commercials over and over).
 
In looking up the JA Levi's ad, I came across this page of a radio station website.  Apparently, once a year, part of their playlist includes old rock music radio commercials.  Here's a list of what they played one day, late 2005 (Pete Townsend for the US Air Force???) :
 

Dick Lurie Guitar Lessons (1959)
Sav-On Drugstores
(tape recorder)
"7-UP Is All Action!"
(1964)
Youth Opportunity PSA with Minnesota Twin Earl Batty
(ca. 1965)
WABC Greatest Hits
(1964)
Promo, Beatles concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
"Rinse Clean Surf" detergent with Beatles tie-in
(1964)
Golden Earring for Coca Cola
Sears spot featuring the Seekers

The Jefferson Airplane for Levis (Grace Slick, "White Levis")
"I Am A Groupie" trailer
Kip Sun Soak ("Please Don't Touch My Body")
"Hells Angels On Wheels" trailer
The Yardbirds for Great Shakes
Promo: The Byrds/Albert King/AB Skye at the Rose Auditorium, Pasadena, CA
1970 Pontiac GTO, "The Humbler"
"Death Race 2000" trailer

Some Chevy spot with "A Mighty Wind" folk overtones
unnamed track, "Chevrolet Sings For Safe Driving"
(H.S. driver ed LP?)
"Gotta Move Those Chevys" spot
Paul Revere & The Raiders -- Corvair Baby
(promo song for Chevrolet; flip of "SS 396")
The Exotics -- Bill McKay Chevrolet spot
The Four Wheels (aka The Boys Next Door) for Casite Motor Hone
y

"Psych-Out!" trailer
The Jefferson Airplane for Levis
(Spencer Dryden, "Twig City")
Promo for the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol show at the Trip
"The Big Beat/Summer Love" twin bill trailer
Leslie Gore for Coca Cola
Quicksilver -- Chevy Camaro spot
('67 or '68)
The Chiffons for H.I.S. slacks
Heart Association spot, featuring the McCoys
"Ghost In The Invisible Bikini" trailer
The Buckinghams for the Rowe AMI stereo jukebox
The Hondells for Honda
(1966)

"The Young Seducers" trailer
Paraphernalia Clothes "Does It Make You Feel Sexy?"
"It's A Good Day To Buy A New Car; It's A Groovy Day"
1966 Dodge Rebellion
Pete Townsend of The Who for the U.S. Air Force
The Stone Ponies w/Linda Rondstat for Pepsi
Promo, The Doors and the Staple Singers, in concert
The American Breed for Coca Cola
TheAmerican Iron and Steel Institute, "All Good Things Come In Steel Cans"

Radio Free Europe PSA featuring Jack Webb
Tennessee Ernie Ford for the U.S. Army Combat Arms
(1963)
1972 "Get Out The Vote" PSA featuring Jim Dandy of Black Oak Arkansas
"What's A Hallucinogen" PSA
The Bell System ( "My Name Is Michael; My Name Is Jill")

The Jefferson Airplane for Levi's
(Jack Cassady, "I Am A Duck")
Tommy James & The Shondells -- "Travelin' " LP promo
Concert promo for "The New Cream" (Blind Faith), WFIL radio
Stay In School PSA by Sonny & Cher
(Why? "Because it's cool!")

1972 "Get Out The Vote" PSA featuring Terry Talbot of Mason Proffit
Doug Brown & The Omens -- "Youth And Experience"
(campaign reelection song for Michigan Sen. Bob Griffith)
"Wild In The Streets" trailer
Promo for "The Monkees Present" LP, on Colgems
"The In Sound"
(syndicated interview show) featuring the Monkees
The Hondells "Pepsi Generation"

The Jefferson Airplane for Levi's (Marty Balin, "Stretch Levis")
Kim Fowley's "Outrageous" LP promo
Frank Zappa for Remington Electric Razor
(bed) The Exotics for Mitchell's Department Store
(bed) The Springfield Rifle for Nordstroms' Department Store

http://www.radiorumpusroom.com/pages/121605_playlist.html

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Another thing I found, Violet.  A page of White Rabbit cover videos, including Patti Smith's!  Back up one page, and there's all sorts of Airplane stuff.
 
 
 
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Went kind of off-topic here, didn't we?
 
 
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Getting back ON topic, there is an ad running in New York that has this woman (Marie from the Bronx) who, due to her smoking, hAd something like 20 amputations over a course of 12 years. She holds up her hands and her finger tips are all lopped off and it looks like she may be missing a foot and some toes.
 
I suppose this is when the average smoker lets out a horrified GASP and flushes their butts down the toilet.
 
I've known smokers - lots of them - and I've never heard of anyone needing their digits amputated. Clearly, this isn't the norm and it pissses me off that they use these scare tactics. They just don't seem to work.
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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Went kind of off-topic here, didn't we?
 
 


We should just start our own thread: Thor and Violet Go Wildly Off-Topic!Tongue

Of course, if we did do that it wouldn't be off topic really . . .
Thor & Violet's Thread of Jefferson Family Miscellany!

I've heard Grace's White Levi's and Spencer's Twig City - but I don't know that I've heard Jack's I'm a Duck, or Marty's Stretch Levi's. They're not on that recording.
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Originally posted by Madawee Madawee wrote:

Getting back ON topic, there is an ad running in New York that has this woman (Marie from the Bronx) who, due to her smoking, hAd something like 20 amputations over a course of 12 years. She holds up her hands and her finger tips are all lopped off and it looks like she may be missing a foot and some toes.
 
I suppose this is when the average smoker lets out a horrified GASP and flushes their butts down the toilet.
 
I've known smokers - lots of them - and I've never heard of anyone needing their digits amputated. Clearly, this isn't the norm and it pissses me off that they use these scare tactics. They just don't seem to work.


OKay, yeah, that seems kind of ridiculous. The threat should at least make some kind of sense. Just how in the hell do you wind up needing to have things amputated because of smoking?
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