Anyone else hear River Cross on the Verizon Superbowl commercial? [Video]

Spiritual_Chaos

JW269453 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

JW269453 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

kotton_crown said:

 Verizon had to pay 10 million for that ad time and now set to contribute $3500 to Vitalogy Foundation. My local firehouse has bigger fundraisers than that.

Who got the most - Pearl Jam for the selling out and having the song on an ad, or Harrison Ford for recording the VO from his bed?

To each their own, but I'm surprised by this reaction considering KISS will literally do ANYTHING for a buck. One of the few SB commercials I saw that had a good message and people of course find a way to complain. PJ then sends out a charitable tweet instead of making it about themselves, but the amount isn't enough. Maybe we should all buy some KISS Hello Kitty toilet paper with our KISS Visa cards to wipe up the tears, you know because they would never stoop this low. Rant over, one day closer to the 2020 tour and from the sound of things some great new music!

I have a hard time seeing what KISS has to do with this?

You tend to find a way to incorporate what I assume as your love for KISS in every other comment you make. I have a hard time with blatant hypocrisy, the definition of selling out is KISS.

Lol. Talk about drawing weird and completely moot connections. Okey. 

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mcgruff10

I absolutely love the pump organ. Very into the wildish.  I am genuinely excited for this album and tour.  

PJNB

mcgruff10 said:

I absolutely love the pump organ. Very into the wildish.  I am genuinely excited for this album and tour.  

This song sounds like it is going to be phenomenal and a great closer to a spectacular album.

Spiritual_Chaos

mcgruff10 said:

I absolutely love the pump organ. Very into the wildish.  I am genuinely excited for this album and tour.  

Very (to me):

https://youtu.be/t7hTATM4i_8

AKRounder85

I have no problem with how the band allows their art to be used. Just as a previous poster mentioned about Kiss, or the Black Keys for that matter. Its theirs, if they want it in a commercial, so be it. I'm not gunna hold them to the standards they had for themselves in 1995 anymore.

JM73055

This band. 

Father Hubbard

At least one other time they partnered with Verizon.  I remember downloading bootleg snippets to my Verizon flip phone.  Did anyone get one of these gift bags in 2008?
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/vzw/2008/06/pr2008-06-11

iOnlyownMymind

Reminds me a lot of Imagine. 

Vedd Hedd

Father Hubbard said:

At least one other time they partnered with Verizon.  I remember downloading bootleg snippets to my Verizon flip phone.  Did anyone get one of these gift bags in 2008?
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/vzw/2008/06/pr2008-06-11

Wow. I had completely forgotten about that. Remember when AT&T censored their lolla performance? I wonder if this was the result. 

pdalowsky

PJNB said:

mcgruff10 said:

I absolutely love the pump organ. Very into the wildish.  I am genuinely excited for this album and tour.  

This song sounds like it is going to be phenomenal and a great closer to a spectacular album.

Absolutely with you both, super excited about it. Wasnt wild about DOTC, but its grown on me - but this one sounds brilliant right off the bat from that snippet

Spiritual_Chaos

Interesting to see that parts of the fanbase now have moved the goalposts all the way over to KISS to defend choices being made.

igotid88

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Interesting to see that parts of the fanbase now have moved the goalposts all the way over to KISS to defend choices being made.

You're taking it too far with the they sold out. Ed gave Stand Up 2 Cancer "Rise." They're getting money for their foundation with this ad. Even the Target ad was to promote Backspacer. They made a deal with Target because they needed a large retailer. Rather Target than Wal-Mart.

Pap

Reminded me of Indifference. What a great closer! :bow:

Spiritual_Chaos

igotid88 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Interesting to see that parts of the fanbase now have moved the goalposts all the way over to KISS to defend choices being made.

You're taking it too far with the they sold out. Ed gave Stand Up 2 Cancer "Rise." They're getting money for their foundation with this ad. Even the Target ad was to promote Backspacer. They made a deal with Target because they needed a large retailer. Rather Target than Wal-Mart.

Stand Up To Cancer was conceived of in autumn 2007, by a group of women who had been affected by cancer and believe that by merging the recourse of the media and entertainment industries into a single operation they would be able to fight against this disease in a more profound way.

=/=

Verizon Communications Inc. (listen (help·info)) (/vəˈraɪzən/ və-RY-zən) is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

erocshifty

I did my "jorb" and retweeted the ad. I wasn't particularly surprised when I heard this song in the commercial. I got more of a pleasant feeling.  

HesCalledDyer

AKRounder85 said:

I have no problem with how the band allows their art to be used. Just as a previous poster mentioned about Kiss, or the Black Keys for that matter. Its theirs, if they want it in a commercial, so be it. I'm not gunna hold them to the standards they had for themselves in 1995 anymore.

This post is great, especially the bold part.  It's time to move on from the 90's, folks.

kotton_crown

Didn’t know criticizing companies was only for the 90s.

HesCalledDyer

kotton_crown said:

Didn’t know criticizing companies was only for the 90s.

Not what I said. Not what AKRounder said.