OFF: Jethro Tull/Thick As A Brick

[Tim]

Stephan Forstner wrote:
 > As for wrestling/crossover - well, the other night I heard Thick As A Brick
 > coming out of the TV in the other room, rushed in, and saw a car (Hyundai)
 > commercial. Thick As A Brick! Now, I'm not someone who wants artists to be
 > 'pure' and eschew commercialism or the pursuit of cash, but TAAB! Silver
 > Machine, divorced from context, actually makes sense as a car sales tool.
 > Motorhead is aggressive enough, musically and lyrically, that it fits with
 > wrestling, even if you don't particularly like the fact that Lemmy has
 > decided to associate himself with lowest-common-denominator entertainment.
 > I've heard Locomotive Breath used in a beer commercial - and there the gap
 > between the song and the purpose of the commercial begins to get noticeable,
 > but LB regularly appears on Greatest Rock'n'Roll Riffs lists, so party on -
 > but with TAAB that gap becomes a chasm! Ian & co. were (usually) way too
 > intelligent to make sweeping social pronouncements or try to pass themselves
 > off as having any kind of 'answer' - most of their songs were metaphor-heavy
 > examinations of personal experience or storytelling vignettes that might
 > illuminate a particular aspect of society without (again, usually, side 2 of
 > Aqualung being an exception) explicitly voicing righteous indignation or
 > criticism - but TAAB! I wonder what the man who wrote TAAB in the early 70's
 > would have said if told that some 30 years later it would be used to sell
 > cars on TV. He would probably have thought it a great joke and approved.
 > TAAB! Damn! I am perplexed. I know I shouldn't be but I can't help it. I
 > don't know what to thick. I mean think.

 > Stephan

Well Stephan,perhaps the message is this...
You'd have to be thick as a brick to buy a hyundai...
drink too much beer and wake up with locomotive breath!!
tim