From Irene McC Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 11:51
From Irene McC Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 11:51
On 26 Mar 98, Kayser Soze wrote re: Re: (idm) commercial spot.: > buy a way-overpriced Golf with a new hairdo. :-))) I'm trying to picture what kind of a hairo a Golf might sport. You wanna get the Golf convertible of course, and let your own hair do the talking.. or better still, get a 'techno haircut' (Luke Slater shave). > One thing - why do only the European car companies use this type of > music in their advertising? This is an interesting point : being in South Africa, we only get to see local-content commercials and my husband, having a recording studio, is responsible for making quite a large number of them. He often gets told to do sound tracks "in the style of" but generally no original pieces are used, due to the copyright laws making it run to quite a high price. Usually they seem to have fairly up-beat techno noise tracks, or else kitschy-classic string sections - I remember fairly recently hearing a *total* Firestarter rip-off. Um, minus the vocals, obviously >:-/ I *