{"id":118,"date":"2005-10-17T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T04:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-09-16T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:22:45","slug":"no-doors-songs-in-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/no-doors-songs-in-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"No Doors Songs in Commercials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it you never hear any of those classic songs by The Doors in TV commercials? The drummer of the group, John Densmore, simply won&#8217;t allow it.<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac offered $15 million for &#8220;Break on Through&#8221; for a spot about one of its SUVs.  Nope. Apple offered  $4 million. No way.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly all the remaining band members must agree. Whatever the voting rules, Densmore always votes thumbs down. The rest of the surviving Doors are not very happy about Densmore&#8217;s decisions.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/adtunes.com\/archives\/2005\/10\/07\/cant_break_on_through.html\">AdTunes<\/a>,  once, in the 1970&#8217;s, Densmore allowed &#8220;Riders on the Storm&#8221; to be used in a Pirelli tire spot in the UK.  He gave all the proceeds to charity. He says he felt terrible and that &#8220;Jim&#8217;s [i.e., Jim Morrison&#8217;s] ghost was in my ear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a scarey image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it you never hear any of those classic songs by The Doors in TV commercials? The drummer of the group, John Densmore, simply won&#8217;t allow it. Cadillac offered $15 million for &#8220;Break on Through&#8221; for a spot about one of its SUVs. Nope. Apple offered $4 million. No way. Possibly all the remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}