Gallagher lambasts White Stripes over Coca-Cola ad
by Daniel Farey-Jones Brand Republic 8 Dec 2005
LONDON - Noel Gallagher has berated White Stripes' frontman Jack White for writing a song for a Coke ad, saying it was as bad as doing an ad for McDonald's.
White revealed last month that he accepted Coca-Cola's invitation to write a song "along one theme of love in a worldwide form" for an ad, and Noel is not impressed.
The Oasis guitarist told the NME: "Jack White has just written a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts, I don't believe in adverts. He's meant to be the posterboy for the alternative way of thinking.
"Coca-Cola man. ****ing hell. And OK, you want to spread your message of peace and love, but do us all a ****ing favour. I'm just not having it. It's like doing a ****ing gig for McDonald's."
Hypocritical Oasis Get $1m Advert Deal Weeks after slamming Jack White's Coke song...
by Chris Taylor on 2/11/2006
Oasis have signed a one million dollar advertising deal weeks after slamming Jack White for working with Coca-Cola.
The rockers are reportedly receiving the princely sum for allowing telecommunications company AT&T use their track All Around The World on a new TV advert.
But Oasis have been accused of gross hypocrisy after outspoken guitarist Noel Gallagher ripped into White Stripes star Jack White for writing a song for a Coca-Cola commerical.
He said, Jack White has just done a song for Coca Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club.
"He's supposed to be the porter boy for the alternative way of thinking. I'm not having that, that's wrong.
"Particularly Coca Cola, it is like doing a gig for McDonalds."
Motown Marvel said:god i love this:
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jaguarr said:I hate teh Gallagher brothers. They're a couple of arses. Sounds like someone's jealous of Jack White's popularity. Oasis hasn't been relevant in years, anyway.
jagg
KingOfDreams said:Wait, so Jack White did a song for Coco-Cola? That's...disappointing.
fell in love with my cokeMotown Marvel said:coca-cola came to him wanting to use a white stripes song for a commercial, but theres no way in hell jack would ever do something like that. but, jack is a huge coca cola fan, its his favorite drink, and he's always considered it to be the greatest drink ever made (this has been something obvious way before this coke deal thingy). so he agreed to write a jingle for them. he's just writing it, not performing it. last i heard, i think he wrote it, but for some reason or another, plans for it got shelved or something like that.
I'm a little leary about this. I'm a big Alice fan, but this might turn out like the new Queen or that 20th Century Doors thing.Slipknot said:I didn't feel like starting a new thread on this... and wasn't sure where to post it... so here...
It's Official: ALICE IN CHAINS Is Back! - Feb. 21, 2006
ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell's official web site administrator, who goes by the name of "ceojc", has confirmed that the band will be reuniting for an appearance at the Nova Rock festival in Austria in mid-June (web site), with "a lot more" concert dates yet to be announced.
"I hate to keep on saying this, but as most of you have heard, ALICE will be performing at Nova Rock in Austria," "ceojc" writes on Cantrell's official message board. "This is true. ALICE is back.
"Europe is a long way to go for just one show, so I feel that we are going to have a lot more to do.
"Because this is Europe and a big festival, don't count on any special ALICE tickets but you never know what the future brings.
"Let me explain why things went down the way they went down. It was not the way we wanted it to happen. The festival promoter secured a bunch of really big bands like METALLICA, GUNS N' ROSES and ALICE. The promoter decided to have a big press conference on Monday [Feb. 20]. We had not finished securing the 'business side' of the show by the time Monday rolled around. Because Monday was President's Day, our office was closed and we could not make a decission regarding releasing the info to you guys. Our European agent, because our office was closed, made an executive decision to release the show info. We fully support his choice but could not say anything untill we spoke to him to get the full stroy and due to the time difference and travel we could not make the announcement untill just now.
"Guys, please remember that nothing is official unless it comes from our office. We like to surprise you but sometimes that is not always possible.
"Jerry, Mike [Inez, bass], Sean [Kinney, drums] and the managment team are doing our best to keep you guys informed. You mean a lot to the guys and they want you to know that."
ALICE IN CHAINS frontman Layne Staley died on April 5, 2002 from a mixture of heroin and cocaine. Staley was found dead two weeks later, surrounded by intravenous drug paraphernalia in his Seattle apartment. The death certificate reads Staley's death resulted from "an acute intoxication due to the combined effects of opiate (heroin) and cocaine." The death was classified as "accidental."
As previously reported, COMES WITH THE FALL vocalist/guitarist and member of Jerry Cantrell's touring band William DuVall has been tapped to sing lead vocals with ALICE IN CHAINS at the taping of an episode of VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live!", a tribute to HEART that will take place March 10 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. It is not presently clear if DuVall will be joining the group on any of the other dates that are currently being scheduled.
KingOfDreams said:Hank Williams III...one of the last bastions for true outlaw country.
Sarge 2.0 said:I'm a little leary about this. I'm a big Alice fan, but this might turn out like the new Queen or that 20th Century Doors thing.
Themanofbat said:He opened up for the Misfits 5 or 7 years ago when they were touring these parts.
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