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what the hell is with the camel crap? why is the band letting camel ciggerettes show lame videos before the shows? i know probably big $$… but shit in the u.s. hawking cigs these days is a good way to get on the hitlist of one of those pshycho college groups like they have on mtv.. you know the ones that throw dog feces on smokers at bustops and shit. i smoke camels. and shit i wouldnt mind a free carton. but hell i dont know if it is a good move for the band.. especailly in the u.s. where you cant even smoke in the bars anymore at least in washington…
Well, if you follow the smoking trail there’s… the Green Mind album cover; J’s wife, Luisa smoking, on the back sleeve of Free So Free. I may have mentioned that I needed a cigarette after J.’s solo on Pick Me Up on night 2 at the Troubadour.
Yeah, I don’t like it much either. But talking with Lou earlier this year he said those shows paid bank. If I was in his postion I’d probably do it too. I guess as long as Camel keeps throwing money at them they’ll stay on tour and ultimately together. So thats a good thing.
"Virvel " wrote:what? camel? what?This leg of the tour is sponsored by Camel Cigarettes. One of the legs earlier in the year (I believe with the Black Keys) was sponsored by Camel Cigarettes too.
It’s kind of lame corporate America is attaching itself to Indie royalty, but like I sad before I’d probably take the money too.
"crazycloud " wrote:why is the band letting camel ciggerettes show lame videos before the shows?what are the videos? are they just like smoke camels?
L. T. Smash: It’s a three-pronged attack. Sub-liminal, liminal and super-liminal.
Lisa: Superliminal?
L. T. Smash: I’ll show you. *Leans out of window* Hey, you! Join the Navy!
Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I’m in!why would they do that in seattle though where you cant even smoke in the club?? were they handing out cool camel joe enema bags?
Yeah kind of funny. If anyone wants to smoke they have to be 25′ from an entrance, and you can’t smoke inside public places. Lame deal for Camel, the tour probably included a show in Seattle before they signed on to sponsor it. Still there are plenty of people in this market who smoke. So the marketing dollars won’t totally be wasted.
Many years ago (10?) Juan heard an article on NPR that talked about tobacco free mutual funds. We went in to see the fellow that does our transactions and we asked about moving our mutual funds to tobacco free and he said "What for"…"That’s stupid"…………."your in this to make money right?" We didn’t move them…. The World Health Organization estimates 3 million deaths due to tobacco consumption per year. I still think that there is practically no way to ethically profit from others tobacco consumption/addiction, however, if you have money in any of the larger mutual funds….you are doing just that.
My two cents.
You know I was thinking about it, and I guess I don’t really care that Camel is involved w/ Dinosaur. Just as long as I don’t see J, Lou, or Murph sporting a Camel shirt or worse that jacket you get after smoking a million cartons. Because that would be lame.
"tonas " wrote:You know I was thinking about it, and I guess I don’t really care that Camel is involved w/ Dinosaur. Just as long as I don’t see J, Lou, or Murph sporting a Camel shirt or worse that jacket you get after smoking a million cartons. Because that would be lame.yeah it would
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