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whose voice/song is heard during one of the old (we are talking 3 years ago... and not the Van Halen montage one) television ads for a rock radio station (97.9?) which features some dorky dude and his date listening snobbily to the

ol' opera cliche (a fat lady singing in a Viking outfit, lol) when one of them has a rock-n-roll vision tranform the stage into a concert for a brief moment, with a Zeppelin-esque primal scream piercing through...before reverting back to reality.

 

It's been bugging me for a while. Help me out. Pleas

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I don't even know what commercial your talking about.

(frequent running 97.9 FM television ad circa 99...and not the one where David Lee Roth is doing his wire act in the beginnin'...the other one)

 

1. Couple nighting it up at the opera.

 

2. The girlie is pseudo-transfixed while the Joe is bored; the fat lady singing in a horned helmet doesn't interest him as much as, say, baseball- no, say again, classic ROCK would...

 

3. He has an epithany whereby the fat lady starts riffing on the guitar and the Zeppelin/Rush-like screamer (from a song which I am desperate to know) rips. I don't remember if it';s followed by another one or not, but the "day-dreaming" ends abruptly (as it always does in lame commercials), with snobby opera patrons looking on the now embarassed dude* who's apparently been flipping out in the meantime.

 

 

 

*- It's safe to assume that he won't be getting none cuz she looked PISSED. ;)

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I remember the commercial you are talking about but I don't remember the song. A part of me, though, wants to say it was a song by The Who.

I doubt it; it wasn't so much a rock song as a tiny excerpt, a vocal highlight considering that the commerical only ran about 20 seconds total. Thanks regardless.

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whose voice/song is heard during one of the old (we are talking 3 years ago... and not the Van Halen montage one) television ads for a rock radio station (97.9?) which features some dorky dude and his date listening snobbily to the

ol' opera cliche (a fat lady singing in a Viking outfit, lol) when one of them has a rock-n-roll vision tranform the stage into a concert for a brief moment, with a Zeppelin-esque primal scream piercing through...before reverting back to reality.

 

It's been bugging me for a while. Help me out. Pleas

So was it Stairway to Heaven or Over the Hills or something?

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whose voice/song is heard during one of the old (we are talking 3 years ago... and not the Van Halen montage one) television ads for a rock radio station (97.9?) which features some dorky dude and his date listening snobbily to the

ol' opera cliche (a fat lady singing in a Viking outfit, lol) when one of them has a rock-n-roll vision tranform the stage into a concert for a brief moment, with a Zeppelin-esque primal scream piercing through...before reverting back to reality.

 

It's been bugging me for a while. Help me out. Pleas

So was it Stairway to Heaven or Over the Hills or something?

It was Zeppelin-like, but not in fact Zeppelin. I know because I had received a bootlegged LZ CD (some 250 songs in it not counting the artwork) and the song isn't on there. Ditto Rush. It might be the Who but the voice doesn't match.

 

 

In any case, it's either you remember EXACTLY what I am talking about (it was a funny commercial, but to be honest Rock station paid for 2 or 3 different ones that year, including a generic one that had a montage of many bands like Van Halen and Aerosmith and so on...so it might have gotten all mixed up in the mind since then) , including the name of the perfomer, or it's back to the starting point.

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No, MATMOK, it's either yet another alternative version of the ad (as I said 97.9 ha at least 2 or 3 that year) or the Who scream is just a follow-up to the ONE I am looking for. Like I said, it was more Rush than the Who. (The key word: "OPERA")

 

 

*sigh*

 

Will this mystery ever be solved?

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Rush is s***ty music..... PERIOD!

 

If it's Rush from Canada we're talking about, then they are OK. Certainly not "s***ty".

 

 

So who do you consider "not s***ty"? Eminem? Enrique Iglesias? Foo Fighters maybe? You're hilarious.

It's a matter of personal taste. Personally, I think Rush sucks. And I do have albums by the Foo Fighters and Eminem..... although they are far from my favorite artists. Enrique Iglesias sucks. I would never consider buying an album of his..... or an album by his father either.

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