Ya know who is missing? The Doors. "Light My Fire" is *made* to sell something.
I gather JM did something odd in the early days of the band, and set things up so that all four were equal owners of the publishing rights. The ability to use The Doors' music in commercial contexts, therefore, can be vetoed by a single band member, and one of them has taken a hard line stance. Can't remember which one, but I do remember reading his defense of his position. He effectively said that too many people had come up to him out of the blue and said "I'll never forget [Song X] because it was playing when I [first made love]/[first stepped off the plane in Vietnam]/etc." I think his view was that by commercializing the songs, it cheapens in some way the associations fans had with the music.
Interesting viewpoint.
I gather JM did something odd in the early days of the band, and set things up so that all four were equal owners of the publishing rights. The ability to use The Doors' music in commercial contexts, therefore, can be vetoed by a single band member, and one of them has taken a hard line stance. Can't remember which one, but I do remember reading his defense of his position. He effectively said that too many people had come up to him out of the blue and said "I'll never forget [Song X] because it was playing when I [first made love]/[first stepped off the plane in Vietnam]/etc." I think his view was that by commercializing the songs, it cheapens in some way the associations fans had with the music.
Interesting viewpoint.