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Mainman
Has the famous tongue & lips trademark become more famous than the Rolling Stones themselves, and if not, then how long will it be before it does?
More to the point, just how big an influence has this logo been on the band's post-seventies career?
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Mainman
More to the point, just how big an influence has this logo been on the band's post-seventies career?
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Mainman
Has the famous tongue & lips trademark become more famous than the Rolling Stones themselves, and if not, then how long will it be before it does?
More to the point, just how big an influence has this logo been on the band's post-seventies career?
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Gazza
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
Retro-chic being what it is, its not inconceivable that the logo will even outlive the band's music.
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Mainman
Has the famous tongue & lips trademark become more famous than the Rolling Stones themselves, and if not, then how long will it be before it does?
More to the point, just how big an influence has this logo been on the band's post-seventies career?
Huge, as they're more of a brand name than a band these days - and the degree of priority given to the marketing of merchandise is very high. Its a 365-day a year thing - which the music isnt.
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
Retro-chic being what it is, its not inconceivable that the logo will even outlive the band's music.
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Stoneage
Sorry about my little knowledge in the word of English: But what does scude mean?
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Mainman
Has the famous tongue & lips trademark become more famous than the Rolling Stones themselves, and if not, then how long will it be before it does?
More to the point, just how big an influence has this logo been on the band's post-seventies career?
Huge, as they're more of a brand name than a band these days - and the degree of priority given to the marketing of merchandise is very high. Its a 365-day a year thing - which the music isnt.
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
Retro-chic being what it is, its not inconceivable that the logo will even outlive the band's music.
Okay, I think I now understand the OP's second question, which should have been worded "To what extent have the Stones financially benefited from having such a cool logo?" The answer is that having such a cool logo certainly hasn't done them any harm.
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Mainman
Has the famous tongue & lips trademark become more famous than the Rolling Stones themselves, and if not, then how long will it be before it does?
More to the point, just how big an influence has this logo been on the band's post-seventies career?
Huge, as they're more of a brand name than a band these days - and the degree of priority given to the marketing of merchandise is very high. Its a 365-day a year thing - which the music isnt.
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
Retro-chic being what it is, its not inconceivable that the logo will even outlive the band's music.
Okay, I think I now understand the OP's second question, which should have been worded "To what extent have the Stones financially benefited from having such a cool logo?" The answer is that having such a cool logo certainly hasn't done them any harm.
No, that's NOT what I meant!
The point of the question was to ascertain whether the unforseen success of their branding had influenced them to the point where business would take an increasingly higher priority over their musical output/performances; a point which Gazza very succinctly and eloquently alluded to in his earlier response.
They have indeed become a brand - a very successful one - though incredibly, with the addition of a logo that can exist independently outside of their increasingly marginalised music, irrespective of what it is supposed to be representing.
Alas, it would seem that Pete Townshend's decription of the Stones as "a tee-shirt-selling machine" back in early 1982 was merely the tip of a mammoth-sized ice-berg.
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Gazza
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
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Gazza
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
What kids are these? I don't seem to see too many of them. Sometimes I'll see a young celebrity wearing the logo, and it makes them look hopelessly uncool, mainly because they're unaware they're wearing something that stopped being cool 30 years ago. Once in a while someone does come up with a cool variation on it, though. I saw a purple one on a tie-dyed t-shirt during the B2B tour that I liked a lot.
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Stoneage
Sorry about my little knowledge in the word of English: But what does scude mean?
"Proper" English would be: John Pasche got SCREWED by Mick....
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Gazza
As said above, the logo gets worn by kids who could barely name you more than one band member or a couple of songs. They certainly arent the sort of people the band are trying to attract to their concerts as theyve outpriced them.
What kids are these? I don't seem to see too many of them. Sometimes I'll see a young celebrity wearing the logo, and it makes them look hopelessly uncool, mainly because they're unaware they're wearing something that stopped being cool 30 years ago. Once in a while someone does come up with a cool variation on it, though. I saw a purple one on a tie-dyed t-shirt during the B2B tour that I liked a lot.
These kids wearing the tongue label are eveywhere. Most of the time there is no reference to the Stones. There doesn't have to be.
Its a badge...of sorts.