MP3.com: Chilis drummer slams U2, Peas

8 July 2006

In Scotland for the T in the Park festival, Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith lashes out at U2 and Black Eyed Peas for licensing their music to iPod commercials. Smith, 44, admitted that the decline of traditional radio stations has forced bands to consider new ways to promote their music, but that commercials shouldn't be the way to do it.

"A lot of rock radio stations are gone so you have to find new avenues to get your music out there," he said. "You have to do phone commercials or something, but there have to be other ways to get your music out to people. There has to be a way to do it. A little ring tone thing is fine--it's like playing at half time at a car racing show.

"I think young people, not old guys like myself, think it's normal now to have Led Zeppelin on jeans commercials," he continued. "Oh, no! That's not normal to me."

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