Fugazi and the NFL?

Once upon a time, I might have been somewhat upset by something like this, but "Waiting Room" is pushing twenty years old at this point, so it's practically classic rock by now. And the mainstream's co-opting of everything once punk or indie or underground is such a given these days that it barely registers anymore.

In any case, I'm sure they didn't get Fugazi's permission and wouldn't have gotten it if they had tried.

Hell, I remember hearing that Red Hot Chili Peppers used to cover "Waiting Room" live. So nothing is sacred.

I have also noticed, beside the fact that more and more commercials a hiring famous actor look-alikes for their spots, they have also started meticulously aping songs with a vengeance - there is one spot in particular that mimics the calculator sounds of a TALKING HEADS "remain in light" song.

So while I do not question your veracity, it is just entirely possible that the music you heard was designed to sound hauntingly familiar - to the punks watching the NFL.

There was the whole episode where Nike ripped off the Minor Threat graphic without permission too. These giant corporations do what they want. If they get caught they figure they'll pay out some settlement that's probably less than they would have paid anyways (assuming that small businesses or artists like Dischord would even agree to sell such rights, which they wouldn't). Stuff like thats pretty irritating.
But the flip side is, small business and individuals have been appropriating and mocking these same corporations with mock-up graphics and logos for the last couple decades so...

I remember this, i think the clip of music is actually a few seconds short of "technically" being recognizable enough for the law to take effect.

I may be talking out of my ass though, I heard that about a year ago.

It was just a small loop of the bass abd drums part before Ian starts singing, so I figured it fell under the "fair use" category. Still weird to hear, though.

The incidental music sounds at times like the Theme from Patton and various trumpet blasts of Wagner.

yeah there's probably one of two things going on here: that fair use could likely have been the NFL's plannd defense in case Fugazi sued over copyright infringement, or, more frustratingly, that the NFL (like the rest of us) watched the Nike shit go down and are now totally aware that Fugazi won't sue over copyright infringement anyway, so they took the chance.

it is my secret dream that next time, fugazi, or dischord, or minor threat will sue the shit out of whatever corporation steals their stuff, and win. i mean, if tom forsythe can win when mattel sued him, christ, the tables are turning.

I've wondered how they got that clip, if they paid for it, etc. Fair use sounds like the method, because the clips are so short.

There is someone working at NFL picking "edgy" music for intros like this. For half time they've got Brooks & Dunn or whoever the dumbass performer is, but for the lead-ins I've heard the following bands over the last few years (and plenty of others I've forgotten):

Kasabian
Franz Ferdinand
Bad Brains
Gorillaz
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Fugazi
old Metallica