“John West Red Salmon” Commercial

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Oct 062014
 

This is just plain funny!

To increase their UK market share, in November 2000 John West canned salmon started a marketing campaign revolving around this viral video in which a bear fights a fisherman for a fresh salmon. The video soon became a huge Internet hit, and by 2006 it was reported to be viewed over 300 million times, making it the sixth most viewed video online.

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As the UK’s favourite name in canned fish, we’ve made plenty of memorable and amusing TV commercials here at John West. One in particular from 14 years ago was actually voted the funniest of all time by both the advertising industry itself and members of the public (Source: Campaign Live). It features a fight over the best, fresh Salmon between a bear and a John West fisherman and it’s a laugh out loud fishy story from start to finish.

See a wild bear get wilder
Filmed in 2000 on the banks of the River Dee in the Scottish highlands, the ad begins as a mock David Attenborough style nature documentary. We see a tranquil scene of wild bears by a river, over which a typically hushed and reverent voice informs us ‘At the river mouth, the bears catch only the tastiest, most tender Salmon’. Then it all goes bear shaped, as a John West fisherman suddenly races into view and tries to grab a freshly caught Salmon from one of the wild bears. Obviously and hilariously, this makes the bear wilder than ever resulting in an all-out scrap with no holds barred.

Kicked in the growlers
At first, the surprisingly agile bear gets the best of the fisherman with a few nifty Jackie Chan style martial arts kicks, but then the man from John West distracts him by pointing upwards and shouting ‘Oh look, an Eagle’. And as the poor old bear looks skywards, the fisherman kicks him right where it hurts the most and it’s fight over. Unsurprisingly, this grizzly move leaves the bear growling in pain, as the triumphant fisherman walks off with the prized Salmon and we hear the immortal line ‘John West endure the worst to bring you the best’. All very silly and tongue in cheek, but all the funnier for it.

Enjoyed by millions – just like our Salmon
From the moment it was first shown the commercial was hugely successful and immediately won a number of ‘Best commercial of the Year’ awards. Since then, word of mouth has spread and so has the popularity of the ad, big style. By 2006 it had been viewed over 300 million times on the Internet, making it at the time the sixth most viewed video online. And there’s been no stopping it. The John West ‘bear vs. man’ ad is still being enjoyed by millions of people worldwide. As is John West canned Salmon itself. Which we must add, is well worth fighting for.

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"John West Red Salmon" Commercial

 
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P!nk – Me And Bobby McGee

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Sep 292014
 

It doesn’t get much better than this! P!nk rockin’ out “Me and Bobby McGee“.

The song was originally written by Kris Kristofferson and made famous by Janis Joplin. It was Joplin’s only number-one hit and topped the charts after her death.

Epic!

Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee”:

“The title came from [producer and Monument Records founder] Fred Foster. He called one night and said, ‘I’ve got a song title for you. It’s “Me and Bobby McKee.”’ I thought he said ‘McGee.’ Bobby McKee was the secretary of Boudleaux Bryant, who was in the same building with Fred. Then Fred says, ‘The hook is that Bobby McKee is a she. How does that grab you?’ (Laughs) I said, ‘Uh, I’ll try to write it, but I’ve never written a song on assignment.’ So it took me a while to think about.

“There was a Mickey Newbury song that was going through my mind—‘Why You Been Gone So Long?’ It had a rhythm that I really liked. I started singing in that meter.

“For some reason, I thought of La Strada, this Fellini film, and a scene where Anthony Quinn is going around on this motorcycle and Giulietta Masina is the feeble-minded girl with him, playing the trombone. He got to the point where he couldn’t put up with her anymore and left her by the side of the road while she was sleeping. Later in the film, he sees this woman hanging out the wash and singing the melody that the girl used to play on the trombone. He asks, ‘Where did you hear that song?’ And she tells him it was this little girl who had showed up in town and nobody knew where she was from, and later she died. That night, Quinn goes to a bar and gets in a fight. He’s drunk and ends up howling at the stars on the beach. To me, that was the feeling at the end of ‘Bobby McGee.’ The two-edged sword that freedom is. He was free when he left the girl, but it destroyed him. That’s where the line ‘Freedom’s just another name for nothing left to lose’ came from.

“The first time I heard Janis Joplin’s version was right after she died. Paul Rothchild, her producer, asked me to stop by his office and listen to this thing she had cut. Afterwards, I walked all over L.A., just in tears. I couldn’t listen to the song without really breaking up. So when I came back to Nashville, I went into the Combine [Publishing] building late at night, and I played it over and over again, so I could get used to it without breaking up. [Songwriter and keyboardist] Donnie Fritts came over and listened with me, and we wrote a song together that night about Janis, called ‘Epitaph’.

“‘Bobby McGee’ was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.”

 

Sealand

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Aug 282014
 

The story of Sealand. The world’s smallest nation.

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Strange but true, this is the story of the world’s smallest nation.

 

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