A couple of months ago, the offices of Toxic Bag Records got a strange phone call from The Big Old West Coast. Seems that a production company was cutting a commercial for the new Christian Bale movie Terminator: Salvation and needed some music. Specifically, they needed a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them.” The actual Floyd track is used in the film, but Pink Floyd does not license their recordings for commercials…so a substitute was required.
As fate would have it, DWLB had recorded one such cover the week that Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright died, and the recording was broadcast on the Progopolis internet radio show. The production company had apparently assigned one of their producers to scour the internet for cover versions of the song. The producer ran across ours, liked it and contacted our record label.
Since we know how these things work, it was no surprise that we never heard back from the production company after sending them the track. They most likely had 40 different versions to choose from and went with one that sounded more like the original than ours.
So the Terminator: Salvation commercial went out without a DWLB song in it, but we don’t think that ought to diminish your enjoyment of the movie.
