The individual with the red hair and sunglasses on next to Chong is my Uncle, Randall Perry. He was a fantastic musician/Disc Jockey and passed away from skin cancer in 1995. His DJ name was Red Noize. I hope this helps!!! He was an AMAZING man and very dear to me. Incredibly talented and the best sense of humor. So good to see this again.
I'm convinced this and other compilation albums on TV explains why I know many of these old songs growing up in the 80's. It was like a 60 second music appreciation course. 😆
This was one of my favorite commercials back in the day. I can remember laughing my ass off every time I watched it and having this feeling of positivity telling me no matter how bad of a mood I might be in... there's always the freedom rock commercial
And maybe "Where's the beef?" Hell, I don't remember what I was watching on TV back when this commercial would come on, but I remember looking forward to to hearing that guitar riff and "Hey, man - is that FREEDOM ROCK?" every commercial break.
Man, this brings back memories if the late 80's. My friends and I were teenage metalheads back then, so we used to laugh at this "old man" 60's and 70's, but I actually liked a lot of it.
If I remember correctly, this would always play between 3:30 and 4:00, after I got off the bus and turned on "Diff'rent Strokes" re-runs and poured myself a tall glass of Kool-Aid.
Dude I just picked up Freedom Rock for 50 cents from a junk store it’s the 2cd set rather than 4 albums but I immediately remembered this commercial ! 😂😂 Turn it up man !
Iconic. This came out when I was a teenager in the 80s, and "Well, turn it UP, man!" became a catchphrase among my peers. It was the first time I had heard most of these songs, and when "classics" stations moved from 50s/60s doo wop and Mowtown to songs like these, I heard the full versions for the first time. Thanks, Freedom Rock!
Too funny my boyfriend just said outta the blue hey is that freedom rock turn it up man! Lol. I hadn’t heard that n 20 years then looked this shit up lol. I still remember the order of the songs even & knowin that dude is like so wearing a wig & looks nothing like that!!! Hahaha
I saw this spot so many times as a kid. It really was my first exposure to a lot of those songs. I'll never really be able to disconnect "In a white room, with black curtains" from my memory of this ad.
I hear ya. Me and my buds still quote this when we hear an old song on the radio.... Heyyyy mannnn...is that freedom rock? Then someone else naturally has to say WELL TURN IT UP MAN!!!!!
I remember this commercial also as a child coming on TV many times. Hearing and watching those oldschool song spot commercials come on TV so many times back then stuck in my head so much I could remember the narrator and songs word for word having exposed to it. You could know those commercials by knowing the quotes from them . Like this one, "Hey Man!!! Is That Freedom Rock?!!! "Yeah Man!!!" Well Turn It Up Man!!!"
I remember this on tv. Didn't realize that the actual album was full of great songs. Now I have to own it. Good marketing if this many years later, I still want to buy that shit, man.
I found Cassette 1 for free at a laundromat at the beginning of this summer then found CD 2 at a Salvation Army family store about a week ago. I know there is a Spotify playlist, but it's not the same. I need disc 1 now
When I was a kid in Junior High when this spot aired all us kids used to know every line and song on this album. This is still a brilliant and timeless commercial that you were great in and which I've never forgot. Thanks for all the entertainment. This is my favorite all time favorite commercial.
I am soooo happy that my mom saw this commercial and bought these tapes when i was a kid because honestly every single song on this collection has changed my life!!!!!!!!! I have sooo many great memories rocking out to these as a kid with my portable cassette player. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I remember the day like it was yesterday..I was 19 years old..I worked as a security "agent" for the Indians in upstate NY(Hogansburgh).I had a side kick dog named "Chico"..he was over 100lbs of pure Rottweiler...I had my AK-47 assault rifle l..so one night this infomercial comes on about 2 in the morning for these "freedom rock" cds... although I never ordered them I really do miss those days ...thanks for the video and the memory flashback homie.
It's a trip how the late 60s/early 70s weren't really that long ago in 1987. Hippies like these dudes were still only like 40. A commercial like this featuring a couple 40 year old later Gen X alternative rockers looking back at 90s music wouldn't hit as hard.
Brings back such great memories of 1987-88 I was so into music, loved all these songs. Some of those artists were still alive and touring at the time. I remember seeing Greg Allman doing his solo tour in 88 and playing all his hits. Music today can't even come close. I still have the cds. Thank you for posting.
Ha ha, instead of asking, "Hey man, is that Derek and the Dominos?" or, "Hey man, is that 'Layla?'" or, "Hey man, is that one of Clapton's old bands?" the guy asks if it's Freedom Rock! I always got a kick out of that commercial. It's a real classic.
It turns out that actual fake hippies that live in the people's Republic of Ann Arbor and surrounding enclaves of liars and racists don't react to this Pavlovian bell. The Grateful Dead, that shitty, shitty band of pedos in Birkenstocks, is not featured as part of the era that is meaningful to the hippies that actually believed in something and went to jail without snitching on their friends. Some hippies, of course, snitched on undercover cops that were ripping off bikers and stuff. They did their time, but those pigs in sheep's clothing got theirs. Hells Angels always get their message across. And the dead hippies found in piles in washes in Southern California near the Mexican border were mostly cops, or sometimes actually hippies that maybe raped the girlfriend of a biker. What does it matter when you're an empty vessel whose entire personality can be featured in 15-30 seconds of a parodic commercial made by punk rockers who hated the grateful dead? Thank you. The Dead were the snitches that should have been piled near the border. Jerry Garcia, however, spoke a little Spanish and had his choice of borderline underage girls, all runaways (well, they sort of walked, being hippies). As long as he got the tamale first, he sent experienced, but obviously highly abused and post-traumatic roadies (after weeks on tour dodging unwashed hippies copping a feel because "they just can't help it") on missions as ambassadors to a strange land, where hippies were rare because you have to have a job to survive in Mexico, but the drugs were at bargain basement prices. So, she started thinking "how do I make enough money here being adopted by this rich cartel family as a baker (Jerry's Spanish wasn't that good), if my heroin habit AND my drug problem aren't addressed, since she could never have more than she needed - smart girl, but bad taste in music, considering it was 1976, and the other hippies were listening to jazz and ambient-New Age, or independently creating new genres. Of course, you definitely needed drugs to make the new music, but you really only needed drugs to tolerate the Grateful Dead, explaining why the band had to take thousands of $$$ of drugs per hippie per weekend just to seem like they were enjoying the lifestyle that wasnt much more than style over a pedophile. Imagine listening in on the wire that Jerry wore from the Volkswagen bus mobile command center parked outside the stadium near the alley where actual homeless beggars shit and talked to themselves.
My step dad is a chemical engineer also played drums in a few local bands looks like the person pitching the commercial. LOL 13 years old when this came out. Twin bro and I kept saying that "THERE IS RON ON TV"!!!! lol hell yea we loved and already knew all the music.. Now I play several instruments dealing w/ percussion
This classic commercial introduced a lot of young people such as myself to a lot of great music that hadn't been heard on radio (or MTV) in a long time.
My sister and I would memorize these commercials and had so much fun with them as kids. Today I heard Rock-n Roll Hoochie coo and it reminded me of these commercials and the fun we had!
Imagine going back to days when you ordered by phone or postal service, then waiting 6-8 weeks to get your stuff. Those were the days of buying a record and playing it straight through over and over and knowing all the words to even the deep cuts.
Speaking of being high. I have always wondered as a child watching this commercial why that dude sound and looked like that. I could not tell and always thought he had to be on something. Looking back at this, I noticed he was high on that weed.
When these songs came out I was in Grammer school learning my ABC's. When this commercial came out I was fresh out of college ; a young man with his future in front of him. Today watching this UA-cam video I receive AARP applications in the mail !
When this commercial came across TV, when I was just a kid, my Mom commented that this was the only record/song collection that she'd ever felt tempted to buy. (Both my parents were children of the 60's, but they weren't big spenders.)
I proudly say that I ordered the casette tapes. I remember playing the shit out of the second one and the One Tin Soldier song. I'm pretty sure I ordered the set in 1988 though, so this commercial must have been airing for over a year.
Here is a odd way of looking at this. When this album and commercial were released around 1987 the average age of these songs was 15-20 years old. It is now 2017, making the commercial 30 years old, almost twice the age of some of the songs they were advertising at the time.
We grew up in the 1980's when Hippies were old news...so when this ad played and the guy said "Hey Man, is that Freedom Rock?" my buddy would say "Well turn it OFF, man!" - good times! :D
These were our "Start the Party" discs back in our crazy party days 89-91. We were all 18-21 but had older siblings and cousins that turned us on to this great music. We'd put these CDs on and EVERYBODY liked them and nobody bitched about the music. Great Great music to socialize to. Wonderful memories as well.
I was an early 90s kid and I love about half these songs. The Baby Boomer hippies like these two dudes seemed like they'd be so cool to hang with, probably because they're mellow lefties and smoke weed.
my best friend and I used to give our dad's shit quoting this commercial when we were kids. we were about 12 years old at the time circa 1988. They'd be listening to classic rock and we'd go "HEY IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK, MAN? WELL TUUURRN IT UP, MAN!" Now I love classic rock music.😆
I don't know how many times I saw this after getting home from middle school. Was telling one of our new grad students (born in '89) about it! She was all like "They sold music on the TV?"
It has to be around 1988 or so. I remember frequently going to a club in San Diego around that time. A guy with long hair and an American flag bandana always danced when a band played. We called him Freedom Rock Freddy.
we thought of this commercial today and I said 'that is probably on youtube, let's watch it later' - and sure enough, here it is! I love youtube for the memories! Thanks for putting this up -
+Mitchell Hughes certain songs will always lead to others..... I cannot hear the chorus of Turn Turn Turn without immediately humming Free bird. Same with White Room and Horse with No Name.
In his youth, my dad watched this on tv and thought to himself, "Yes, I would like to spend actual money to buy Freedom Rock." His current opinion: "The real thing has nothing to do with freedom."
I saw it was addressed way down in the comments but worth mentioning again. The red-haired fella on the right was a great radio DJ known as "Red Noize". I worked with him at Z93 a classic rock station in the mid 90s. Unfortunately cancer claimed his life. I don't remember exactly when the funeral was, but I believe it was early 1995. He was a great guy. I believe he also DJ'd back in the day at Denver's KILO radio.
When I was a kid, if I had told the other kids that I would one day be communicating with you they would have never believed me but here we are. You delivered your lines brilliantly and created such a timeless character. I couldn't tell you how many times in my life I have thought of this ad whenever I hear one of the songs from the album on the radio. Thanks so much for the entertainment. I really hope you are still acting because you are very talented.
The individual with the red hair and sunglasses on next to Chong is my Uncle, Randall Perry. He was a fantastic musician/Disc Jockey and passed away from skin cancer in 1995. His DJ name was Red Noize.
I hope this helps!!! He was an AMAZING man and very dear to me. Incredibly talented and the best sense of humor. So good to see this again.
he was on WLAV, I remember when he died.
Aw when I was a kid I loved this ad. He totally made it. He made a lot of people smile, and on some level thats the best anyone can do.
I didn't know that was Red! I remember him from his days on 96 Rock in Atlanta.
Your uncle made me laugh and laugh in this commercial. You are so lucky to have known him personally. Best wishes
Thank you so much for sharing. I remember this commercial when we were kids used to joke about it a lot
I'm convinced this and other compilation albums on TV explains why I know many of these old songs growing up in the 80's. It was like a 60 second music appreciation course. 😆
Same here!
I totally agree!
Yes I agree
This commercial is now older than the songs that are on it when it was being sold.
whoa!!! Dead serious whoa!!! I think about stuff like that. This has never crossed my mind.
whoa yah with mind
So what? I'm now older then the ultrasound machine was when it was used when my mom was pregnant. Who cares? That happens.
It took took me a minute to figure out what you just said, but yeah
Actually most of the artists still had carriers at the time
Wow, I haven't seen this in almost 30 years and I can still remember the exact order of the song snippets. Thanks for posting!
I was singing along with it. I know this commercial better than any of the songs in it!
And then you had the kids who sat around singing them in order.
Me too! My brothers and I LOVED this commercial and recited it word for word! Of course singing it was the best part!
@@chrisirregardless 🙋🏽♀️ that would be me, alongside my brothers
This was one of my favorite commercials back in the day. I can remember laughing my ass off every time I watched it and having this feeling of positivity telling me no matter how bad of a mood I might be in... there's always the freedom rock commercial
My and a friend of mine would laugh like hell, too! 😂
@@tracysullivan3715 glad you guys enjoyed it!!
@@michaelbeard5 Iconic! Thanks for adding to the awesomeness which was the late 80s.
thanksm J. im main hippieeeee Now living in Japan
This is second only to "I've fallen and I can't get up" as the most remembered phrase of all time.
And maybe "Where's the beef?" Hell, I don't remember what I was watching on TV back when this commercial would come on, but I remember looking forward to to hearing that guitar riff and "Hey, man - is that FREEDOM ROCK?" every commercial break.
Man, this brings back memories if the late 80's. My friends and I were teenage metalheads back then, so we used to laugh at this "old man" 60's and 70's, but I actually liked a lot of it.
If I remember correctly, this would always play between 3:30 and 4:00, after I got off the bus and turned on "Diff'rent Strokes" re-runs and poured myself a tall glass of Kool-Aid.
I forget which programs I was watching, but I remember them playing this commerical endlessly.
That's about it..back in the good old 1980's!
Whachootalkinboutwillis!?!??
You got out late man, we were home causing havoc by 2:50 at the latest 😛
HEY MAN IS THAT THE COMMERCIAL FOR FREEDOM ROCK
YEAH MAN
*WELL TURRRN IT UP MAN*
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
:)
Dude I just picked up Freedom Rock for 50 cents from a junk store it’s the 2cd set rather than 4 albums but I immediately remembered this commercial ! 😂😂 Turn it up man !
Iconic. This came out when I was a teenager in the 80s, and "Well, turn it UP, man!" became a catchphrase among my peers. It was the first time I had heard most of these songs, and when "classics" stations moved from 50s/60s doo wop and Mowtown to songs like these, I heard the full versions for the first time. Thanks, Freedom Rock!
This commercial is a time tested classic. It just never gets old.
over 30 years ago!!
Yeah man.
The greatest commercial ever. I remember being in college when this came out and we would just recite it over and over again.
Ive had this commercial going in my head for 20 years man. Thank you YT
One of the greatest marketing commercials ever. "Hey man! Is that Freedom Rock! Yeah Man! Then turn it up!!" Classic!
This is a throwback about a throwback.
melvin151515 - awesomeness
Remember war , protests and going to jail
They were fortune teller
Same crap we’re dealing with in today’s world
Mind....blown!
Johnny Bravo the commercial was filmed last week LOL!
Too funny my boyfriend just said outta the blue hey is that freedom rock turn it up man! Lol. I hadn’t heard that n 20 years then looked this shit up lol. I still remember the order of the songs even & knowin that dude is like so wearing a wig & looks nothing like that!!! Hahaha
"Hey man, is that Freedom Rock?"
"No, Layla by Eric Clapton."
"Oh, never mind then."
Well, Derek and the Dominoes ... but I know what you mean.
(PS sorry to be so long getting back to you 😊)
Crank it up, man!!!
I'm on my couch laughing my ass off at this comment. 😂😂😂
This is an enduring memory for anyone who grew up in this era. An instant litmus test
I saw this spot so many times as a kid. It really was my first exposure to a lot of those songs. I'll never really be able to disconnect "In a white room, with black curtains" from my memory of this ad.
+Ted Frushour thanks for watching Ted Mike the hippie
I hear ya.
Me and my buds still quote this when we hear an old song on the radio....
Heyyyy mannnn...is that freedom rock?
Then someone else naturally has to say
WELL TURN IT UP MAN!!!!!
I remember this commercial also as a child coming on TV many times. Hearing and watching those oldschool song spot commercials come on TV so many times back then stuck in my head so much I could remember the narrator and songs word for word having exposed to it. You could know those commercials by knowing the quotes from them . Like this one, "Hey Man!!! Is That Freedom Rock?!!! "Yeah Man!!!" Well Turn It Up Man!!!"
I remember this on tv. Didn't realize that the actual album was full of great songs. Now I have to own it. Good marketing if this many years later, I still want to buy that shit, man.
I found Cassette 1 for free at a laundromat at the beginning of this summer then found CD 2 at a Salvation Army family store about a week ago. I know there is a Spotify playlist, but it's not the same. I need disc 1 now
When I was a kid in Junior High when this spot aired all us kids used to know every line and song on this album. This is still a brilliant and timeless commercial that you were great in and which I've never forgot. Thanks for all the entertainment. This is my favorite all time favorite commercial.
Nope, "Gerard" didn't bring me here, I saw this commercial way back and I still TURN IT UP, MAN
I am soooo happy that my mom saw this commercial and bought these tapes when i was a kid because honestly every single song on this collection has changed my life!!!!!!!!! I have sooo many great memories rocking out to these as a kid with my portable cassette player. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I remember the day like it was yesterday..I was 19 years old..I worked as a security "agent" for the Indians in upstate NY(Hogansburgh).I had a side kick dog named "Chico"..he was over 100lbs of pure Rottweiler...I had my AK-47 assault rifle l..so one night this infomercial comes on about 2 in the morning for these "freedom rock" cds... although I never ordered them I really do miss those days ...thanks for the video and the memory flashback homie.
The number is no longer valid. Tried to order today.... :(
Andy Johnson you fucked up man thats rich.😂😂😂😂
Andy Johnson
Thats funny, i thought of doing that. If it was still in service i wonder if it would still take 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Lol
I bet you had to pay $6 per minute for that phone call.
HERE YOU GO MAN! open.spotify.com/user/d3x0h236jxi70yxxr9yebjy1l/playlist/6VLlJMttWb4fjRn3uXaOTe?si=Norh2XvRSpiDWFXb8fwZOw
Well then hang it up, maaan!
Wow, this was at that magical triple point of Records, tapes, AND CDs.
No 8-track, though. :(
It's a trip how the late 60s/early 70s weren't really that long ago in 1987. Hippies like these dudes were still only like 40.
A commercial like this featuring a couple 40 year old later Gen X alternative rockers looking back at 90s music wouldn't hit as hard.
IDK, I see a lot of nostalgia for 80s/90s indie rock around these days
I saw Nirvana on a classic rock radio station lol
Brings back such great memories of 1987-88 I was so into music, loved all these songs. Some of those artists were still alive and touring at the time. I remember seeing Greg Allman doing his solo tour in 88 and playing all his hits. Music today can't even come close. I still have the cds. Thank you for posting.
Ha ha, instead of asking, "Hey man, is that Derek and the Dominos?" or, "Hey man, is that 'Layla?'" or, "Hey man, is that one of Clapton's old bands?" the guy asks if it's Freedom Rock! I always got a kick out of that commercial. It's a real classic.
I love how they "remember the good old days", and it includes going to jail
God bless whomever curated this shit. Takes me back to watching reruns on WTBS in the 80’s. Go Braves!
Back when u could actually pay cash on delivery lol. Those were the days!
To this day you can still throw out a random "hey man is that freedom rock?" and someone will always say "yeah man!" XD
😂😂😂😂
Still true in 2023 as long as there's a GenXer around!
It turns out that actual fake hippies that live in the people's Republic of Ann Arbor and surrounding enclaves of liars and racists don't react to this Pavlovian bell. The Grateful Dead, that shitty, shitty band of pedos in Birkenstocks, is not featured as part of the era that is meaningful to the hippies that actually believed in something and went to jail without snitching on their friends. Some hippies, of course, snitched on undercover cops that were ripping off bikers and stuff. They did their time, but those pigs in sheep's clothing got theirs. Hells Angels always get their message across. And the dead hippies found in piles in washes in Southern California near the Mexican border were mostly cops, or sometimes actually hippies that maybe raped the girlfriend of a biker. What does it matter when you're an empty vessel whose entire personality can be featured in 15-30 seconds of a parodic commercial made by punk rockers who hated the grateful dead?
Thank you. The Dead were the snitches that should have been piled near the border. Jerry Garcia, however, spoke a little Spanish and had his choice of borderline underage girls, all runaways (well, they sort of walked, being hippies). As long as he got the tamale first, he sent experienced, but obviously highly abused and post-traumatic roadies (after weeks on tour dodging unwashed hippies copping a feel because "they just can't help it") on missions as ambassadors to a strange land, where hippies were rare because you have to have a job to survive in Mexico, but the drugs were at bargain basement prices. So, she started thinking "how do I make enough money here being adopted by this rich cartel family as a baker (Jerry's Spanish wasn't that good), if my heroin habit AND my drug problem aren't addressed, since she could never have more than she needed - smart girl, but bad taste in music, considering it was 1976, and the other hippies were listening to jazz and ambient-New Age, or independently creating new genres. Of course, you definitely needed drugs to make the new music, but you really only needed drugs to tolerate the Grateful Dead, explaining why the band had to take thousands of $$$ of drugs per hippie per weekend just to seem like they were enjoying the lifestyle that wasnt much more than style over a pedophile. Imagine listening in on the wire that Jerry wore from the Volkswagen bus mobile command center parked outside the stadium near the alley where actual homeless beggars shit and talked to themselves.
You have to add. Well turn it up!
This commercial is hysterical... I don't know how the hell I missed it in '88, but thank you for posting it... "Turn it up, man!"
WELL TURN IT UP MAAAAN!
GOIN' TO JAAIILLLL????
Turn it down MAN! 🤣
My step dad is a chemical engineer also played drums in a few local bands looks like the person pitching the commercial. LOL 13 years old when this came out. Twin bro and I kept saying that "THERE IS RON ON TV"!!!! lol hell yea we loved and already knew all the music.. Now I play several instruments dealing w/ percussion
Remember the good old days? War, Protest....Goin' to Jail?
Well yeah MAN!
Shit was so different in the Clinton years.
*Reagan years.
I want to say this was 1987.
John K the Clinton years? This ad came out in 1987. The Reagan years.
GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of those touchstone experiences that truly shaped me. This is part of what I am.
This classic commercial introduced a lot of young people such as myself to a lot of great music that hadn't been heard on radio (or MTV) in a long time.
Amazing that all of the artists allowed their original masters to be used in a compilation album.
The albums that were advertised on TV like this, invoked my love for the 60's. Tunes were catchy af.
That commercial, itself, is catchy. Always laughed my ass off 😂
@@tracysullivan3715 absolutely
This and K-tel records would give you an instant music class.
I can't NOT hear the beginning of Layla and NOT think of this awesome stupid commercial
I cannot hear the end of Layla and NOT think of the end of Goodfellas.
Neither can I. I even say the lines at the opening riff.
My sister and I would memorize these commercials and had so much fun with them as kids. Today I heard Rock-n Roll Hoochie coo and it reminded me of these commercials and the fun we had!
I learned these song snippets as 1 continuous song back in the day. This commercial was cool as F to me back then... still is \m/
I used to laugh at that commercial as a kid. As an adult, I love all the music on the collection.
Imagine going back to days when you ordered by phone or postal service, then waiting 6-8 weeks to get your stuff. Those were the days of buying a record and playing it straight through over and over and knowing all the words to even the deep cuts.
a true classic of America's high culture period
Speaking of being high. I have always wondered as a child watching this commercial why that dude sound and looked like that. I could not tell and always thought he had to be on something. Looking back at this, I noticed he was high on that weed.
When these songs came out I was in Grammer school learning my ABC's. When this commercial came out I was fresh out of college ; a young man with his future in front of him. Today watching this UA-cam video I receive AARP applications in the mail !
these commercials were my intro to a lot of 60s music that, as an 11yr old in 1987, i would never have run into otherwise.
I miss those commercials like this . Everything was 19.99 lol Lots of great music on this and others like this .
This is the only vid on UA-cam that will let u turn it up past the maximum volume level.
When this commercial came across TV, when I was just a kid, my Mom commented that this was the only record/song collection that she'd ever felt tempted to buy.
(Both my parents were children of the 60's, but they weren't big spenders.)
I proudly say that I ordered the casette tapes. I remember playing the shit out of the second one and the One Tin Soldier song. I'm pretty sure I ordered the set in 1988 though, so this commercial must have been airing for over a year.
Randall G
It aired ALL the time in the late 80’s. I have the tapes too. Still a solid 60’s-70’s collection.
Everyone wants an album that includes both Cream and Seals & Crofts.
To this very day, I cannot listen to the opening riff of "Layla" without thinking of this commercial. Sometimes I even say the opening lines from it.
"is that Freedom Rock? Turn it up!!" Thanks so much for preserving this ultra-memorable dog-crap!
Here is a odd way of looking at this. When this album and commercial were released around 1987 the average age of these songs was 15-20 years old. It is now 2017, making the commercial 30 years old, almost twice the age of some of the songs they were advertising at the time.
best commercial ever fucking made..
Crank it up man!! Remember the good groovy songs in the good old days. You should get Freedom Rock, too!!! Lol!
LOVE love love. I had forgotten the songs...I used to do this by memory.
We grew up in the 1980's when Hippies were old news...so when this ad played and the guy said "Hey Man, is that Freedom Rock?" my buddy would say "Well turn it OFF, man!" - good times! :D
These were our "Start the Party" discs back in our crazy party days 89-91. We were all 18-21 but had older siblings and cousins that turned us on to this great music. We'd put these CDs on and EVERYBODY liked them and nobody bitched about the music. Great Great music to socialize to. Wonderful memories as well.
It’s crazy to see how many people connected to this commercial in a way you thought you only did .
I was an early 90s kid and I love about half these songs. The Baby Boomer hippies like these two dudes seemed like they'd be so cool to hang with, probably because they're mellow lefties and smoke weed.
Ayy man I remember this commercial from the 80s! Rock & Roll is good for you!
my best friend and I used to give our dad's shit quoting this commercial when we were kids. we were about 12 years old at the time circa 1988. They'd be listening to classic rock and we'd go "HEY IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK, MAN? WELL TUUURRN IT UP, MAN!" Now I love classic rock music.😆
I ordered the Freedom Rock cd collection in 1987 when commercial was first televised. I still have it. Great collection.
I'm writing a book and some of the main characters grew up in the mid '60s and early '70s if it takes off the soundtrack will be stellar.
I saw the cassette version for sale at a town wide garage sale in upstate NY a few years back, but 2 of the tapes were missing. Massive bummer.
I don't know how many times I saw this after getting home from middle school. Was telling one of our new grad students (born in '89) about it! She was all like "They sold music on the TV?"
It has to be around 1988 or so. I remember frequently going to a club in San Diego around that time. A guy with long hair and an American flag bandana always danced when a band played. We called him Freedom Rock Freddy.
Was it the all ages club?
@@Gildedbutterfly1976 It was 21 and up
Thank you for bringing happiness to my week.
we thought of this commercial today and I said 'that is probably on youtube, let's watch it later' - and sure enough, here it is! I love youtube for the memories! Thanks for putting this up -
I haven't seen this since 1988! I remember the exact songs too. I wish I could take a time machine back!
Man, I saw that commercial so many times back in the 80s that I stil.had it memorized. Crazy. Lol
Gerard brought me here to!!! Rock on!
Listening to The Byrds and I'm suddenly reminded of Freedom Rock. Bless UA-cam.
+Mitchell Hughes certain songs will always lead to others.....
I cannot hear the chorus of Turn Turn Turn without immediately humming Free bird. Same with White Room and Horse with No Name.
In his youth, my dad watched this on tv and thought to himself, "Yes, I would like to spend actual money to buy Freedom Rock." His current opinion: "The real thing has nothing to do with freedom."
I’m 21 playing this commercial for my mom, she basically raised me on the freedom rock collection haha
I remember when this aired around 1990 or so... My college roomate parodied the commercial "Hey, is that Classic Rap? Well, turn it up!" :)
Listen to Layla and said, I need this commercial. Damn it I loved this so much.
I saw it was addressed way down in the comments but worth mentioning again. The red-haired fella on the right was a great radio DJ known as "Red Noize". I worked with him at Z93 a classic rock station in the mid 90s. Unfortunately cancer claimed his life. I don't remember exactly when the funeral was, but I believe it was early 1995. He was a great guy. I believe he also DJ'd back in the day at Denver's KILO radio.
I remember this commercial. I have always loved it. I still remember the order of most of the songs.
This was my father's generation's music...yet I grew up listening to it. Oh, the nostalgia this commercial brought me! ^-^
When I was a kid, if I had told the other kids that I would one day be communicating with you they would have never believed me but here we are. You delivered your lines brilliantly and created such a timeless character. I couldn't tell you how many times in my life I have thought of this ad whenever I hear one of the songs from the album on the radio. Thanks so much for the entertainment. I really hope you are still acting because you are very talented.
I listened to Freedom Rock like every single day for a year straight.
My dad just got this album and kept referencing this commercial so I just had to see it.
I still have these CD's. About to crank up #13 on Disk 2. One of the greatest songs ever made.
Who is this Gerard you speak of? Nah just kiddin, I'm here cuz of him too!
Great commercial! Great mix! Turn it up!!!
In the year 2020, this is the equivalent of a compilation album celebrating early-2000's music (2000-2005). Feel old yet?
I bought Freedom Rock on CD and played them about 8 zillion times. Great collection of songs!
We used to laugh so hard at this as kids! Now my music from back when this commercial aired is 30 years old! 😢
“Goin to jail???” 😂
Gerard brought me here
I was in junior high when this commercial could not be avoided. My friends and I used to quote from it quite a bit.
This commercial taught me about 60s and 70s music when I was a kid....it played a lot back then
Me and my friends when this commercial was on: "Hey, man, is that Freedom Rock?"
kudos to you, Gerard
This commercial came out in 1988 and I have it on 3 cassettes!!