Ah, the old “Flame Boy” DIY flamethrower that Jeff bought at the surplus store. And this comic is about as close to an “editorial” cartoon as I get. My opinion of insurance companies of any kind be it home, life, or health insurance is that it is a total rip off. I’ll stop my rant there… we old farts get angry easily. 🙂
So I came up with “In Through the Out Door” by Led Zeppelin for today’s title. Well, it fits in my mind. My favorite song on the album is not “In The Evening” but rather the Benny Hill-esque song “Hot Dog”. It’s a toe tapper and the song hit the spot for me. Enjoy!
Seeing as In the Evening is my favorite track off of In Through The Out-Door, I gotta ask ya man do you think that song goes better with a cool summer night?
Most certainly! That long intro just builds you up to that great riff from Page. If the album had been more like that song throughout, I’d been a happy man.
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I think I read somewhere that Page only played on half that album.
Yes, I believe I’ve read that in some interviews as well. Plant and Jones would be sober and get into the studio early and have songs written by the time Page and Bonham drug their butts into the studio, which explains why there are so many keyboards on the album. It was the ’70s.
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Panel #2 … I’ve always wanted to say that! Especially the flamethrower part. And, I don’t mean just as a euphemism. 😛 Hmmmm … maybe if you’ve not used Fire On High yet? Might be good for a Flame Boyâ„¢ incident (that I smell might be just about to happen). 😉 😀
In Through The Out Door … I’m surprised 1) that you’ve not used it before and 2) that you didn’t manage to work it into a Surprise! Buttseks! joke of some sort or another. You’re slipping, dude … *tsktsk*
Well, to be fair “Surprise! Buttseks!” is more of a 21st century joke than a 1977 joke.
Also, at the time of it’s release, I was not a fan of “In Through the Out Door” at all. The big song on FM radio was “All of My Love” and I didn’t want any part of that at all and “Fool in the Rain” just turns me off. Today, I appreciate the album a lot more.
Also, for you ABBA haters out there, this album was recorded at their studio! Led Zeppelin in the home of the “Dancing Queen” folks? YES!
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That entire album is so full of dirty guitar its unbelievable. People always look at me funny when I tell them In Through The Out Door is one of my favourite Zep albums.
Didn’t the vinyl package have like 10 different covers or something? Each cover was shot from a different angle in the bar?
“In Through the Out Door” was a pinnacle album for Zeppelin. It was the last with Bonham and from what I’ve read, they all wanted it to be more riff based and harder edged.
Indeed, the original vinyl had 6 variants, but the album was wrapped in brown paper so you could not see which cover you were getting. What a ploy! And here’s something I didn’t know, you could wipe the album cover with a damp cloth and the “brushstroke” on the cover would change color (only once). Now that’s cool.
The cover was also a recreation of a bar in New Orleans on Bourbon Street called the Absinthe Bar. I don’t remember that bar, but I was more then drunk walking down Bourbon street back in February, so names of bars were not going to be remembered.
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I’m with you Byron & second everything you said about In Through the Out Door. Like you, while I appreciate it more now than I did when it came out, it’s still my least favorite of their studio releases, and “…Evening” would be the only song I’d even consider if I was putting together a carreer-spanning “Best Of” for them. Ahhh, the lost trade of door-to-door… They were all as annoying & persistent as telemarkerters. No way in hell I’d have ever done it, altho I did have a HS classmate who’s dad was a Fuller Brush salesman & seemed to do very well – they had a very nice house & his dad always had a late-model Lincoln land-barge.
Door to door sales is a lost art… can’t really say I miss it. But, the ones who knew how to hawk their stuff did well. It was “don’t take no for answer”.
Yeah, I was going easy on Zeppelin today, but agreed, after their 4th album, there’s not much I’m a fan of.
That guy is the old version of modern Spam mail. 🙂
LOL! Could you see guys selling Viagra door-to-door? Now there’s a comic…
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I was just starting to get into Zep when that album came out, so I didn’t have the shocked purist reaction when I heard “Fool in the Rain.” I always loved “In the Evening” and “Carousel,” and though “All of My Love” got painfully overplayed on my local radio stations, I always rather liked the song itself.
Almost bought the album several times back then, but I wasn’t cash-flush enough to buy much music that I wasn’t 100% wild about. My album purchases from those days included Judas Priest’s Unleashed in the East, Van Halen’s debut album, Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch, and the Runaways’ Queens of Noise. Damn… now I’m on a turn-of-the-80s kick…
Anyway, I didn’t even hear “Hot Dog” until about five years ago, when I ripped my girlfriend’s roommate’s copy of In Through the Out Door. The song blew me away. Since then, I’ve found a few other unplayed-by-radio gems buried deep in the Led Zep catalog, my favorite of which might be “Wearing and Tearing” off of Coda, which sounds almost like the boys were trying to experiment with punk. What a band, for better and worse! Ah, there were giants on the earth in those days…
Led Zeppelin was a force to be reckoned with. It’s too bad they couldn’t have gotten back to their harder roots before Bonham passed away… now that would have been an album to have. When you thought of heavy metal in the early ’70s, the first on the list was almost always Led Zep.
I don’t mind groups expanding styles, but remain true to what made you famous. Their 4th album is very diverse, but remained true to their heavier sound. Bassist John Paul Jones breaking in new keyboards is very evident on “In Through the Out Door” but adding keyboards takes away the heavy metal portion of their sound. Thus why I can’t stand “All of My Love” at all. I’m not one for sappy ballads regardless of the lyrical content. Yuk.
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Aww, shame – ‘America, Fuck yeah!’ is probably Trey Parker’s ONLY worthwhile contribution to the arts 😀
Love the salesman’s blank eyes. You know I usually hatehatehate blank eyes, but in this case it’s soooo appropriate!
Parker and Stone hit several chords with me in the very early episodes of “South Park” but after that, it was just the same old stuff. Now, part of the reason why I liked “Team America” was it paid homage (it a crude way) to the Gerry Anderson Saturday Morning TV shows I grew up on, particularly “Fireball XL5” which was my biggest influence for being a Sc-Fi geek today.
But as a whole, they don’t contribute much at all. But that song rocks and doesn’t hold any punches with the lyrics. I like that!
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Regarding the empty eyes… I am not sure why I fell upon that, particularly since my “heroes” Hanna-Barbera did not draw their more human characters that way. I’ve drawn Bud with pupils and to me it’s just not him.
I don’t know… maybe I’m crazy. 😛
Maybe you were frightened by Little Orphan Annie as a baby 😛
It wasn’t greed that this country was founded on, it was the ability to live ones life as one chooses, to keep what you have earned by the sweat of your brow, to have a say in how your country is run,
Well, having redneck blood in me, I occasionally rant on something and state something stupid. You are right, and as an American, I’m proud of this country of ours… but, of late it’s direction is really off and that’s not to blame any particular President or political party… it’s just a fact that we’re in a sad state.
I believe we can pull it together, but it’s not going to be easy nor quick.
The soapbox should stay put away. I still like I’m making fun of salespeople all the same in today’s comic…
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Actually, history (the real-deal impartial variety, that is) says both you and this Bill person are off the mark. And when I say *you* are off the mark, I only mean the first part of your assertion. You’re dead right about the second part, and it’s a tragedy…but I agree that 1977 is no place for serious political discussions!
But… with that said, I do believe that it is corporate greed that has robbed a great many Americans of their freedom of choices and we just accept it.
I cannot chose which power company to buy my electricity from… My wife has been denied any form of health insurance by the insurance companies… I could go on, but the point being our choices are limited.
But, we the people CAN effect changes… we have to get off our butts and support good candidates then rally behind them to get elected. But even there, MONEY has limited our choices as it’s just a plain fact that MONEY buys a guy a seat in Congress or whatever.
See, I’m ranting again. 😛
So, the great points you made are over-shadowed by today’s corporate greed that has flooded the American landscape. I hope we change it soon. I don’t like to rant…
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THIS.
Almost makes me wish it was that easy to get rid of insurance salesmen today…:(
Still funny comic, even though I wish it was kind of true. 😀
Lol seriously xD He doesn’t care if you need it, he just wants to get paid :p.