See? It wasn’t the giraffes that got to Jeff after all but his boss. I hate, truly hate, when I’m told to get my haircut. Shut the hell up, it’s my damn hair. Besides, at age 53 I’m extremely pleased to HAVE my hair, so why cut it? Exactly.
December will wind down the year and this storyline as we ready to launch into a really cool new story starting in January. A few people of Bud’s past will make appearances as he tries to solve yet another problem for he and his band mates. Yes, we’re getting back to the band as the last panel of today’s comic suggests. Hold on tight…
Do remember that officially I’ll be updating on Mondays. Never fear, other content will appear, so be sure to click the RSS feed button if you haven’t already. It’s the best way to know the comic has updated. BTW, I did two comics last week, and think that can happen again. We’ll see how this week goes.
As of today, the song posted with the comic will not necessarily tie into the comic anymore. Here’s why: One, I was spending a great deal of time coming up with comic titles and song titles that matched, and two, I feel that theme has run it’s course. So with the new format I’m no longer going to tie the two together. Rather instead, I’m just going to post a classic rock song and just see what comes to mind about the song. If the two tie together, then cool. If not, oh well.
With that said, when Bad Company released “Straight Shooter” I was already a big fan as I had followed singer Paul Rodgers when he was with Free. Never got to see Bad Company in concert, but did enjoy playing this song in my short-lived bar band career! Apparently there was an 80s Bad Company from England or something? Never heard of them. Paul Rodgers has a very unique singing voice and you can tell it’s him the second your hear him singing. He did an album with Queen this year and I picked it up just on the fact he was singing on the album. Wasn’t bad, but not really Queen either. Glad he’s still rockin’ after nearly 40 years in the business. I’ll post up my favorite Free song next time.
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Mr. Tom Racine being not only a fellow brother video editor, but is one great podcast host of Tall Tale Radio AND came up with the song today’s comic. Nice one Tom! I if I could grant you a wish, I’d give you a head full of hair, but alas my powers were meant for evil… MUHAHAHAHA! So from 1969’s musical “Hair” that featured full frontal nudity for the first time on stage (“Oh my God, I can see his junk! Is it cold in here?”) here’s the Cowsills’ rendition of the title song. This is a classic song and truly a fun one too and inspired more than one person in my age group to grow their hair out.
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Love the strip, love the song.
Erm, Bad Company *is* an English band! And has carried on in various incarnations down through the years. Is that what’s confusing you?
Yeah, I didn’t think that comment through… yes, they are an English band, but there was a version that does not feature any of the original members and apparently was popular with the younger set in the 80s/90s. All I know they were *not* my Bad Company. Did this newer Bad Company play the old songs or only their own tunes? That’s the part I am not sure of, and that I’ve never heard a single track they’ve recorded.
All I know is that Simon (the original drummer) and Mick (guitar) kept going after Paul left. Nowt wrong with their work but Bad Company without Paul just wasn’t the same…
Yeah, that’s my first thought too… 🙂
You’re 53 and your mother (or your wife) is still telling your to get a haircut?? haha
My wife wants me to grow mine out more but I said it doesn’t grow down it grows out and I don’t want to look like greg brady.
No, actually it’s my clients telling me to get my haircut. Which I think is pretty forward of them. Not many, but I have a few. I stopped listening to my wife a decade ago.
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My hair, what there is of it, appears to be dropping through from my scalp and coming out of my ears, nose and cheekbones, together with a few stray forehead hairs! WTF is that all about? Does gravity take an extra hold over 50 and your hair not have enough strength to grow upwards anymore?
Great comic, excellent song and the only Bad Company I know of are the “Free – follow on’s”. A great band indeed.
Comedian Gallagher has a great line why he does not cut his hair (due to him going bald) “You don’t prune a dead tree, so why should I cut my hair?”
As long as I have it, it’ll be long. So far so good…
Yes, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke were from Free and formed Bad Company in 1973. I don’t recall why, but all I know is Bad Company sure was a lot more successful than Free, so they did something right.
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thought I read somewhere that Bad Company one of the first bands to be on Led Zeppelin’s label?
Ah, yes, I believe that is true. It is also during a time when everyone in rock and roll seemed to be using the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording studio and frankly I think the sonic quality of those albums done in that studio really sucked. I’ll have to pull out some old vinyl records and check the liner notes now… There goes an afternoon!
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I’m surprised you didn’t follow up the blog post with George Thorogoods Get a hair cut and get a real job. Damn now thats going to be stuck in my head all day!
Great Page Byron I love this comic more every time I visit.
I believe I’ve used George’s song already… will have to search the archives for that one or else… damn… that is a GREAT song for today. Nuts…
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Oh, and I’m really glad you’re liking the comic! Glad to have you along for the ride!
I’m with Jeff & you on this one Byron. I turned down jobs back in the day because they wanted me to cut my hair, too. When I came home from the barbershop in tears after a botched haircut when I was 11 that even my dad acknowledged was horrible, I started growing it out, & other than the occasional trim and sad-to-admit experimentation with the mullet in the mid-80’s have never cut it off. I was always the longhair of my bunch even when long hair was en vogue, and am proud that also at 53, I still am. It’s great to see that long hair is coming back, too.
The “alternate” Bad Co. you’re thinking of, was put together by Simon Kirke & Mick Ralphs in the mid 80’s after Rogers left. They wanted to do something new, but their label – Atlantic, said it wouldn’t back anything other than a Bad Co. project, so they hired Brian Howe who had done vocals for ted Nugent, and put Bad Co. back together. While nothing beats Paul Rogers Bad Co., some of the Brian Howe stuff is quite good. Both their middle albums (out of 4) – “Dangerous Age” & “Holy Water” are worth a listen or two, and spawned some really good tracks – notably “No Smoke Without a Fire” & “Holy Water”.
Well, now I gotta go dig those up on iTunes and take a listen. It was my understanding it was a totally new line-up going by the name Bad Company, not just minus Rodgers. I’ll have a listen here in a bit…
I’ve always had longer hair. In 2nd grade, in the age of crew-cuts and flat-tops, I was the ONLY boy with hair on his ears. The Beatles had nothing on me for sure in 1964… High School was a HUGE fight with my Dad who thought I was going to be a hippie or something. Geez, all I wanted to do was play my bass and listen to Deep Purple… who had time to be a hippie? Besides, the hippie age was for my oldest sister, not me.
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Well, there was always the classic David Crosby “Almost Cut My Hair,” but a bit late now. And Manfred Mann’s “Signs.”
Very creative use of the large format, by the way. I’d have said it was four strips stacked on top of each other if I’d only taken a quick, casual read.
I’m sorry to see the zoo arc end so soon. I was expecting a baboon hunt of some sort. Seriously … Jeff (and Bud) stalking stoned baboons (by the light of the moon) through a zoo ..? I can see the danger in that, though. Such a story arc might continue for half a year … maybe they’ll “moonlight” it once or twice to settle the score. 😉
Love the shocked look of horror on Bud’s face in panel #2.
Oh. Jeff has eyes ..??!! 😯
Who said we’re done with the Zoo? He just got fired… hmmm…. 🙂
See!? I like that I don’t put up a song and then YOU all suggest stuff. Now that’s good stuff right there! Keep the suggestions coming… maybe I’ll do a contest on “Pick the song of the week” type thingy…
Could be fun…
Now free those animals and start a new rock band with ’em!
PARTY ANIMAAAAAAALS!
Floyd “Animals” man… Did you know they had HUGE ass balloons of pigs and stuff in concert and then blew them up? That got even the stoners attention back then…
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In the post-Waters version of Floyd (unfortunately, the only incarnation I saw), they brought back the flying pig a few times. I caught two shows in the mid-80s. Weird mix of stuff off the Wall and Animals playing – though, gotta admit that the Gilmour-arranged band did, indeed, sound incredible.
Giant pig the size of a semi-trailer comes sailing out of the darkness, dribbling, er, something from it’s penis all over the audience, swinging around crazy like all sickness through the hate-speech rant from the Wall. Oh yeah .. good times, good times … 😯 😕
Speaking as one of the virile follically challenged, if you’re 53 and have that kind of hair, you grow it, brother. Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair. (There’s the song for the day, man.) 🙂
Hot damn, the Cowsills “Hair” from 1969. I have that freakin’ single believe it or not! On the MGM label and everything! And yes, that would be the perfect song for today… hints at what’s coming, but doesn’t give it away. Nice one!
You get a shiny new dime…
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haha byron, this comic is awesome. cant beat walking out a job! hell yeah!
Hey man! How you doing? Good to hear from you!
Yep, nothing better than walking out on a stupid job. Helps to have other work lined up, but that’s not stopped me in the past.
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hha same here! nothing more invigorating then no obligation. things are good, just busy busy, still able to stop in and check on the comic and see how youre doing. keep up the work man, people still love it!
ha, well that didn’t take much huh? Do NOT threaten the hair.
Well, that’s Jeff. 🙂
If any boss told me to cut my hair or they would fire me, they’d be hit with a equal rights lawsuit faster than they could print the pink slip. If women can have both short and long hair, than men should have the same rights. Long hair forever, man!
Well, this is *1977* and those kind of rights were, um, ignored back then. Bosses did whatever they felt like (and often did). But, today, yep, you can’t really say too much to an employee.
And I’m with you on the long hair stance. I look terrible with short hair.
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I do some acting on the side and have to change my hair for parts (for instance, I shaved off my beard for my last gig and I’m growing out some muttonchop sideburns for an upcoming role), but I agree that if the hair doesn’t affect job performance it’s none of the boss’s goddamn business.
In the post-Waters version of Floyd (unfortunately, the only incarnation I saw), they brought back the flying pig a few times. I caught two shows in the mid-80s. Weird mix of stuff off the Wall and Animals playing – though, gotta admit that the Gilmour-arranged band did, indeed, sound incredible. Giant pig the size of a semi-trailer comes sailing out of the darkness, dribbling, er, something from it’s penis all over the audience, swinging around crazy like all sickness through the hate-speech rant from the Wall. Oh yeah .. good times, good times … 😯 😕