Wonder where those drum sticks are going to be in about two minutes? Hmmm… Never mess with Robyn, and L.A. is about to find that out first hand.
Lots of changes happening for Plan 9 now that their on the road to success. 70s cameo on Wednesday.
The Doors final album had a couple Top 40 hits on it, particularly memorable was the haunting “Riders On The Storm”, but it is the title track that became an FM album track favorite and personally I think it’s the best track on the album. “Mr. Mojo risin’…” for sure. Robyn is anything BUT an L.A. Woman, but she’s running into them.
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Furious Robyn is furious! Great expression in panel 2 🙂
Been practicing different expressions for the characters. Not easy. I can do just about any expression, but then to maintain the character’s overall look is the hard part.
Thanks! Some serious butt-kicking is about to transpire… 🙂
I always wondered how the trick was done. I guess you just lug a sketch book around with you and draw and draw and draw until you get it right.
Exhausting.
But worth it to judge by the results. Nice crisp drawing on this one. Well done.
Yeah, I use a lot of reference material and you just practice drawing until you get something you like. I like a simple catalog of expressions, but every so often I like to mix it up a bit. Robyn’s rage needed the right look and it took a lot of fussing to get her mouth right. I could be digging ditches, so I don’t complain about it!
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uh oh, Time for a beating, Chicago style!
The City of Big Shoulders is famous for it’s beef, pizza and beatings. Even Jim Croce knew this… I almost picked “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” for this comic title, but the title including a name turned it off for me.
Is she going to teach him how to eat with chopsticks??
The hard way… 🙂
I think Robyn is going to do a drum solo on the director’s head………. Then she might turn them drumsticks sideways and stick them up the director’s tucchus!
That’s just about right… 🙂
Been waiting for this to happen…
Me too. Time for L.A. to get a hand full of Plan 9’s drummer!
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Never cottoned much to The Doors or their long works (“L.A. Woman” and “Light My Fire” get a lot of airplay locally). I think they were probably one of those bands that really shone live, where the long passages would give plenty of scope for improvising.
The thought of which, for some reason, just made me flash on Spinal Tap doing “Jazz Odyssey” for an audience of, what, about eight people in a zoo.
I am not one for long, drawn out solos either in the studio or live. I get bored. Led Zeppelin turned one song into a 30 minute opus. God, move on man… But it is one way to fill up a concert. I know I’m opening the door for a lot of abuse on that one…
“Light My Fire” in long form grates on your nerves after a while with that high-pitched organ solo by Ray. He’s a good keyboardist, but that solo just drones on. “Fire” when it has been chopped down a tad is a much better song. One of those times when the radio version was actually better.
Oh, one last follow up on “Lola”… No, changing one word did not ruin the song. Rather that he was forced to change it for a BBC rule. Most stations in the USA played the “coca” version anyway. Also, did the BBC change “Come Together” with it’s line “he shoots Coca-cola…”? Just wondering…
My favorite Doors track has to be “Not To Touch The Earth.” Embarrassingly I didn’t discover it until ’82 when I found it on a jukebox in a local bar in Trumansburg, NY. But ever since I tried to wear that copy out, that’s been The Doors to me.
I’d agree with you on “Light My Fire.” It doesn’t help that hearing the title always reminds me of Arthur Brown’s “Fire”, one of the songs that’s permanently stuck in my head since the first time I heard that “I am the god of hell fire, and I bring you…”
Once again, I believe it was law, not caprice. I thought American’s would “get” this point straight away, what with them being so attuned to undue influence in Government (while not doing much to stop it). The BBC was a state owned operation. The State did not endorse *anyone’s* products. This meant that the advertising jingle “I’d like to teach the world to sing” *also* had the words changed so The New Seekers could market themselves via the pop music charts (which could be heard on a Saturday in reverse order from #30 to # 1 on Radio One – The Hated BBC). Nobody died, and the end result was that changing one word poured millions into the coffers. All the episode proves is that Davies and Co hadn’t the artistic integrity to blow their careers over it, because after all, when all’s said and done, it’s *one effing word* that doesn’t change anything significant about the song.
I’ll bet you lot also are buying that “Pirate Radio” tag line that the BBC “banned rock and roll”, despite the fact that the major hits of the day by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks (yes, they had a long, successful string of earlier hits – Lola was just the first one in ages to break the charts for them) were being heard every day on Radio One by yours truly, and there was a weekly pop TV show “Top of the Pops” that became iconic as being simultaneously the acme and nadir of a group’s “making it” in the biz. TOTP is deprecatingly referenced in “Saturday Gigs”, an autobio of Mott The Hoople (who became Very Big Indeed after a TOTP gig), a band whose first album kicks off with an instrumental version of “You’ve Really Got Me” as seen in 1966 on Top of the Pops (I know this for sure ‘cos I recorded the Christmas ’66 show on a 3″ reel-to-reel tape and played the show until the tape went threadbare).
On another 7″ tape we had “Autumn Almanack”, “Dead End Street” (Kinks) “I’ll Be There” (Four Tops), “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman” (Aretha Franklin), “Fire” (Crazy World of Arthur Brown), “Happy Jack” (Who) and a handful of Beatles & Stones songs, recorded from the BBC Radio One.
Interestingly, it was a farcical incident during a Rolling Stones TOTP performance that got the BBC to change their rules so that artists had to cut a new (and unique) backing track for their appearance on TOTP. Before that, everyone (including the Stones) simply lip-synched to the single.
Yah. The BBC hated Rock and Roll.
I’ve always loved the way she did things. 🙂
Robyn is a fun character and she doesn’t get much “shine” time, so I’m trying to balance her out with the others.
BTW, nice avatar of Hank! I know it’s the tail of the word balloon, but it almost looks like he’s smoking something…
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Robyn is awesome in this.
Thanks! Gotta give our drummer some screen time… 🙂
what is she going to do with those sticks I wonder….
As with most drummers, they become weapons of mass destruction when you irk them.
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I’m not really wondering what she’s going to do with the sticks, but I’m kinda wondering where they came from. Like some sort of drummer trick or something.
Ah-ha! Finally someone asks the question that’s been on my mind all these months now with Robyn… where in the heck does she keep those drum sticks? Tight jeans and a skimpy top does not provide ample hiding places for those babies.
Kinda like Batman digs out ALL of those wonderful toys out of his utility belt, yet can sit snugly in the Bat-mobile without given himself an accidental enema. Must be a 4th Dimensional thing…
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For those who have seen the final episodes of the first (21st century) season of Doctor Who, the answer is obvious. And also NSFW 😛
‘…muttermuttermutterbeendoingthatforsolongshecouldcrackcoconutsmuttermutter…’
Well, crap! Now I gotta go look that one up! Like I don’t spend enough time over at YouTube as it is…
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Hint: the ever so buff and dashing Captain Jack Harkness produces a gun out of…well, it was left to the imagination, but John Barrowman (the actor who plays Harkness) assured viewers afterwards that the gun was indeed on his, um, person at the time. Muhahahahaha…
dig that expression in the 2nd panel, I’d be pissed too! Can’t wait to see what Miss South-Side does now…
Thanks! Spent too much time on it, but it did turn out nicely.
I think we know what’s coming… Robyn’s reputation precedes her!
Love The Doors reference! She seems a bit upset. A woman and drum sticks can get ugly
“Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown,” would be terrified of her right now!