I think Robyn has now left her mark on L.A., and of course, now Richard has big balls… I pissed off the Dennis DeYoung fan club a few comics back, let’s see how the Carpenters fans chime in on this one. I really doubt Carpenters fans read THIS comic. Now, I did tone this one down, as I was going to have Robyn smack Karen Carpenter around, but being as Karen passed away tragically, I decided to take on her brother instead. So, I’ve got that going for me…
AC/DC’s 1976 “Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap” was named after a Saturday morning cartoon! The term “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” is an homage to the cartoon Beany and Cecil, which Angus Young watched when he was a child (gasp, that makes him as old or older than me!). One of the cartoon’s characters was named Dishonest John, and carried a business card that read, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Holidays, Sundays and Special Rates.” I LOVED Beany & Cecil and they make an appearance in the rarely seen “First Fifty” 1977 comics that I did way back in 2007. These “rare” comics are now tucked away in the Subscriber area… mainly as they suck big time, but they are fun to look at once in a while.
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Ha! Great tidbits of info there. Fun page today.
Yeah, I seem to like having Robyn smack folks around… must be this pent up aggression or something! Thanks for reading!
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Yes! Yes! YES! You have no idea how much I longed to do exactly that back in the day. What an irritating dweeb he was. Reasonably talented player, but so lame-arse in his tastes that he might as well have not been any good. And as for that ghastly caterwauling sister of his…eww, don’t get me started.
I think when I look back at the worst offences of vanilla MOR pop music in the ’70s, I’d put the Carpenters even lower down the food chain than, say, the Osmonds. Now *that’s* scary o_O
Yeah, I always felt Richard was a bit of egotist. I actually SAW the Carpenters in concert (a girl I was dating wanted to see them… we broke up shortly after that…). One, they only played for 45 minutes. FORTY-FIVE MINUTES!! I was use to concerts that went on for at least 2 hours or more, so I was really bummed. Then, Richard plays this piano solo, and you are correct, he is a talented pianist. BUT, they dropped down this big mirror so you could see his hands as he played. What?! Man…
The only good thing about the concert was when the stage hands pulled off Karen’s drumset, her mic chord got caught in it and nearly pulled her off stage. That was funny.
My personal view is that the statute of limitations on Karen Carpenter’s immunity from pop culture mockery ran out a long time ago.
Of course, I used to do Rocky Horror Picture Show, and we’d shout out “it’s the Karen Carpenter story!” when the skeleton showed up during the intro to “The Time Warp” so maybe my standards aren’t the ones to go by.
You are correct, she is fair game. I still may have the two female drummers go at it…
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Depends on what you do with her, I suppose. All those anorexia “quips” only have so much mileage.
Much more fertile ground in the rather stunning similarity of brother to sister. Why I could probably get six issues of skiffy clone magic out of the album art alone. Then there’s the whole “Prince and Pauper” thing to be reworked.
I’m not the type to make fun of how someone passed away… a bit tasteless. Now, making fun of her music and her brother. no problem. Who knows, maybe Robyn will have met her match with Karen Carpenter (doubtful… but one never knows…)
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Oh Yes, Bennie & Cecil!! I can still hear them singing “Raggmopp”: R, A, G, G, M, O, P, P, RAGGMOPP, doliut, do da doot do…. oh yeah.
And you guys (yeah, you too, Byron), LEAVE MY GIRL ALONE!!!! 😛 It possible to like other types of musics and artist than just hard rock!
Now, I will agree with you on that liking diverse styles of music is not only possible, but I think a requirement. There are some Carpenters songs I can listen too. But, Karen had this FABULOUS voice and I miss that. I always hoped she do solo work (which she did apparently, but I’ve not heard it yet) and break away from the sappy work of the Carpenters and do some other styles of work. She could have been a monster of a talent beyond the sound of the Carpenters.
So, your “girl” is safe from me. I’ll also admit I really dig “Goodbye To Love” and have it on my iTunes account. It was the first “ballad” to feature a “heavy” guitar sound. I can remember certain stations in Chicago that would play that song up to the solo part then fade it out. Funny as hell, actually.
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Now Robyn needs to find Karen Carpenter, and her life will be complete.
I’m still thinking the two should meet… would be interesting…
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Of course, the fact that Karen Carpenter played the drums contradicts the whole set-up for the reason the director ended up in the hospital in the first place. 🙂
As a person who has been on the receiving end of several drummer’s anger (and their flying sticks) you can bet Karen certainly had her moments with musicians, producers and yes, TV directors.
I guess I’m not the only one who didn’t see that coming… That was really funny!
LOL… yeah, the fourth frame makes me chuckle even after seeing it now for a couple days (drawing, inking and posting).
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DJ you dirty guy!!!!
I LOVE Cecil the Seasick Serpent. He was just a blast. His voice was the very first one I ever tried to imitate… unsuccessfully too I must admit.
But as voices go, I wish I could order a fancy meal at some French restaurant in Krusty the Clown’s voice. Apparently Dan Castellaneta does that from time to time… what a stitch!
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On the subject of drummers, anger, and girls who rock…
Back around 1990, I got kicked out of one of the bands I’d played with. I had taken the mic away from the singer when he got drunk during a gig and started cussing out a heckler in the audience. Being as I was already on the shit lists of the rhytmn guitarist (who had been dating my best friend, and then broke up with her just before Valentine’s Day, for which I gave him endless hell) and the drummer (who was a fervent Baptist… and I was a radical Pagan), they guys backed the singer up when he gave them the “him or me” speech.
Fast forward a few months. The singer gets drunk at another gig, falls off the stage, gets canned. The rhythmn guitarist gets his cousin to take over. She’s pretty hot. Drummer gets a crush on her. It’s not reciprocated. Drummer stews about this. Finally loses his shit at her. During a gig. In the same place where the drunk ex-singer had fallen off the stage. The drummer gets so mad he throws his drums at the singer. Gets fired. The guitarist and his cousin come to my place. I get re-hired for the new lineup.
Only in rock-n-roll, right? 🙂
You seem to have come in pairs today… hmmm… split personality?
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*chuckles* Yeah, there were some typos in the first post, so I fixed ’em, re-posted, then realized there was no way to delete the first one!
On the subject of drummers, anger, and girls who rock…
Back around 1990, I got kicked out of one of the bands I’d played with. I had taken the mic away from the singer when he got drunk during a gig and started cussing out a heckler in the audience. Being as I was already on the shit lists of the rhythmn guitarist (who had been dating my best friend, and then broke up with her just before Valentine’s Day, for which I gave him endless hell) and the drummer (who was a fervent Baptist… and I was a radical Pagan), the guys backed the singer up when he gave them the “him or me” speech.
Fast forward a few months. The singer gets drunk at another gig, falls off the stage, gets canned. The rhythmn guitarist gets his hot-girl cousin to take over. Drummer gets a crush on her. It’s not reciprocated. Drummer stews about this. Finally loses his shit at her. During a gig. In the same place where the drunk ex-singer had fallen off the stage. The drummer gets so mad he throws his drums at the singer. Gets fired. The guitarist and his cousin come to my place. I get re-hired for the new lineup.
Only in rock-n-roll, right? 🙂
“It’s only rock and roll, but I like it, yes I do!”
Yep, we musicians walk a weird line sometimes… 🙂
I so identify with Robyn,
Actually, I have a sister who’s temper is much along the lines of Robyn’s… so I had a great role model as a young boy…
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Me and him both never saw that coming. 🙂
You cartoonists must be thinking alike today. This is the second Big Balls refernce I’ve heard today. 😀
http://www.woodyafterhours.com/2009/12/07/its-an-acdc-song-honest
I’ll sue him later…
Actually, his was a very clever way of working the song in as well! Score for AC/DC today!
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Bon Scott will be remembered well 😀
I was going to say the same thing George. So I’ll make the same comment I did over at woodys’ I always thought in that song he was singing “Dirty Deeds done to Sheep”
Well, I did raise sheep once on my Dad’s farm… just saying…
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it’s like MAGIC! she gonna pull a rabbit outta his ass next?
Bullwinkle: “Watch me pull a rabbit out my ass!” Rocky: “Again… hey, wait a minute…”
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Ugh! Magician’s secret tricks: misdirection and a very, VERY low blow.
Dirty Strips, Done Dirt Cheap! (yeah, I typed the same thing over on the “Woody After Hours” wall…guess we all have AC/DC on the brain today).
I was an AC/DC day it seems… that was too funny Paul used the same song for their strip… I was actually spying outside his window…
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Script from Beenie and Cecil show, for preview of following show:
Cecil is getting the crap knocked of him and action stops.
Cecil turns and looks into thecamera and asks:
“Do You think there is too much violence on television?”
turns back to action and fight continues.
THAT is what I loved about that show. It made fun of the industry too. It was really “far out” for it’s time as Cecil was into bongos and coffee house type music of the day. “Cool, man, cool.” Long before it was “cool” to say that. Great show.
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