Not only is Dawn Griffin a talented graphic designer, published childrens book illustrator, webcomic creator and my table buddy at C2E2, but now can add assistant script consultant for 1977 to her resume. In a chat with Dawn, the subject came up of how art majors at her college would make glass bongs shaped like a penis. And I thought what a great thing for Jeff to have and bingo… today’s comic was born. Yes, somehow our conversation ended up on smoking pot and bongs. How on Earth did that happen? I have no idea…
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Blown – Bachman Turner Overdrive, 1973.
Besides being a great title for today’s comic, BTO’s “Blown” has a bit of history to it. Only interesting to us BTO fanboys, BTW. First, it is written and sung by Tim Bachman, one of three Bachman brothers in BTO at the time. Next, after the second album was released, Tim was given his walking papers by older brother Randy. Then to add insult to injury, Randy lifted the rhythm guitar part (including the peppy drum riff) from “Blown” to write “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” which went on to become not only a number one hit in the USA, but just about everywhere in the world. Since Randy “wrote” “YASNY”, Tim didn’t get a dime from it. “YASNY” then catapulted BTO into super stardom and they became one of the bigger stadium rock acts of the mid 70s. To bad for you Tim.

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