(Friday’s comic updated really late, you may want to click back and see the completed version)
The real moral of the story…. be REALLY careful what you ask your parents, you may NOT want to know the whole story. I know my boys don’t…
One year ago, I started this story arc with the (still) unnamed daughter coming and asking “Dad” if she could go out for the evening and he answered “…not on a school night.” which promptly started our tale of Delilah dumping Bud and that lead to the California Road Trip (yes, it did).
What a helluva a year it’s been! The art of 1977 has come a long way in just a year which pleases me the most. The daughter looks a whole lot better this year than last and I’m getting the hang of creating side characters. I’ve still got a long way to go, but I’m pretty happy with what I’m churning out these days. As long as you guys are along for the ride, I’m just gonna keep trunkin’ on until I hit a wall. Not any time soon!
In 1972, at age 15, I picked up a Top 30 single (or as we called them “45s”) by Canadian rock group April Wine. I had never heard of them, but this was a great little rocker that kept me listening to AM radio even though I was thoroughly into FM rock by this point in time. Today’s comic title went to Number 1 in Canada and just into the Top 30 here in the USA. What do we know, eh? In 1977, April Wine bassist Jim Clench joined Bachman Turner Overdrive for their last two studio albums replacing the exiting Randy Bachman. When April Wine reformed in 1992, Clench rejoined and the result was 1993’s “Attitude” album which is just a damn good rock CD.
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Discussion (22) ¬
Lol, good stuff Byron!
Yeah, I enjoyed this one a lot! I’ve warped my kids to no end, so way not Bud?
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and the SUB-moral of the story is :
be ESPECIALLY careful if the parent in question was involved in rock’n’roll somehow. 😉
LOL! Yes, we former rockers have our stories… even if I only played in rowdy bar bands, them’s some stories to be told!
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I spent a year working in a pornographic bookstore. Some of the stories I have from there wound make your hair hurt……….
LOL! I’ve never heard of the term “hair hurt” before! I’ve heard “make your hair curl” (which mine is very wavy, thank you) but not that one!
Nice one! Made my day! 🙂 “My hair hurts!” Words you thought you’d never hear…
I saw a man so public spirited he rushed into one of our “personal entertainment booths” and proceed to help our buildings sanitary situation by cleaning the booth wall of a non standard surfacing material “left by the previous customer in a spurt of enthusiasm” with his tongue…… Though I was only in my twenties, I’m pretty sure this is when my hair started turning gray. : /
At the very lest its when I lost all faint in human nature for the next 15 years.
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All together now… EEEWWWWW!!!
Isn’t this why we have home video players since like, um, 1977, so we can do that in the privacy of our homes? WTF to the max…
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Now you know how I got the expression “Make your hair hurt” things like this make the memory loss of age tolerable. So many things we WANT to forget. “case in point” heh.
April Wine! I have to give you props Byron, you have some great taste in Canadian music. This Canadian girl approves. *gets out the approval stamp* Also I get the feeling I was the only kid that ever did want to hear the whole story, but I knew my parents were hilarious so it was always good for a laugh.
Hey, from the first time I heard the Guess Who on the radio, I kept an eye on Canadian artists. I saw Trooper open for BTO once, and Bryan Adams got his start (under a different pen name) by writing a song for BTO in 1978! I’m sure I’m missing a ton of great stuff, but I do my best! Anne Murray is not on my list of favorites, but she’s Canadian, so…
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*raises hand like a kid in class* Raised by a hippie rock band (and I was born in ’70), still own a working turntable (and 2 not), prolly 75 LPs–everything from the Star Wars soundtrack to the NASA moon mission recordings to how to learn Morse code to AC/DC to Zeppelin to Tubular Bells–and maybe 50 7-inch singles (mostly bad 80s pop, but “Tusk” is in there too). Dad was the lead guitar & about half the lyrics, Mom managed the band for a while, and once I tell new friends that they tend to stop wondering why I am the way I am 😉 It’s kind of like being raised by a pack of wolves, except that the wolves have better table manners…
LOL! I can relate to the table manners! After a weekend-long outdoor gig where none of us got any sleep from Friday to Sunday, we ended up in a Denny’s at 4:00AM and you’d think a pack of cavemen had entered the building. The manager tolerated us as we were ordering up a TON of food (munchies had kicked in) and we dropped a wad of cash on him to shut him up. This was also the first time I ever met a “professional” wrestler… damn, forget his name now… but his part of the “match” was to be the “bleeder”. So he would tape a very small piece of razor blade to the inside of his left thumb, and on cue, would swipe his forehead with the blade, and start to bleed like a cut pig. I am not one on blood anyway, but when he showed me the scar on his forehead, I hit the floor… out cold. Hey, no sleep and no food did me in, but I also have a weak stomach, so fainting was the way to go!
I’d enjoy a pack of wolves sometimes… 🙂
PS: Also reminds me of Bad Company’s “Running with the Pack” heh, heh…
The good kind of warped! Nice one. 🙂
Thanks Nate!
April Wine…Just between you and me. Didn’t realize that was their second coming.
If it weren’t for that single, I’d never heard of them either. They went through so many personnel changes that by the time they reappeared, it had to look into if that was indeed THE April Wine I knew. Seems it is…
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Man, I don’t think I’ll be able to “warp” my kids thoroughly enough… unless they’ll be shocked by a girl who likes BOTH comics and sports.
Eh, we can’t all be low-life’s like I was when I was 20. Makes for good humor but for lousy parenting skills. My kids are amazingly normal and really good kids. I’m surprised, happily. Perhaps I was a better role model than I thought.
It’s like this: “We don’t want to turn out like Dad, so no wildstuff…” Aw, man… I was hopin’ for a couple good drinking buddies with my boys and ZIP. None of them drink… well, it’s too early to tell for the 13 year old… I’ll offer him a beer and see if I can convert him!
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“Hang on, that’s a great idea for a sitcom! Let’s just call Michael J. Fox…”
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Great-looking epilogue. Rock on!