I hate small places and I can’t imagine sitting inside of one of those cake things is all that comfortable. Anyone ever actually seen one of these things? I know they’re not really cake most times or have a very thin layer of cake to eat, but I’m going for comedy here…
Let’s see on Monday if Robyn takes the offer or not. Times are tough, so just maybe…
Queen. I immediately bought their first two albums. I heard “Keep Yourself Alive” on the radio and had to have it. The rest of the first album is total rock and roll. I love it. The second album quickly moved into Queen’s trademarked layered sound and was not as heavy as the first album, but the middle portion of “Father to Son” really makes some noise and is one of my favorites to this day. Also, I quickly noted the tiny line “No Synthesizers Used” on both albums. Seems they were not impressed by the technology or something. It was also a way of pointing out Brian May’s incredible guitar playing and the even more incredible sounds he squeezed out of it. Enjoy your Friday and weekend. Fall is upon us nearly, so get outside if you can. Me? I’m mowing the lawn for nearly the last time.
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One of the reasons Brian could play that guitar so well is because he and his dad built it… so he knew it very very well…
I heard it was a custom job. I’ve built a lot things but never could make one sing like Brian does that guitar.
A truly mighty musician can make just about *any* instrument sing! Back in the day – technically, the day *after* the day, I suppose, since I mean post-1977 – I had a friend by the name of Steve Waller (known for his work as a mid-period member of Manfred Mann and the soundtrack of the BBC series Tutti Frutti, among other things) who could make ANY guitar sound like the voices of angels…or demons. And he did it all with his hands, no effects needed. Occasionally another player would challenge him, sure that he had concealed effects units somewhere – so he’d trade guitars with them and commence to playing – with exactly the same awesome results 🙂
Ah, but that’s only *one* of the reasons. The other main reason is that the man’s a bloody genius 🙂
Is that the cake that someone left out in the rain? It took so long to bake it, and we’ll never have that recipe again …
Love it! A “Mac Arthur’s Park” reference. Love the original by Richard Harris, even though it is sappy. Guilty pleasures I guess. But unfortunately, my parents knowing I liked that song, but me Donna Summer’s double live album in 1978 because she covered Mac Park… disco style. I didn’t have the heart to tell them I thought disco sucked the big one…
Haha, I actually knew somebody who used to jump out of those! Not my first choice for a job, but hey, if the shoe fits you might as well wear it. 🙂
Or more appropriately, if the cake fits… can’t be too big of a space in there. 🙂
Hahahaha…wait…there’s no airholes in those things???
Got covered with icing… 😛
At least Leslie got in after the baking process or this comic would have taken a bizarre turn. 🙂
Oddly enough, the original draft of this comic did have you believe the girl inside was dead and the owner going “Third time this month…” but I felt it was a bit over the top (from a comic who’s protagonist transforms into a woman…).
Yeaaaa, Queen!!!! Back in the day, my hardcore “rock only” buds & even some bandmates, consigned Queen totally to the Glam scene, a la Sweet, T-Rex, Bowie, Gary Glitter, etc., without even listening to them. One day soon after “A Day at the Races” came out, I & the band I was in at the time was considering new songs to cover. I brought in my “AD@tR” 8-track (yeah, I had tons of ’em…) queued up “Tie Your Mother Down”, & blew them away! Needless to say, it became one of our most requested songs. I always thought, too, that Brian May was one of the best, mostly-unharolded guitar players out there. He was definately a guitar player’s guitar player though. I remember hearing an interview with Ted Nugent many years ago, & when the interviewer asked Uncle Ted who his favorite current player was, without hesitation, he said “Brian May, the man’s a monster!”. David Gilmour also cited him as one of the guitar players he’d most like to play with (& he did eventually).
For some reason, Byron, I don’t see Robyn jumping out of a cake at some stag party, boding well for a bunch of drunk, over-amped, T&A crazed party goers…
First, Queen is/was a great rock group. They did not fit into the Bowie/Sweet category at all in my opinion. They just kicked your ass in concert (from the films I’ve seen).
As far as Robyn, we’ll have to see what comes of this offer… toon in Monday!
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~giggles at the Mac~
‘k, Uncle, you hereby win my Most Awesome Creative Misspelling of the Week award for ‘unharolded’! This presumably means the Brian was unheralded by Harold. But but but *which* Harold was he unheralded by? King Harold? Harold Saxon? Harold Wilson? Harold Lauder? Colonel Harry Maybourne? Enquiring minds want to know, muhahahahaha…
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I could see Robyn doing it on a bit of a lark. So long as the money is good “enough,” she’d certainly be able to handle herself. Might only last as a one-off, as she’d likely deal rather harshly with a drunken creep. But, I could still see her having enough sense of over-the-top humor in it to give it a whirl. I mean, she is certainly no stranger to adult party games, as I recall her sharing a shower with Lorraine & a random biker dude one morning.
If nothing else, she might even rope one or two of her friends in on the gig. Hmmm. With a large enough cake, maybe she & Lorraine … 😉
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Dang! I hate double-posting, but I’m very curious to get an eyefull of Leslie. She strikes me as an airhead type who might be a fun background character to join the cast (I’ll guess platinum-haired wanna-be Playmate type).
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Is it possible that Leslie might be a he? That could be an interesting twist … finally some fan service for the ladies ..?
Oh, Leslie being a guy would be a fun twist… “Stop” with the ideas… 🙂
Hey, I’ve done some service for the lady readers (the afore mentioned shower buddy showing up in the buff to get a beer…). I’ve got some Jeff stuff coming up that will be a bit steamy too to take care of a certain fantasy for TAFKAN.
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NEKKID VIKING FTW!!!
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Now I can hire you as a script writer… You know I’m not beyond stealing ideas…
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I don’t think Lorraine will show up at Robyn’s work, BUT I could see a fun desktop with the two of them!
(And yes, Robyn did share one of Lorraine’s conquests one morning. Who wouldn’t?)
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Dude, if I post it, it’s a gift. I’d be honored if anything I mention is worthy in some form or another. I’ve said it before: I consider my words & thoughts to be seeds. If they find fertile soil, Let It Grow (shameless Clapton reference).
In that vein – my vision of a desktop with the girls would involve about 1 and 1/2 G-strings, an explosion of frosting. And nothing else. Go nuts. I know I already am … 😀
Interesting that you mention the “no synthesizers used” line on the album cover. If I’m not totally mistaken, I remember that same line on the back of the first two Boston album covers as well. I remember at the time there was sort of a disdain for groups that weren’t skilled with their instruments and those that tried to make innovative sounds were kind of shunned by “classic rockers”, unfortunately.
Yeah, there were a lot of groups who were not fans of synthesizers. Synths, like any instrument, has its place. But some folks used them just to make silly noises or replace background strings with them (easier to hire one keyboardist with a Moog then 10 union orchestra players). So that was the rub.
Queen did break down and use synthesizers eventually. Now I gotta go look up the first Boston album and see if that line is on there… I think it is, as Scholz was/is an egomaniac and wanted everyone to know it was *him* making those sounds, not a synth.
Robyn will do it but be delivered to an old folks home and give half the men heart attacks..haha
Bearman wins the internets.
Now I gotta change my scripts… damn… 🙂
It’s a dirty job but Byron’s gotta do it 😛