Bud is doing what I spent a majority of my “free” time in the mid to late 70s… soldering. I built a lot of my own stuff, including a neat little audio mixer from scratch. I built three synthesizers from kits and after those, I put away the soldering iron for a long time.
“Pictures at an Exhibition” was a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer in 1971 and “Nutrocker” was a take on Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” suite. I love when rock and classical mix. I had a hard time coming up with a title for squirrels on a fence, so this seems to fit…
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He’s eventually gonna have to move the exotic pets, unless those squirrels can stop the city’s wrecking ball………
Almost forgot. WILLLLLMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂
Stranger than fiction. In my days as a commercial real estate valuer I visited a vacant shop in a tatty part of North london. Looking round the back of the property I found a power lead trailing from the downstairs window to the shop next door. The occupiers were running their commercial size fridges from my client’s power supply!
Nothing’s new eh?
So just what is Bud making, I wonder?
Damn! And there I was thinking I was being all trans-atlantic by using ‘real estate’ rather than ‘property’. Glad you like tatty though, it’s one of my favourites!
*laughs at the ELP song title*
Maaaaaaan, I wonder how much you have to “inhale” before “Nutrocker” sounds like a good name for a song… 😉
(For some odd reason, this strip now has the ghost of Foreigner in my head, singing “Headknocker” – a song I could never stand. Even as a kid, I thought it sounded lame. Now…? In the Stupid Lyrics Dept., I’ll take Kiss over Foreigner any day.)
Don’t forget “git” and “chuffed”. I’m sure musicobsessive can help with the proper usage.
And speaking of Barney Rubble, was it intentional that the neighbor woman looks like Wilma Flintstone?
Looking at the first couple of comments, I see the answer is “yes.” Maybe I shouldn’t post at 12:30 anymore.
>RE: satyrblade – To me, Progressive Rock meant “We’re so stoned these long songs sound good to us”:
*laughs* With a few minor exceptions (like Rush or King Crimson), I totally agree! And Rush didn’t turn their already-long songs into solo-jam jerk-a-thons, either (although Crimson could be known to do so), so I’m not sure they count as that kind of Prog anyway.
>Some groups over time lose their charm and Foreigner is one of those groups. Some of their rock tunes still hold up, but the rest of the 80s “rock ballad” shit from Styx, Journey, REO Speedwagon and others just sounds so lame today. (If I hear “Babe” “Take It On The Run” or “Open Arms” again I’ll break my sound card!!)
Gods, in total agreement there! I got over Foreigner in my early teens (okay, I confess I still enjoy “Long Long Way from Home,” but that’s about it), never liked REO (save the live version of “Riding the Storm Out”), and began hating Styx after Pieces of Eight (“Three cheers for the Lords of the Ring/ For the magic and mystery they bring…” WTF?!?!?!). Like you said, a handful of songs like “Crystal Ball” and “Wheel in the Sky” still sound good once in a blue moon, but bands like that show why Punk was so damned necessary. (No pun intended in reference to The Damned – and yes, I became an utter Punk fan after seeing The Plasmatics on Tom Snyder around 1980 and The Ramones in Rock-n-Rll High School around the same time.)
Funny you should mentioned Journey this morning. I was a stalwart Judas Priest maniac in my teens, back when I was dating Randi… who was mad for Journey. We argued constantly about the merits and flaws of our respective favorites. So who am I listening to right now as I read your strip and write this response? Judas Priest! Some things, thank all the gods, never get old!