I would take that as a definite sign… run, man! I hated when folks or relatives would tell me to cut my hair (still do and yes it’s too damn long for my age…). TV time for Plan 9! Some excitement is about to happen as Bud and the gang meet the Director and his Assistant. Some 1977 TV actor cameos too!
Network Executives hand down note cards to the Producers of TV shows on content to cut or change. The “suits” as they’re referred to are hated by the creative folks as they water down a lot of funny stuff to make TV “middle of the road” so they offend the least amount of people.
TV shows are also programmed by the “LOP” theory, as I was taught back in my Broadcasting day. L.O.P. stands for Least Objectionable Programming. Meaning, you poor slobs will watch SOMETHING, even if it’s bad, rather then turn off the TV. Once I learned this, it ruined TV for me. I hardly watch any TV. Some shows, sure, but most I skip just for that reason. I’d rather turn on a good rock album then watch “Dancing with the Star”… but that’s me!
The Five Man Electrical Band had TWO hits… of course everyone knows “Signs” but do you remember their second hit? “Absolutely Right” was actually a fun pop song and I have the single. Finally got it on CD when their “hits” CD was released a few years back. Both are great songs, and Signs fits today’s comic nicely! BTW… this was covered by Tesla a few years back… they did not write it… just so you youngsters know!
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damned long-haired freaky people.
oh wait.
i AM one o’ them long-haired freaky people.
–dee!
Sounds like an editor at a syndicate
Would the suits have actually worn a pony tail back in 1977? Most of the pictures of execs from the time, like Fred Silverman, Don Taffner and Brandon Tartikoff, showed that they didn’t let their hair grow below the collar back then.
Of course, if this guy was the one responsible for A YEAR AT THE TOP and knew that his career was just about over, he’d probably have said, “Aw the hell with it,” and let it go to hell, so to speak…
I am married to a long haired freaky person. Thank god he is a freelancer. None of that “cut your hair” crap. Also, still loving the song widgets. So cool to have theme music.
Hey, what a coincidence! I am married to a long-haired freaky person too!
Aaaaah! The joy of being incorportated! 😛
Signs.. Good song man, and I didn’t know this Canadian band crossed the border! 😛
I actually prefer my hair shorter but I get yelled at when I get a haircut.
I’m so stuck in the future. All I could think was “where is his blue tooth ear piece?” hahaha.
The Network Exec looks a bit like an 80’s exec, but who am I to say I was only 2 years old when this was happening. 🙂
Wow, let the compromising begin…hopefully not. In life we all run into spots where people want us to change to fit an image, and I guess as we get older we all find ourselves doing that to some degree or another. I feel for Bud, to want to do something and immediately be asked to change. I’m sure this is all part of Judy’s ploy, get one compromise and it’s easier to get another, and before long she’ll own ever part of who Bud Chambers really is.
Have Bud cut his hair? Silly corporate suit man! You want to preserve the FORMS of youth counterculture while stripping it of all CONTENT in order to bring in the young spendy teen demographic while not scaring off the advertisers.
My hair is too long too, but then so is my beard. I’m caught in the middle.
Seeing the “suit,” I’m immidiately reminded of all the business dudes in “Boogie Nights.”
The comment about Tesla strikes home. Nobody remembers the original artists anymore. I can’t count the number of times I’ve corrected people on Cum On Feel The Noize and told them Quiet Riot are a weak bunch of posers compared with Slade (who were a hard bunch of deliberately-posing musicians). Quiet Riot’s version was music to dance to; Slade’s original was, as was said at the time, “Music to wreck concert halls to.”
Well,
I was one of the long haired hippy freaks but saddly that patterned baldness crap just sucks and I didnt want to run around life as a guy with a toilet bowl head – completely bald now. Going bald gracefully? screw it! just get it over with. /sigh. Much sorrow for the hair man, down to the belt. Anyway yeah, i hated that too. 🙂
hmmm.. this one looks vaguely familiar… as familiar as Byron’s reiterated stories. *grins*
Sorry, inside joke for Byron there.
Still get a kick out of the expressions.
My hair is down my back. When it got to shoulder level in 11th grade, I kept being told to get a haircut. Now I see that long hair is making a comeback. I’m a trendsetter! Or…a trend re-setter.