Taking On New York – Page 1
Pull those seat belts tight one more time and hang on to your butt
as we launch the “Taking On New York” storyline today!
To kick off the story, we are catching up with Old Bud and daughter Ivy, who are now 65 and 25 years old respectively. This is my most aggressive attempt at doing an actual story and not just a bunch of jokes strung together to loosely resemble a story. Don’t worry, we’ll be back in 1977 soon enough.
I had my 4th COVID shot (booster #2) over the weekend and it kinda took the wind out of my sails, so to speak. I felt fine except for being really tired, especially Sunday. With a comic convention appearance coming up this weekend, I wanted to be ready for all the little kids and their germs.
Also, welcome to 7-11 day! Go to the nearest 7-11 store by you at either 7:11 a.m. or p.m. and ask the clerk behind the counter what time it is. They LOVE that! Fred Winston, a D.J. on Chicago radio back in the ’70s and ’80s, would every so often call up a 7-11 store at 7:11 a.m. just to have them answer the phone “7-11.” Never got old.
And today’s song is from none other than Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” and is my favorite tune on the album. This song kinda sums up my feelings on religion, and that’s all I’ll say as I’ve learned there are three things not to discuss publicly in this world: 1- Religion, 2- Money, and 3- Politics. None of those conversations end up with both sides going “Hey, you have a good point! Cheers!” Nope, not at all.
And a quick Jethro Tull story for you. I have a cousin is who is one year older than me, and we went to the same college where we were roommates for two years. He wanted the Jethro Tull hits album titled “M.U. – the best of Jethro Tull” for Christmas and ended up getting the “JT” album which was a James Taylor album.
Nice ! can’t wait for more.
Going to take the rest of the year at one page a week to get it all told. I have the script written, now I just have to draw all the pages. You know, when I retired and moved to North Carolina I thought I’d have more free time, but turns out I’m busier than ever. So much for retiring. 🙂
Always liked Tull, Aqualung is one of my least favourite of their songs though.
There are so many I think are better, too many to list, except ‘Bungle in the Jungle’ 😉
Tull has such a deep catalog, it would be hard to pick just one song as a favorite. For me, the album “Aqualung” was the most consistent for my ears and “Wind Up” was one hell of a sung to end the album with.
Not sure what my favorite Tull song is. But every winter my fave Holiday song is Ring Out Solstice Bells.
Mine too, right along with ‘The Restroom Door said Gentlemen’ 🙂
I don’t know if I can name a favourite but the Songs from the Woods album is one I play every so often and I like everything on it, particularly ‘Velvet Green’ and ‘Hunting Girl’.
For some reason ‘Cold Wind from Valhalla’, ‘Dunringill’. ‘The Mouse Police Never Sleeps’ and ‘Sleeping With the Dogs’ are among the first ones I think of when considering Tull tunes to listen to, and I’ll be binging right after this, but there are so many I’m still finding new ones or live versions that sound like new ones.
“Wayne Newton is in Juice Newton’s sleeve. Heaven knows where Olivia Newton-John is…Elton John.” —“Perfect Strangers.”
After wild & crazy parties in my college dorm, I’d have to spend an hour or so the next day sorting all the records back into their proper sleeves. Drunken college students are not known for putting vinyl back in the right sleeves during the heat of loud party. 🙂
Radio DJ’s, back in the days when we used actual records instead of a pre-recorded computer generated ‘show’, weren’t much better.
Which was a real pain when you got an idea for a segue halfway through the tune playing and scrambled to get the record out of the library which, when you took it out, wasn’t remotely close to the one you wanted and the jacket said it was, and the jacket for the one that was in that one held something different then either of them…at least the plain 45 jackets had holes so you could read the labels, and nice things written on them like actual play time, length of intro you could talk over, type of ending (fade, cold, etc)
Local rock station does. I stopped listening to them. I went digital in 85. Record pops annoy the hell out of me.
ivy should put the Jethro Tull album in J file if Bud uses surnames or T file if Bud uses last which most record stores do. Incidentally that’s my drag name what a coincidence and is in part the happy result of romance and the mystic frog. Another coincidence is that I dressed as one of the ladies of the evening in a halter top, hot pants and go go boots like in the back of Jethro Tells album War for a 1970s party 5 years ago if I was really doing drag it’s the mini dresses with pumps of course. Ivy has grown up into beautiful woman I bet she was the cutest little girl and Bud was a good father but he’ll bore her about the good ole days. She’ll say no but at least Bud throw a baseball Henry Winkler could not. So in honor of evil Heathers everywhere I give the Fonz gets a wedge “Aaaaaaa epppppp my (blank loins) oh the pain.” Wonder what were your grades in college and did you take STEM science ,technology , engineering and medicine or liberal arts. Maybe trying to be gods gift to woman while some one like Rocko was bullying on you like undergrads fun TV show. Then again Rocko would be easier to date than Cal. Since Cal has too many women some better looking. But with Rocko that can’t happen.
Nah, it’s a band name so it goes under the first letter of the first word, just like Uriah Heep.
It gets more complicated with Alice Cooper, which was the name of a band and of one band member who then became a solo artist. Probably not worth it to put the first few records under A and the rest under C.
Grats on your fourth shot! I had mine months ago. Can’t be too safe. Or have too much Tull.