Don’t ask why they did this, they just did. Did you ever think something sounded good at first but then when you actually ate/drank it you about puked? Seagram’s and 7-Up are great together… replace the 7-Up with Mountain Dew and you’ve got barf. So, dried up Jalapenos ended up in the stash… perhaps not a bad thing until you try it…
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I’m old school audio. Tube amps, 15″ woofers, separate components… the whole shot. So when I hear “digitally remastered” albums of my 70s rock favorites, I cringe very hard. It’s just too harsh… tinny sounding. Maybe on tiny desktop speakers with a really muddy sub-woofer it’s okay, but on a real stereo system, it’d suck. So when I heard today’s comic title as a “remastered” version, I had to go get my vinyl album out and listen to it in all it’s sonic glory. Blasting bass, punchy guitars and knock-you-on-your-ass bass drums. Now *that’s* rock and roll.
1977 was a big year for rock and UFO’s pinnacle release “Lights Out” was burning up my turntable and cassette deck in my car big time. “Love to Love” is just a rock classic right up there with “Stairway” and other songs. But what song better fits Bud jumping around in Jalapeno delight other than “Too Hot To Handle”? None I say. Enjoy!
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Discussion (50) ¬
Awesome strip today. That’s funny about the audio. I find myself liking the ‘vintage tones’ in digital format. I love all that Dick Dale and Hendrix stuff so much that way, that I can’t listen to it on records anymore… 🙁
Records are a fading format for good reason, but I just miss the analog sound.
I want my hum, hiss, wow & flutter… but if you play it loud enough, no one hears it anyway.
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Actually, vinyl is making a small comeback – not as the dominant medium, of course, but as an increasingly popular standby.
Ironically enough, we can thank the ravers and hip-hip deejays for that. Hey, he kinda looks like a raver, here… 😉
Not a raver… just someone with his ass on fire… 🙂
Hah! What a pair of wusses! Jalapenos are like the Twinkies of hot chillies! ~sticks tongue out~ 😛
FWIW I’ve found that remastered early Zep actually does sound good. Not that that’s a great test, as I was never as impressed by them as some (because I know what the *real* thing sounded like, muhahahaha).
OTOH, symphonic music on digital media is cold refried suck. We were digitising an orchestral piece recently for a friend, and the moment I put the vinyl on and turned the volume up it was like someone had filled my head with fuzzy exploding-sherbet aural joy…
Jalapenos for us wimpy Mid-westerners are explosive. Yeah, there’s a lot more powerful stuff, but if you’re use to beef and potatoes, a single Jalapeno can be monstrous!
Some remasters are great, but on the whole they suck. I just like to keep the “youngens” hangin’ around here what REAL audio sounded like when we ranked our stereos by Watts per channel not by Gigabytes.
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I do love jalapenos – when I was out in Hellay I used to eat them like sweeties – but I suppose years of aggressive Szechuan, Korean and Viet food have made jalapenos seem even milder to me 🙂
Good one. Love the poses. Now we need to see the guinea pig’s inner monologue. :o)
The AMC series “Breaking Bad” season had a stoner trying something similar as a recipe for cooking xtal meth. Like I say, there’s no such thing as an idea so bad that some idiot can’t think of a way of making it worse.
Stupid edit. Stupid brain. AMC blahblah season ONE dribbledrool etc etc.
I will check that one out. Thanks!
OoooO! Xtal meth? Hmmm….
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Eek! Nooo! Don’t make the boys speedfreaks! It would spoil their sweet stoned innocence! 😛
No, no, I was just making fun of the name. Remember, Bud is me and I’ve not done any of those “fancy” drugs so he and Jeff will pretty much stuck with pot and beer.
What else do you need?
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Well, I was always more of a cocaine and single malt person myself. Oh, and Jack 😀
Speaking of old-style meets new style – have you heard about Rock Sugar yet?
http://www.rocksugarband.com/Default.aspx
It’s a gimmick, sure, but they’re pretty damn good at it. The lead singer is one of the best Rawk vocalists I’ve heard in ages – AND,/i> one of the best Pop ones, too! I hope he doesn’t blow his voice the way so many of the singers he’s covering have!
(Oops – format typo…)
That’s fun link! Last band I was in, Street Legal, would do “rocked out” versions of oldies, taking a cue from Van Halen’s version of “You Really Got Me” and I thought it was a great format. Glad to see a band finally kicking it out. Gimmicks? In the music industry? So it ain’t so…
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~clicks on various Rock Sugar links~
Um, what? The Man from Del Monte, he say no! The concept is amusing and the ‘band bio’ section of their website is nicely silly, but the actual execution of the hybrid songs is so vanilla that I had to keep waking myself up during every track I tried 🙁
If you want REAL parody rock, you want Steel Panther. Not only are their chops world class, but the songs – and the videos – and the ‘making of’ videos – are frakking HYSTERICAL. Chillingly (in several senses) true to life, magnificently deadpan, and easily the funniest thing since Spinal Tap. And to quote Vim Fuego from Bad News, ‘LISTEN TO THE LYRICS!!!’
Go search YouTube and be prepared to snarfle all over your screen. I say again: STEEL!PANTHER!
~shuffles off to YouTube~ …. I shall return….
You da man, Byron! I hope you feel that Steel Panther lurve. A close mate of mine (media officer for one of the leading Aussie soccer clubs) discovered them quite by accident whilst listening to the radio at work one day. ‘Hmm, sounds good,’ he thought. Then he realised what they were singing and *did* snarfle beer all over his monitor…
Speaking of old-style meets new style – have you heard about Rock Sugar yet?
http://www.rocksugarband.com/Default.aspx
It’s a gimmick, sure, but they’re pretty damn good at it. The lead singer is one of the best Rawk vocalists I’ve heard in ages – AND one of the best Pop ones, too! I hope he doesn’t blow his voice the way so many of the singers he’s covering have done!
Whoa, man… I’m freakin’ out here… didn’t you already say this? Man, I’m flashin’ back somethin’ fierce!
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I am never saying ‘double post’ again…
Double post?! AHHHHHHH…..
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Nice flow in this strip. Well done.
I try to occasionally break the “normal” rules of drawing a comic strip and this idea begged to be in one big panel. I had a lot of fun drawing it too.
I based Bud’s moves on an artist who draws for “Avatar” (NOT the Jim Cameron film, but the cartoon). I was actually just practicing the poses and this idea hit me, so I finished it up as a comic. Best laid plans…
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Yesterday I had a chocolate chocolate chip cookie (chocolate dough w/ chocolate chips) with chili.
Interestingly different. And yes, I know that mixing chocolate and chilis is an ancient practice.
Ummmm… Chili… love the Chili! I don’t have much in the way of taste buds (I have no sense of smell what so ever) so the spicier the food the better. Now habaneros will kill me, but the rest I can handle.
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UFO, yeah!! Byron, “Lights Out” was a GREAT album. I wore out my turntable with that one , too, & at least a couple of 8-tracks! Also – the band I was in at the time promptly added “Lights Out” & “Electric Phase” to our playlist! Even tho the classic band line-up from the 70’s minus Micheal Schenker is still together & sound great with Vinnie Moore on guitar, their older stuff like “Lights Out”, “Phenomenon”, “Force It” & No Heavy Petting” with Schenker are still my favorites. I agree with you also about analog – beats digital any day. You also can’t beat the old 12″ album cover format! Vinyl LP’s have never gone away completely & have gone thru many resurgences since the advent of CD’s in the early 80’s. Go on-line & check out how many record conventions are out there, plus, how much vinyl is sill sold & traded on the web. TAFKAN – while most jalapenos sold commercially are pretty wimpy, they’ve been “genegineered” that way. It’s the commercial pickled stuff that is wimpy. You can get seed for varieties that fresh – not pickled, approach some of the hotter “mid-range” peppers like cayenne, tobasco & serrano in the heat index, and the Thai pepper variety grown in Asia & Indochina is volcanic – as hot as some of the milder habanero peppers & definitely not for the faint of heart or stomach!
Yeah, Schenker in the group was a huge plus in my opinion too. Yet another one of those “artistic” differences where the lead singer and the guitarist go at it, they split and never really generate the sound or great songs that they did together but EGO keeps them apart.
Seen it millions of times. What is it with us musicians anyway? Can’t we just get along… 🙂
Ah-ha! See, those silly food manufacturers have ruined yet another delightful item! I should have figured as much as you should the gene-splicing going on in the corn you guys eat that’s grown over here. Let alone what the farmer is doing in the field in the off season too…
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Unclemac – indeedly-doodly I know – we grow jalapenos in our garden! And depending on the weather (rain, heat), some of them do come out quite lively as compared to the ‘domesticated’ ones. Mmm, home-grown chillies…
Unclemac – p.s. We have plenty of the hothothot Thai chillies down here. I LOVE eating them sliced up!
I had to learn that the hard way. I ate a ton of them before I even noticed. But when I did? Whoo….. 🙂
Yeah, some of those spicy hot items take a moment or two to kick in and then WHAM you’re sweating out like it was a hot day. I’ve learned to ask now.
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I love those drawings, wow.
These poses are based on some Anime shows I’m studying up on so I can do a Manga style strip here pretty soon. Found these poses on DeviantArt and had to draw them. Once I did, this idea just hit me!
Glad you like them!
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That was awesome. The best part is Bud’s final statement of “…that was kinda cool!” leading to the fact that more than likely it’ll be done again. 🙂
Yep, sometimes you gotta try things two or three times before you can say you really like or dislike it. I mean, the first time I drank a beer, I about spit it out. I soon learned to enjoy even the cheapest of beers!
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Now I know where Steve-O got the idea from to snort wasabi. 😉
Holy crap, wasabi up the nose… Man, I’ve had Sushi once and it was really good, but you take that wasabi in tiny doses!
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Wasabi is best when it’s thermonuclear – i.e. when it crawls up the back of your throat into your nose and makes your brain explode 😛
gotta agree with tee arteest here … wasabi = yum. i like to eat it all by itself. dee-lish. 😀
the right wasabi has a great little rush to it too, and a wonderful flavour as well as a nice way to quickly clear yer sinuses a bit. fantastic palette cleanser to boot. its pretty funny to see the reactions of people when you just pop a whole gob of wasabi in yer mouth instead of putting a tiny bit on sushi or whatever it is that yer eating it with. i’ve seen people react as though you just bit into a live sheep’s skull or something.
i used to eat jalapenos like candy too (and some, if grown right, can bite back in ways that mirror hotter chiles), and used to also enjoy habaneros a lot as well (talk about a chili rush…w00t!) … not whole, mind you. i couldn’t do that. but with that pepper, a little goes a long, long way. and if you don’t use too much, it actually has a really nice flavour to it.
i once tried this really great sauce at a store once, and i wish i had bought a jar of it. the store had chips innocently sitting out next to the sauce, so i tried some. it was some habanero concoction that had other, lesser chiles in it. that stuff had a fantastic rush to it, and it continued to burn the back of my throat for two hours after i ate it. hindsight is 20/20.
another thing that i really love is that vietnamese sriracha sauce (some people call it “rooster sauce” because of the rooster on the label of one particular brand). good shit. my nickname for that stuff is ‘vietnamese ketchup’ — you can pour it on just about anything and have it increase the deliciousness factor by about 200%.
with my reflux issues of late, i can’t eat the really hot peppers anymore. can still handle the sriracha, jalapenos, wasabi, chinese mustard, anaheims (altho i don’t particularly like those), and serranos, but anything much hotter and it really causes me serious reflux grief… pity, since i really miss the habaneros… and blow-yer-effin-doors-off thai food…
–dee!
Bacon Chocolate Chip cookies sound like something that would make you puke, but they actually taste pretty good. I’d really love to know who came up with that idea though. They must have been high. LOL.
They were probably pig-arse drunk on…bacon vodka! (No, really. Bacon vodka is all the rage in Seattle these days.)
The jalapeno’s alone would have had me doing that dance!! o.O …I’m at that age where spicy needs to be in theory only!!
Hmm I kinda wanna try this…