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… 🙁
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…
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.
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…)
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!
Nice flow in this strip. Well done.
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.
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!
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….. 🙂
I love those drawings, wow.
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. 🙂
Now I know where Steve-O got the idea from to snort wasabi. 😉
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…