And Plan 9 once again may become a travelin’ band. Time will tell. Now you’re seeing where this story is going. Reliving old times and old horror stories as we visit some good times/bad times with Plan 9.
Doing the convention for four days last week has caught up with me, not to add that I had 26 hours of DVDs to author dropped in my lap this week. Not complaining, good to be busy again.
Next week is Fan Expo in Toroto! Customs, here I come! Have a good weekend!
This Creedence Clearwater Revival song has always been one of those I crank on the radio. It’s from their “Cosmo’s Factory” that was one of those epic albums that had like 5 or 6 singles off of it. Hard to believe it came out in July of 1970. It’s showing it’s age a big, but still a great album!
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Somehow, I am quite certain that the song for panel #2 refrains somethin’ like “Dude looks like a lady.” Wondering just how far along the Mexico bender Jeff was by the time he figured it out … 😀
Glad I stopped in early enough to view the pre-lim sketch. I feel like I’ve opened up your “How To Draw Plan 9” artbook. Jeff’s cheesy grin coming through with great cheers. 😉
OKay, now that I see it in color … I notice that Lorraine is dressed as Speed Racer! 😀
Back to Jeff’s grin for a moment … it’s got that Hollywood bleach-white feel to it. Combined with the shades & vest & glamrock hair, gonna take a guess and speculate that Jeff is still moving in the showbiz circles, at one level or another.
And, you can always drag CCR into the conversation anytime you wish. I had pretty much everything they ever did, plus a few bootlegs, and listened the hell out of it all for ~20 years. Still not tired of ’em.
OH MY GOD!!! Someone FINALLY noticed I did Lorraine as Speed Racer. Come on people… open your eyes! Yeah the shirt colors are different (Lorraine always wears a white blouse) but MAN!
Bonus dimes for you sir for pointing it out! YES!
I might’ve twigged it out earlier but, in the record shop a couple pages back, a dialogue box hid the color of her pants from the front, so it didn’t come together for me then. I was gonna make a Scooby Doo snark about her wearing Fred’s ascot, but didn’t come up with anything clever enough to post at the time.
So, Lorraine as Speed, Robyn as Trixie, Bud & Jeff as Spridle & Chim Chim ..? What’s left of the old topless road monster as the Mach 5? Be a nice compliment to that Dukes of Hazard wallpaper … :whistlesinnocently: 😉
Ah! Speed Racer desktop…. hmm…. Oh, I’d have to draw the real Mach 5…. OoooO! This is gonna be fun…
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Oh, as far as Jeff still in entertainment… remember his parents are/were in California… that has something to do with it too…
Here’s a hint: Vegas. I know, big hint. 🙂
Lovin’ this one for the nostalgia and education!
Haha this strip reminds me of a story my former boss once told me. He was walking into a bar on the edge of town and saw all these sixteen and seventeen-year-olds playing pool. There was a jukebox in the corner and one of the gu walks up to it and his buddies tell him to play some Van Halen.
My boss then asked why they didn’t play any modern day music and the sixteen-year-old at the jukebox told him word for word, “Hell no man we can’t stand that shit. I’d rather listen to some Rush any day.”
That story and the fact that there are NEW classic rock stations popping up gives me some hope in my generation.
Each new generation of teenagers discovers rock and roll. It does speak to certain souls and it captured mine a LONG time ago and has never let go. I hope for the day when rock will once again re-surface and obtain some of it’s glory days. I know there are bands that still rock hard, but their not given a lot attention, nor or they filling up huge stadiums filled with screamin’ and tokin’ fans.
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Also I found this nifty little internet station here:
http://www.kctunes.com/Catalog/Classic%20Rock.htm
ahahaha what a fun story this is gonna be!
Well, they’re going to New York to do some taping in a VH1 studio, so expect some geeky video producer jokes at my old friends in the news business expense.
I’m evil as TAFKAN so properly stated… 😛
Wow! They’re going to open for Spinal Tap?!
*yes, I love Tap, even if most of their critics don’t…remember the review for “Shark Sandwich”?
LOL! Tap should be at #1 on the list! Nice idea! 🙂
Oh Byron, you are EVIL. Absolutely eeeevil 😛
I also refuse to believe that any album with Jeff on it could come in a ‘worst’ category. Though of course there’s no accounting for taste***, especially when it comes to the lists made by the sorts of pond life that inhabit the ‘those who can’t do…’ areas of Planet Rock and Roll…
The final panel is a masterpiece. Best Shit Eating Grin in comix history!
*** or far too many people’s lack of it
Well, it *IS* a list compiled by VH1… say no more. 🙂
Yes, Jeff gets the SEG this time. Normally that’s for Bud, but it’s time Jeff got some “screen” time.
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And notice Jeff’s nickname is now Norwegian Wood? Nice…
Yes, I did notice 😀
Also, I had to wiki on VH1 since the name meant nothing to me – not surprising, as I now know, since it came into existence when I was hermit-ing in the West Country (without even a radio) and I’ve hardly ever lived in the same place as a telly anyway. And likewise for Speed Racer, which is a name/title I’ve heard for years but never knew what the name/title referred to (and now that I’ve read about it, I wish I could go back in time by a minute and *not* have read about it – eww eww eww, anime ewwwww!). You and I definitely don’t inhabit the same universe 😛
Wow 🙂 You just turned around the entire storyline of the comic in one page.
And the fact they might become a travelling band again intrigues me. I’ve got this feeling his daughter won’t be travelling with them 😛 (party time :D)
The thing with the worst rock albums list makes me wonder if they could have been a bit popular back int those days, for a week or so.
Nice plot twist man.
Well, I *had* to have a reason for them showing up all at once, it just couldn’t be random, and those VH1 countdowns of the “most popular” this or that just ticks me off sometimes. Who comes up with those lists?
So, they’re off to New York shortly… 🙂
Sixth on VH1’s worst albums of the 70s list…?
OK, now that’s *one* twist I didn’t see coming. Safe to say the guy with the pony tail from their California sojourn shows up in some capacity…?
He’d bee REALLY old, but that’s a thought! I’ll sneak him in somewhere…
Nice touch! 🙂
man if I ever made it that far I would totally do it.