B-B-B-BABOON!! Sly little critters are they. Speak like Yoda day it is, yes? It is now.
Okay, put your pencils down or slide you keyboards back. I don’t care what anyone thinks or says, but the Who’s “Wont’ Get Fooled Again” is the greatest damn rock song… ever. Nothing before it, or since, even comes close. Period. Nothing gets my blood going more than Daltrey’s primal scream at the end of the song. Goose bumps you have, no? Every time. You can argue better songs have been written, recorded and/or performed, but you’d be freakin’ wrong. Nuff said. And the moment I typed Jeff saying “fooled” this song hit me and was an obvious, and this time excellent, choice for the song of the day.
So, start your Wednesday off with some great rock and roll from the Gibson Les Paul of Pete Townshend.
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“You silly giraffes!”
Best line ever.
Excellent depiction of the baboon! (note spelling, heh)
YES, and AGREE, and DAMN STRAIGHT “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is the best damn rock song ever (or evar). I could not believe that Rolling Stone, in their list of 500 greatest songs, listed this as #133. This is one of the three songs where the volume gets cranked up to the max every time I listen to it. (The others are Journey’s “Separate Ways” and Bob Seger’s “Hollywood Nights”.)
Won’t get fooled again was recorded with Pete playing a telecaster
Smoke enough of that stuff and soon all of the zoo animals have “Wallace & Gromit” smiles and are telling you about their life’s problems with British accents.
Agreed on the Who’s – Won’t Get Fooled Again, absolutely one of the best ever Rock songs.
As has been said, the volume gets cranked up to 11 when this comes on!
And I scream with Roger every time, even when I have passengers in the car with me! 😀
It’s a conspiracy! Well, or an organized crime gang. I’m certain the giraffes have a kick-back agreement with the baboons. But, will the baboons honor it? So hard to give up a stash in the hand, especially if it’s primo.
What Jeff needs to do in a situation like this is to negotiate. Collect the “good sh!t” from the animals, provide it to a solid grower, and give a cut of the “good sh!t” back in kind. Trust me on this … I am well familiar with stoned logic. Much more hilarious than fuzzy logic, although (admittedly) you had to have been there to fully appreciate the moment. 😉
Absolutely fantastic song. Also note the brilliant bass playing from John Entwistle (though brilliant is his base-line, if you’ll pardon the pun). The Who just fused so well on this song — on this whole album, in fact. One of the truly great moments in the history of rock and roll.
And just for a bonus, I’m wearing my Who tour shirt (Quadrophenia 1997) today.
And oh yeah — great strip, too. I’ve always enjoyed primatology, and the shifty look on the baboon is just terrific.
“I don’t care what anyone thinks or says, but the Who’s ‘Wont’ Get Fooled Again’ is the greatest damn rock song…*puts on Cool Shades* ever.”
YEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
There! Fixed that for ya!
Won’t!Get!Fooled!Again! Ohhh YES. Arizona desert. Walk-through van with the doors open. Driving at insane speeds given the load, and Who’s Next on the stereo at volumes that would wake every rattlesnake for miles…now *there’s* a cherished memory.
Dunno if I could choose a ‘best rock song EVAR’, but WGFA is certainly up there in the Too Awesome To Assign a Number To heights for me. Along with Ackdacka’s You Shook Me All Night Long and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Century City and Queen’s Hammer to Fall (tied with Tear It Up, also by Queen of course)…
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
This song reminds me of bar hopping – our ritual was hanging out of a sunroof while driving down the road yelling at the crescendo at the end of the night.
OK, WGFA – if not the “best rock song EVAR”, then absolutely “best SCREAM in a rock song EVAR”, narrowly beating out ‘Plant’s wails & howls on “Whole Lotta Love”, & Axel’s beastial shriek on “Welcome to the Jungle”!..
BTW Jeff in profile in this strip has a very Doonesbury look. Specifically, he resembles rockstar Jimmy Thudpucker as he looked in, yes, 1977. Coincidence or homage? Either way, win!
Heh…
Fun 1977 Fact: 1977 was the first year Berke Breathed began to draw cartoons. He worked as a political cartoonist for his local newspaper.
Later that year he drew the comic Honkey Trek making fun of a particularly sensitive school board debate and was literally thrown out of the office by his editor after people threatened to hang the both of them.
The word has not been safe since.
All that is missing are the Horatio glasses…;)