Stuff tagged with "Beatles"

First music you bought

Published on Jul 26th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: Man, my dad just told me the first music he ever bought was Revolver!! Freakin' Revolver, man! So cool.... | comic strip | panel 2 - BRETT: Nice. What was your first?; GREG: I... I think it was a 45 of "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight." | comic strip | panel 3 - BRETT: Good Lord. | comic strip | panel 4 - BRETT: Look, if anyone else ever asks you that, just like and sat Surfer Rosa, dude....; GREG: It also might have been a cassingle of "Shoop"... |

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Tags: Beatles, Brett the hipster, buying CDs, Greg the mindless fan, music consumers, Pixies, Wang Chung, whining

A unified sound

Published on Aug 2nd, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - TRUDY: Hey, you played great up there. Did you write all the guitar solos.; DAN: Oh, heh, thanks, no, I used to. But not anymore. | comic strip | panel 2 - DAN: John said it would be a more unified sound if he wrote all the parts. He also said my solos "lack urgency." | comic strip | panel 3 - TRUDY: Jesus... sounds like a real pretentious dick.; JOHN: Who sounds like a pretentious dick?; DAN: You do, man. | comic strip | panel 4 - JOHN: Yeah, well, so did Lennon. You wanna give a hand with these amps?; DAN: Hey, I gotta go.... |

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Tags: Ambulance Men (a local band), Beatles, concerts, Dan the naive guitarist, John Lennon, John the egomaniac singer, solos, songwriting

No Beatle Cloning

Published on Nov 11th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - DR. CARY: Sadly, soon after the project began, we lost a lot of funding, so later bands like the Pixies and Nirvana were never cloned. | comic strip | panel 2 - JOEL: But what about older bands? Like the Beatles? Why not clone the most successful rock band of all time? | comic strip | panel 3 - JOEL: I guess back then you thought those bands would be just as successful.; DR. CARY: Well, there were also legal issues. | comic strip | panel 4 - DR. CARY: Michael Jackson owns the rights to the Beatles DNA...; JEFF LYNNE: I was the fifth Beatle!; JOEL: Hey! A clone of Jeff Lynne! |

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Tags: Beatles, cloning, Dr. Chris Cary, Elvis Costello, Hall & Oates, Joel the naive A&R guy, music label, Talking Heads

Pop or art

Published on Oct 27th, 2008

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: It's a pop MASTERPIECE!; BRETT: It's corporate drivel. | comic strip | panel 2 - GREG: One day they'll be hailed as GENIUSES!; BRETT: You're an idiot. | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: Mark my words: those FREE CREDIT REPORT .COM guys are our generation's Beatles!! OUR BEATLES!! | comic strip | panel 4 - GREG: If, you know, they're actually a real band. |