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Thinking outside the box

Published on Jan 25th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - AGENT: OK, bad news, boys, the label was very down on the last tapes of the album you sent in. | comic strip | panel 2 - AGENT: So, if this record is gonna happen, we need to really change it up, think outside the box.; GORDON CRANWICK: OK.; KEVIN EDO: Yeah. | comic strip | panel 3 - GORDON CRANWICK: What if we made the whole CD a hidden track!; KEVIN EDO: Ooo, yeah! So, like, there's just 40 minutes of silence... and then the album! | comic strip | panel 4 - AGENT: OK... everybody back in the box....; GORDON CRANWICK: We could re-record all the guitar solos with pan flutes!; KEVIN EDO: Pan flutes! Yes! Yes!; ROCCO: (silent) |

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Different Mix

Published on Oct 4th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - KEVIN EDO: OK, Gordon, here's the mix of your song. Now... I sort of went for a different feel with it....; GORDON CRANWICK: OK. | comic strip | panel 2 - PETER WELD: Wow. This is really different, Kevin.; KEVIN EDO: Yeah, it's a different sort of take on it. | comic strip | panel 3 - GORDON CRANWICK: Yeah, it's definitely different, Kevin.; KEVIN EDO: Yeah, I was going for something different.; PETER WELD: Really different. | comic strip | panel 4 - GORDON CRANWICK: Yeah, do you not like my song, Kevin?; KEVIN EDO: No, I really don't, Gordon.; PETER WELD: I mean it sounds like a different song. |

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Fixed mix

Published on Oct 5th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - GORDON CRANWICK: This mix sucks, Kevin! You purposefully made a crappy mix of the one song I have on this album!; KEVIN EDO: That's not true. | comic strip | panel 2 - GORDON CRANWICK: It's a fix! You fixed the mix!; KEVIN EDO: (sigh) I did the best mix I could with that song, Gordon. | comic strip | panel 3 - GORDON CRANWICK: The best mix?! I told you Peter's drums were lame, why didn't you turn them up?! | comic strip | panel 4 - KEVIN EDO: I can turn up the drums, Gordon, but I can't turn up the heart!; PETER WELD: My drums were lame. You know, I don't think I get your song, Gordon. |

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I want it in writing

Published on Oct 6th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - KEVIN EDO: Don't take that the wrong way, Gordon, I just--; GORDON CRANWICK: Excuse me?! I can't believe-- I want that in writing, Kevin. | comic strip | panel 2 - KEVIN EDO: Come on, look--; GORDON CRANWICK: No, here: "I, Kevin Edo, state that Gordon Cranwick's songwriting lacks heart." Sign it! | comic strip | panel 3 - KEVIN EDO: (sigh) I'm not signing this, Gordon, when, when.... | comic strip | panel 4 - KEVIN EDO: You know, it's not so much "heart" as it is "emotion."; GORDON CRANWICK: Make whatever changes you like! I'll initial them! |

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Happy with the mix

Published on Oct 7th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - AGENT: OK, so we're good now? You're both happy with what we're doing with the song?; KEVIN EDO: Yes.; GORDON CRANWICK: Yes. | comic strip | panel 2 - AGENT: Kevin's parts have been removed entirely.; KEVIN EDO: Right, I'm not involved at ALL.; GORDON CRANWICK: Yeah, NO guitar. | comic strip | panel 3 - AGENT: We're putting it as the 8th of 10 songs on the album.; KEVIN EDO: Yes.; GORDON CRANWICK: Fine, bury it. But it's ON the album. | comic strip | panel 4 - AGENT: And the song will be titled "Kevin Edo is an egotistical asshole".; GORDON CRANWICK: YES.; KEVIN EDO: Call it whatever you like, NO one listens past track 5.... |

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Kevin tells Gordon about tour

Published on Mar 3rd, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - GORDON CRANWICK: What? On TOUR? What-- where do you come off, Kevin? Fuck you. You treat me and Peter like SHIT. We have ZERO artistic control anymore. | comic strip | panel 2 - GORDON CRANWICK: Not until we become a BAND again, and not some Kevin Edo promotional machine, will I even CONSIDER standing on stage with you, you fucking... FUCKHOLE!! | comic strip | panel 3 - SOUND EFFECT: SLAM! | comic strip | panel 4 - GORDON CRANWICK: OK.... That felt good. So, first date's in Chicago?; KEVIN EDO: Yeah, on Friday. |