Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

Character

Dan the naive guitarist

Dan Lepp plays rhythm guitar in the Ambulance Men and works at Kinko’s. He falls down on stage often, if not constantly.

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Popularity rank 1 #351. Scrapbooked EP cover

March 16, 2010

DAN: C'mon, John. We gotta get to rehearsal.
JOHN: Man, EFF rehearsal... I'm working on a cover for our E.P.

DAN: It's got glitter and hearts and... UNICORNS all over it...
JOHN: Yeah... one of the scrapbookers helped me lay it out.

JOHN: Isn't it GREAT? It really captures the raw emotion of our live shows.

DAN: The puffy paint says, "Friendship is: hot cocoa on a cold day."
JOHN: THAT (sniff) THAT is rock music, man.

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Popularity rank 2 #17. After the breakup

April 5, 2005

JOHN: It's like, she was such a huge part of my life, so it's not just like my girlfriend left me, but my whole life.

JOHN: And so now it's like, what now? Where do I go? It's all gone, my future, I don't even... it's all gone.

DAN: I hear ya, man. It's... you know, it's tough. And whenever you wanna talk, you just let me know.

DAN: We should probably finish this set first though maybe.

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Popularity rank 3 #36. Writing a classified ad

August 23, 2005

DAN: $25 gets us a ten-word classified ad. So let's see... "Bassist Wanted... for... rock band..."

JOHN: More like "Bassist wanted for harmony-heavt, post-garage, low-to-mid-fi, pre-post-punk, alt-countrified, funk-based, psychadeliphonic, teenage-victory-rock...."

JOHN: "...band."
DAN: OK, so that's... well, we have to a few words, John.

JOHN: Then I dunno, cut "band" or that beginning part. The rest is pretty essential.
DAN: Oh wait... shoot, it says, "Limit: five hyphenated genres."

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Popularity rank 4 #166. Teacher/student

May 12, 2008

DAN: So let's say I have this cute young guitar student... she's not even THAT young... is it... I mean... is it cool for a teacher to ask out a student?

RONI: Well, Dan, I don't think-
DAN: OK, let me sort of... REPHRASE slightly... let's say I already asked her out... and she's 8 years younger. That's... it's OK, right?

RONI: Dan, I just can't-
DAN: OK! New topic! New SEPARATE topic... Let's say I have two tickets to Forgetting Sarah Marshall tonight...

DAN: 19-year-olds can see R-rated movies, right?

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Popularity rank 5 #338. The scrapbooking menace

January 18, 2010

DAN: These scrapbookers think they're these creative GENIUSES, but they don't know how to use the EQUIPMENT, even though they need it to make their "art".

DAN: They make us do ALL the work, for something THEY take all the credit for, and they treat us like SHIT while they do it. It's... it's HORRIBLE, man.

DAN: They're like... a lead singer in a band.
JOHN: Like me in our band?

DAN: Well, like you, but like you if you weren't so BADASS...
JOHN: That DOES sound scary...

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