Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

John the egomaniac singer

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Popularity rank 16 #217. Corporate card

March 9, 2009

DAN: HEY... new mic!
JOHN: Sweet, right? I put it on our new CORPORATE CARD.

RONI: John... we incorporated the band to SAVE money, you jackass.
JOHN: Roni, you just don't understand ECONOMICS.

JOHN: This is like the STIMULUS PACKAGE. I'm INVESTING in the band NOW to allow us-

RONI: Give me the American Express, John, or I will throw this out the window.
JOHN: Dan! STOP HER! Our nation's infrastructure is CRUMBLING!

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Popularity rank 17 #194. Just repeat the chorus again

January 7, 2009

DAN: John, it's 4 AM, man. We've gotta stop writing this song. Let's just repeat the chorus again and go to sleep.

JOHN: NO!! It's gotta be something NEW, Dan! The BEATLES wouldn't "just repeat the chorus again"!!

A pause.

DAN: The Beatles don't have an early shift at Kinko's tomorrow.
JOHN: We don't sleep until we redefine the fundamental structure of pop music!

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Popularity rank 18 #98. Breaking big news

February 7, 2006

JOHN: Guys: we, as a band, need to take ourselves to the Next Level.
RONI: So, you're finally going to let us be involved in the songwriting?

JOHN: Well... maybe. No. Anyway. The key to success in this business is... promotion.
DAN: Ooo, did you get us an agent, John?

JOHN: No, no, just-- look, the future of music is the Internet, right?
CHRISTINA: Did you get our demo onto iTunes?

JOHN: OK, Jesus, just let me-- I made us a MySpace page, OK? A-and it's gonna take us to the Next Level!
CHRISTINA: Oh.... Neat.
DAN: Didn't we already...
RONI: Yes.

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Popularity rank 19 #86. Reworking the deadline

December 2, 2005

Last verse of “Electric Wheelchair” complete! First song-a-day song: done!
DAN: Hey, by the way, I can’t meet to write tomorrow.

JOHN: And I'm busy Wednesday. Well, long as we do seven songs by next Monday, righyt?
DAN: Yeah. Yeah, totally.

JOHN: Or you know... no one knows about this song-a-day deadline... I could see, like, song-a-week working.
DAN: Ooo, or song-a-fortnight.

JOHN: Yeah... something we can follow through on, you know?
DAN: Hey, by the way, I'm gone all of February.

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Popularity rank 20 #84. I Write the Lyrics

November 30, 2005

JOHN: Whoa. What's with the lyrics, man? I write the lyrics!
DAN: No, yeah, these're just filler lyrics.

JOHN: Filler lyrics are still lyrics! I write the lyrics! I'm the lyricist!
DAN: Fine, I'll just go "la la la" then...

JOHN: No! Not "la la la"! It's... it's "tee diddley dee"! I write the lyrics!
DAN: (sigh) Fine.

JOHN: "Tee diddley dee dah dee"! I write the lyrics! I'm the scribe! I'm the wordsmith!
DAN: It's 3am, man. I'm gonna go catch the bus....

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