Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

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Comics about rock-star delusions

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Popularity rank 1 #95. How to tell when you graduated

February 2, 2006

DRM 9000: Out of curiosity, Greg, did you graduate college in 1999?
GREG: Yeah... how did you...?

DRM 9000: A simple bell curve analysis of the release dates of your music collection reveals a statistical peak from November '95 to March '99.

DRM 9000: Ergo... class of '99.
GREG: What? No... I've bought a ton of music since college, I... no...

DRM 9000: Your "Pavement/Shins Ratio" also puts you solidly in the '99 bucket.
GREG: Th-there's a Decemberists CD on my dresser! Make sure you counted that!!

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Popularity rank 2 #81. First words that come to mind

November 25, 2005

JOHN: OK, come on, song-a-day. We're overthinking this. Look, just give me a word, and I'll say the first few words that come to mind. Those'll be the lyrics.

DAN: OK... "vegetable".

JOHN: Um... all right... "staring blankly at the wall... my mind is gone... I drool, I fall... here or there... I'm always... in... in my wheelchair."

JOHN: Hmm. Pretty God damn touching actually.
DAN: Totally. A song about a disabled dude. We could, like, win an Oscar, John.

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Popularity rank 3 #324. Brooklyn Vegan link

December 16, 2009

CHRISTINA: Whoa, looks like BROOKLYN VEGAN linked to one of our mp3s.
JOHN: Whoa!
DAN: We're FAMOUS! Which one?

CHRISTINA: "Bickerhound"!
JOHN: No no NO! "Bickerhound" is a B-SIDE! "Cathartic TARGET Practice" is our breakout HIT!

JOHN: He needs to change it. Gimme this vegan guy's email number...
CHRISTINA: Jonathan, he can link to whatever he wants to.

JOHN: NO, he'll do what we SAY! WE'RE FAMOUS NOW!
DAN: YEAH! Ha ha!
RONI: You two have an extremely low fame tolerance.

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Popularity rank 4 #321. Setting a price on art

December 9, 2009

JOHN: Look, when you set a PRICE on your art, you are setting its VALUE. And I want to be mindful of the LONG-TERM.

JOHN: YOU see this CD as a shitty little 4-song demo, Roni. But I see it in 30 YEARS, as rare unearthed LOST TRACKS included on our 6-disc anthology BOX SET!

RONI: God DAMN it, John... You are so...

RONI: ...so INSPIRATIONALLY DELUSIONAL.
JOHN: Thank you. You are... You are WORDS, too.

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Popularity rank 5 #165. Presentation of the Trophy

June 6, 2007

RONI: Hi, excuse me, you're in Atrium Sister, right? The Ambulance Men have something for you.
ATRIUM SISTER GUY #3: What's up?
JOHN: Nothing's up. Nevermind.

RONI: JOHN!
JOHN: (sigh) So... you guys "won" our band contest. Sorry I made it seem like you didn't.

JOHN: Sorry I gave the trophy to us, especially since we didn't even play in the contest.
RONI: AND?

JOHN: AND... sorry for unplugging your amps during your set.
ATRIUM SISTER GUY #3: This trophy already has "Ambulance men" engraved on it....

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