I’ve Been In The Music Business For 30 Years, So I Made These 111 Comics Based On My Adventures
TheOtherAss celebrates the humorous world of working musicians, and their everyday exploits.
The material is derived from years (and years) of gigging, recording, rehearsing - and yes, they are my own experiences. I grew up in Maine, When in 1996 I started my first punk rock band, the Junkbuckets.
We were horrible - very very horrible.
Later I found myself gigging all over the Boston areas, where honestly most of my material comes from-
I’m now happily living near Seattle, still playing Punk-Rock, and using my media degree to create comics, animations, shirts, and plenty of showposters.These comics are my favorite way to share the many stories I have built up over the last thirty years.
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Everyone knows Pabst Blue Ribbon is for guitarists... They should buy a Jack Daniel bottle, I presume... (not sure what attracts a drummer!)
Load More Replies...It's called GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome. I own 5 overdrive pedals with the same sound, but different colors, and yes, I bought one only for its blue light!
I've had an ART ECC pedalboard since 96 and has worked like a charm, survived a flood and it just keeps on rocking
Load More Replies...I bought my first guitar at 10yo (case, guitar and amp for a 100$): I bought all my pedals myself when I was a teen. Without the Boss orange distortion, I could not have enough gain on my 9W guitar amp to play along with a drum. Without any FX, an electric guitar sounds so "ploink, ploink", it's ugly and lame... Miles Davis even put FX on his trumpet in the 70s (wah-wah especially).
Yes flutes!!!!!! Sry clarinets but we're better than u. (sorry not sorry) :)
It was the band contest in my HS and our dumbass principal couldn't believe that the drums had to be tuned, he thought the two drummers doing it were just "making noise". Thankfully we had a marvelous musical director that always stood for us.
Why do people not realize that all instruments have to be tuned? My trombone has to be tuned but the music teacher (an idiot) thoughts I didn't have to tune it and got mad when the sound was off key
Load More Replies...You're not the only uninformed one. I'm sure most people who haven't been in a band don't know.
Load More Replies...It's better than getting the drum set and when training always being told to stop being it's too loud. My drum set was basically for decoration and 4 years later when I got rid of them because my family would never let me train, everyone was shocked that "I threw away a Christmas present"!
I wish I could have done that for my nephew - for the same reason!! 😁
Load More Replies...back in the days all I want was learning to play the electric guitar - my mom decided I have to learn to play the violin....
A very clever ideea! It's not a secret, many new albums are mixed to sound good on cell phones / earbuds, not on big and expensive stereo HiFi systems.
That explains why I hate new music. My speakers are top-of-the-line 1979, and they do the 80s music proud.
Load More Replies...Him, the drummer for Dream Thearter and Neil Pert. God rest Neil Pert.
Load More Replies...Been there! 80's recording studio with lots of baffles and in a small room. Had to pee and they just threw me a jar. WITH NO LID!
I was wondering how Danny Carey would get behind his drum kit. Now we know.
Depends on the song. Some songs sound better with pic some sound better with finger
Speaking King's English in quotation As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
Water froze in the generation Clear as winter ice This is your paradise
Load More Replies...so ur telling me that i came all the way up here spet my life savings and now I cant seven fly home
only when you play tlauncher and download it then you click sirvival into crative and then you can search up stuff that you want like a slime in minecraft after when you built your house you have to tap the space bar two times to fly ENYWHERE you want
Load More Replies...he did said that without a $40000 override petal he can't acheive a perfect tone
Drummers are more important than you think! If I fail a guitar solo during a gig, very few in the audience will notice; if the drummer fails, all the band fails!
Having a click to practice is essential for a drummer (need to keep time: it's your job!). Playing with a click in concert: some do it, if they're not going to tamper with tempo, it's fine (rock'n roll!). For listeners, tempo is fine if it wobbles a bit, but everyone together. Listen to old recordings, before auto-tune & drum-machines were invented: little imperfections are what made it good and natural. (Frederic Chopin played strictly metronomical sounds like a heartless composition, same thing with François Couperin or anything from that era. Jean-Baptiste Lully used to beat the tempo with a big stick: he struck his foot once and died of the foot infection! He wanted to control all music & musicians from the time, so I love the irony here...
I read this and my first thought was "Frank Iero attacking Bob bryar on accident"
Load More Replies...There's actual a band called November's Doom. This describes them 100%.
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody
Been trying to find that for 20 years. The damn thing always shakes loose and never clamps right.
What? Like Cobains who didn't want to be popular he just wanted to play music?
Go to the subreddit r/ChoosingBeggars, all will be explained
Load More Replies...Our guitarist had a twenty year old little mutt named Sam. Sam was adorable but deaf as a post. His favorite thing was to lay in the kick drum during practice and let the pounding vibrations lull him to sleep.
Unless you want a Andy Summer's 80's "The Police" vibe... He had so much chorus in his sound back then. I think at the time, drums were also chorused, or I dunno the fx they used but toms really didn't sound natural.
Load More Replies...You’re talking about musicians, but some of us here are musicians who play wind/brass instruments, haha.
This comic is genius! Ordering more chorus in a drive thru is hilarious!!!
is that a Alien? or not one if it is then welp not my fault it came here in this country or did it come from a lava place like the volcano does all of those live there? they do live there in the hotness or is he trying to cool down and rest?
It would be so cool to have a sticker or two on my car, but ... yeah ... bags of drums on the back seat become much more obvious when advertised.
if I recycle a sock would you be happy of course not right then why do they have a truck outside running to other houses to pick up their stinky socks and then you would recycle it and big jim's name is from dav pilkey she or he met petey....
Eric, why are you just throwing up random lyrics? Pearl Jam wasn't even a like band! Quote The Deftones, Rancid, or some other actual Punk band. Pearl Jam is 90s grunge.
Load More Replies...The best mike! Maybe better than 58. I use 'em for the guitar cab and for the lead vocals!
They are great not doubt about it, but c'mon, depends on what you want there's definitely better mics!
Load More Replies...I'm rappin' to the beat - and me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet ... I love this song
Load More Replies...the exact reason Dave Grohl didn’t share his songs with Kurt and Krist
I can name 3 bands were the drummers are the best members. Palaye Royale, Green Day, and Josh Dun
I did this and my set was at 4am. We all laughed and never showed up. Stupidest thing ever.
It seems that people don't really like you putting lyrics on almost every post.
Load More Replies...Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose It rainbow spirals round and round, it trembles and explodes It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away But the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day Coming, coming, coming around Coming around, coming around, in a circle
Pls explain what they were saying cos idk
Load More Replies...But it's provocative ... it gets the people going!
Load More Replies...The 'on-tour' diet - bound to be worse than a lot of people!
Load More Replies..."How many guitar players are needed to change a lightbulb?" "Eleven. One that actually does it and ten that say they could have done it better, faster, cleaner"
Neil Peart was one of the worlds best percussionists and was in the band Rush he was also one of my music hero’s RIP Neil
Shut your f*****g face, Uncle F***a You're a c**k sucking, a*s licking Uncle F***a You're an Uncle F***a, yes, it's true Nobody f***s uncles quite like you
Load More Replies...all i know is something like a bird within her sang
Load More Replies...A man washed up on an island and was greated by a local tribe. For days the man helped out as best he could to learn all the new customs and language all while drums constantly banged in the background. By the fourth day the man snapped after not being able to sleep. He begged the chief to make to drums stop just for an hour or two. The chief declined each time he begged. The man at his last wit begged the chief why he wouldn't stop. The chief replied "When drums end, bass solo starts."
Been there. Done all this. Needs jokes about chicks in the band . . . the one that plays tambourine or cowbell 'cause her boyfriend is the lead guitar/singer.
A man washed up on an island and was greated by a local tribe. For days the man helped out as best he could to learn all the new customs and language all while drums constantly banged in the background. By the fourth day the man snapped after not being able to sleep. He begged the chief to make to drums stop just for an hour or two. The chief declined each time he begged. The man at his last wit begged the chief why he wouldn't stop. The chief replied "When drums end, bass solo starts."
Been there. Done all this. Needs jokes about chicks in the band . . . the one that plays tambourine or cowbell 'cause her boyfriend is the lead guitar/singer.
