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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.

More info: theotherass.com | Instagram | patreon.com | twitter.com | Facebook

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    Cip IESAN
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had an ART ECC pedalboard since 96 and has worked like a charm, survived a flood and it just keeps on rocking

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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).

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a blue light in my best friend's room - Mazzy Star

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes flutes!!!!!! Sry clarinets but we're better than u. (sorry not sorry) :)

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    Maik
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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"!

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, indeed, it can happen, but not during the recording, if the engineer is a pro...

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or you have a list of about 20 names and none of them can score a majority vote.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so ur telling me that i came all the way up here spet my life savings and now I cant seven fly home

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A guitarist can do this with the LP bridge or the Strat whammy bar.

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    eric ross
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look out, look out, the Candyman Here he comes and he's gone again Pretty lady ain't got no friend Till the Candyman comes around again

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Been trying to find that for 20 years. The damn thing always shakes loose and never clamps right.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    4 years ago

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    I got silence on my radio Let the air waves flow Let the air waves flow

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The best mike! Maybe better than 58. I use 'em for the guitar cab and for the lead vocals!

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed. I think this cartoon is about keyboardists straying in to bassist territory

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's got electric boots a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine B-B-B-Billy and the Jets

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's the difference between a guitarist and a pizza? ... A pizza can feed a family of four.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Standing on a tower World at my command You just keep a turning While I'm playing in the band

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I wonder Where she will stay My little runaway A-run, run, run, run, runaway

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Come on children, come on children Come on clap your hands

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    Nothin' shakin' on shakedown street, used to be the heart of town Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart, you just gotta poke around

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    Lead you to the supermarket checkout Some specials and rat food Get lost in the crowd One way or another, I'm gonna get ya (where I can see it all, find out who ya call) I'll get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Goes to show, you dont ever know, Watch each card you play and play it slow, Wait until that deal come round, Dont you let that deal go down, no, no.

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you can play on the fiddle How's about a British jig and reel?

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    eric ross
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head

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    Maik
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "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"

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    Don't tell me that I'm crazy Don't tell me I'm nowhere Take it from me It's hip to be square

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Waiting at the crossroads, like Robert Johnson, with an Explorer? Hmmm!

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    eric ross
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I ran into the Devil, babe He loaned me twenty bills I spent that night in Utah In a cave up in the hills

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    eric ross
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, hey mama said the way you move Gon' make you sweat, gon' make you groove Ah ah child way ya shake that thing Gon' make you burn, gon' make you sting Hey, hey baby when you walk that way Watch your honey drip, I can't keep away Oh yeah, oh yeah ah, ah, ah ah4

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman

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    4 years ago

    saw you stretched out in room 1009

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again