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   pouncingtiger said, 5 months ago

   It looks like the volume knob was set to 20 (forget 11) in the last panel.

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   wndrwrthg said, 5 months ago

   Just like the first note to “I feel fine” by the Beatles.

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   prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

   Actually pouncingtiger, it was set at 41.

   wndrwrthg, I personally like the 1987 “redo” of that song (by Sweethearts Of The Rodeo) better.

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   cfortunato said, 5 months ago

   Judging from his speech, looks like Toggle is almost all better.

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   hymenoxis said, 5 months ago

   I’ve heard the first note of “I Feel Fine” was the earliest intentional recording of guitar feedback.

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   NotFromIceland said, 5 months ago

   I once wrote something that in literature was similar to Toggle’s musical piece. Here it is: “TH-!”

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   tsteed said, 5 months ago

   hymenoxix, correct!

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   Parishroad329 said, 5 months ago

   These two are perfect for each other. Love it!

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   cuchulainn3 said, 5 months ago

   WOW! Nobody else notice how HOT Alex is with her hair swept back !!!

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    robquill said, 5 months ago

    A disproportionate squeeze on a song writer’s pleeb.

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    BlueRaven said, 5 months ago

    I think you folks are thinking of the chord that starts “Hard Day’s Night,” not “I Feel Fine.” That’s the complex little bugger that the producer overlaid with a piano chord to make it impossible to reproduce with guitar alone.

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    hymenoxis said, 5 months ago

    Nope, it’s “I Feel Fine”….single string note, sustained and distorted. It precedes the guitar riff that has a rockabilly feel. Guitar has a Gretsch or Gibson hollow-body tone. Then Ringo comes crashing in nicely. One of their better early works, in my humble.

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    Orgelspieler said, 5 months ago

    You can do almost anything with a Moog, a Stratocaster, and the Berkeley Cyclotron.

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    durtclaw said, 5 months ago

    Fourth panel: Volume set to stun

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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    Alex is in love

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    Dypak said, 5 months ago

    It is “I Feel Fine”. Alot of people do confuse it with “A Hards Days Night” because both start off with that sustained note. But “I Feel Fine” the note was distorted through feedback.

    I’m really pulling for Alex and Toggle. Nice to have some young blood in this strip not connected to the CIA.

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    tcambeul said, 5 months ago

    Hymenoxis, you nailed it. I listen to it quite frequently.

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    hymenoxis said, 5 months ago

    Give the credit to wndrwrthg for nailing the note to begin with…

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    yyyguy said, 5 months ago

    i love both tunes. and also some of their more acoustic oriented songs (like “i’ve just seen a face” or “you’ve got to hide your love away” or “norwegian wood”). you can never have too much Beatles. (Okay, you can, but it takes a while!)

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    hymenoxis said, 5 months ago

    Okay, now I’ve got “Michelle” going through my head.

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    hymenoxis said, 5 months ago

    To be honest, I’d have mentioned the first note of Jimi Hendrix’s “Cross Town Traffic”.

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    JonD17 said, 5 months ago

    “I Feel Fine”, it is indeed folks… I can hear it in my head as I type this. hymenoxis got the production description perfect; and Folks, do NOT doubt wndrwrthg on such topics. He is unerring!

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    JonD17 said, 5 months ago

    hymenoxis, this pursuit has brought the opening strains of “one of
    these Nights” by the Eagles to my head (the bass line). I blew up a pair of studio monitors with that back in the mid 70’s. I think I did something to my brain too lol.