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   EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

   Predictable, and I LOVE it

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   Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

   Jim must have as much fun drawing this as I’m having reading it.

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   wndrwrthg said, about 1 month ago

   This is a fun read.

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   Xrystalia said, about 1 month ago

   Amazing… I can almost hear the raucous chaos in panel one… so much visual activity! Panel two is quite the contradiction with our three cool, smooth, clueless musicians. lol I can’t stand to think that Gertie might have gone through this for nothing. I can’t see Walt in the audience… yet. No sign of the cat either. ;0)

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   Yukoneric said, about 1 month ago

   I love slapstick. Caught up (in) the act.

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   stringmusicianer said, about 1 month ago

   Hey Bird, Gertie could use a little help.

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   Jogger2 said, about 1 month ago

   That is because no one in your group is a maestro, NNCU.

   The cat is most likely outdoors, X. Gertie dropped her, and she ran off just before Gertie got back inside.

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   Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

   Can Byrd get to Gertie before she’s tossed out again?

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   Devonshade said, about 1 month ago

   Maestro!!!!,..at what!,….boring up the comic pages?

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    kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

    I think this is so funny. I could hear the crowd is yesterday strip and now in today’s more so. The crowd loves this.

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    whmIII said, about 1 month ago

    You were expecting something different?!?!

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    Esfletcher said, about 1 month ago

    It reminds me of the scene in “Funny Girl” where Fanny Brice was asked if she could roller skate for an act. She said she could, but didn’t know how, and her funny antics won over the audience.

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    JanCinVV said, about 1 month ago

    The cat sneaked in on her own when the door guard opened up looking for the noise in the alley. Gertie never carried her at all. If she’s smart, that cat is in hiding until the hullabaloo dies down then she’ll survive on rodent hunting in that nice warm old theater.

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    436rge said, about 1 month ago

    Well….hardy har har. Rasberries!

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    BlitzMcD said, about 1 month ago

    I must concur with the reference questioning addressing Professor Byrd as “maestro”. Such references simply are not a part of the jargon within the idiom, except as would be done in jest.

    It is a well deserved distinction, though. I can think of a lot more blues musicians worthy of the title than certain pretentious, by the book music school grads who give precedence to technique over heart.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    So, the stage manager and the theater usher are going to be part of the act, too?

    So, Earl E. Byrd is a distinguished blues musician? And that’s why his ensemble members call him “Maestro?”

    When I was a senior in college, I took applied piano lessons for 2 semesters. Doctor Walstrum, the music professor who taught me, was rightly called “Maestro.”

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    Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

    The man referring to Byrd as “maestro” may have been sarcastic.

    BTW, I justy knew that damned manager would show up. Expect a “merry” chase tomorrow.

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    OzzieJohn said, about 1 month ago

    Is it OK for musicians to talk like that while playing, wouldn’t it be picked up on the sound system?

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    stringmusicianer said, about 1 month ago

    Depends on how they are miked. It is possible, depending on the setup, they could talk all they want it wouldn’t carry over the sound system.

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    OldManMountain said, about 1 month ago

    Jazz and the honorary title, “maestro,” aren’t incompatible. Some folks called Duke Ellington and Miles Davis “Maestro.”

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    Dypak said, about 1 month ago

    stringmusicianer said,
    Depends on how they are miked. It is possible, depending on the setup, they could talk all they want it wouldn’t carry over the sound system.
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    I hope you’re right String. I’d hate to consider the other alternative; that they’re (gasp) lip synching! Not our Byrd! Not in Gasoline Alley. Not the Maestro!

    Hopefully Byrd will get a good look tomorrow, just in time for the Sunday hiatus.

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    axe-grinder said, about 1 month ago

    stringmusicianer said, Hey Bird, Gertie could use a little help.

    In the old days, Walt and Skeezix wouldn’t hesitate to jump into the fray– maybe they’ll rush the stage!

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    jumbobrain said, about 1 month ago

    In the old days, which is Dick Moores for me, something this action-driven wouldn’t have happened. But I really like how Scancarelli has handled this one. I look at this stuff and wonder why most of the other strips running now are so comparatively lame.