That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 23, 2019

A perfectly fine Sunday afternoon stroll on the Mariahilferstaße was ruined when the Army brass band showed up.

“I distinctly ordered 76 trombones, 110 cornets…what’s with the glockenspiels??”

Heinrich enjoyed living in the city, but the on-foot commute to work was hellacious.

John Philip Sousa trying to be incognito in Washington with a few members of his band.

Who invited all the Blur People in the background? They’re all incognito by nature. Can we trust them?

“Ok,people,let’s try it again. Start with your left foot. “

There’s a band out on the highway/They’re high steppin’ into town/It’s a rainbow full of sound/It’s fireworks, calliopes and clowns/Everybody’s dancin’……Grateful Dead (Barlow/Weir)

Wonder if Wilhelm is screaming here.

A rally by the hat fanciers club of Austria

ich bin ein berliner…

Did you see me, Mom? I was playing cornet, in a blue coat with a black hat. Did you see me?

One Wilma two Wilmas three Wilmas.. hey, plenty of Wilmas. Forget the Wilhelms.

“No,no! I said act naturally! Just be normal. FFS!”

Archduke Franz Ferdinand stuck in traffic due to a surprise parade in his honor.

It wasn’t long after the parade that the city council decided on road markings.

What? I don’t have the permit…. I thought you brought it.

Someone pointed to Miss Dietrich flashing people from the balcony which soon became poplar in New Orleans.

In the chaos of hooting and tooting/ (and perhaps there’s a wee bit of looting)/when the Archduke appears/ there are bound to be cheers / so of course there’ll be somebody shooting !

Hitler responds to Viennese critics who say he can’t paint people and in the attempt proves them right. Sadly, he gives up art for other pursuits.

Q. Wo ist Wilhelm? A. Having coffee with Carmen San Diego, Waldo, and Dora the Explorer, most likely.

Before Hong Kong there was -- Austria?

Sadly, no one seemed to care about the winner of the harness race.

No one expected such a large crowd at Oktoberfest, even though the headliner was the Bavarian Bombshell herself, Lili von Shtupp.

Vienna Military Band Castle Music Street Scene or Military band marching through streets of Vienna: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Schliessmann_-_Wiener_Burgmusik,_1910.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly B4 paper size drawing.

https://mahlerfoundation.info/index.php/personen-2/667-schliessmann-hans-1852-1920 

https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_S/Schliessmann_Hans_1852_1920.xml 

both have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to than what’s perhaps indirectly pointed to by the title URL: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Schlie%C3%9Fmann 

and links it points to (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary). This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2271 (August 22, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

What good is a parade if you can’t join in?

Oh! The humanity!

“Don’t take any of the brown acid!”

“I gotta be me! I gotta be me! What else can I be but who I am?”

“Wo ist Wilhelm ?” He’s in London for the funeral. (It’s 1910. and Kaiser Wilhelm’s Uncle, Edward VII, King of England, has just died. Edward, a shrewd diplomat, was the great restraint on Wilhelm’s imperial ambitions.) Actual film of the funeral can be seen on You tube – EVERY “crowned head” in Europe attended ! It was the “glorious sunset” of Europe’s empires, and the sh*t was about to hit the fan in 4 years…

The final scene of the epic movie: “I vas Kaiser Billie’s Batman!” :>)