Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for August 13, 2024

Dateline June 23 2023 – While tickets to the Peter Asher / Jeremy Clyde performance at The Kent Stage were sold out, only a few dozen fans managed to make it to the performance on time. The main entrance was said to be blocked by one elderly shuttle bus driver who reportedly sneered about “dirty hippy music” while he sat idle in the entrance and barred everyone else from entry.

I wonder what we’ll get until at least Saturday! Why, it’s a Tom avatar remembering a thing that happened to Tom-Prime! (like Jeff, I squint at screen through glasses) OH BOY HOLY THE COWS! SO FUNNY IS JOKE-LIKE OBJECT! By Jehoshaphat, this is almost funnier than Marvin! MARVIN IS THE DIARRHEA BABY STRIP

I’m so sorry that this strip always leaves you so miserable.

So will Jff invite Pmm to a concert featuring two performers in their eighties? Will there be enough Geritol and Serutan to go around?

So, the entire week will be devoted to “Seventysomething man makes plans to see concert featuring ’60s British pop stars he liked as a teenager”? Gripping, truly gripping. “The Simpsons” managed to do this sort of thing in the opening 10 minutes of 1996’s “Homerpalooza.”

Tomorrow: Jff scans the online venue map for seats he can afford and enters his credit card information.

Tomorrow: Cranky buys tickets to the concert…

What, no creepy little Howdy-Dooty boy standing there saying “Do it! Do it! Do it!”…?

What about Gordon?

So the entire week is going to be nothing but a nostalgia wallow by somebody who isn’t even the main character of the strip.

“I loved you all the summer throughI thought I’d found my dream in youFor me you were the oneBut that was yesterday and yesterday’s goneWe walked together hand in hand‘cross miles and miles of golden sandBut now it’s over and done‘cause that was yesterday and yesterday’s gone”

Me was never knews this komix bookx lover was a long haired hippie with “peace sign” jacket back then. Say if he be hippie back in the early 70s then he shoulda be at least 70 years old now? But he no look that old? It’s called ageing?

Somehow he’s managed to make “A year ago, Tom Batiuk went to a revival concert for some band he liked in the late 1960s” into the most tedious week of Funky Winkerbean comix in a year of tedious Funky Winkerbean comix.

I guess you can always hope!!!!!!

It was Jeremy Clyde and Chad Stuart or Peter Asher and Gordon Waller. Peter did NOT record with Jeremy. Two different Groups.

Jeff couldn’t stop thinking about her after that spring morning in the late 1960s when they met at University Records. The air was filled with the scent of blooming flowers, but all he could recall was how her hair caught the light and the soft melody of her voice as she mentioned Chad & Jeremy. That moment felt suspended in time, a memory etched deep into his heart.

Days later, he saw a poster at the student union: Chad & Jeremy – Live in Concert. His heart raced. It felt like fate was weaving their lives together. The idea of seeing her again at the concert filled him with quiet hope. Without hesitation, Jeff bought a ticket, the small paper stub feeling like a key to a future he could barely imagine.

As the days passed, Jeff’s thoughts lingered on her more often than not. He could see her so clearly in his mind, standing there in the record store, flipping through the albums with a gentle concentration. The sound of Chad & Jeremy’s harmonies echoed in the background of his thoughts, melodies entwined with his memories of her.

But here it is 2024. Jeff sits at his desk, staring at his computer screen. The world has changed, grown older, just as he has. But as he looks at the concert poster on his screen—*Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde: The Next Best Thing to Chad & Jeremy*—something stirs deep within him. It’s not quite the same, but it brings it all back.

Jeff clicks to purchase the tickets, a familiar sense of anticipation filling him. But it’s not just the concert he’s thinking of—it’s Pam, the girl from the record store, who became the woman he married. He knows she’s in the garden now, tending to her flowers. But in this moment, he’s lost in the past, recalling the young man he was and the girl who captured his heart.

Later, he’ll tell Pam about the concert, and they’ll laugh about how they first met. Time has softened the edges, turning the past into something golden and precious. As Jeff looks at the old poster, he feels they’ve come full circle.

When I was seventeen, it was a very good year

It was a very good year for small town girls

And soft summer nights

We’d hide from the lights

On the village green

When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year

It was a very good year for city girls

Who lived up the stairs

With perfumed hair

That came undone

When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year

It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls

Of independent means

We’d ride in limousines

Their chauffeurs would drive

When I was thirty-five

But now the days are short, I’m in the autumn of my years

And I think of my life as vintage wine

From fine old kegs

From the brim to the dregs

It poured sweet and clear

It was a very good year

I must be dense. It just struck me that Jff is in his 70’s an his wife is Cranky’s daughter which means Cranky is …

Oh never mind

Where’s Crankshaft? He’s standing in line to get tickets to the Nairobi Trio show. They were the only Monkees he liked.

A movie called The Chad & Jeremy Story?

When I read the credits on some Linda Ronstadt LPs I would see Peter Asher’s name. It was a little while before I realized it was the same Peter Asher.

failures of tom batiuk – tom wanted to do a full broadway play based on the cartoon augie doggie and doggie daddy no one invested

Alvin,Put That Harmonica Down !!