antiker69
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:21:05 AM new
Okay, how many of you will admit to being a Freak? Freaky in a good way of course 
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Microbes
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:27:42 AM new
I remember those guys.
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angel4u
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:29:37 AM new
Woo Hoo! The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers!
I used to drive 50 miles to a head shop to buy those comics...still have them around here somewhere...
Pootweet!
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Microbes
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:35:37 AM new
They sold the comics at "The Armidillo World Headquarters" in Austin Tx way back when....
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thermionic
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:44:30 AM new
If my memory serves correctly, new printings (or reprints?) of those and Zippy the Pinhead et al were available at "The Environmental Circus," a couple blocks south of the sunset dock in key West Fla as late as the early 90's..
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Hjw
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:50:42 AM new
Well, hell, The president of our country is a clown so we are living in the politics of the absurd. The absurdity of the human condition and trying to cope may eventually lead us all to the consumption of drugs and alcolhol and therefore make us all freaks.
Lunatics reign... but so far I am coping without the aid of alcohol or drugs so I'm not a freak yet. But who knows what tomorrow will bring? LoL!!!
How about you?
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snowyegret
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posted on August 15, 2001 07:54:58 AM new
I still have a couple of those....
Microbes, The Armadillo World Headquarters was fun, wasn't it? Hah, I might have seen you there. 
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gravid
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posted on August 15, 2001 08:07:45 AM new
I got 34 hits on eBay for them.
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thermionic
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posted on August 15, 2001 08:52:27 AM new
I did a search. Rip-Off press is still operating! #13 published in '97. Reorganized after a warehouse fire.
It appears it takes 2 -3 years to send Freewheelin' Franklin, Fat Freddy and Phineas Phreak on new adventures. Maybe things are a little too mellow in the companys workforce.
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RoseBids25cents
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posted on August 15, 2001 09:43:53 AM new
I'm not familiar with these Freak brothers - but did the illustrator also have regular inclusion in Mad Magazine in the early 70's? The style of drawing delivers a strong deja vu
Rosie
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gravid
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posted on August 15, 2001 09:53:08 AM new
thermionic - Yeah I can imaigine the typical work day.
1. - Come in at 11:00 smoked up. Talk about last night's adventures and what's new - plan lunch
2. - Go out to lunch. Toke in park - play frissbie. Discuss ideas.
3. - 2:00 go back to work - write down some ideas. - make a few preliminary scetches.
Organize company beach volly ball game at 3:00. Head out there - buy a bag on the way.
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angel4u
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posted on August 15, 2001 09:59:26 AM new
Rosie, Gilbert Shelton, the main guy behind the Freaks, didn't draw for Mad but Don Martin (who did)was one of his influences. I can see a similarity there.
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loosecannon
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posted on August 15, 2001 10:01:19 AM new
I remember the issue where they filled their bathtub with cow manure in order to grow magic mushrooms. Now that's freakY with a capital Y.
I used to have a good collection of underground comix. Zap, Freak Brothers and more that I can't remember. Lots of R. Crumb.
[ edited by loosecannon on Aug 17, 2001 07:24 AM ]
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Microbes
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posted on August 15, 2001 10:02:35 AM new
snowyegret, could be.... They had some great bands play there before they had "big time names". I saw Commander Cody, Meat Loaf, ZZ Top, and a few others there. Pearl or Coors beer....
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hepburn
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posted on August 15, 2001 10:41:15 AM new
Toke was in the park? And I missed her?
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thermionic
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posted on August 15, 2001 12:15:14 PM new
naked vollyball,Gravid, and i believe the terminolgy is "score" but i wouldnt really know.
Awesome B and K 747 Loosecannon. I just aquired a Triplett model 3414a in great shape, which makes my 3rd tester. None of them read the same. A man with 3 testers is never sure what the mutual conductance is.
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loosecannon
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posted on August 15, 2001 12:32:52 PM new
Hi Thermionic
I've got two that I use regularly. The B&K 747 and a Conar 224 that tests all of the old 4 pin and obscure tubes, but it's just an emissions tester. I also keep a Sencore around because it's the only one I can figure out how to test 8950 tubes on.
Never had a Triplett but they are supposed to be good.
[ edited by loosecannon on Aug 17, 2001 07:25 AM ]
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Microbes
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posted on August 15, 2001 12:52:48 PM new
Hey, snowy, did you go to the first 2 "Willy Nelson 4th of July Picnics"?
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bobbin
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posted on August 16, 2001 08:39:07 PM new
I got The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat Book 2.
Just bobbin here
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MAH645
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posted on August 17, 2001 06:47:12 PM new
Those guys are from Kentucky, I know all three of them.
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snowyegret
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posted on August 17, 2001 07:14:53 PM new
Microbes, I just saw your question.
No, I went in the early 80s when it was at the Meadows. I always had to work. 
Wasn't the first one on MoPac?
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Microbes
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posted on August 17, 2001 07:22:09 PM new
Snowy, I was there in the early 70's. I think you're right about the first one, but the second one was in a big ole' cow pasture in a place called "Liberty Hill". It was a BIG get together, Nelson, Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels, and a slew of other good bands.
Was "Hippie Holler" still around when your where there?
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gravid
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posted on August 17, 2001 07:26:17 PM new
thermonic / loosecannon - You guys keep your pins straight now y'all hear? And turn off the lights to enjoy the glow.
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snowyegret
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posted on August 17, 2001 07:50:11 PM new
It was still there when I left for good in 91. (I knew it was time to go when they put up the street signs and paved the ruts and widened Bee Cave Road)
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Empires
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posted on August 17, 2001 08:19:13 PM new
Hippies sold them at concerts, corners etc. They were call Underground Comix, back in the day... heh. Put the picture of Fritz the Cat up now..Then you're cool...
I saw it at the drive in and was amazed they'd put it up on the big screen being what Fritz was doing to those "kitties"..heh..
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Microbes
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posted on August 17, 2001 08:25:17 PM new
Fritz had some good adventures. The Crows that where gonna fix him up, now THEY where COOL...
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snowyegret
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posted on August 17, 2001 08:38:07 PM new
It's fuzzy, but I think Fritz was the last movie I saw at a drivein.
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Microbes
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posted on August 17, 2001 08:44:13 PM new
I think the last movie I saw at a Drive-in was Easy Rider...
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Empires
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posted on August 18, 2001 08:52:32 AM new
Microbes Not sure but was that from one of the sequels titled "Coon Skin"? I think it was the third part of the story when Fritz, dies...
Warning, this site is not for kids...AW, if need be ditch it.
http://www.bouska.com/fritz/
[ edited by Empires on Aug 18, 2001 08:55 AM ]
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Microbes
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posted on August 18, 2001 08:47:32 PM new
I don't think so. I only saw the first movie. The Crows where a bunch of Pimps.
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