Dec 052013
 

rondstadtpizzaz

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  10 Responses to “Open Forum: Please Discuss This Magazine Cover From Any and All Necessary Angles”

  1. misterioso

    I don’t want to go out on a limb and say that’s the most awesome thing ever, but it should at least be in the discussion. That look on Captain America’s face–I’d be careful, Linda! I am too comic book illiterate to know who the other guitarist is but the fact that C3P0 is on drums is a stroke of genius. I assume R2D2, not shown, is on keyboards, like a robotic Greg Hawkes. (I mean, of course, a more robotic Greg Hawkes.) I have little doubt that the Dr. J poster calendar is as scintillatin’ as can be.

    A little research tells me that Pizzazz was published by Marvel Comics, which is perhaps why I have no recollection of it even though this is exactly from the era when I should have at least been aware of such things. A google image search turns up other spectacular covers, including this one http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Pizzazz04.jpg Get in on the soccer explosion, indeed!

  2. diskojoe

    Just last week, I was processing a pop-bio of Linda Ronstadt that dated from the late ’70s @ my library job to send out of town. I was surprised to see that we still have it.

    There’s also an interview w/her in the latest issue of Record Collector that was good. Although I can’t say that I’m a fan of hers, it’s still too bad that she can’t sing anymore.

    Finally, speaking of the scintillatin’ Dr. J, he’s been appearing in commericals for UMass, looking somewhat less scintillatin’ these days.

  3. Bronzed Nordic God

    A few initial thoughts. There should have been a comic book showdown between this band and Destroyer Kiss. I would have read it if for no other reason to see how they turn her tambourine into a superpower. What does it do, annoy her enemy to death?

    Dr. Strange should be on bass because he clearly has the effervescent stage presence of a Wyman or Entwhistle.

    Is being a DJ enough of a distinctive career that someone would refer to themselves as a “ex-DJ”?

  4. I’ve got too many thoughts developing to type on my phone, but my Marvel Comics-loving son can’t identify the guitarist and drummer. More tonight.

  5. 2000 Man

    I love that! I think it should have been a pinball machine. I’d have played that sucker all the time! When you drained it could have had Linda singing, “You’re no good!”

    I think the second guitar player is Dr. Strange. I was thinking Electro, but I think he looked kinda like Reddy Kilowatt’s big brother. I don’t know that much about comics. Pizzazz looks like the kinda magazine I’d have ignored. It looks like it was trying to be for “Young Adults,” and I always thought that just meant “Dicks.”

  6. My six-year old confirms that it is in fact “Dr. Strange” on guitar.

  7. OK, something that’s been troubling me since I first looked at this magazine cover. I don’t like the clothes and the hairdo the artist gave Linda. It’s a little too “business casual,” like she’s been stretched out and made “professional” to be more like a Kate Jackson or the prim and proper Kewpie doll Angel whose name I’m blanking on (one of the original 3) of rock when she was really oozing with one-of-the-guys-yet-all-woman charm and sexuality of Farrah, if that makes sense. I’m really disappointed in the cartoon portrayal of Linda. What’s with that Come Hither stance and the tambourine? I never saw Rondstadt in concert or anything like that, but in the clips I saw on TV and revisit on YouTube she had her feet planted firmly on the ground, ready for you to come to her. I’m sorry, this stupid-looking magazine was made by a comic book publisher, yet they strip the woman of her Rock Superpowers. BOO!

    I’m the farthest thing from a comic book guy, but that guitar player is all wrong for the job. She needs a more “organic” superhero playing tasty leads. Silver Surfer was the Danny Kortchmar (sp?) of the superhero scene, wasn’t he? I want Silver Surfer in her band. The drummer is a waste of superhero talent, too. That big rock formation character from the Fantastic Four, I believe, would have been way more appropriate.

  8. misterioso

    I think the problem is–not a problem, exactly, in fact it’s what I find so amusing here–is that it seems like this magazine was trying to be all things to all kids: It’s like they were trying to take on Tiger Beat, DC Comics, Creem, and Mad Magazine all at once. C3P0 on drums, for God’s sake! That’s priceless.

    I am secretly hoping (well, not so secretly, now) that in another issue the Heart sisters turn up as a crime fighting duo with some sort of spooky super magic powers. Please let it be so.

  9. 2000 Man

    I think their only real Rock Super Power is the ability to make Robert Plant cry, though.

  10. mockcarr

    Quite true, misterioso. Hell, if C-3PO can be in the superhero band, there should have been or Hong-Kong Phooey manning the gong or something,

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