Recap: After getting back to the proverbial drawing board with the music, Lol has the band regroup at the Ground In The Hole cafe for one more rehearsal, with the addition of Fuzz on harmonica - and this time, the funkiness is on target. Without scores, the band “scores” - with the right amount of perspiration to go with the preparation!
Scenario & transcript:
(1st panel scenario - The Ground In The Hole cafe in the middle of a clearing in a field with colorful flowers and light blue circles surrounding the cafe.)
Narrative insert: Start again! Now back at the Ground In The Hole cafe…
(2P - inside the cafe. Lol convenes to conduct the band - Zoot ready to play Fred, the Piano of Destiny, Algy holding Waldorf the bassoon, Topper standing with Timmy the triangle, and Fuzz, near Zoot, with his harmonica.)
Lol: Right! You’ve all worked on your bits…let’s play. Ready?
(3P - a cacophenous scene of the band playing frenetically with an overlay of a complicated and crazy-looking score, with sweat flying around and a sense of physicality with their performance.)
(4P - the band completed, exhausted but happy.)
Fuzz: Now that was real righteous-like!!
Zoot: We got it!
Fred (thinks - nice ‘n’ greasy!)
Topper (looking down behind Fred): Ur…you okay?
Algy & Waldorf (from the floor down, behind Fred): We testified!
Timmy (thinks - funk-y…)
Lol: Oh, yeahh…
Claremont (barely entering the picture towards bottom right corner) Sweet home Foreka!
Quote: Sweet home Foreka!
Reference:
"Sweet home Foreka!” is a punning reference to “Sweet Home Chicago,” a blues standard first recorded by the blues legend Robert Johnson in Texas in 1937, and which has been credited to him as the composer, though the structure of the music compositionally has antecedents in earlier blues songs.
Johnson’s own version can be heard here:
“Sweet Home Chicago” has been recorded by countless blues and rock musicians. Here is one of the most notable - the bluesman Buddy Guy and his version:
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