Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for December 30, 2023

That was a close one; he might have slid back into 2023.

Putting the headphones on backwards can really mess you up.

And just when he thought it’s the return of psychedelic music it turned out to be phony headphones…

Hey, Victor Borge used to try to play sheet music that was upside down.

if Horace listens closely in pan 1, it says, ‘turn me on dead man’…

“Paul is dead….”

“ Love is good hash”.

Could you possibly rewind to 1987?

Thanks Horace! … now I know what that “L” and “R” on each side is for!

I always thought it was for “Loopy” and “Reverse”

so then…“Happy New Ear Horace”…!

I was trying to figure out the writing on the first panel before I went to the next. Couldn’t do it. To me, this is the genius of Samson! Another great strip.

He is Backmasking, listening to hidden messages in songs when you play them backwards

whoops, put the headphones on backwards. :D

I thought it was a Russian folk song. :)

! ynnuf yreV

If you don’t have the right one on the right ear, even the left one won’t sound right.

Total fake! Nothing about drugs and devil worship! I’m heading over to Back to B.C. to get a sign from Wiley.

Just don’t try that with Stairway to Heaven, Horace!

why didn’t he just turn around?

Nothing like a sound idea.

When I was a kid my father bought a Toshiba cassette player. For some reason, I still don’t understand why it had a function to record backward via a mic. So with some friends, we recorded our backward speaking and then listened to see if we could make it sound “natural.” We found that the task was impossible.

Horace thought he might have a staff infection.

You know what happens if you play country music backwards?

Your wife comes home, your truck starts running, and your dog comes back to life…

Also: https://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=lzmeKHv5k3o&t=2s

Both retrograde (as here) and inversion have been used to construct intricate musical puzzles in which one voice meshes with another playing the same thing— Bach being just one of the great minds to accomplish it well.