That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 19, 2024

/// Gutiérrez is The Spanish Singer.

His guitar’s a right-handed six-stringer,

yet the player’s a lefty.

Still, his ego is hefty.

Has no groupies, but thinks he’s a swinger.

Manual in Madrid, busking on a bench, earning very little Euro. Supper in Spain will be sparce.

“Paul McCartney taught me this next little number. It was hell learning how to play it left handed.”

Bob Dylan … the Junior High School Years

A sketch from Hayao Miyazaki’s lost mariachi project.

They had modern sneakers back in 1860, who knew?

There’s one thing you’ve got to say/

About marvelous Ed Manet/

When he paints a musician/

(In a whatever position) /

You can practically hear him play.

Al bravely tried to “reach his audience” while still wearing the head bandage from the last time.

He’s singing “smelly cat”

Those look like sneakers—very good foresight.

“What is Free Bird and why do you keep asking me to play it?”

I looked at a better quality image and indeed It is a right handed guitar turned upside down and played left handed. Manet knew something about guitars and guitarists

The next person who shouts out, “Sweep the leg!” gets a guitar over their head!!

haha this one made me chuckle!! Best one I’ve seen so far.

Jose doing his best imitation of Robert Klein’s “I can’t stop my leg”.

early shot of Keith Richards

Are those Adidas?

As folks have pointed out, in this image the musician is playing a right-handed guitar left-handed. That’s how Elizabeth Cotton used to do it, among others. The other interesting thing is that if you look for versions of this (I simply used the title, “The Spanish Singer”, as my search key) you’ll find he did sketches and prints with the guitarist right-handed, still with the right-handed guitar. That suggests to my mind that he had some idea in mind about it, but all I can do is wonder what it might have been. The third interesting thing is that in the left-handed versions, the singer is fingering a chord the way one would probably do it playing right-handed; his fingers are on the bass strings, which aren’t often chorded that way. That suggests to me that Manet did indeed know something about guitarists and guitars, but not such that one might suppose him to have been a player himself.

“It’s called Rock n Roll.”

“Keith Richards, Age 21.” Not to be confused with Pablo Picasso’s “Keith Richards, Age 27.”

“Darling? Where are you going? There are another seven verses? Darling? Honey?”

The Spanish Singer: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:The Spanish Singer by Édouard Manet" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found (DuckDuckGo then requires an extra click because it again finds the alternate name), and once there find the text string 061, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #242 (5/8/11) (December 18, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 21 works by him have been used here (24 times total, including this Throwback Thursday, and 2 prior repeats), the December 8, 2011, strip being its first use. That was before my comments had more than just a pointer to a larger image of the artwork or prior strip using that artist (no longer useful since GoComics deactivated hyperlinks in comments). The May 10, 2024, strip has his most recent.

Guitar Bob after his fight with Andy Capp at Jackie’s pub.

¿Has oído hablar del pájaro?

¡Todo el mundo sabe que el pájaro es la palabra!

¡Si, el pájaro, el pájaro, el pájaro, el pájaro es la palabra!

It was Andy Capp.

In Portuguese. :)

Deleted scene from “Back to the Future Part III,” where Marty tries to quell an Indian uprising by playing Wig-Wam Bam by The Sweet.

Painter should be shot.

By playing a right-handed guitar left-handed, the christmas carol became a blues song.