A Belated Return To Blogging

I see we meet again!  Hmmmmmm........

Hope All & Sundry are prospering;  myself, I can't really complain.  Things are ordered and peaceful on my end, which is all I could ask for.

Be that as it may, I'm kicking off the 2019 blogs with a good old-fashioned woolgathering exercise.

The topic?

Who was the REAL inspiration for The Muppet Show's Animal.

From the time I got my first drumkit at age 10 until the present day, I would frequently hear endless debates over this rather silly question.  Aside from the perennial {and rather obvious} nomination of a certain Keith Moon, practically every other drummer on the planet would be mentioned as THE model for Animal - from Aynsley Dunbar, to Micky Waller, to the late, great Roger Pope, and everyone in between - occasionally even including the likes of Karen Carpenter, and Sheila E!!  

Oftentimes, the back-and-forth would get hilariously overheated, with neither side willing to entertain one single notion about anyone else but their own candidate being the source of Animal's DNA.  Trust me when I say that this phenomenon lasting a good forty years {so far}, is proof-positive testimony of how utterly ridiculous it all is.

As for my own personal take of the issue, I found out  the truth by the time I was 11.   The simple and quite logical facts I had discovered were all I needed to keep me well and truly out of the larger debate, save for the odd times I would deliberately stir the pot to a froth, just so I could sit back and enjoy the insanely vicious floor show that would quickly spring up in my wake.  Hell, I even earned the nickname of Animal myself, back in the earliest salad days.  It was a Beautiful Thing indeed, Boys and Girls.

At the risk of triggering trillions of Homer Simpson "D'oh!!" moments all across the globe, I directly charge  y'all to consider one, and only one question.

What color is Animal's fur?

And as a followup, who's the most famous red-headed drummer of all time?

Right in one; my beloved Guv'nor, P.E. Baker HizzOwnBadassSelf is the only correct answer.  And in one of those little "Seven degrees of Kevin Bacon" instances, Ginger Baker appeared alongside one Ronnie Verral in the Mother of All Goofball Films "Gonks Go Beat."  The kicker here is that Ronnie was the original drumming "voice" of Animal, who sounds for all the world like old Peter Edward.

Still don't believe me?

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More shortly......