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  David Ossman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Ossman (born December 6, 1936 in Santa Monica, California) is the oldest member of The Firesign Theatre.
During the 1980's David left the Firesign Theatre, primarily to produce programs for National Public Radio.
Ossman currently resides on Whidbey Island with his wife and their two sons, Orson and Preston.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Ossman   (242 words)

  
 FIREZINE #2: The Sullen Art Of David Ossman
David Ossman was born 12/6/36, a Sagittarius, in Santa Monica, CA, and is the poet of THE FIRESIGN THEATRE.
Ossman's concise writing style, and the ability to plot and move characters forward with the poetic aspect, his surrealistic sensibilities and his superb radio voice, professional appeal, and acting ability added greatly to the organizational mix of the other 3 members to form the classic Firesign material featured on the Columbia albums.
Ossman has come to a point in his life where he once again shifted gears for a career change, and is scoping out his immense creative output over a long successfully diverse career.
www.firezine.net /issue2/fz2_05.htm   (4922 words)

  
 David Ossman
David Ossman has worn a dizzying number of hats in nearly forty years of performing, writing and directing the audio medium.
Ossman also directed Norman Corwin's "We Hold These Truths" (a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Bill of Rights), and updated the legendary radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" on it's 50th anniversary.
Ossman's poetry, translations, scripts and miscellaneous non-fiction have been published in limited editions, magazines and periodicals and in several anthologies.
www.firesigntheatre.com /albums/ossman.html   (411 words)

  
 Firesign Solo Projects at The Lodestone Catalog
David Ossman stars as Mark Time, intrepid adventurer in time and space returns to earth to find it converted into a giant amusement park.
David Ossman stars as Panghorn, and galaxy-travelling rogue whose sudden unexpected presence on a lonely space station may be for good, or ill, and even Panghorn is not sure which.
David Ossman does double duty as a Martian, and a member of the Ramon Raquello Orchestra -- the band that kept getting interrupted for "news reports" of a Martian landing in the 1938 "terror broadcast" of War of the Worlds.
www.lodestonecatalog.com /FireSolo.html   (516 words)

  
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David Ossman: Well, we were asked by the record company to do an album that could get some air play; you know, made up of shorter stand-alone bits.
David Ossman: I think possibly there were a couple of reasons we didn't make it big on Tv: There wasn't a Chevy Chase, there wasn't a John Belushi, there wasn't a single star for the audience to gravitate to.
David Ossman: For some reason Loran Michaels was reputed to not like us very much and we were never were offered any sort of guest position or guest host position of SNL.
www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Library/3056/Tominterview.html   (4671 words)

  
 David Ossman - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
David Ossman could claim to be the most literate of all the members in the Firesign Theatre.
Born in Santa Monica in 1936, Ossman began writing science fiction stories and poetry in junior high and high school, having several pieces published.
As part of Firesign Theatre, Ossman is probably best known as George Tirebiter, the everyman hero of Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, who has later turned up on other albums and live shows.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,475899,00.html   (409 words)

  
 DAVID OSSMAN
David Ossman has spent over 40 years performing, writing, and directing for the audio medium.
Ossman was seen and heard as “Cornelius,” a crotchety little ant character in Disney/Pixar’s #1 international box-office release,
Ossman’s award-winning, three-time Grammy-nominated body of work includes plays, poetry, humor, broadcast journalism and a number of historic firsts in FM broadcasting and spoken word production.
www.davidossman.com /lfti/DOssmanBio030708.htm   (229 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre - David Ossman News
Ossman¹s work has won several important broadcasting awards and been nominated for three Grammys, the first in 1988 for Otherworld Media's "The War of the Worlds" 50th Anniversary Production in collaboration with his wife, Judith Walcutt.
Ossman's collaboration with The Firesign Theatre extends back thirty-five years and includes 17 CDs, currently in print from Sony/Columbia Legacy, Rhino Records, Firesign Theatre Records (http://www.firesigntheatre.com/) and laugh.com, and three DVDs, including their PBS comedy special, Weirdly Cool.
Ossman is a poet, playwrite and actor; his most recent stage credits, including roles as Mark Twain and e.
www.firezine.net /a_ossman/ossman01.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Radio Beat: Eclectic comedy show has a KSER comeback
David Ossman considers himself a pioneer of the commercial FM era, getting his start on an eclectic station in New York in 1959.
Ossman is reviving the program he hosted on KSER-FM for two years, "Ossman's Audiola." The program will run noon to 4 p.m.
Ossman says the program is based on the premise that "island culture is distinct" from the big-city scene, and it will try to reflect the cultural flavor of island life.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /tv/137840_radiobeat04.html   (670 words)

  
 The Firesign Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Firesign Theatre is a comedy troupe consisting of Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor.
In the mid-1980s, Ossman temporarily left the group to produce shows for National Public Radio.
Their recordings through 1975 were originally released by Columbia Records and most of their current and back catalog is available from Laugh.com.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre   (954 words)

  
 MINICON 31 Audio Guest
David Ossman is known to many Minicon 31 attendees as a founding member of Firesign Theatre (1966 - 1985), to which he returned for a 1993 national tour and a new album now in development.
Some of David's radio scripts star George Tirebiter, a Firesign character, and he's now working on his second Tirebiter mystery novel, some of which takes place at a science fiction convention.
In the 1950's, David produced a library of interviews on the "beat poets," and he's published several books of poetry himself.
www.mnstf.org /minicon31/pr2/ossman.html   (243 words)

  
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Almost all of the show was shot on location rather than in a studio, and "sounds unlike anything heard before." David and Richard hope to release the show on CD (rather than satellite) to various radio stations around the country.
His "Ossman's Audiola" radio show is no more, as he stopped doing it at the end of '93 after 3 years.
David's wife Judith Walcutt is working on two half-hours of her women writer's series for NPR playhouse, including a radio play by and interview with Ursula LeGuin.
home.earthlink.net /~ritter/firesign/falafal/April94.html   (7924 words)

  
 Minicon 32 Moments
He starts talking about how much he appreciates that David Ossman came back this year, and how he's a big fan of Firesign Theater and has lots of tapes of their live broadcasts.
At 6pm on Saturday, he was on a panel on SF Radio with David Ossman, Jerry Stearns and me. The panel had no defined moderator; I wasn't particularly worried about anyone except Tom.
Ossman has a lot to say and Jerry can go on about a subject in which he's excited and Ghu knows it's hard to shut me up.
www.visi.com /~romm/moments.html   (3956 words)

  
 ossman: David Ossman, Amiri Baraka, Frank O’Hara, Dylan Thomas: The Firesign T   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
News from the Ossman From Ossman: 4/18/02 The following is the schedule for XM live in-studio broadcasts: April 27 #7 May 18 #8 June 22 #9 July 27 #10 August 31 #11 September 28 #12 Subject.
David Ossman, Amiri Baraka, Frank O’Hara, Dylan Thomas: The Firesign T
David Ossman showed up at the Thursday Firesign.
www.newkidhomevideo.com /ossman.html   (287 words)

  
 Review - David Ossman & Phil Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
David Ossman has always kept himself busy outside of his Firesign Theater projects, doing countless lectures and workshops on old radio and occasionally mounting serious productions like this one from 1976.
The main piece is Hollywood Madhouse where Ossman and Austin are joined by Mark Ward and Richard Procter (no relation to Phil Proctor, they were a local Santa Barbara team of the time), plus Lesley Nicholson, Chris Lip Kin and Lisa Cloud.
Ossman is in character as George Leroy Tirebiter for Madhouse, a radio comedy set in World War II where George is wrestling with playing Young Tom Edison (after all these years he's hardly young!), and a cast of lovable sidekicks keeps the story moving along.
www.cosmik.com /aa-may01/reviews/review_ossman.html   (314 words)

  
 WNYC - News - Welles' Life On Stage At BAM
David Ossman: The alien invasion is simply what carries the story, which has to do with the power of the medium.
OSSMAN: ?Welles said, ?base it on news reports?Howard stumbled on a great device, which was exactly that, news reports.
OSSMAN: He altered the dramatic rhythms?more news-like, jagged and interrupted?That?s a great idea, and everybody since 1938 has used it to one extent or another.
www.wnyc.org /news/articles/38287   (1137 words)

  
 Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal
David is serving as compiler and editor on this one, and a final version is wending its way now -- we hope to have it out in time for Christmas, anyhow.
David Ossman has expressed an interest in seeing the info published by More Sugar, so anyone wishing to contribute material/information and get your name in the acknowledgements can contact research buddy Chris Palladino at 11016 Coffman Ave., Hagerstown, MD 21740 and 1-301-582-0152.
David Ossman was a mighty magnet for recruiting who lent his time and charm but refused to lead or control, rather encouraging all of us to think, to create for ourselves.
www.subgenius.com /new4web/X0002_Firesign_Newsletter.html   (8930 words)

  
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David _______________________________________________ hal mailing list hal@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal From david at fubar.dk Sun May 8 21:01:43 2005 From: david at fubar.dk (David Zeuthen) Date: Mon Aug 15 18:49:23 2005 Subject: [patch] addon-hid-ups.c : battery.present is mandatory for HAL spec In-Reply-To:
David _______________________________________________ hal mailing list hal@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal From hughsient at gmail.com Mon May 9 12:14:38 2005 From: hughsient at gmail.com (Richard Hughes) Date: Mon Aug 15 18:49:24 2005 Subject: [patch] addon-hid-ups.c : battery.present is mandatory for HAL spec In-Reply-To:
David _______________________________________________ hal mailing list hal@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal From hughsient at gmail.com Mon May 9 13:35:21 2005 From: hughsient at gmail.com (Richard Hughes) Date: Mon Aug 15 18:49:24 2005 Subject: [patch] addon-hid-ups.c : battery.present is mandatory for HAL spec In-Reply-To:
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 Phil Proctor - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Like many musicians and comedians of the '60s, Proctor's interest in comedy began with listening to Bob and Ray, among other comedians, on the radio, and by making his own tapes on a reel-to-reel recorder his parents..
Born in Indiana in 1940 and raised in New York City, Phil Proctor became known as a member of the Firesign Theatre and its two man offshoot, Proctor and Bergman.
Proctor acted in several college productions, some scripted by Bergman, and the two eventually made their way to Los Angeles, where they began working with Phil Austin and David Ossman on Radio Free Oz, a late-night freeform radio show broadcast from KPFK.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,481463,00.html   (388 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre: Introduction and Table of Contents, Part 2/3
That is, they wrote the first version and have small parts in it, but it was rewritten by its producers, and shows only occasional FST touches.
Edited for The Firesign Theatre by David Ossman, in asso- ciation with Harry Reese and Turkey Press, March 1981.
The sullen art; interviews by David Ossman with modern American poets.
www.faqs.org /faqs/firesign-theatre/intro/part2   (1882 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Firesign reignites counterculture flame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
David Ossman, Peter Bergman, Phil Proctor and Phil Austin are part of the Firesign Theater.
The troupe didn't fit in and nobody would take a chance on them, says Ossman, a poet who started doing radio in 1959.
"Two things have happened to change that," Ossman says, joking that he doesn't know what one of them is. "The other is that there is once again a Nixonian, LBJ-esque smell out there.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/2002/2002-02-19-firesign.htm   (458 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Firesign Theatre's All-Day Matinee: Martian Space Party and The Yolks of Oxnard: DVD: Steve ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Originally filmed in 1972, "Martian Space Party" is a live performance by the FST's Phil Austin, Phil Proctor, David Ossman, and Peter Bergman, plus family and friends, breaking news coverage of presidential candidate George Papoon and his trip to Monster Island plus Richard Nixon meeting Glutomoto, the cheese monster.
As an audio bonus, Whirlwind has included taped interviews with the four Firesign members, each giving their recollection of how they all came together and have functioned as a group over the decades.
Annalee Austin, Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Tinika 'Tiny' Ossman, Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Tinika 'Tiny' Ossman, Phil Proctor...
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005Q65U?v=glance   (1020 words)

  
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I was producing all these plays by dead authors -- acting, directing; got David to act, looked at the amazing books of poetry that he'd produced -- as if he had hand-printed every page.
I had a very unrepressed childhood and I lived in the Midwest, and there were very few things to amuse myself, except softball, so I would do routines to myself, like "Why Isn't Everybody Happy?" was one of my routines, so they kept me indoors a lot.
December -- Peter, David, and Phil and Annalee Austin attend the Soyal Ceremony in Hopiland.
home.earthlink.net /~ritter/firesign/intro.html   (4004 words)

  
 Related Website - Harold Innocent - The David Ossman Firesign Bio
Harold Innocent - The David Ossman Firesign Bio
ISLAND" BY OSCAR MANDEL (R TP) - Ossman appeared in the cast along with Harold Innocent and Harold Gould in this KPFK staged radio version performed live at...
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 Live From Kaua'i - Bios
Led has since toured in the U.S., Europe and Japan, worked with Allison Krauss, Dolly Parton and Chet Atkins and performed solo and with other artists on dozens of albums and several documentary and concert films.
Also appearing are Dennis Kamakahi, one of Hawai'i's most prolific composers of songs in the Hawai'ian language and his son David, an ukulele stylist and vocalist.
Dennis and David were invited by Disney to sing and play the main theme song for "Lilo and Stitch 2" the upcoming sequel to the popular animated feature.
www.livefromkauai.org /bios.htm   (550 words)

  
 Carolina Morning News on the Web | Obituaries - Obituaries for April 20, 2001 04/20/01
Send flowers to the funeral of David H. Carroll.
SURVIVORS: his wife, Christine Kight Martin of Kite; a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Grayson Webb of Kite; a son and daughter-in-law, David and Denise Martin of Kite; two sisters, Loretta Meeks and Ruth Faircloth, both of Swainsboro; a brother, Joby Martin of Kite; a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
SURVIVORS: his wife, Ruth Ann Moyer Ossman of Beaufort; a son, Brian Ossman of Beaufort; a daughter, Sharon Bibbins of Beaufort; his mother, Dorothy Heller Ossman of Tremont; a brother, Bob Ossman of Durham, N.C.; and three grandchildren.
www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/042001/OBITSindex.shtml   (3136 words)

  
 ICM - International Creative Management, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
Meanwhile, Phil Austin (the voice of Bebop Loco on Give Me Immortality..., and the group’s official lead guitarist) was following a similar journalism/radio/drama path a few score miles north at Bowdoin College, courtesy in part to a swimming scholarship.
At about the same time, a few miles to the south of New Haven, David Ossman took a job at WBAI Radio in New York City, the flagship station of the Pacifica network.
David Ossman took a leave of absence from the band in the early ‘80s, returning for the 25th anniversary tour in 1993.
www.icmtalent.com /musperf/profiles/70046.html   (753 words)

  
 WRW Ogle Awards
Sam A. Mowry, Dave Ossman and Guthrie Theater acting instructor, Don Cosgrove performing Dialogue with a Martian Trombone at CONvergence 2004.
Several members of both companies traveled to Minnesota to receive the awards, presented by David Ossman of the legendary Firesign Theater.
Due to an illness in the cast, Sam A. Mowry, WRW Artistic Director was asked to step in at the last minute and performed with David Ossman and the CONvergence troupe.
www.radiowork.com /projects/ogle03.html   (386 words)

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