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  Firesign Theatre Interview (Cosmik Debris)
Firesign cleverly snares the most sensitive of concerns plaguing the psyche of the late 20th century.
Side two features perhaps Firesign's most accessible and popular character, Nick Danger in, "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger." A humorous play on radio shows of the 1930s and 1940s, the bit was recorded by Firesign on the original RCA mikes CBS used to produce the old radios shows.
Firesign's second LP was a hit, and record sales soared as college students, campus radio stations, and curious Firesign newbies took to the record shelves to experience for themselves the new voice of the new humorists.
www.firezine.net /cosmik_firesign/ft-act1.html   (3001 words)

  
 Amazon.com: How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?: Music: Firesign Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Firesign Theatre solves this problem by putting so much material into the background, that every time you listen to any of their extraordinary recordings you pick up on something you didn't know was there before.
At one point I either owned or had heard nearly every Firesign Theatre album, and while they were a highly erratic bunch of boys (many of their albums are simply awful), at their best they produced the greatest comedy albums in the history of recording.
The Firesign Theatre's robust mannerisms and corny elan root them firmly in the trenchant polylalia of improbable Americans like a disembodied Ziegfield's follies of the coney island of the mind of the radio the dog is listening to.
www.amazon.com /Places-Once-When-Youre-Anywhere/dp/B0000024UU   (1615 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre : Dear Friends - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This set is a distillation of the Firesign Theater's 21 hour-long weekly radio programs conceived and produced live on the air at KPFK in Los Angeles between September 9, 1971, and February 17, 1972.
The Firesign Theater actually incorporate and refer to the medium throughout their impromptu sketches as if it were the fifth member of the troupe.
The Firesign Theater of the air deftly construct premise after premise with verbal sparring and wordplay.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,85849,00.html   (527 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre CDs at Lodestone
The Firesign Theatre ruturns to the studio in 1999 in the first album of Rhino Records' "Millenium Trilogy" of new Firesign Albums.
Firesign on Video -- this is the strange and surreal video version of their 1975 album of the same name.
Firesign wrote the script for this psychadelic western -- thing is, they were never allowed to finish it.
www.lodestone-media.com /firesign.html   (1190 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Dont Crush The Dwarf Hand Me: Music: Firesign Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The magic that was and is the Firesign Theatre really came into its own in a very public way with this, their third studio production.
Firesign aficionado Fred Wiebel insists Tirebiter has sold his soul to the media and now has to live a life of constant sellouts just to keep his head up.
The Firesign Theatre themselves were doomed never again to create something of this caliber, but the insights and groundbreaking unity of the album are an unmistakable influence on a well-known rival troupe who were first finding their legs about the time this album came out, Monty Python.
www.amazon.ca /Dont-Crush-Dwarf-Hand-Me/dp/B00005T7IS   (1279 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Firesign reignites counterculture flame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
David Ossman, Peter Bergman, Phil Proctor and Phil Austin are part of the Firesign Theater.
Firesign is still skewering the latest pop culture trends and fads.
Firesign never officially broke up but disappeared for almost a decade during the Reagan-Bush years.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/2002/2002-02-19-firesign.htm   (458 words)

  
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 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.
The Firesign approach to comedy was strongly influenced by the antics they heard on The Goon Show, and all four Firesign members have spoken of their admiration for The Goon Show and Spike Milligan, as noted by David Ossman:
Because of their complexity, Firesign recordings tend to become funnier with repeated listenings as new jokes are revealed, and their high production values provide an additional layer of aesthetic interest that endears them to audiophiles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Firesign_Theater   (1258 words)

  
 Jerry's Firesign Theatre Page
Their latest album, The Bride of Firesign, was released by Rhino Records in September, 2001.
Two Firesign albums have been ensconced in the Mark Time Science Fiction Audio Hall of Fame honor roll, as well as other works by David Ossman.
There are three Firesign films available through the LodesTone Catalog - Martian Space Party, Nick Danger and the Case of the Missing Shoe, and Everything You Know Is Wrong.
www.greatnorthernaudio.com /audio_theater/Firesign.html   (657 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Firesign Theatre: Introduction & Table of Contents ====================================================== This series of files is intended to provide a general information base for discussion, and answer some frequently-asked questions posted on alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre and its mirror-clone alt.fan.firesign-theatre.
These were famous for their depth of interaction among the characters, their range of literary allusion and references to popular culture, history and science, and the incomparable surreal quality of their pacing.
It is presented as part of The Firesign Theatre's 15th Birth- day Celebration, and on the 10th anniversary of the release of the "Bozos" album.
home.earthlink.net /~ritter/firesign/intro.html   (4004 words)

  
 I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The first sounds you hear are natural sounds, animal sounds; their aural holiness soon to be replaced by holograms popping into being in an "unfair" where horrible experiments are performed upon animals, and people are all clones, holograms or machines tended by precariously employed humans.
One reason "Bozos" is my favourite is that it completes the story, started in "Electrician." The final chapter isn't a favourite because of itself, but because it completes an entire tale and makes it greater than it would have been without that ending.
The work of the Firesign Theatre is still lighting the mind and illuminating wonderous things.
www.firesigntheatre.com.cob-web.org:8888 /albums/album.php?album=bozos   (776 words)

  
 'House of Firesign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Firesign Record Reviews: Read what people like you (uh, Clem) have to say about all the Firesign Records.
Firesign Threatre Dot Com: Crazy, surreal interface, but you'll eventually find your way around.
Firesign Podcasting: Don't even THINK about trying to find this from their website.
www.benway.com /firesign   (146 words)

  
 NPR : The four-man comedy troupe, THE FIRESIGN THEATRE
Fresh Air from WHYY, November 15, 1993 · The four-man comedy troupe, THE FIRESIGN THEATRE.
The FIRESIGNS created satire out of the political and civil upsets of the late 1960's, drawing big underground radio and college campus audiences.
THE FIRESIGNS (Phil Proctor, Peter Bergman, Phil Austin, and David Ossman) got their start doing a late night radio talk show, "Radio Free Oz," with the host in the persona of the Wizard of Oz.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1107295   (204 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre Canonical irReference
This web site is a celebration of their work, an acknowledgement of their contribution to the cultural milieu, and a personal tip of the hat to four or five of the funniest guys this side of the shadows.
The Firesign Theatre Podcast is a collection of archival and recent Firesign material.
This is the definitive oral history and timeline of the seriously surreal and subversive audio artists that shaped a generation, covering every aspect of their lives and careers.
www.doctechnical.com /fst   (440 words)

  
 Contemporary Audio Theater from The Lodestone Catalog (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Firesign Theatre have carved a unique niche in the history of audio comedy -- from their revolutionary albums for Columbia in the 60's up to today.
Norman Corwin is the grand past- and present- master of audio theater.
This star-filled audio theater adaptation of the classic children's book is pure magic.
www.lodestone-media.com.cob-web.org:8888   (480 words)

  
 Erik Deckers - Slick Bracer radio theater plays
The biggest reason to write GOOD audio theater?: Yuri Rasovsky will say mean things about you to Irish radio theater guys if your writing is crap.
Seriously though, a great article on the state of audio theater today, why it needs to be improved, and how it can happen.
Sue (the director of the National Audio Theater Festivals) discusses her hopes and outlook for the state of radio theater in the US today.
www.kconline.com /deckers/radio_theater_writing.html   (900 words)

  
 (GCKAFE) FST: Boom Dot Bust by Dr. of Rockology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is the second Firesign Theater recording after their reunion in the late 1990's.
This is one in a series of caches based on recordings by the Firesign Theatre.
Favorite bits from Firesign's 1970 radio series were collected on the best-selling LP (later CD), "Dear Friends." Collectors have scoured eBay for rare copies of the later "Let's Eat!" series and many other unreleased radio shows and broadcast performances.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCKAFE   (739 words)

  
 Firesign Theatre WWW Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Check out the LodesTone Media page, which has lots of Firesign Theatre stuff, and is supporting the Firesign Theatre in their online manifestations.
The Firesign Theatre is a comedy group of four (or five) guys who first got together on radio in Los Angeles back the 60's, and created a surreal stream-of-consciousness brand of humor that has gained a popular following.
Firesign Theatre Sounds are available in WAV format from Richard Arnold, as well as.AU format, compliments of Josh Hayes.
home.earthlink.net /~ritter/firesign/firesign.html   (344 words)

  
 Radio Theater on the Web
AM/FM Theater - http://www.amfmtheater.com/ - (Lowell, MA) - AMFM Theater is the home of The Grist Mill, featuring original audio horror short stories.
Lots of crazy stuff, including new writings by Firesign members, and sounds from and info about their latest works together and separately, including some cool animations.
Generations Radio Theater - http://www.radiotales.com/ (New address) - Generations Radio Theater has produced a series of dramatic readings of classic American literature marked by a top-to-bottom musical score fully integrated into the text.
www.greatnorthernaudio.com /audio_theater/radio_theater.html   (3522 words)

  
 Dr. Demento News Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I wouldn't been caught dead playing any comedy records, no, I started on the air as a classical music announcer in New York City, which is probably an oldies symphony in C minors by Edgar Von Beethoven brought to you by a Unconcious Village, makers of the finest in mattresses.
DD: and that is vintage Firesign Theatre, we would gather together with our headphones even back in the days of vinyl, people would put on headphones to listen to these albums, starting with "Waiting for the Electrician" or "Somewhat Like Him" in 1968.
We will be playing another track from the new Firesign CD a little bit later, but a little classic is probably the track of your vintage things and it's the one I've gotten the most requests for, so here it is...
www.davesfunstuff.com /044iv001.htm   (3389 words)

  
 XM Radio Signs Programming Agreements With National Lampoon, Discovery and Firesign Theater
Under XM’s agreement with the Firesign Theater (Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Phil Proctor), the legendary comedy troupe will create a live monthly show that will be broadcast on one of XM’s comedy channels, and will also serve as creative consultants.
The Firesign Theater has been portrayed as America’s Monty Python and as the illegitimate children of Mark Twain and The Beatles.
The Firesign Theater has broadcasting roots that run from the Golden Age of Radio to the burgeoning years of FM underground in Los Angeles.
www.carsound.com /news/archives/1_27_101_1.shtml   (635 words)

  
 Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal
Also on Wiebel's not-so-secret agenda is a Firesign Theatre feature article for DISCoveries Magazine for Record and CD Collectors called "The 8 Shoes Track Record," with the most comprehensive display of the group to date, fall in love with, and get married to, scheduled to be printed in the December issue.
Special efforts were made by the Firesign Theater, who devoted space in their "Crawdaddy" magazine column and KTYD disc jockeys Richard Proctor (as Senator Boron Deluxe) and Mark Ward (as security chief).
Firesign catch-phrases often pop up unexpectedly in the strangest places, everywhere from high school reunions to mass media; they're all over the place, of course, in our beloved cyberspace.
www.subgenius.com /new4web/X0002_Firesign_Newsletter.html   (8930 words)

  
 village voice > music > The Firesign Theater The Bride of Firesign by Richard Gehr
Using broadcasting as their preferred parodic medium, the FST combine the Beatles' ambitious pleasure principle with a knack for hallucinating listeners into other realms via the recording studio's magic apparatus—it's thrilling to hear an Austin noir riff inspire one of Ossman's beatific poetry solos as Bergman and Proctor chime in with weirdly ad hoc associations.
Dedicated to keeping it surreal, the FST during its prime was a smoothly functioning concept synthesizer, a vaguely demonic fl box into which the world emerged as a Möbius-stripped Philip K. Dick novel languishing in the giggling shards of its vivisected ontology.
The characters ultimately converge in the laboratory of Dr. Firesign, who has conspired to transmit their combined attributes into a silent object of desire, a "budding stem cell in a pudding of pure science." The album ends in an apocalyptic conflagration that echoes Firesign benchmark The Wizard of Oz.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0212/gehr.php   (868 words)

  
 NPR : Firesign Theatre, Now Playing on NPR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But for the uninitiated (and the younger): Meet Firesign Theatre, which isn’t a theater at all.
They’ve been making theater of the mind for most of four decades, on radio, TV, film and in recordings.
24, 2002: The Firesign version of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." More than mice are stirring in the car that Nick Danger, Third Eye, calls home -- wearing politically incorrect fur from head to foot, he delivers the goods to Rocky Rococco, with help from from some flying reindeer named Smasher, Lap Dancer and Inga.
www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/aug/firesign   (716 words)

  
 File Library at Channel 1: Sound: Digital, WAV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Firesign Theater "Are you selling brooms made by the insane?!"
Firesign Theater "(shot fired, man screams and falls down LONG stairs)...
Firesign Theater "Your life of crime, makes you the envy of everyone!"
www.filelibrary.com /Contents/Multi-Platform/61/25.html   (227 words)

  
 Joyce - Influence in Theater & Radio
I was browsing through the Brazen Head when I discovered that one of the most famous appearances of Joyce in another medium was missing from the "Influence" section.
This is, of course, the classic 1969 album by the Firesign Theater, entitled How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.
At the end of the first side, the fast-talking used car salesman Ralph Spoilsport suddenly drops out of his salesman patter and begins reciting the closing lines of Molly's soliloquy.
www.themodernword.com /joyce/joyce_influence_theater.html   (535 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Firesign Theatre - Boom Dot Bust: Music: Firesign Theater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For a bunch of old guys, the Firesign Theatre are sure on a roll.
It's quite simple: if you are a fan of the Firesign Theatre at their most surreal, a la "Don't crush that Dwarf" and "Everything You Know is Wrong", you'll love this; it's brilliant.
Firesign Theatre - Boom Dot Bust ~ Firesign Theater
www.amazon.com /Firesign-Theatre-Boom-Dot-Bust/dp/B000056BSL   (1620 words)

  
 Firesign theater / home-theater.book-dvd-movie.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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