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2013/06/10 17:52:46
jbow
Firesign Theater... You don't have the time? Make the time! Or get some TY downloader.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I2PjLna4C0 : Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him 1968
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCzgdF_WjOg : How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All 1969
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_MEpww2MHA&list=PL17C040AF0C68F062 : Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers 1970
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWFrMq3qNY : I think We're All Bozos on This Bus 1971
 
Have fun... go crazy, but come back.
 
J
 
 
2013/06/10 17:57:13
craigb
Ohhhh yeah!  These were always great!
2013/06/11 17:48:44
Ham N Egz
I have heard if you listened to the albums under the influence of mary jane you heard the embedded simultaneous conversations  during the dialog very clearly...
 
I was told this now....
 
not that this happened to me, mind ewe
2013/06/11 17:53:34
Old55
Shoes for industry!
2013/06/11 19:49:21
jbow
musicman100
I have heard if you listened to the albums under the influence of mary jane you heard the embedded simultaneous conversations  during the dialog very clearly...
 
I was told this now....
 
not that this happened to me, mind ewe




It may have happened to me... I don't remember.
 
J
2013/06/12 04:07:36
craigb
"...and how do I make my voice sound like this???"
2013/06/16 17:06:15
Moshkiae
Hi,
 
All of them good ... not great.
 
Santa Barbara in the 70's had a notable named Ossman, living there and he was doing "Easy Street" at KCSB, playing old time radio stuff from his collection.  He later moved to KTYD and did even more shows for them, which likely meant he was getting paid for them. I can not remember of the KCSB show had a different name or not, or the KTYD one had a different name ... sorry ... or if the same show simply continued.
 
That was my introduction to the Firesign Theater, and while not a gigantic fan like some folks, I liked the literacy of their work, in general, although at the same time, The Goons and PC and DM and English Comedy got a hold on me ... and the FT dropped in favor ... but still, they were nice and fun!
 
I miss the comedic styles in those days ... many varieties ... you can't find anything like the Firesign Theater these days ... and comedy on TV is such a copykat thing, and half of it is not even funny! And the laugh track is obscene and de-humanizing!
2013/06/17 10:36:16
bitflipper
"...out west, a place where god-fearin' folk like ourselves can carve a new life out of the American Indian."
 
I was living in Germany during FST's peak period, around 1970. At the time there was no English-language TV or radio available where I lived, so comedy records were a popular source of entertainment among us Yank ex-pats. Firesign Theater was second only to Cheech & Chong in popularity, and we knew every skit by heart - we'd sometimes rattle them off from memory to kill time on road trips enroute to gigs.
 
More recently, I bought some newer Firesign Theater records via Amazon and was surprised and disappointed that they weren't nearly as clever and funny as I remembered. It would seem they hit their peak around 1972 and then stopped taking drugs. 
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