Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/21/2017

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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for December 21, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 7:16 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com'
||||||||| Outside, the 7:27 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET **
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Chicago Christmas)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| 8:43 PM: Johan Amadeus Myjetski jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: No anchovies? I spell my name MY-JET-SKI!
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and mikee disembarks at 8:43 PM.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi mike!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: mikee
mikee: Greetings
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Johan, mikee
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Happy winter's solstice, everybody!
Rufus_T_Firetween does a Solstice dance
mikee: This is actually my first time here so bear with me.
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'EWeston', just granted probation at 8:47 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi EW
EWeston: Frosty evening Tweeny JAM Rufus and Mikee
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: happy winter's solstice, EW!
mikee: has anyone tried to stand an egg on it's end?
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have not
EWeston: Ank you. Looking forward to more sun
EWeston: You need an appliance to spin it real fast mikee?
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
EWeston: What have we learned about trains this week? Slow down for the curves
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I have a bathroom door which usually swings closed on its own, except on the equinoxes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Amazing that was even possible, EW
EWeston: Only fifty MPH over the speed for the corner. I never have that problem in the Porsche
EWeston: JAM may have a graviton flow dector near his bathroom
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: now everyone knows my secret, E!
EWeston: You'll be up to your eyebrows in jealous phycists
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 21, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet in through the front door at 9:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 9:00 PM: cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Beet: Happy HoliChris everyone
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'redbozoette', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
redbozoette: Beet cease DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski mikee hi de ho and happy holidaze
cease: Hi all
EWeston: Beester cease and redbozotte
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
redbozoette: ew
Beet: Hi EW
redbozoette: ha
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: happy winter's solstice, cat, beet, djt!
DJTweeny: Hi Beet, cease, rebozoette
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:02 PM, dragging Not Ed by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
cease: so it is
cease: hi not
EWeston: Not Eddie!
DJTweeny: Hi ≠ Ed
Beet: Howdy Dr Tween
Beet: Hey, Ed
DJTweeny: This bit is from the All Things Firesign album
Not Ed: Hi cease hey EW
Not Ed: There's Tweeny
||||||||| Elmer Ho enters at 9:03 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Not Ed: Beet, yo
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Not!
cease: Elmer
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
EWeston: Mastah Elmer
Beet: Hey Ho
Not Ed: Hey redboz 'n' JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Elmer!
Not Ed: Elmer ho ho ho
Beet: BTW Howdy JAM
Elmer Ho: howdy yall
Elmer Ho: how are things on this fine Thor's Day evening?
Not Ed: Chillin
Not Ed: brrr
Beet: Too damn cold
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the sun is returning! the sun is returning!
Beet: I am very fond of all of the All Things Firesign stuff
Not Ed: Hi hi hi Mr Deltoid
Elmer Ho: here comes the sun, doo da doo da...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: but it's paisley again!
EWeston: The Xmas bunnie has been scaring the coyotes
Not Ed: Yay Phil Yay book
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: great clockwork reference, not ed!
Elmer Ho: as DO said, "when winter comes, can winter be far behind"
Beet: Are we going to hear the whole thing tonight?
Not Ed: Taylor Yay
Beet: Just kidding
cease: great book
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! **
Now playing: from the DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS Dear Friends broadcast collection
“HELLO RUSSIA? MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv'
Not Ed: It's weirdly cool
Beet: Buddy system
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
cease: The Firesigns, mostly Bergman, did a wondrous show on Christmas eve, 1967
Not Ed: Yay Rufus
cease: Their Mushroom play Tile it Like it is has a vaguely christmassy theme
Not Ed: Love tile it
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: this is really funny!
Beet: canons are dangerous
redbozoette: I hear bells
EWeston: Igors loose again
DJTweeny: rining in your ears again?
DJTweeny: *ringing
Beet: Reader's Digest version of a billion years
Beet: You rang?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE, COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Not Ed: Pork?
Elmer Ho: prices have risen since this was recorded
Not Ed: Phil's guitar - acoustic - were there different ones or did he prefer one?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: better intelligence? Prove it!
cease: it has been 46 years
DJTweeny: amazing
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: depends foundation garments
EWeston: Hazmat bag included
Not Ed: I met him briefly after a show - he was carrying his guitar in its case - gibson? - complimented his playing (though he barely had a chance to play that time)
EWeston: There a lots and lots of different guitars
DJTweeny: that there are
DJTweeny: I noticed that too
Elmer Ho: so have I - and my bank account...
EWeston: I built my own bass last year around a Carvin neck
DJTweeny: kewl
Elmer Ho: cool EW...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: carving made high quality gear! i had a carving PA way back when. gorgeous sound!
cease: do you make any other kinds of fish? homemade salmon is popular here
Not Ed: I play, EW
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: pity they just went out of business...
Not Ed: Cool EW
Elmer Ho: what do you play !Ed ?
EWeston: It came out pretty well for a first try. Sounds good and looks good
DJTweeny: hadn't heard that, Johan, too bad...
Not Ed: guitar (rock, funk rock), keys (lots of styles)
Elmer Ho: sounds cool
EWeston: I got a groper with your name between its teeth cease
Elmer Ho: EW, I may not have had enough to drink for that last comment to make sense
Not Ed: any other musicians here - EW and...?
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Great stuff Tweeny
DJTweeny: I'm an amateur musician
Elmer Ho: i am marginally less incompetent on bass than on other instruments
DJTweeny: keyboards and drums
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: me!
EWeston: Cease brought up fish and away I went
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Not Ed: Oh excellent!
DJTweeny: just finished rebuilding my MIDI rig
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I am. a musician, that is
Beet: I was a drummer
Not Ed: let's make a band I think every inst. is covered
Not Ed: yeah
EWeston: I carved this bass into a Les Paul style body
Not Ed: neat Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I just broke my studio down & boxed it up, getting ready to move in a month or so
DJTweeny: The Bozos?
Elmer Ho: pics, EW?
Not Ed: Ah midi madness love it
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
cease: the drums can play themselves
DJTweeny loves the sounds of a Gibson Les Paul hollow body
Beet: I could do a single-stroke roll like nobody's business
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I play primarily woodwinds, especially flutes of all sorts
cease: i used to play piano a long time ago.
Not Ed: Tween amazing I know you're into sound and certainly know music
cease: wish I'd kept it up as I need piano for my new play
Not Ed: have a piano in the house cease?
EWeston: Nothing on line. Get in touch at my email EWeston854@msn.com and I'll shot you a couple
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I played guitar as well for many years. i had a 1956 Gibson es-120 arch top.
Beet: Jai Kali Ma!
cease: no
Not Ed: ooh coolishness JAM
Elmer Ho: that is indeed cool - still have it?
Not Ed: dang it cease
cease: the new play is about vince guaraldi recording his hit song, Cast Your Fate to the Wind.
redbozoette: play it again
Elmer Ho: the bass line to this song is one note - but it's the right note
cease: no you can see where a piano would come in handy
Beet: cool
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: No. Sold it along the way. playing bamboo & wooden flutes, my calluses got in the way of the finger holes. so i came to a fork in the road. was i a guitarist who doubles on flute, or am i flautist who used to play guitar?
DJTweeny: cool, cease
cease: and speaking of said play, Airship Al is in it. Doc recorded him last weekend and it sounds great.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Elmer Ho: yes, when you come to a fork in the road, take it
DJTweeny: cease, if you send me the text you want me to read, I'll record it
Beet: sexy ad
redbozoette: 9000 count
EWeston: Gotta follow your muse JAM When it makes bail
EWeston: The iron soup?
EWeston: Men are rising all over the country
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the B3 organ work gives this a real 'dear friends' feeling to it...
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
cease: sounds like a funeral
DJTweeny: and oddly enough, it's a Dear Friends broadcast!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That could have some effect on it
Beet: Spiritual Popular Mechanics
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: HA! beet! that hilarious!
EWeston: Knudili knitting for profits
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
cease: good one, beet
Beet: I just bought a book called "The Book of Genesis" which is illustrated by R. Crumb! Very odd.
cease: better than charlie manson
DJTweeny: I heard about that project, Beet
cease: i looked at it at the library
EWeston: I seen it tipical Crumb style
Beet: what did you think of it?
Elmer Ho: just checked Amazon - Crumb also has a book on Kafka???
cease: crumb has been busy
EWeston: Pretty good He sticks to the story.
Beet: Branching out
Beet: Crimea River
cease: their brains worked so fast it's hard to follow
EWeston: Have rapidograph, will draw
cease: requires multiple listening
redbozoette: bob
DJTweeny: always, cease
Beet: great stones tune
DJTweeny: all these years later I'm still catching stuff I hadn't caught 'back in the day'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts AirshipAl in through the front door at 9:50 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hey Al
cease: anyone think they can do proctor or bergman's voice?
cease: Hi Al.
AirshipAl: Happy Holidaze, Fireheads!!!
DJTweeny: not I
EWeston: Low Al
cease: Great job on the lines for my new play, Al.
AirshipAl: More like High Al
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Beet: hey al
EWeston: No straffing runs today?
AirshipAl: My pleasure, Cease. Tom reallyu did a great job on post-production.
Beet: This play sounds very cool
cease: bounced in the kobe room. this is long before kobe bryant was born
cease: he sure did
AirshipAl: Wanna hear how I got Ossman, R. Crumb, and Bill Gaines together?
Elmer Ho: the holy trinity
cease: we sure do, Al
Beet: Yes, yes
AirshipAl: Bill Gaines was a Zeppelin afficianado and had a great collection of items. I visited Bill on a regular basis. When the movie Comic Book Confidential was premiered, Bill invited me to the event and the after party. Ossman was in NYC to promote his version of "War of the Worlds".
cease: Great flick!
cease: this was long after ossman's zeppelin in how time flys
Beet: That was fun
AirshipAl: Anyhoo, I got Dave an invite for the party. Dave arrived and Bill and I found a table. It was a round wooden table. There was a 4th chair and who decided to join the party...??? R. Crumb!!! What a night.
Beet: I just ate
cease: sounds amazing, al
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Did you feel like you were in the presence of royalty?
AirshipAl: When I visited the Ossmans in Sanata Barbara in 1976, he gave me a tour of his house. One of the rooms had Zeppelin items including models and books.
AirshipAl: I certaqinly did, Beet.
EWeston: I wonder whose running the Small Animal Administration these days
Elmer Ho: i remember the Mad Zeppelin - used to draw it all the time when i was a kid
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: trump, i understand, is micro-managing the SAA these days...
Beet: In this administration they would be required to hate small animals.
cease: isnt there a presidential rat shoot on one of their albums?
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! **
Now playing: from the DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS Let's Eat broadcast collection
“XMAS IN RATLAND”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv'
EWeston: Many people say Don doesn't have pets. I think a rat would work for him
AirshipAl: Elmer, I have several versions of the MAD Zep, including pins and an erector set model.
DJTweeny: cease: isnt there a presidential rat shoot on one of their albums? << yeah, on Lawyer's Hospital
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: delinquent rats in the corner, huffing Raid...
cease: thanks, tween. it isn't one i listen to often except when i need something from it for a collage
DJTweeny: lol
Elmer Ho: neat Al
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Jerry Ford Palm Springs Desert Golf Rat Shoot"
cease: Ah yes
EWeston: A drunk pig is a happy pig
Beet: Most Presidents have died.
EWeston: How do they get away with it?
Elmer Ho: with dying?
Elmer Ho: with some, you don't notice
Beet: lol
EWeston: There is no right to death in the constitution
Elmer Ho: Bitch Miller
Beet: Death is unconstitutional!
Elmer Ho: that would be a good name for a heavy metal drummer
AirshipAl: Their memories live on in Disney's Hall Of Presidents.
EWeston: Getting witnesses to show up in court may be difficult
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
redbozoette: perky perks
Beet: Did you see the video of Trump in the Hall of Presidents?
Beet: Makes him look way more dignified than the reality
AirshipAl: Yeah, Beet. Scary!!!
Elmer Ho: the Disney version makes him look almost human
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: you think a rubber suit make you GoddyZilla?
DJTweeny: How's your stomach doing, redbozoette?
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
AirshipAl: Key word Elmer is "almost".
EWeston: You still have to dance the dance
Beet: It sounds like they are making sandwiches in the studio.
Not Ed: Chicago
Beet: I guess I need to listen to some Chicago tonight.
Not Ed: Indeedy Beet
Elmer Ho: i was in a band when the Chicago/BST type music was popular
Not Ed: Neat
Elmer Ho: it was interesting - the guitarist and drummer couldn't read music, and the horn players couldn't play by ear
redbozoette: much better thanks tweeny
AirshipAl: Gotta take a call. I'll try to return. If not...enjoy the Holiday Season.
Beet: One of the coolest sounds in music.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: saw an interesting documentary on the history of Chicago.
Not Ed: I was still in HS when Chicago happened
||||||||| AirshipAl is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 10:18 PM.
Not Ed: take care AA
Not Ed: cheers
redbozoette: too much christmas
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
EWeston: Clear skys Al
Beet: Saw them in Boston
Elmer Ho: happy zeppelining, Al
cease: by al
Elmer Ho: not to be confused with ziplining
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: number one on the runway, Al!
Beet: See ya later Big Al
Not Ed: Saw them with the Pointer Sisters
Not Ed: Cool Beet
Not Ed: Mpls for me
Elmer Ho: gotta run too dear friends - safe and happy holidays to you and yours
||||||||| Around 10:19 PM, Elmer Ho walks off into the sunset...
EWeston: Moles for everyone catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood snubs EWeston
cease: be well, elmer
Beet: Elmer! OK, then.
Not Ed: Ho ho ho
EWeston: He's a mole miser
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: fare thee well, elmer!
Not Ed: blech
Beet: I enjoy cummuning with hummingbirds during the summer.
EWeston: The neck suckers are just the worst
Not Ed: i get fooled by moths
cease: when my parents lived in van nuys, they had flowers that humming birds liked so we saw them often. exquisite birds
EWeston: Dpn't get between them and a candle
Beet: I put a feeder out
Not Ed: ha!
DJTweeny: My current studio/workstation - https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhqfhvy4n50jrbb/tweeny_Studio.JPG?dl=0
EWeston: Some of that look 70;s vintage
Beet: Nice set up Tween
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: my instructor was mr. langley, and he taught me to sing a song. if you like, i can sing it for you
DJTweeny: I used to have a couple of old 70's analog synths, but no more
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: it's called 'daisey'
DJTweeny: That's and Emu MPS+ Orchestral on top, and an Alesis Quadrasynth Plus Piano on the bottom
DJTweeny: both sample playback machines
DJTweeny: thanks Beet
DJTweeny: Apple computers
EWeston: I had a Pionear Quad amp that would fit right in there
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: quadrasynth's a good machine!
DJTweeny: I do have an Emu module in the rack which has samples of all the great old analog synths
Not Ed: cool Tween
DJTweeny: Yeah, the amp at the bottom of the rack _is_ from the 70s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: be back in a bit
DJTweeny: a Pioneer
Not Ed: had two minimoog model Ds - both were stolen
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
EWeston: Knobs and switches
DJTweeny: yeah, I'd far prefer he knobs & switches
Beet: lol
DJTweeny: I had a MicroMoog and a Sequential Prophet 5
Not Ed: learned on an EML 101 - early 70's
Not Ed: still an amazing analog mono synth'
DJTweeny: nice, met one of those in the studio back in the late 70s
EWeston: Diaphram switches came in the eighties
DJTweeny: patchable like the ARP 2600
Not Ed: nice the 2600 was great
Not Ed: never owned one - went minimoog instead
DJTweeny: I still have a DX7IID, but it's not attached to the rig at the moment
Not Ed: yummy
Not Ed: sold my D-50 --the DX's counterpart
DJTweeny: I'd really like to have one of the old MultiMoogs
Not Ed: whew I've played one
DJTweeny: MultiMoog - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimoog
DJTweeny: I like the ribbon controller as opposed to a pitch wheel
Beet: I have driven on the Jersey side of the Hudson and the air was a dull orange across to New York. Long time ago now.
cease: speaking of restaurants, recent anniversary of the massacre proctor and bergman were in
Not Ed: haha right now that I see it again, I used one for a bunch of gigs for a while - fun synth
cease: 1977
DJTweeny: and it did some things that the Mini wouldn't, like keyboard pressure
DJTweeny: cool, Ed :)
Not Ed: pressure sensitivity is so cool
Not Ed: D-50 has it
DJTweeny: very useful
Beet: Is that Maurice?
cease: http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/SF-s-Golden-Dragon-massacre-40-years-later-12166088.php
||||||||| "10:37 PM? 10:37 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed Instead should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed Instead enters and sits on the couch.
Not Ed Instead: Pork?
Not Ed Instead: got bumped
cease: this started out as a play. phil was in that too, along with richard pryor.
redbozoette: wow
Not Ed Instead: who's richard price
Not Ed Instead: oh pryor, sorry
DJTweeny: Hi Instead
cease: proc is doing tons of interviews promoting his book. if you're his friend on facebook, he advertises them.
Not Ed Instead: lol hi Tweeny
Beet: Hi Not
cease: hearing him tell these stories of his life with slight variations everytime.
Beet: suddely turned into stereo. that was cool
Beet: It must have been an incredible project editing all of these for the collection.
DJTweeny: no doubt
cease: Taylor has given a great gift to civillzation
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Beet: truly
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 6-8pm EST every Sunday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to my show archives and ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow'
EWeston: Thank you Hairy Father
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: love, love, love to all! see you all next week, fireheads!
cease: by jam
EWeston: By JAM
Beet: See ya JAM
Beet: This was fun. I don't know what I did before having these chats every Thursday. Now I can't do without them. Thanks everyone. Look forward to the next collage, Cat. Thanks, Dr. Tween. G'nite.
redbozoette: Beet cease DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski mikee have a great christmas and all holidaze
EWeston: A good eve and season to all byee
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Not Ed Instead: great to see you all!
cease: same to you, tween
Not Ed Instead: happy merry krimble!
redbozoette: thanks tweeny great end
DJTweeny: yw :-)
redbozoette: salmon for all
Not Ed Instead: thanks Tweeny, Rufus
Not Ed Instead: Peace & love!
DJTweeny: same to you, ED :)
cease: all the best to all.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Around 10:54 PM, cease walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed Instead - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| redbozoette - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| mikee - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:
AirshipAl
Beet
cease
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
mikee
Not Ed Instead
Not Ed
redbozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween

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https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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