||||||||| 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 October 08, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 4:45 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 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 visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers DJTweeny in through the front door at 6:37 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| 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) 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music (New Rick Wakeman Album - The Red Planet) 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 (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Deputus Dangus', just granted probation at 8:51 PM", then leaves hurriedly. DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy Deputus Dangus: Howdy, Pardner! ||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:53 PM, then departs. DJTweeny: Hi Cease Cease: This would go well with Red Shift, my play about Mars Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed ||||||||| Beet bounds in at 8:57 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Beet: And a peaceful good evening to all. Rufus_T_Firetween: Great album, I suggest you buy it if you like what you hear Rufus_T_Firetween: It's even available on vinyl Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Beet Beet: Hello, Dr. Tween Cease: HI Beet Beet: Hey Dr Cease Cease: and speaking of buying albums.... ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** 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 (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' Beet: Is there some new album we can be buying? ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 08, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Rufus_T_Firetween: Ossman announced that there is new vinyl in the works Rufus_T_Firetween: even a 45 Rufus_T_Firetween: next year Beet: Interesting Cease: I just emailed doc about it. Not sure it's new stuff Rufus_T_Firetween: Pretty sure it isn't Cease: what are these from, Tween? They sound very famliiar Rufus_T_Firetween: This is from Pink Hotel Rufus_T_Firetween: "A Closer Look" Cease: that last piece as well? Rufus_T_Firetween: All of this is one bit ^^ Cease: the descending space lab? Rufus_T_Firetween: All of it is "A Closer Look" Rufus_T_Firetween: from Pink Hotel Cease: must relisten to my vast firesign collection more often Rufus_T_Firetween: I got a CD copy from Lodestone Media in Indiana before they went out of business Cease: goinog to start a video in the near future with an automotive theme Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease: i have the cassette ||||||||| 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 Rotonoto plummets into the garden at 9:07 PM. Cease: hey roto ||||||||| 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." Rufus_T_Firetween: Welcome Rotonoto Beet: Greetings Roto Cease: this sounds like proctor and bergman stuff Rotonoto: hi all Beet: It's the Kurtster Rotonoto: don't worry about the flies- we won't weigh 'em! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman’s “WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS” 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out THIS COUNTRY at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wtcn-rv' Cease: home timely, roto Rotonoto: everything I knew *was* wrong- film at eleven... Rufus_T_Firetween: This is almost like stand-up comedy ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski enters at 9:11 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn. Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Johan ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Cease: Jammy johan amadeus myjetski: hello ever y body! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wtcn-ln Beet: Yo JAM Cease: We're in the middle of an electiion here in BC now. johan amadeus myjetski: RFT, beet, et al ! Rotonoto: do tell, Cat Rufus_T_Firetween: Bergman's laugh is mimicing Phyllis Diller maybe? johan amadeus myjetski: hiya, cease! johan amadeus myjetski: everybody doing okay? Rufus_T_Firetween: Doing fine thanks, hope you are too Beet: OK here Rufus_T_Firetween: Luckily we do not live in Louisiana, which is about to get another hurricane bitch-slapping Cease: Could be, Tween. They are similar johan amadeus myjetski: pretty good myself, thanks! johan amadeus myjetski: i have friends in the Baton Rouge area & nearby Mississippi delta area Cease:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-election-1.5732601 Cease: My wife and I voted by mail for the first time. Rufus_T_Firetween: Just got my mail-in ballot today Rufus_T_Firetween: Hope it actually gets delievered when I send it Beet: Haven't sent my ballot in yet. Beet: I'm going to wriye in Jesse. Cease: We have a pretty relilabel postal system here. Beet: write Cease: Except when I order stuff from the States. ||||||||| 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." Rotonoto: Fascinating stuff, Cat- amazes me how skillfully the electorate gets divided, doesn't matter where you go- same here johan amadeus myjetski: you can drop mailin ballots off by hand to your local election commission. then you KNOW itks delivered. johan amadeus myjetski: then we maybe WE can get delivered! Cease: Watching local news, now it looks like I'll have book a flu shot on line. Cease: I've beedn getting them every year for 30 years. ||||||||| 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!" Cease: Where are you, Roto? Cease: I've actually sat on Atilla's throne. Cease: It's on an island outside of Venice. Rufus_T_Firetween: neato Rufus_T_Firetween: Wwould love to tour Europe sometime Rufus_T_Firetween: *Would Cease:http://www.seemreal.com/cgi-bin/ti/viewer.cgi?slideshow=2002italy&page=018 johan amadeus myjetski: i’m big in east europe, i’d like to visit bosnia, slovakia, slovinia, and surrounding area. interesting place. Cease: I hope they open Europe again. Cease: I want to visit Prague and Vienna. Beet: I always regret not having traveled as much as I would've liked. johan amadeus myjetski: open to north americans. but i can’t blame them... Cease: Would love to visit my grandfather's hometown, St Petersburg but don't want to support Putin Beet: I've heard this before. Rufus_T_Firetween: Not that Putin's a nice guy or anything, but what specifically do you have against him? ||||||||| 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 Mel Stool falls out at 9:31 PM. Beet: Howdy Mel Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Mel Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wtcn-ln Cease: HI Mel johan amadeus myjetski: greets, mel! Mel Stool: Hola amigos ||||||||| 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!" Cease: poisoning his oppenents for one Rotonoto: I was just about to mention, Cat... Rotonoto: exotic poisons warehouse special of the month Cease: sounds like a firesign line, roto Rotonoto: indeed... Mel Stool: Damn phone Rotonoto: Nude Age Enterprises- I'm busy! Cease: someone here was talking about compiling all the faux food mentionsed in Firesign albums. Cease: That's an enormous job. DJTweeny: would be indeed DJTweeny: start with Rat In A Box lol Cease: it would take me weeks. Cease: Are you an old Firesign fan, Mel? johan amadeus myjetski: apathy birthday to you! Rotonoto: apathy birthday? must be in complete denial about his age... johan amadeus myjetski: makes me think of Casablanca! Rufus_T_Firetween: mmmm yummy watches Cease: somewhere proc says most of his royalties are from proc/berg stuff, not firesign Beet: More accessible Cease: Still here, Stool? johan amadeus myjetski: in some ways proc/berg stuff is more quintessential FST than FST. Somehow. Cease: i think they like acting more than the other guys Cease: who loved acting ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Medium Richard', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:51 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... Cease: proc/berg may disagree but i don't think they ever reached the depth of great firesign albums Cease: hi medium Medium Richard: Yo Beet: hello medium DJTweeny: hello Medium Medium Richard: In full Nancy costume just for you. Beet: cross dressing just for us? johan amadeus myjetski: hey median! johan amadeus myjetski: medium Medium Richard: The prize is 32 bottles of Thunderbird. Beet: That was fun Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net DJTweeny: Yeah, really good Beet ||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Mel Stool - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman's “TV OR NOT TV” 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 Read about TV OR NOT TV at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-rv' Beet: Mel didn't last long DJTweeny: :/ Medium Richard: Clark CABLE? Rotonoto: roto is thinking about the deflating copilot in Airport johan amadeus myjetski: frankly my dear, i don’t give a channel! Cease: Maybe we'll listen to Clark Wintergreen as part of the ongoing Proc/BERg festival Cease: They seemed to like the name Clark Rufus_T_Firetween: For the next 3 weeks we'll be concentrating on election material, culminating with Papoon For President just before the election ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Rotonoto: not insane! Cease: I'd also like to replay my Power show, which I did for Firesign Radio's first show. Cease: RIP Bill McIntyre, who was my producer on Firsign Radio Medium Richard: Papoon / Tirebiter: the team for our salvation... ||||||||| Deputus Dangus rushes off, saying "10:03 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" Cease: By Dangus Beet: See ya dep ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:05 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Funfun Town." llanwydd: good evening dear friends Beet: Hiya Llan DJTweeny: Hey llan Medium Richard: HelloHello ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" llanwydd: dont know why you say goodbye ||||||||| "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!" Cease: Hey Llan Medium Richard: Love some Harry Cox. Um... that didn't sound right... johan amadeus myjetski: i am going to have to run early tonight. stay safe everybody! Beet: See you next time mister JAM. Medium Richard: Night! Cease: By Jammy llanwydd: nite JAM Rotonoto: have you been listening to another of their mind bending records? Rotonoto: men never lived in outer space Rotonoto: yet now we have the space farce Rufus_T_Firetween: My fav FST album :) Rotonoto: heh! Rotonoto: EYKIW my fave with several close seconds... Cease: i dont have a favourite Rufus_T_Firetween: "Is this the end? Or only is it only..." "No, it's the end..." Medium Richard: second that Medium Richard: It's wholly holy. Rotonoto: Bozos for some reason I am most sentimental about Cease: me too, roto Beet: yes Rotonoto: yep, my mother was a bozoette in HS too Beet: "When you put on the nose . . ." Rotonoto: laugh runaway! Beet: illegal entry Rotonoto: oh, he's no fun- he fell right over... Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 6-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net where I play Firesign Theatre and take your music requests - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow llanwydd: dfghkloiuxecrfvtbgyiodfxgchbj Cease: that album was very important to me when it came out. Beet: well said Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases Cease: speaking welsh again, llan? Rufus_T_Firetween: geshundheit llan llanwydd: just trying to make sure I still exist Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php Cease: great book Beet: I wish I could be so sure. llanwydd: dr happy IS happy Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor’s Audio Book of his recent autobiography “Where's My Fortune Cookie?: My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory” is now available! >> https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v Beet: that I exist Rotonoto: I can't get my stupid players to run your stream Kurt- so I do appreciate being able to go to your pages and run archival stuff llanwydd: lol llanwydd: not laughing at roto, laughing with beet Beet: ty Rufus_T_Firetween: Rotonoto: I can't get my stupid players to run your stream << have you tried copying the link and pasting it directly into your player? Rotonoto: good idea, I will next week or next time I'm on here llanwydd: how many of us have seen FST in performance Cease: hope to see you regularly again, roto Rufus_T_Firetween: Could be that your browser doesn't know what to do with that type of stream Rotonoto: stoopid Linux- but I vove it anyway... Beet: Only wish Rotonoto: love llanwydd: I have. Town Hall NYC 1981 Cease: i have, first in 69, last in 2010 Rufus_T_Firetween: I used Ubuntu for a while, really liked it Rotonoto: I have Rufus_T_Firetween: very 'Mac-like' Cease: love your story about that in the Ossman Project, Llan Rotonoto: in Wash DC on thoier big annoiversary tour 25th? Medium Richard: SUSE Linux is iffy but fun llanwydd: you have probably seen them more times than the rest of us, Cat Beet: combined Rotonoto: I grew up on Ubuntu. lately all Linux Mint, it's so easy llanwydd: Thanks, Cat. I am very glad you liked it. Medium Richard: Mint is quite nice Rufus_T_Firetween: I've heard good things about Mint Rotonoto: it is very easy for beginners, just real easy to set up and work with llanwydd: line from Duck Soup Cease: they guys maybe 10 times. ossman, ossman and proctor a few other times Cease: plus hung out with the lads at some length. llanwydd: my computer froze Rotonoto: a warm sense of envy at that Cat- right guy at the right place at the right time Beet: enviable memories. Cease: well, i got on the radio in the late 60s so was kind of on the same wavelength as the lads Cease: played them on the radio in 3 countries Rotonoto: I discovered them early 70's, first album I heard was Electrician- I was most impressed, wanted more... Cease: and more you got llanwydd: I was a dj too, cat Rotonoto: and how! Cease: lol Rotonoto: prolific troupe for sure Rotonoto: I played one on TV, llan... Cease: i'm enthused to see podcasts becomming popular. they're just radio shows you can choose when to hear llanwydd: first fst I heard was the further adventures of nick danger Cease: i go back to the mushroom days, before they recorded an album llanwydd: or was it the future adventures of llanwydd: thats really cool, cat Rotonoto: it is so fun to listen to those KPFK series recordings Rotonoto: then later hear it enhanced and blended into the albums llanwydd: the mushroom recordings were made at the ash grove, werent they? ||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Now playing: Firesign's PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check out PINK HOTEL at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln' Beet: Nice ||||||||| Merlyn enters at 10:36 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger. Cease: no, they're called mushroom cuz they were recorded at a club called The Magic Mushroom on KRLA in 67 llanwydd: hey merl Beet: Hi Merl Cease: Mel ||||||||| 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." Merlyn: hey all llanwydd: oh, yes. the magic mushroom. I had forgotten that Cease: how's it merling? DJTweeny: allo Merlyn Medium Richard: evening llanwydd: where you from, richard? llanwydd: oh by the way, Welcome to our chat Medium Richard: Me? Um, a thriving city in the American South... let's say near New Orleans. llanwydd: cool Beet: ARE YOUR WINDOWS BOARDED UP? Rufus_T_Firetween: Hurricane Delta be comin' 'a callin :( llanwydd: I have been in and out of New Orleans through the airport Medium Richard: Just missed me! Cease: New Orleans, thats a city I'd like to visit Beet: Amazing city. llanwydd: never got to see the french quarter Medium Richard: Didn't need to board up - just outside the cone of Omigod Rufus_T_Firetween: unfortunately, it's below sea level Rufus_T_Firetween: and has a huge lake above it Rufus_T_Firetween: which can make things a bit difficult on occasion ;) Medium Richard: Sometimes and under and all around Merlyn: A couple of announcements... soon to go up on the website is a press release for "Dope Humor of the Seventies", a two-record set including 83 minutes of previously uncollected funny bits from the Firesign Theatre Cease: in my grandkids lifetime, i think most of the coasts will be below sea level Merlyn: The new release, which goes on sale Friday November 27, includes soon-to-be-classic chunks of surrealism like “Pluto Water”, “Shakespeare Sunday Sunday”, and “Bob Dog Dog & Dog Hot Dog Son & Foot Tires”. Beet: Great news, Merl. Rufus_T_Firetween: Excellent Merlyn, please send me the press release so I can spread it around Medium Richard: There can never be enough dope humor of the 70's. Cease: i' Merlyn: Also, something else will be appearing on the Firesign youtube channel soon-ish: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos Cease: i'm fond of dope, humour, and the 70s Merlyn: The press release will go up on the front page of the website, probably tomorrow Rotonoto: oh boy, and it's volumes one *and* two llanwydd: and the dope humor of the 70s Merlyn: STAND UP! RECORDS PRESENTS THE FIRST NEW FIRESIGN THEATRE RECORD IN 35 YEARS, “DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES” Merlyn: Merlyn: (Minneapolis, MN; October 7, 2020)—Legendary comedy group The Firesign Theatre and Stand Up! Records present a new double-LP compilation, DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES: a two-record set including 83 minutes of previously uncollected funny bits from the Firesign Theatre’s notorious “Dear Friends” era of freeform Los Angeles radio broadcasting,1970-1972. Merlyn: Merlyn: The new release, which goes on sale Friday November 27, includes soon-to-be-classic chunks of surrealism like “Pluto Water”, “Shakespeare Sunday Sunday”, and “Bob Dog Dog & Dog Hot Dog Son & Foot Tires”. Merlyn: Merlyn: DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES is an extremely belated sequel to Firesign’s 1972 double-LP “Dear Friends”—a freewheeling demolition derby of old-time radio tropes seen through the subversive lens of Nixon-era Los Angeles freeform radio. The record will be Firesign’s first new vinyl release since “Eat or Be Eaten” in 1985. Merlyn: Merlyn: DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES was curated from the giant book/DVD reissue “Duke of Madness Motors”, released in 2011, containing all 80 hours of radio shows from Firesign’s L.A. radio epoch on one data DVD with a 108-page book. Merlyn: Merlyn: The LP contains 34 tracks spread over four record sides. Meanwhile the download version of the record is greatly expanded, and includes 46 tracks totaling two hours 22 minutes. Customers who buy the download directly from Stand Up! Records will also get a 56-page PDF which includes scans of scripts used in the original radio broadcasts. Merlyn: Merlyn: The Firesign Theatre, whose founding members were Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor, came together on KPFK-FM in 1966 on Bergman’s program Radio Free Oz. During their time together they released over 35 albums, including “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers”, called “the greatest comedy album ever made” by Rolling Stone, described by the New York Times as “a multifaceted work of almost Joycean complexity,” and now part of the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry of historic American sound. Merlyn: Merlyn: “So of course we decided to negate all those accolades and bona fides and just call the new record Dope Humor of the Seventies,” says producer Taylor Jessen, who will never work in this town again. Merlyn: Merlyn: Called “The Beatles of Comedy” by The Library of Congress, the four-man Firesign Theatre wrote and performed together for over forty years, but their early studio work (1968-1975) for Columbia Records remains their best known and most influential. Innumerable phrases from their albums have entered the English lexicon: What’s all this brouhaha? More Sugar! What you don’t mean won’t hurt you! Not Insane! Forward Into the Past! Shoes for Industry! Your brain may no longer be the boss! Merlyn: Merlyn: The iconic comic voices of the counter-culture generation, Firesign chronicled pop, politics, media, and technology in a tense one listener called “the Future Inevitable.” The Firesign Theatre has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey and Bob Dylan in their original use of language, and to the surrealists in their psychedelic story-telling methods, including the time-and-space altering concept of “channel-switching.” The original albums, intricately produced in multi-track recording, were designed for multiple listenings and meanings—an audio Theatre of the Absurd. Merlyn: Merlyn: The Firesign Theatre’s Peter Bergman passed away in 2012. Philip Austin died in 2015. Remaining Firesigns Phil Proctor and David Ossman have worked since then to preserve the long heritage of their partnership. Their classic scripts were gathered in the book Marching to Shibboleth in 2013. All their major albums are still in print, and two matching volumes preserve their early radio plays (Exorcism In Your Daily Life) and stage plays (Profiles in Barbeque Sauce). A fourth book, Anythynge You Want To, captures three decades of variations of their epic Shakespeare send-up, plus an extensively annotated “scholarly” historical account of the adventures of Ye Olde Firesygne Theatre from 1600 to 2000. Merlyn: Merlyn: Firesign’s Philip Proctor has written an autobiography, Where’s My Fortune Cookie, and co-stars in the podcast and YouTube series “Boomers on a Bench” with comedy partner Jamie Alcroft. Multi-hyphenate David Ossman recently published his second novel, The Flying Saucer Murder Case, and second memoir, Fighting Clowns of Hollywood, featuring a collection of Firesign performance scripts 1979-1981. Several new Firesign reissues are due in 2021. Merlyn: Merlyn: DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES will be available for order directly from www.StandUpRecords.com and from better record shops everywhere. Images are available for download from Firesign’s Website, www.FiresignTheatre.com. The latest Firesign news can be found at Firesign’s Website and on the Firesign Theatre’s Facebook page. The members of Firesign are available for interviews—please direct inquiries to orders@firesigntheatrelegacy.com Merlyn: Merlyn: # # # llanwydd: lol Merlyn: You might need to click on the log to read all that llanwydd: how the hell did you do that, merl? Rufus_T_Firetween: Wow, Merlyb has flooded the chat almost as bad as Louisiana is about to get it lol Merlyn: copy & paste and using multiline input mode llanwydd: lol Rotonoto: end of film Merlyn: I just fade my voice out like this and cue the organist Rufus_T_Firetween: definitely multi-line Rotonoto: nice writeup, covers a lot of ground actually Beet: awesome Rotonoto: how do I make my voice do that? Cease: study at the Firesign school of radio Cease: this is one of the few firesign bits pre-KRLA DJTweeny: Hope they get the material from Pink Hotel into a new collection Beet: I don't think I have ever mentioned that I, too, am a Fire Sign - Aries. Merlyn: Here's the cover: https://www.facebook.com/david.ossman.3/posts/10158173827328551 Beet: What a fantastic cover! DJTweeny: That was an actual commercial, like the VW commercials ||||||||| 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 6-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign' Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Medium Richard: good show - Nytol! Beet: Enjoyed this. Classic P & B and FST. Thanks to all. Nice to see you as always Dr Cease. Thanks for piloting, Dr Tween. G'Nite. Cease: Campaign Chronicles Next week Merlyn: Or try this if you are boycotting Facebook: https://i.imgur.com/08lTodJ.jpg ||||||||| Medium Richard says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Medium Richard exits at 10:57 PM. Merlyn: PS facebook does suck DJTweeny: Cat's got some great stuff coming in the next few weeks DJTweeny: Much more P&B Merlyn: thanks all ||||||||| Catherwood says "10:58 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Merlyn by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door Cease: We do our best, Medrl Cease: CC next week. ||||||||| Cease leaves to catch the 10:59 PM train to British Columbia. DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Rotonoto: nite all Rotonoto: the guy under the table bears further explanation... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Rotonoto: ...surreal and a little out of touch with reality... ||||||||| Around 11:01 PM, Rotonoto walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 2:01 AM and Captain Oiloff sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. ||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Captain Oiloff - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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:
Beet
Cease
Deputus Dangus
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Medium Richard
Mel Stool
Merlyn
Rotonoto
Rufus_T_Firetween
