A compendium of Firesign articles, reviews, interviews, etc. culled from that bottomless archive known as the Internet (a.k.a. the World Wide Web, a.k.a. Killing Time Made Easy). |
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Phil Proctor in an audio interview from 1998 at Minicon, a science fiction convention in St Paul/Minneapolis area. He and his wife Melinda Peterson and fellow Firesign member David Ossman also performed at Opening Ceremonies that year. | |
A lengthy
wide-ranging in-depth interview
of the 4 or 5 conducted a couple of months after the release of Give Me Immortality
Or Give Me Death by Cosmik Debris (also see this new review of Bride of Firesign). |
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The Village Voice gave Bride of Firesign a good review | ||
The Boston Herald had this article about the wacky FiresignTheatre.com site | ||
Peter Bergman remembers the late Spike Milligan in this "All Things
Considered" RealAudio clip (also check out this Firezine article on the Goon Show influence). |
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USA Today printed this story about the resurgence of Firesign Theatre | ||
John Simon, a friend of Firesign, has this 1976 bit with Proctor and Bergman on his web site. | ||
An October 1994 Realaudio interview from KDHX radio in St. Louis with Phil Austin and Phil Proctor. When The Morning Funnies ended its run in 2002, Chuck Lavazzi closed with an all-Firesign Theatre show. | ||
Disinformation printed this detailed article by Fred Wiebel of Firezine | ||
Grammy Magazine article from October on the Firesign Theatre | ||
Been There, Done That 05/11/02 radio interview with the Firesign Theatre | ||
Sacramento News & Review story on Firesign Theatre & "Weirdly Cool" | ||
LA Weekly story on Firesign Theatre's 35th anniversary and their new XM Radio show | ||
Philadelphia Inquirer article about the "Weirdly Cool" special | ||
An earlier Philadelphia Inquirer article about the "Weirdly Cool" special | ||
Hitch magazine interviews Firesign Theatre in issue #28 | ||
Billboard mentions "Bride of Firesign" and the "Weirdly Cool" PBS special | ||
This Byte editorial mentions "Bride of Firesign" and Firezine | ||
The Triumphant Return of Firesign Theatre, a nice writeup by Darrell Ray Elmore on GoodAuthority | ||
Seattle Post-Intelligencer had this story on Ossman's "Wizard of Oz" production | ||
An mpeg wav stream of a Dr. Demento radio interview with the
Firesign Theatre (after Ossman had left) from 1986 or so, talking about "Eat or be
Eaten" Part One |
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Part Two |
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A concise overview of The Firesign Theatre: history, new album, live performing and future plans. | ||
An insider's view of the making of GMIOGMD from Mix Magazine. Primarily concerned with technical aspects of the production and how the guys work together in the studio to achieve their trademark sound. | ||
A nice interview with Bergman and Ossman about GMIOGMD. | ||
Top Five's page from 12/17/98, when the "guest moderator" was Phil Proctor. |