firesign theatre

[Gillies, Lindsay]

Firesign theatre is available in a greatest hits format on a double CD, I 
think on the Ryko or Rhino label.  In some ways getting the original album 
formats would be better,since the best works tend to create whole album-wide 
environments, including in-character awareness that the record needs to 
be/has been flipped, etc.  They will remain in my heart (and wired into my 
aural memory also!)
 --Lindsay
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From: owner-pynchon-l
To: CO27447; SY19058
Cc: 'pynchon list'
Subject: Re: firesign theatre
Date: Thursday, February 08, 1996 10:23AM

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Firesign Theatre was (is?) a multi-layered thinking-persons comedy group
that originated in the 60s, flourished in the 70s, and (I think) disbanded
in the early 80s Some of the members still occasionally work together, and
I believe that all four of them have on occasion worked together in the
past decade.  Their comedy is unlike any other I have ever heard, and much
of it is as fresh today as when it was first performed.  I don't think
that much if any of their work has been released on CD, but you could
maybe find used LPs.  My personal favorite is _How Can You Be In Two
Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?_

If you have access to news groups try alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre (note the
spelling), which occasionally features an exhaustive FAQ of the group.

On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Mark Williamson wrote:

> Firesign theater ?
>
> Who are they? - weird coincidence I head about these for the first time
yesterday and was intrigued. Now they crop up again  - tell me more...
(direct to me if its too off list)
>
> toy mark
>
>