{"id":250,"date":"2016-11-23T02:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T02:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2017-05-27T04:11:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:11:44","slug":"everything-you-know-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/dvds\/everything-you-know-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Know is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating their 50th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary, Firesign Theatre Presents
\n\u201cEverything You Know\u00a0is Wrong\u201d DVD<\/b><\/h4>\n
Their Columbia Era Filmography collected for the first time!<\/b><\/h6>\n

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Legendary comedy group The Firesign Theatre presents a new double-DVD compilation, EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE, 1968-1975. The collection is a survey of the group\u2019s television and film work from their classic Columbia Records era, with over seven\u00a0hours of material gathered on two discs.<\/p>\n

Included are Firesign’s 1974 short feature Everything You Know Is Wrong; their 1972 concert film Martian Space Party; Questions and Answers Live at UCSC, a televised stage show from 1975; About a Week, a filmed performance and interview for Los Angeles TV in 1971; the complete series of Jack Poet Volkswagen ads, which Firesign wrote and performed for television in 1969; more than three hours of home movies; photo galleries; and more.<\/p>\n

Everything You Know Is Wrong and Martian Space Party both feature running commentaries recorded by the full group in 2009. All of the material in the package has been unavailable for over 20 years, and most of it has never been released in any form.<\/p>\n

About Firesign Theatre \u2013 www.firesigntheatre.com:<\/b><\/p>\n

November 2016 marks the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of The Firesign Theatre, whose founding members Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor came together on KPFK-FM in 1966 on Bergman\u2019s program Radio Free Oz. During their time together they released over 35 albums, including \u201cDon\u2019t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers,\u201d called \u201cthe greatest comedy album ever made\u201d by Rolling Stone, described by the New York Times as \u201ca multifaceted work of almost Joycean complexity,\u201d and placed in the Library of Congress\u2019 Archive of historic recordings.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cThe Beatles of Comedy\u201d by The Library of Congress, the four-man Firesign Theatre collaboration wrote and performed together for over forty years. Their early studio work for Columbia Records (1968-1975) remains their best known and most influential. Innumerable phrases from their albums have entered the English lexicon: What\u2019s all this brouhaha? More Sugar! What you don\u2019t mean won\u2019t hurt you! Not Insane! Forward Into the Past! Shoes for Industry! Your brain may no longer be the boss!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

The iconic comic voices of the counter-culture generation, Firesign chronicled pop, politics, media, and technology in a tense one listener called \u201cthe Future Inevitable.\u201d 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 \u201cchannel-switching.\u201d The original records, intricately produced in multi-track recording, were designed for multiple listenings and meanings \u2013 an audio theatre of the absurd.<\/p>\n

The Firesign Theatre\u2019s 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 collaboration. Their classic scripts were gathered in the book Marching to Shibboleth in 2013. All their major albums are still in print, some eighty hours of their early radio broadcasts have been released in the book\/DVD set Duke of Madness Motors, 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 \u201cscholarly\u201d historical account of the adventures of Ye Olde Firesygne Theatre from 1600 to 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating their 50th\u00a0anniversary, Firesign Theatre Presents \u201cEverything You Know\u00a0is Wrong\u201d DVD Their Columbia Era Filmography collected for the first time! Legendary comedy group The Firesign Theatre presents a new double-DVD compilation, EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE, 1968-1975. The collection is a survey of the group\u2019s television and film work from their Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"parent":288,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P88In4-42","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}