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For a downloadable copy of the press release (as an MS Word document),\u00a0Click Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can download stills and images for web or print at Firesign’s\u00a0website<\/a>. \u00a0A high resolution TIFF of the DVD cover is here.<\/p>\n About Firesign Theatre:<\/u><\/strong><\/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<\/u>. 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<\/u>, described by the New York Times<\/u> 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! <\/em><\/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<\/u> 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<\/u>, and two matching volumes preserve their early radio plays (Exorcism In Your Daily Life<\/u>) and stage plays (Profiles in Barbeque Sauce<\/u>). A fourth book, Anythynge You Want To<\/u>, 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":" Thank you for your interest in The Firesign Theatre! Should you need additional information, please feel free to contact cecilia[AT]brightredrocket[DOT]com and we’ll be happy to take care of you. For a downloadable copy of the press release (as an MS Word document),\u00a0Click Here. You can download stills and images for web or print at Firesign’s\u00a0website. Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P88In4-49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightredrocket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}