RIP :( Perhaps the other Phil will read some words as Pastor Flash.
― Bredda Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Oh, no public memorial.
― Bredda Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Damn. RIP
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Friday, 19 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
wish I could think of an appropriate quote
RIP
― sleeve, Friday, 19 June 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
He's no fun, he fell right over.
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Friday, 19 June 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
out of all of the solo records this one definitely makes the least sense, the kids were smoking this the year they disappeared the high school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GoVJXavUs
never noticed the brief half speed raymond scott soothing sounds sample on side 2 until now! phil austin you fellow traveller have fun where you are
― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 June 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
"i am trying to think like a girl, but... all I keep thinking of is girls!"
― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 June 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
Tragic news.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Friday, 19 June 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4k23EYlv4c
RIP, Regnad Kcin.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 June 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
William I was gonna say that, but reconsidered
thank you :)
― sleeve, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
: )
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
You have violated Robot’s Rules of Order and will be asked to leave the future immediately. Thank you.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 November 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
Reminds me I've been meaning to change my screen name.
― Trussrippers WILL be persecuted! (WmC), Monday, 11 November 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah and I'd been meaning to post this: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-organist/be-in-two-places-at-once-the-firesign-theatre
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Monday, 11 November 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
That, there, there, that’s Steve Reeves.No, that’s Agnes Moorehead.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Autocorrect wanted Agnes Motörhead.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Let’s see, it was a jackal-headed woman with her eyes akimbo.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 November 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Chippéd nose uplifted thusly
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
All engraven on a Pyramus of massy sighs
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
I have the Shoes For Industry 2cd which has some great stuff on it. Was there a more comprehensive box set?Found the 2cd in an alternative shop in Dublin. May have been prompted to get it by a feature in one of Big Chiefs magazine in the mid 90s.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
There has not been a comprehensive box set, though all of the Columbia records are available here: https://laugh.com/?s=firesign+theatre&post_type=product
There was, though, a very comprehensive box set of their radio shows that was put together a few years ago: http://firesigntheatre.com/domm/whatitis.html
The radio shows are very different, because it's pretty much all improvised live radio. But they are fascinating and with lots of moments of greatness.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
And archived on WFMU, as posted above.
http://wfmu.org/playlists/FT
― WmC, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
I think the Red Rolling Stone Record Guide had at least a couple of the lps rated at 5 stars come to think of it. Pretty sure there's at least one record sleeve pictured in the book.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Don't Crush That Dwarf and How Can You Be in Two Places at Once were both 5-stars, and deservedly so.
― WmC, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs)
what autocorrect wants, autocorrect gets
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Everything You Know is Wrong also 5-stars, and In the Next World You're On Your Own (my fave) is 4. Reviews written by Greil Marcus. It's surprising he hasn't written about them more.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
Odysseus! Odysseus!
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 November 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
Ha, guess I only needed to type if once
"Things you were shockingly old when you learned (where a reference came from on a Firesign Theatre album)"
It was only a few years ago that I learned about the parliamentary rule book "Robert's Rules of Order"
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 23 November 2019 08:17 (four years ago) link
What's the birdseye lowdown on this caper?
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 November 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
Agnes Motörhead still one of the all time great display names.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 1 November 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Somewhere Marcus mentioned that he was doing a lot of writing with Firesign records on---wanna say in the background, but what kind of background would that be?Back in the 70s, my friend and I found most of his several Monty Python LPs to have similar appeal, sounding great even on his less-than-great stereo. Only exception was the one live one we heard then or a little later, blanking on the title. The others were as satisfying in their way as the movies and TV series. Of course they had (though doing without Terry Gilliam's clip art animations etc.) Neil Innes writing songs (along with the use of BBC library sounds etc.): "I've suffered for my music. Now it's your turn."
― dow, Sunday, 1 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
Maybe not nec. BBC.
― dow, Sunday, 1 November 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
Ha, love that line, and the way he does that one.xp
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 November 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Not seeing GM's own ref to the above practice, but his buddy Xgau mentions Lipstick Traces [Rough Trade, 1993]:punk as Ur-political vanguard as per G. Marcus, a man who considers the Firesign Theatre background music (Adverts, "One Chord Wonders"; Mekons, "Never Been in a Riot") *
― dow, Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
Oh well, might be somewhere in here: https://greilmarcus.net/?s=firesign+theatre
― dow, Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
Marcus has mentioned he wrote Lipstick Traces while wearing out his Firesign vinyl.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 November 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
From: https://rockcritics.com/2013/07/16/from-the-archives-greil-marcus-online-exchange-2002-2/
I hope the book is not devoid of humor, but I couldn’t have imagined turning it into a comedy, even if I wrote the whole thing while listening over and over to Monty Python and Firesign Theater records, for nine years, until they were all grey and cracked.
I asked the question!
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 November 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
Buncha other ilxors in there too
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
Wow
― Meet the Anti-Monks! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 November 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link