Firesign Theater sample in hiphop song? [And Firesign Theater in general]

Reminds me I've been meaning to change my screen name.

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

That, there, there, that’s Steve Reeves.
No, that’s Agnes Moorehead.

Autocorrect wanted Agnes Motörhead.

Let’s see, it was a jackal-headed woman with her eyes akimbo.

Chippéd nose uplifted thusly

All engraven on a Pyramus of massy sighs

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.

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.

And archived on WFMU, as posted above.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/FT

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.

Yeah, Don't Crush That Dwarf and How Can You Be in Two Places at Once were both 5-stars, and deservedly so.

Autocorrect wanted Agnes Motörhead.

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs)

what autocorrect wants, autocorrect gets

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.

Odysseus! Odysseus!

Odysseus! Odysseus!

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"

What's the birdseye lowdown on this caper?

Agnes Motörhead still one of the all time great display names.

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."

Maybe not nec. BBC.

Ha, love that line, and the way he does that one.
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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") *

Oh well, might be somewhere in here: https://greilmarcus.net/?s=firesign+theatre

Marcus has mentioned he wrote Lipstick Traces while wearing out his Firesign vinyl.

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!

Buncha other ilxors in there too

Wow