Firesign Theater

If you were wondering what the title of this blog meant, it's an oblique reference to a skit done by the Firesign theater, who were responsible for some of the greatest and most hysterical spoken word albums of the last century. Check out these clips for a sample of their work.

MP3 clip from All Hail Marx and Lennon

MP3 clip from Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliars

MP3 clip from I think We're All Bozos on this Bus

I own all three of these albums (plus two more), and I reccomend each one. They are incredible, especially 'Don't Crush that Dwarf" (both Rolling Stone and All Music give this record 5/5 Stars.)

All Music Guide Bio:
By fusing the high-concept comic vision of Stan Freberg with the expansive studio experimentation of the Beatles, the Firesign Theatre singlehandedly dragged the comedy album into the psychedelic era. Creating densely layered montages of improvisational routines, overheard dialogue, media manipulation, commercial parodies and sound effects, the four-man troupe devised a hallucinatory brand of surrealist comic performance and Joycean satire laced with puns, metaphors and obscure literary allusions which redefined the very concept of recorded comedy.