Firesign Theatre Weirdly Cool
 

Watched the Weirdly Cool DVD last night. It is a real treat to watch these guys as they do a lot of the old bits.

I recommend watching this if you can find it. I ended up buying it but it is well worth it!

And now back to the freeway which is already in progress.


Jim

Antelope Freeway 1/2 mile.

Oh' blinding light, oh' light that blinds...

regnad kcin....

Antelope Freeway 1/4 mile.

Antelope Freeway 1/8 mile.


Jim

Just follow the yellow rubber line.

"Living in today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But, there they are."

Shoes for Industry!

Porgie, Tirebiter, he's a boy and a girl delighter....

There's one crawling up my leg !

Sandy, in the DVD they even make reference to the Ford Exploder.

Antlope Freeway 1/16th mile. If you lived here you would be home by now.

Jim

"There's a Seeker born every minute".

With Organ Leroy, at his organ again...

One of my favorite single lines from them. :D

...Not too many Firesigners amongst us, are there ? Or Stoogeholics, or Monty Pythoners, Benny Hill freaks...<grin>

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall down." Fudd's First Law of Opposition

Watching them do the entire Ralph Spoilsport bit is a hoot. Ralph is dressed in the plaid jacket and the funking hat that you would expect from a used car salesman of his caliber.


Jim

When I was in college I was in the theater department. After rehearsals we would all pack into someone's room and smoke lots of, "things", drink Boonesfarm Apple Wine and listen to Firesign Theater and recite it word for word for hours on end. Everyone else thought we were nuts and maybe we were, but the memories of those days sticks with me even today. Lines from Firesign are part of my daily routine, including "If you lived here, you'd be home by now" and Nick Danger's name backwards on the door,"regnaD kciN". It does my heart good to know there are at least a few of us left.Thanks for the thread.

Oh, by the way, Antelope Freeway 1/32 mile.

$11.94 with free shipping at Deep Discount DVD, thanks guys, I'll have it in a week.

and oh yeah, "no true Mississippi coward would leave his wine cellar unguarded in such a dangerous time".

I discovered FST one night in the spring of 1968. A friend and I got kind'a drunk sanding his sailboat. Then listened to FST on WREK FM.

I kept asking, "Did they really say that?" He had heard them before, kept saying, "Yes!"

Then I bought about 8 albums (LPs, it was 1968).

Great group, thread of thought follows a winding path. Highly recommended!

I always thought it was Thud's first law........

And the Natural Guard!

"Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down on top of his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! underneath the bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which is the sun, and the other, they called the moon."

"Be warned! Your brain may no longer be the boss. If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating."

"Benjamin Franklin: The only President of the United States, who was never President of the United States."

How can you be in two places at once; when you're really nowhere at all?

Forward into the Past.


Loosna's castor oil Flakes. Like the guys down at the precinct sing. Ohhh, ya ain't got the boost if you ain't got the boost, the boost ya get from Loosna's. Looooosnaaaaa's.

Lt Bradshaw!


Jim

I can tell by the pie on your tie that your an American well so am I.


Jim

AK'ers not into Firesign must be baffled by this thread.

Meanwhile,

"they're in everybodys eggs".

"Pass the syrup General"

Antelope Freeway 1/64th mile.

Jim

That's good thinking, but syrup won't stop them".

What's he to do, they think he is insane, his option, take command!


Jim

What to do if an alien appears!

ONE!"

"Drop beneath the seat of your plane and look away."

TWO!

"Avoid eye contact."


Jim

Fixed

"THREE!"

"If there are no eyes, avoid all contact."

Opps.... we screwed up!

Hi! I'm Joe Beets. Say, what chance does a returning deceased war veteran have for that good-paying job, more sugar, and the free mule you've been dreaming of?

You're all Bozos on this bus.

Don't follow de balls when dey make de street.

"There are people that still believe that dogs live in trees!"