Newspaper article sort-of on Firesign
Brian Westley
A Firesign chat: If my memory's faulty, then I could be in real trouble
November 13,2005
BY Mike Dewey
Sun Journal Staff
Thirty-one years ago, the Firesign Theater released a record called,
presciently enough, Everything You Know Is Wrong. It was - as I'd come
to expect from them in my late teens - visionary, subversive,
revolutionary and very funny stuff.
To this day, in fact, my brother sometimes calls me "Nino," a tribute to
Nino Savatte, AKA "The Mindboggler," a featured character on that album.
I listen to those LPs all the time and take comfort in knowing all about
Nick Danger, Hemlock Stones, Young Guy Motor Detective, George LeRoy
Tirebiter, Malcolm X John Lennon, Rocky Rococo, Mudhead, Art
Wholeflaffer, Ralph Spoilsport and Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Smith from
Anytown, USA.
But it's the title of that 1974 disc that's consumed me for the last few
days and nights or so.
Everything.
You.
Know.
Is.
Wrong.
...
[middle part, where he talks about misremembering things that
didn't happen the way he remembered]
...
Let's get back to the Firesign Theater and close with the title of
another fine record: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're
Not Anywhere at All?
Good question.
Mike Dewey can be reached at mde...@freedomenc.com or 645-5674.
"MIDIcian" (tm)
v8juice
<St...@NeverFalls.com> wrote:
>Black is white up is down and short is long.
>
Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
Rev. 11D Meow!
"v8juice" <cri...@sectorN.eat> wrote in message
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Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
v8juice
What it is!
Dr. Anton T. Squeegee
cri...@sectorN.eat says...
WhazzREEL!
--
Dr. Anton T. Squeegee, Director, Dutch Surrealist Plumbing Institute.
(Known to some as Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR,
kyrrin (a/t) bluefeathertech[d=o=t]calm -- www.bluefeathertech.com
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped
with surreal ports?"
Keith Baird
> Thirty-one years ago, the Firesign Theater released a record called,
> presciently enough, Everything You Know Is Wrong. It was - as I'd come
> to expect from them in my late teens - visionary, subversive,
> revolutionary and very funny stuff.
It always has struck me that the most uncannily prophetic thing about
EYKIW is that some guy living in a trailer in the desert would be
"broadcasting" (albeit via a series of LPs rather than all-night radio)
about the alien invasion, alternative American history, underground
civilizations, etc. But I suppose Art Bell might've used the album as
his business plan.
--/<eith
Rocky Rococo
>> >>>Black is white up is down and short is long.
>> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
>> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
>> What it is!
> WhazzREEL!
What about my PICKLE?
v8juice
I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my motersickle...
Rocky Rococo
>>>> >>>Black is white up is down and short is long.
>>
>>>> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
>>
>>>> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
>>
>>>> What it is!
>>
>>> WhazzREEL!
>>
>>What about my PICKLE?
>
>I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my motersickle...
Nothing more than a doomed dick with his dipstick on empty.
v8juice
Hey Hey HEY! Keep your hands away from my dipstick!
Rev. 11D Meow
"v8juice" <cri...@sectorN.eat> wrote in message
Otto's all greased-up and ready to go, Mr. Fenderbender...
Dr. Cajones
Anyone heard it? Care to share your impression?
TIA.
dj
Rev. 11D Meow
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/albums/album.php?album=power&txt=1
Haven't heard it.
Is it any good?
From the samples there, I'd say this is Par For The Course!!!
Seven Stars For Jeb Bees Farm On US Actuality!!!
Just don't turn the radio 'on' while driving your dipstick.
Some sort of friction in the gear snitch might cause a deplosion.
or something like that.
FUCK! Firesign Theatre ROCKS, even when they
repeat repeat repeat repeat thems' elves.
Where's them GarDangBlang pliers, now?
I gotta pull this tooth outta Phurd Burfle's head, see...
BOZOs, my ass...
There's more of me where I come from.
"Dr. Cajones" <drjawn...@remove.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Brian Westley
>Can someone/anyone tell me when this was originally created?
1990 for NPR
>released?
I'd have to check when it first came out on CD or cassette.
>Anyone heard it? Care to share your impression?
It's pretty good, though I haven't listened to it for a while.
The story doesn't wander as wildy as a typical FT album, which
is a bit of a minus.
---
Merlyn LeRoy
Cat Ishikawa
Heat which was on NPR in 1990. I think Lodestone may carry this show. As I
recall it was also serialized on Bergman's RFO site. Although the show
ended, they tried to resurrect it with a new episode on Bergman's even
shorter lived Digital Diner show (2 episodes). Perhaps its something they
plan to resurrect in the future. It's the only "Firesign" work I can think
of that is so dedicated to mocking "Hollywood" and its excesses, which I
find limiting.
Cat
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Dr. Cajones
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Thanks Merl!
Is there a review anywhere online?
dj
Brian Westley
Not that I've been able to find; that's why the 'review' on
the firesign website for Power is from an offhand remark...
---
Merlyn LeRoy
Rocky Rococo
>>>>>>> >>>Black is white up is down and short is long.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> What it is!
>>>>>
>>>>>> WhazzREEL!
>>>>>
>>>>>What about my PICKLE?
>>>>
>>>>I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my motersickle...
>>>
>>>Nothing more than a doomed dick with his dipstick on empty.
>>
>> Hey Hey HEY! Keep your hands away from my dipstick!
>
>Otto's all greased-up and ready to go, Mr. Fenderbender...
Aw, Hot Dog, Groat Cakes again... heavy on the 30-weight Mom!!
Bubba's Brain
Dr. Anton T. Squeegee
pyr...@patchuli.net says...
"I'll give you a pickle, half-pint... just like the hot kiss at
the end of a wet fist...!"
Rocky Rococo
>> >> >>>Black is white up is down and short is long.
Junk.
>> >> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
Everything is wrong. Nothing is relevant.
>> >> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
Comparing something to nothing is a waste of Sidereal Time.
>> >> What it is!
>>
>> > WhazzREEL!
>>
>> What about my PICKLE?
>
> "I'll give you a pickle, half-pint... just like the hot kiss at
>the end of a wet fist...!"
Nancy, so it DID come russian back to you! No tanks, I found it. But
pleaze, have MINE!
Bill Benzel
:
:
:>> >> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
:
: Everything is wrong. Nothing is relevant.
:
:>> >> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
:
: Comparing something to nothing is a waste of Sidereal Time.
I got dem somethin' is nothin', nothin' is somethin' blues.
I got dem somethin' is nothin', nothin' is somethin' blues.
'Cause when somethin' is nothin', I ain't got nothin' to lose.
Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
Wake up every mornin' wishin I was dead.
--
Bill
AT DOT
reply to bbenzel adelphia net
Rocky Rococo
>:>> >> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
>:
>: Everything is wrong. Nothing is relevant.
>:
>:>> >> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
>:
>: Comparing something to nothing is a waste of Sidereal Time.
Is nothing something?
(Chorus)
Philosophical bullshit
Philosophical bullshit
Philosophical bullshit
Runnin' out your brain.
Do the Bullshit...
and then she says...
The true nature of Man is found in the spiritual essences
which Science and Technology have neglected to explore.
I said...
If you hop in my bed, baby
I'll explore everything you got, yes I will
I'll explore your every spiritual essence!
Now, you got the body, and you got the brain,
But you've been educated at North Haven, duh
and your driving me Insane!
With that philosophical bullshit
that keeps runnin', keeps runnin', keeps runnin'
Out of your brain. Yeah, yeah, yeah... Bullshit...
>I got dem somethin' is nothin', nothin' is somethin' blues.
>I got dem somethin' is nothin', nothin' is somethin' blues.
>'Cause when somethin' is nothin', I ain't got nothin' to lose.
>
>Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
>Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
>Wake up every mornin' wishin I was dead.
Ah, Escherschoo.
Rev. 11D Meow
Walnut Grove Your Pickle Over Here, Hear?
Some sort of Glimmering Action!
Perhaps a Brand-New Used Card
Ewe Looking For Some Action, Sheep Herder?
Have we got the licks for ewe.
Now boarding . . .
Please Place Patented Plowed Prong
NOW BOARDING NOW!!!!
Satin Sheets, Dr. Froond!
Where's the overload key?
Some assorted astral plane
NOW BOARDING NOW!!!
Oh, OH, OHhhhh!
Master Bleeeve, I Presume...
Oh, my Pickle.
Oh, my Pickle
Oh, my Pickle.
Oh, my Pickle
Oh, my Pickle.
Oh, my Pickle
Oh, My Pickle went and knocked-up Nancy . . .
balloon
Mr. Enema, I Presume?
Well Met, Squishy Sirrah.
If it wasn't for Sahara Sand Luck
There wouldn't be no Sahara at all..
Might my camel drink a bit?
The sheet are sinking.
And there's a mat on the floor for ewe and
yours waiting for NANCY over there now.
WELCOMING FUTURE RATHS
PAST TENSE AND YONDER
PLEASE FEEL FREE
To Piss Danger Over The Side
NOW
whatever.........
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v8juice
wrote:
It's really very frightening to see the effect The Firesign Theatre
has had on some people. I suspect drugs may have entered into the
picture at some point, eh?
Rev. 11D Meow
YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR or MA'AM
as the case may be...
Please Follow
The Yellow Rubber Rubber Line
To Your Seat...
Now Boreding Now
"v8juice" <cri...@sectorN.eat> wrote in message
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Rocky Rococo
>
>YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR or MA'AM
>
>
>
>
>as the case may be...
>
>Please Follow
in you book and repeat after me as we learn three new words in
Turkish; towel... bath... border... May I see your passport please?
>The Yellow Rubber Rubber Line
>To Your Seat...
>
>Now Boreding Now
On Dumb Elmer's Beat
>
>
>
>"v8juice" <cri...@sectorN.eat> wrote in message
>news:fkn8o1d541q0pg8ng...@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:49:13 -0800, "Rev. 11D Meow" <Ji...@Crack.Corn>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Once an Almond, always an Almond...
>>>
>>>Walnut Grove Your Pickle Over Here, Hear?
>>>Some sort of Glimmering Action!
Jest a Ray of Hopelessness...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Perhaps a Brand-New Used Card
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover?
>>>
>>>Ewe Looking For Some Action, Sheep Herder?
>>>
>>>Have we got the licks for ewe.
No kids aloud...
>>>
>>>
>>>Now boarding . . .
Stuff and mount it! Baaaad...
>>>
>>>
>>>Please Place Patented Plowed Prong
Phil's pretentious psychotic parrot promoted pandemonium purposefully.
>>>
>>>NOW BOARDING NOW!!!!
I Pea-reet...STUFF AND MOUNT IT!!! For all who art hardon herring.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Satin Sheets, Dr. Froond!
>>>Where's the overload key?
Right wear he left it.
>>>
>>>
>>>Some assorted astral plane
Fly with the friendly minds of Linga Sharira Bodylines.
>>>
>>>NOW BOARDING NOW!!!
For the next flight to Nirvana...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Oh, OH, OHhhhh!
Hold that thought...
>>>
>>>
>>>Master Bleeeve, I Presume...
Oh look, it's on his sleeve! Resume your postulation.
>>>
>>>
>>>Oh, my Pickle.
>>>Oh, my Pickle
>>>Oh, my Pickle.
>>>Oh, my Pickle
>>>Oh, my Pickle.
>>>Oh, my Pickle
>>>
>>>Oh, My Pickle went and knocked-up Nancy . . .
Oops, did they catch thee with your prance down and thou pickle in
hand?
>>>
>>>
99 Luft
>>>balloon
s
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Mr. Enema, I Presume?
>>>Well Met, Squishy Sirrah.
Nope, it's Beavis, Butthead. :o)
>>>
>>>If it wasn't for Sahara Sand Luck
>>>There wouldn't be no Sahara at all..
Try the Dunes, they have better rates.
>>>
>>>Might my camel drink a bit?
>>>The sheet are sinking.
Thouest can lead the camel to the oasis, but thee can't make him sink.
>>>
>>>And there's a mat on the floor for ewe and
>>>yours waiting for NANCY over there now.
Where's Dangler? He's lurking for her.
>>>
>>>WELCOMING FUTURE RATHS
>>>PAST TENSE AND YONDER
>>>PLEASE FEEL FREE
"I'M FREE- I'm free,
And freedom tastes of reality"
WHAT IS REALITY?
NOT INSANE!
>>>To Piss Danger Over The Side
Splash
>>>
>>>NOW
LATER
>>>
>>>
>>>whatever.........
Wup, now he's cummin' down...
"WHAT?" Almost as wired as I can be sometimes...good rant Rev.
>>>"Rocky Rococo" <pyr...@patchuli.net> wrote in message
>>>news:tsj7o1tmea8p4etv8...@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>>:>> >> >> Everything is everything & nothing is nothing.
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in
relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Pensées (1670)
>>>>>: Everything
[you know]
>>>>>: is wrong.
Firesign.
>>>>>: Nothing is relevant.
[Everything is relative]
Buddah.
Pretty enlightened company...
>>>>>:
>>>>>:>> >> >Something wouldn't be there without nothing to compare it to.
"In the beginning there is nothing
from nothing comes the beginning of everything
from every beginning comes an end
In the end there is nothing
from nothing comes the beginning of everything
from every beginning comes an end
in the end there is nothing
from nothing comes the beginning of everything
from every beginning comes an end
in the end there is nothing
from nothing comes the beginning of everything..."
The universe is an endless cycle.
>>>>>: Comparing something to nothing is a waste of Sidereal Time.
>>>>
>>>> Is nothing something?
Who knows, who cares? It's all just...
>>>> Philosophical bullshit
>>>> Runnin' out your brain.
>>>>>
>>>>>I got dem somethin' is nothin', nothin' is somethin' blues.
>>>>>I got dem somethin' is nothin', nothin' is somethin' blues.
>>>>>'Cause when somethin' is nothin', I ain't got nothin' to lose.
>>>>>
>>>>>Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
>>>>>Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
>>>>>Wake up every mornin' wishin I was dead.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, Escherschoo.
>>>
>> It's really very frightening to see the effect The Firesign Theatre
>> has had on some people. I suspect drugs may have entered into the
>> picture at some point, eh?
I think (?) FT has had a confounded affect (sic) on some pupils, but
uh, drugs have everything, yet nothing, to do with suspected pointed
pinchers...er, pitchers, Stee-rike..ONE!
v8juice
I rest my case.
Rocky Rococo
>>>> It's really very frightening to see the effect The Firesign Theatre
>>>> has had on some people. I suspect drugs may have entered into the
>>>> picture at some point, eh?
>>
>>I think (?) FT has had a confounded affect (sic) on some pupils, but
>>uh, drugs have everything, yet nothing, to do with suspected pointed
>>pinchers...er, pitchers, Stee-rike..ONE!
>
>I rest my case.
How many bottles left in THAT case?
v8juice
4.
Rocky Rococo
>>>>>> It's really very frightening to see the effect The Firesign Theatre
>>>>>> has had on some people. I suspect drugs may have entered into the
>>>>>> picture at some point, eh?
>>>>
>>>>I think (?) FT has had a confounded affect (sic) on some pupils, but
>>>>uh, drugs have everything, yet nothing, to do with suspected pointed
>>>>pinchers...er, pitchers, Stee-rike..ONE!
>>>
>>>I rest my case.
>>
>>How many bottles left in THAT case?
>
>4.
Yer slippin'. Figured you'd finish them all by now.
Rev. 11D Meow
MARTIAN SPACE PARTY!!! 2007(c)
Rev. 11D Meow
"v8juice" <cri...@sectorN.eat> wrote in message
These cases have rotted out their bottom, mouser!
'tis best we all find another taxi...
Perhaps that bus over their?
Thought 'tis full of pickle wanking bozos.
We Can Make This Train
or thought
we might
have
something
anything is better than next Tuesday's welded mind melt sandwiches...
Rev. 11D Meow
Pony Up To The Belch Farm Factor Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee....
Has anyone seen my pliers?
I've a nose to honk now..........
"Rocky Rococo" <pyr...@patchuli.net> wrote in message
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Rocky Rococo
Sørås" gets to be "Mr. Sore As".
Rev. 11D Meow
Will that be 12-grit carborundum or 8-grit diamond powder
sandpaper on the Slim Shaft Of Eerie Act Freedom tonight, Gee DUHbya?
I must remind you, lubrication is optional, as per our usual billing
procedures.
Ahhhhhhhhh, I see ewe are a sailor...
Nothing Pro Bono about this sad sack
This Animatronic peeResident Has No Bone At All!
Dickless!!! Wasn't it you who said we'd have no trouble sedating this putz,
eh?
PULL IT!!! Pull The Plug NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(sound effects of a nukeular blast hitting the belt-way)
Oh, Laura. Tell her I love her radioactive puppy dog childrens.
Whoever and wherever and how many there are...
"If it wasn't for bad Paxil, I wouldn't have no Paxil at all..."
- Famous Last Words, GWB
"Rocky Rococo" <pyr...@patchuli.net> wrote in message
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Dr. Anton T. Squeegee
pyr...@patchuli.net says...
<snippety>
> >Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
> >Got dem blues in a Klein bottle, spillin' all around my head.
> >Wake up every mornin' wishin I was dead.
>
> Ah, Escherschoo.
Gesundheit.
Rocky Rococo
took their hat and goat and and then ran off to the Chapeau Manger.
"Rev. 11D Meow" weazeled into the room, and squeaked...
>We'll get those balls glowing again, Massah Sirrah, Bloosh Sir...
<znip>
>>>Actorly, there's more like three cases left, mouser...
<znip extraneous material>
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument."
~W. G. McAdoo
Joe Morris
> It always has struck me that the most uncannily prophetic thing about
> EYKIW is that some guy living in a trailer in the desert would be
> "broadcasting" (albeit via a series of LPs rather than all-night radio)
> about the alien invasion, alternative American history, underground
> civilizations, etc. But I suppose Art Bell might've used the album as
> his business plan.
Ahhh, how I remember the first time I heard Art Bell.... Perhaps 1996-7? and
that was exactly the response I had: gee, living in the desert, always aliens
about, his son got abducted. There's alot of stuff you can get taken in on
if you haven't been exposed to the TRUTH
No, I'm *in* the box!!!!
--
Joe Morris Live music in Atlanta
jol...@gmail.com http://jolomo.net/atlanta/shows.html
Brian Westley
>Not so long ago, Keith Baird wrote:
>> It always has struck me that the most uncannily prophetic thing about
>> EYKIW is that some guy living in a trailer in the desert would be
>> "broadcasting" (albeit via a series of LPs rather than all-night radio)
>> about the alien invasion, alternative American history, underground
>> civilizations, etc. But I suppose Art Bell might've used the album as
>> his business plan.
>Ahhh, how I remember the first time I heard Art Bell.... Perhaps 1996-7? and
>that was exactly the response I had: gee, living in the desert, always aliens
>about, his son got abducted. There's alot of stuff you can get taken in on
>if you haven't been exposed to the TRUTH
>No, I'm *in* the box!!!!
I'll take what's in the box, Monty!
---
Merlyn LeRoy