Scripts for the first dozen Radio Free Oz half-hour live broadcasts on KRLA. Produced by Taylor Jessen.įrom EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE – The Psychedelic Firesign Theatre at the Magic Mushroom, 1967. Beautiful book and 7 hours of comedy on disc. Only from THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - The eleven Winter 1967 KRLA comedies, plus most of the first night’s broadcast, with intros by Ossman and Proctor, pages of memorabilia, and illustrations by Victor Melendez. (350 pages overall, reproduced in high-Seventies style! Re-Edited by Taylor Jessen.) The Grail. All the words to seven of Firesign’s best-selling classic Columbia records, plus dozens of photos and many pages of additional material. MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH – The Big Big Book of Plays, with a forward by Greil Marcus. In 2005, the US Library of Congress added one of the group's most popular early albums, the 1970 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, to the National Recording Registry and called the group "the Beatles of comedy." -Wikipedia The group received Grammy Award nominations for Best Comedy Album for three of their albums: The Three Faces of Al (1984), Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death (1998), and Bride of Firesign (2001). In 1997, Entertainment Weekly ranked the Firesign Theatre among the "Thirty Greatest Comedy Acts of All Time". They experienced a revival and second wave of popularity in the 1990s during the presidency of Bill Clinton and continued to write, record and perform until Bergman's death in 2012. Their popularity peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and ebbed in the Reagan Era. The group's name stems from astrology, because all four were born under the three "fire signs": Aries (Austin), Leo (Proctor), and Sagittarius (Bergman and Ossman). They also appeared in front of live audiences, and continued to write, perform, and record on other labels through 2012, occasionally taking sabbaticals during which they wrote or performed solo or in smaller groups.įiresign Theatre material was conceived, written, and performed by its members Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor. They produced fourteen record albums and a 45 rpm single under contract to Columbia Records from 1968 through 1976, and had three nationally syndicated radio programs: The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour in 1970 on KPPC-FM and Dear Friends (1970–1971) and Let's Eat! (1971-1972) on KPFK. The Firesign Theatre (also known as The Firesigns) was an American surreal comedy group who first performed live on Novemon the Los Angeles radio program Radio Free Oz, first on station KPFK FM, then on KRLA 1110 AM, then on KMET FM through February 1969.
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