Firesign Theater - the (somewhat) complete discography - Comedy Tonight

Here's another massive set - about 14 GB this time. Fear not. Each album is archived separately so you can cherry-pick at your heart's content. Every fan of OTR _NEEDS_ some of FST. :>)

I say "somewhat" complete because the set does not include the numerous recompilation discs nor the FST podcast. I have the full set of podcasts but they are as yet unedited and uncatalogued.

I've included several of the individual efforts by group members, but that list would be as large or larger than this one, especially considering Proctor's TV work and involvement with Great Northern Audio and its related troupes.

BTW, if you're not familiar with FST ... I feel really bad for you. :>P

Until Peter Bergman's death last March, they had been together, with all the original members, for 46 years, making them the longest surviving intact group from the rock era. Although some of their material is dated (political humor has no shelf life), much of it is timeless.

Just remember: We're ALL Bozos on This Bus.

Bob

FST

A list of the albums and other material in this offering:

Firesign Theatre - 'Dear Friends' - CD Version.rar
Firesign Theatre - 'Dear Friends' - Original Vinyl Individual Disks.rar
Firesign Theatre - 'Dear Friends'- Lost Shows.rar
Firesign Theatre - 'Hellos and Goodbyes' Rehearsal.mp3
Firesign Theatre - A Chat with Papoon.rar
Firesign Theatre - All Things Firesign.rar
Firesign Theatre - Almost Comedy Hour.rar
Firesign Theatre - Alternative Rose Parade.rar
Firesign Theatre - Another Christmas Carol.rar
Firesign Theatre - Anythynge You Want To.rar
Firesign Theatre - Back from the Shadows.rar
Firesign Theatre - Back to the Shadows Again.rar
Firesign Theatre - Big Big Broadcast of 2005.rar
Firesign Theatre - Big Broadcasts 1 & 2.rar
Firesign Theatre - Big Internet Broadcast of 1996.rar
Firesign Theatre - Boom Dot Bust.rar
Firesign Theatre - Bride of Firesign.rar
Firesign Theatre - Campaign Cassette Chronicles.rar
Firesign Theatre - Case of the Missing Shoe.rar
Firesign Theatre - Clark Wintergreen.rar
Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers.rar
Firesign Theatre - Eat or Be Eaten.rar
Firesign Theatre - Everything You Know is Wrong.rar
Firesign Theatre - Fighting Clowns Reagan Show.rar
Firesign Theatre - Fighting Clowns.rar
Firesign Theatre - Fireside Chat.rar
Firesign Theatre - Firesign Radio.rar
Firesign Theatre - Fools In Space (XFM 2001-2).rar
Firesign Theatre - Fools in Space.rar
Firesign Theatre - FST Presents 'Hot Shorts'.rar
Firesign Theatre - George Tirebiter's Radio Follies!.rar
Firesign Theatre - Giant Rat of Sumatra.rar
Firesign Theatre - Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death.rar
Firesign Theatre - Give Us a Break (Live).rar
Firesign Theatre - Give Us A Break.rar
Firesign Theatre - How Can You Be in Two Places at Once.rar
Firesign Theatre - In the Firezone.rar
Firesign Theatre - In the Next World You're on Your Own.rar
Firesign Theatre - Joey's House.rar
Firesign Theatre - Just Folks.rar
Firesign Theatre - Lawyer's Hospital.rar
Firesign Theatre - Let's Eat (Full Brodacasts).rar
Firesign Theatre - Let's Eat.rar
Firesign Theatre - Life on the Edge.rar
Firesign Theatre - Live at 'The Bottom Line'.rar
Firesign Theatre - Live at Ash Grove.rar
Firesign Theatre - Live at Gothamathon.rar
Firesign Theatre - Live at SUNY Stony Brook.rar
Firesign Theatre - Live at UC Berkeley (Bootleg).rar
Firesign Theatre - Magic Mushroom Plays.rar
Firesign Theatre - Martian Space Party.rar
Firesign Theatre - Members Individual Performances.rar
Firesign Theatre - New Mexican Overdrive.rar
Firesign Theatre - Nick Danger Daily Feed.rar
Firesign Theatre - Not Insane.rar
Firesign Theatre - NPR.rar
Firesign Theatre - Pink Hotel Burns Down.rar
Firesign Theatre - Proctor-Bergman Report.rar
Firesign Theatre - Questions and Answers.rar
Firesign Theatre - Radio Free Oz.rar
Firesign Theatre - Radio Hour Hour.rar
Firesign Theatre - Radio Now Live!.rar
Firesign Theatre - Radio Rarities 1 & 2.rar
Firesign Theatre - Roller Maidens from Outer Space.rar
Firesign Theatre - Secret WW.rar
Firesign Theatre - Shakespeare's Lost Comedie.rar
Firesign Theatre - Shoes for Industry.rar
Firesign Theatre - Stoned Live Radio (INCOMPLETE).rar
Firesign Theatre - Three Faces Of Al.rar
Firesign Theatre - True Confessions.rar
Firesign Theatre - TV or Not TV Live.rar
Firesign Theatre - TV or Not TV.rar
Firesign Theatre - UCLA Concert 1974.rar
Firesign Theatre - Waiting for the Electrician (Or Someone Like Hm).rar
Firesign Theatre - We're All Bozos on This Bus.rar
Firesign Theatre - Westbury (1974).rar
Firesign Theatre - What This Country Needs.rar
Firesign Theatre - XFM Shows (RAR'd separately).rar

http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/feed.xml -

This is the address of Peter Bergman's podfeed,
Radio Free Oz.

Despite his dying two years ago, the podcast still puts
out fresh material five days a week.

Some are archival material from the seventies.
Old Dear Friends and Let's Eat episode are split
into fifteen-minute chunks and sent out over the week.

I'm a completist and thought I'd heard everything,
but most of this is new to me.

There are also episodes of Bergman & Ossman's
Radio Free Oz reboot, broadcast from Washington State
and covering 2008-2012 or so.

Bergman is an arch-Democrat, an anti-Limbaugh,
much more intense (and slanderous) than Al Franken was
on his pre-senatorial AirAmerica attempt at liberal talk radio.

His politics are way left of the pack, but his diction, the timbre

of his voice and the sheer inventiveness of his mind will dazzle you.

Its interesting to follow the rise of Obama (and the subsequent
disenchantment) in "real-time". He remained a cheerleader to the end.

Its strange to hear Ossman reduced to the role of amiable co-host,
providing transitions and setting Bergman up with straight lines.
Out of the four, he was always the consumate radio professional.
Check out his Mark Time shows at various Science Fiction conventions.

There were a few phone-ins from Austin and Proctor, although these

might have been from old, old shows.

The rapid time shifts are disorienting, but no more so than DCTD(HMTP).
It's Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" in real life, as the old man rummages

through his old tapes and reimagines his lifetime.

Replies

Tim Szeliga February 26, 2014 at 11:10pm

Highlights - Bride of Firesign - their last, and as good as their best. Like Abbey Road, the Police's Synchronicity and Roxy Music's Avalon, some groups peak at the end. This one has Nick Danger's Lt Bradshaw and Rocky Rococco running for mayor. A great musical number, as well.

Three versions of "Anythinge You Want To", their Shakespearean pastiche. The early confusing version on Martian Space Party, a later, straighter rendition on Anythinge You Want To and a third, framed with documentary "Making of..." tales of the film crew, on-site in the nation of Phlegm. This one end with a wild string of tobacco puns.

Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death -- this one was their favorite, which they called "RadioNow" but their record company insisted on a long, absurd, semi-contradictory title. The best of their revival albums.

My son loves Eat or Be Eaten, their album framed around a buggy computer game.

The Solo Years - Roller Maidens from Outer Space - Phil Austin as a TV-detective, hired by Ricky Ricardo and Ozzie Nelson, whose wives have joined a mysterious Roller Derby cult. The Three Faces of Al is a fun Nick Danger mini-series.
TV or Not TV - P&B run a Cable TV station out of their garage. Has a great I Claudius parody, riddled with baseball puns.

I didn't see Ossman's How Time Flies on the list. The best part is the first ten minutes, when a spaceman returning to Earth is brought up to date on what happened while he was away, all with a soothing Years in Your Ears format.
His New Mexican Overdrive is better and George Tirebiter's Radio Follies! is kind of a Prairie Home Companion on Whidby Island.
- Anson (Bob) Roberts > Tim Szeliga February 27, 2014 at 9:55am
  
  I didn't see Ossman's How Time Flies on the list.
  
  It's there, under Member's Individual Performances.
  
  I don't have New Mexican Overdrive. Can you upload it soemwhere?
  
  Bob
Tim Szeliga February 26, 2014 at 9:25pm

http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/feed.xml -

This is the address of Peter Bergman's podfeed,
Radio Free Oz.

Despite his dying two years ago, the podcast still puts
out fresh material five days a week.

Some are archival material from the seventies.
Old Dear Friends and Let's Eat episode are split
into fifteen-minute chunks and sent out over the week.

I'm a completist and thought I'd heard everything,
but most of this is new to me.

There are also episodes of Bergman & Ossman's
Radio Free Oz reboot, broadcast from Washington State
and covering 2008-2012 or so.

Bergman is an arch-Democrat, an anti-Limbaugh,
much more intense (and slanderous) than Al Franken was
on his pre-senatorial AirAmerica attempt at liberal talk radio.

His politics are way left of the pack, but his diction, the timbre

of his voice and the sheer inventiveness of his mind will dazzle you.

Its interesting to follow the rise of Obama (and the subsequent
disenchantment) in "real-time". He remained a cheerleader to the end.

Its strange to hear Ossman reduced to the role of amiable co-host,
providing transitions and setting Bergman up with straight lines.
Out of the four, he was always the consumate radio professional.
Check out his Mark Time shows at various Science Fiction conventions.

There were a few phone-ins from Austin and Proctor, although these

might have been from old, old shows.

The rapid time shifts are disorienting, but no more so than DCTD(HMTP).
It's Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" in real life, as the old man rummages

through his old tapes and reimagines his lifetime.
kg mick February 19, 2014 at 11:21pm

Thanks for these! Looking forward to hearing the ones I used to have, and the ones I haven't heard yet. I first listened to them when I was in jr. high - can't wait to see if I really understood them...
croft seymour February 15, 2014 at 6:53am

I love fst,I still have several of their records and still listen to them when I have time to sit and listen with headphones on(the best way).I first listened to them when I was 18 that's, 40 years ago for me.I don't know what .rar is(yet)but its definitely worth the effort to listen to this collection.
Chimp February 10, 2014 at 5:33am

"Look at that steaming heap!" Thanks for the riches.
Gayle Crane February 9, 2014 at 12:38am

Will do. Thanks!
Gayle Crane February 8, 2014 at 11:08pm

Thank you once again for your generosity!! Can't believe I am not familiar with Firesign Theatre. What fun this is going to be.
- Anson (Bob) Roberts > Gayle Crane February 8, 2014 at 11:51pm
  
  How can you ignore titles like "Don't Crush That Dwarf; Hand me the Pliers!" and "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him"? :>)
  
  The material does require some close listening. It's mostly free association, often ad-lib, on a theme. They often parody old time radio shows of various genres.
  
  My favorite recurring character is Nick Danger. You might start with some of the material that features him.
Steve Kostelecky February 8, 2014 at 7:51pm

I have to go through this massive list to see what I have and what I don't--many thanks, Bob--it's great to run into another Dear Friend.

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