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FST on NPR Yes indeedy, the fabulous 4or5 have been hard at work for NPR producing a series of short vignettes for All Things Considered. This is all-new Firesign material, topical without being top-heavy. Firesign fans will recognize some familiar characters in settings updated to reflect modern conundrums that are anything but humdrum. Here are direct links to the RealPlayer versions of the segments broadcast so far:

November 28, 2002 **
October 31, 2002
October 14, 2002
October 3, 2002
September 2, 2002
August 21, 2002
July 4, 2002

The series is projected to continue through the end of the year. Rumors of negotiations to extend the series into next year, and a possible CD compilation of the series, are not confirmed but appear to be legitimate at this time.

** - The Thanksgiving 2002 segment, "Pass The Indian Please," was cancelled by NPR at the last minute. Phil Austin reports that an NPR executive found it to be "incomprehensible." You be the judge.


Of Cabbages And Kings The Chad and Jeremy LP now CD "Of Cabbages And Kings" (SC 11118) featuring Firesign on 2 cuts has recently been re-released on Sundazed Music, licensed from Sony. The LP was originally produced by Gary Usher, who produced Waiting For The Electrician.

Firesign appears on 2 cuts of "The Progress Suite": Decline, and Fall and represents some of earliest released recordings as a group. "The Progress Suite" is a pre Sgt. Pepper tour de force combination of music, voices, songs and stereo sound effects.

8) "Decline" recorded 1/9 & 1/13/1967
10) "Fall" recorded 6/28/1967


Sundazed is the same company that released the Usher-produced Sagittarius LP "Present Tense" (SC 11053) on CD that features Firesign on the 45 version of "Hotel Indiscreet" and Bergman on an unreleased cut "Mass #586".

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It is with great sadness that we must report here that the webmaster of this site, Tiny Dr. Tim, passed away on Saturday May 11, 2002 after a brief illness. His contributions to the Firesign cause were considerable, and his presence will be sorely missed.

When we have more information regarding where to send condolences and/or charitable donations in his name, we will post it here.

Eulogy Given By Phil Austin on "Fools In Space"
XM Radio Show- May 18th, 2002


Tiny posted the weekly Firehead Chat sessions (DALnet #firesign, 9pm Thursdays) on his own http://www.tinydrtim.com web site... for the near term (if not the long term), they will continue to be posted here.

-doctec



Firesign Theatre receives their 3rd Grammy Nomination!
This one for "Bride Of Firesign"


A (not so) Brief History of the Firesign Theatre


Classic Firesign Released On CD

Laugh.com
Sony / Legacy



"Weirdly Cool"  - The PBS Broadcast Schedule !
(This thing might actually see the light of day on DVD by the end of the year)




 

HOLLYWOOD CA:
   Rhino Records is preparing the new Firesign Theatre CD "The Bride Of Firesign" for release 9/8/01. A lot of familiar characters show up in this amalgam of new material and "old lines with a new twist" guaranteed to please "old fans" and make new followers. Get your USPlus cards out and ready for this one folks and take a trip to FunFun town
    The Bozo Bus is loaded and ready to roll.

 

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Welcome to our new home at firezine.net
(firezine.org works too)


We've restored all of the back issue archives, and as time permits, we'll be springing a number of surprises on you. So, STAY TUNED!

Check out the Currant News for the Latest
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Whirlwind Media, Inc. Releases
"Back From the Shadows"
on DVD !


BOOM DOT BUST DVD AUDIO - OUT 12/5/2000!
PRESS RELEASE

Beth Lapides Beth Lapides talked to Peter Bergman on May 31, 2000 on Comedy World about the Weirdly Cool video and other stuff (try the segments nearer the end). You need Real Player 7 or greater to listen to their archives.

Boom Dot Bust
New Firesign Album:
BOOM DOT BUST!
Visit Historic
Billville
On The firesigntheatre.com Site!

FST In The Studio
Read about the making of the album!  /  See exclusive Boom Dot Bust studio pix!


Hey! You've somehow low-browsed your way into Firezine: The Digital Magazine of The Firesign Theatre. And we're glad you made it, though we'll never know it, unless you buy something.

As editors and 13th floor flushing Firesign fanatics, we've been delevated to the task of herding this wild caterpillar into a corral that's OK enough to cut the mustard for fans such as yourself to catch up on the condiments sauced up in Firesign World. Hot Dog!

If you've scrolled down this far, you may need some help navigating the gates and baits and switches designed by our self-serving web geeks dished out on silver platters.

We've got the latest Firesign Theatre news that's fit to view, and then some, in our Currant News: Hearded Through the Grapevine pages. Click on the news button (on the left side of this page) and you can punch up funny photos and read ridiculous reports about Firesign's seriously silly studio shenanigans riotously recording and mirthfully mixing the nebulous new as yet un-named Rhino Records CD and first comedy audio DVD. (No that's not a brand spanking new kind of underwear that sticks out above your pants and plays tunes up the m-bone but a major marketing gimmick, ah . . . modern musical miracle that surrounds you with sounds from 5.1 speakers in your system, which you haven't bought yet. Get it? You will. (Who's going to make those point 1 speakers? Crushed dwarfs?) [I guess we'll have to refer to Firesign as the 4 or 5.1 Krazy Guys from now on.] Anyway, Currant News is just like being there, with plugs in you ears. Of course if you snuck in, you'd be thrown out on your ass and beaten to a bloody pulp by the plunger wielding USPlus Security Goon Squad. We don't want to have to go through that again and neither would you.

You should also belly up your giggling girth over to the sidebar and wet your whistler with our mother load of magazine merriment culled from the archive of artless articles arranged in our actually physically published pages. We've been doing it since 1996, when some of you were just starting to wear diapers; depends on how old you are. Our Alzheimedia brigade of celebrity stalkers is out there dogging the dirt, doing it in the road, foaming off over the phone, e-mailing the hell out of everybody, bothering the brothers, sassing the sisters, spamming the spastics, flapping their lips and flipping their lids while mashing the mish-mosh, (or is that moshing the mish-mash? Whatever!) filtering the filler, finding the fatty facts and stretching the truth. Just click on the archives button. You'll have 7 issues to choose from. Read 'em and weep.

You'll notice that some of the article links, the better ones actually, will take you to a do nothing congressional cul-de-sac. Hee, hee, heeeeee. That's just our clever marketing scheme to get you to subscribe to the real world magazine, something to hold in your hand other than your mouse. For info just click on the subscribe button.

If that's not enough to glut your gullet go to etc, then hit the found links buttons and go off on your own to the other Firesign Fan websites. Play ring around the baloney on the Firesign Webring and come back here, if you know what's good for you. And we do!

So there you have it. Take it or leave it, we're not going away and we're changing and adding new stuff continually, so come back often. It's free, for a price!




Webmeisters: Doc Technical & Chris Palladino
Thanks, Tiny Dr. Tim, for all your hard work. Your presence here is missed and will not be forgotten.

Site Designer: Doc Technical
Timely & Invaluable Assistance: The Incomparable Merlyn LeRoy


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