Word: firesign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Midnight at the Welles features two baddies. Pink Flamingos is stupid, trashy, and disgusting. You'd be better off staying home and watching the radio than seeing this. Zachariah, campy version of the cowboy movie, features Josh Rubenstein (son of Arthur), Country Joe and the Fish and the Firesign Theater. Cute, but not very. Boring...
...Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the latest disc from the Firesign Theatre. It marks a return to the group's earlier mode: the 40-minute sound drama with crooked cast and treacherous plot line. The protagonist this time is Hemlock Stones, Firesign Theatre's addition to a history of Sherlock Holmes variants. He and his Watson, Dr. Flotsom, live to 99 Bakersfield St. in London, and produce cheap detective novels...
...four or five crazy guys" who arranged this record are wags, activists, and any picky Harvard lame-brain who's worth his salt will go batty hunting puns. More than any other Firesign Theatre album, the Rat bristles like a hedgehog with mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and plays on words. Its running gag on cocaine is especially amusing. In short, The Giant Rat is diverting, if facile...
...Mons Herbert, anyway? Four actors act and sing the roles of misnamed, star-crossed lovers and their experience with a flend in search of a potato salad recipe. The playing out of these situations takes us through a beauty contest for cows, the trauma of a lost barometer, a Firesign Theatre-type game show called "Justify Your Existence" and a Kafkaesque IQ test. The show does have a plot, however disguised it is in these absurd digressions...
Midnite Fri & Sat: Firesign Theatre's Zachariah