The Muppets — The Muppet Show
It’s so weird to think about how very many department stores there used to be that just don’t exist anymore, and in particular how many boomed and busted in the […]
It’s so weird to think about how very many department stores there used to be that just don’t exist anymore, and in particular how many boomed and busted in the […]
Now that I’m thinking about it this may be one of the earliest records I bought at Desert Shore Records, the used record store in Syracuse that for several years […]
From 1984, my final vinyl for The Firesign Theatre. Their next release, the rather excellent “Eat or Be Eaten,” came out in 1985 on CD, and that’s how I got […]
They hinted at an attempt at Shakespeare spoof on the back side of “Not Insane,” with the piece titled “Anything You Want To.” That is the name of the play […]
I was pretty pleased at the level of support Rhino seemed to be giving to The Firesign Theatre in the early ’80s — Rhino was a label that specialized in […]
1980: Firesign Theatre brings its incisive political humor to modern politics. It’s hard to explain, but in 1980, the ’60s seemed decades away. The early Firesign material from the late […]
I think anyone who thought about how to expand any of the Firesign Theatre’s classic bits into something repeatable would pretty quickly settle on Nick Danger, their hardboiled detective, and […]
So, everything I said about Proctor & Bergman’s “What This Country Needs” a couple of days back applies to “Give Us A Break” as well. If I ever saw it […]
This is a nice, laidback piece with a simple concept: an introduction to the denizens of Ducktown for the incoming president, whose name is Jimmy, which gives you some idea […]
Sometimes I can be an idiot. Other times, even when I wasn’t an idiot, I remember how close I came to being an idiot. And this record is an example […]