Played by a brass band augmented by accordion, fiddle and assorted percussion, the overture for "Let's Eat!," Hal Wilner's tribute to the Firesign Theater, sounded like something one might hear at an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Firesign Theatre’s first comedy album, “Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him,” was released in 1968, Rolling ...

Between 1967 and 1975, the Firesign Theatre put out nine albums that carved out a new space somewhere between comedy, sound art, literature, and rock and roll. The music critic Robert Christgau called ...

If you are a graying Baby Boomer like me, you might remember a comedy troupe from the 1970s called “Firesign Theater.” They had their origin in FM “progressive” radio (KPFK-Los Angeles, 1966). The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phil Austin, a co-founder of the influential Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Thursday of complications from cancer at his ...

WASHINGTON - Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, whose zany pun-loaded skits and absurdist political satire entertained millions of college students during the ...

To get your own comedy seen in today’s media landscape, all you have to do is put it online and make sure it’s really good. It wasn’t so easy in the 1960s when all of your major channels, TV, radio, ...

Another great light of the 1960s counterculture has gone out. Peter Bergman, founder of the psychedelic-era comedy troupe Firesign Theatre, died March 9 at 72, leaving behind a legacy of densely ...

Phil Austin, a founding member of the Firesign Theatre, a satirical comedy group whose albums became a touchstone of the countercultural era, and who created the character Nick Danger, a wacky ...

During the mid-1960s, The Firesign Theatre started on radio in Los Angeles and produced a series of records that became cult classics — with detective "Nick Danger: Third Eye" becoming one of their ...

Phil Austin, a co-founder of the influential Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Thursday of complications from cancer at his home on Fox Island in Washington state. He was 74. Austin was dubbed the ...

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