It’s been a while since Dan Grobstein has appeared here[1], but he has returned with a fantastic heads up, for Fireheads such as myself and many of you. Not Insane! by Andrew Katzenstein, described by the New York Review as about “The Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.” Well, yes. Myself included.
[1] 380 times from 2005-2013, so often he had his own heading, Dan Grobstein File
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It is seldom acknowledged that Firesign Theatre was largely a ripoff of the Goon Show in which Spike Milligan and Nelly Seigum played themselves and Peter Sellers created dozens of voices including most of those featured in FST. Seek out Six Charlie’s In Search of an Author. High hilarity.
Well, as Phil Proctor once told me, "We don't like to use the P word. We think of it as paying homage to those who went before us."