Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique
October 08, 2024
October 08, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Oct. 8 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and '70s. With a pioneering use of multitrack audio and avant-garde collage, the group's nine deliriously dense LPs released by Columbia Records were a countercultural salvo against the burgeoning information age.
In his new book, "Fires . . .
Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and '70s. With a pioneering use of multitrack audio and avant-garde collage, the group's nine deliriously dense LPs released by Columbia Records were a countercultural salvo against the burgeoning information age.
In his new book, "Fires . . .