Emerging from the alternative LA radio scene during the summer of love and onto the record shelf of every self-respecting hippie and beatnik well into the seventies,
THE FIRESIGN THEATRE took comedy into the psychedelic era. With their multi-layered satirical parodies, improvisational routines, peculiar puns and obscure media and literary references, PHIL AUSTIN, PETER BERGMAN, DAVID OSSMAN and PHILIP PROCTOR wrote some of the most original and surrealistic comedy theater ever! Intelligent, irreverent and just plain "out there," these records redefined the concept of recorded comedy.
"Chromium Switch" The Firesign Theatre E-Magazine, is now ready for viewing and download. <http://mag.chromiumswitch.org/CSMagazine-01.pdf> An exclusive
Phil Fountain and I are looking for input from Firesign Theatre fans, for a planned downloadable version of "It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here." Put
Chromium Switch correspondent/cartoonist Phil Fountain offers Part 2 of his April 2009 experience in Monterey, " Travels with Porgie - Stalking The Firesign