Re: Brave New Bozo
| Submitted by Dave S. Nothair on July 27, 2006 at 01:54 AM
In Reply to: Brave New Bozo submitted by TheBurkissWay on February 09, 2006 at 11:48 PM |
| Subject: Re: Brave New Bozo I do not believe the Firesign Theatre was attempting any similarity to Huxley, or Orwell, or Leary, or McCluhan, or Alvin Toffler, or William Golding, or Thomas More, or any literary genius or genus of historic noteworthiness. The Firesign Theatre is attempting to get away from all that stuffy puffiness and make a living off making people laugh. Comedy, laced with a heady sense of science fiction similar to Ray Bradbury and the short story genre, with a great admiration for Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, is, or are, the king and queen of the Firesign Theatre experience. Jack Kerouac and his novel On the Road are more often parodied with respect for the American soul of rock and roll and jazz, the travels of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty in a beat up beatnik car visiting musicians and jiving with hitch hikers is more in sync with the fab four f comedy the Firesign Theatre. Do you not think so? Well I will not belabour the point because the similarities to even older classics are descending on the convergent portentous dilemna of deciphering now, like Mozart, or the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, or the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, and William Shakespeare. The Firesign Theatre has a little of Arthur C. Clarke, 2001, and Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange, William P. Blatty, The Exorcist, and Stanley Kubrick, who co-authored, Doctor Strangelove, with I forget who. But Huxley? No. Just not an influence. McCluhan? Perhaps, Aldous, no. Not Dyanetics either. L. Ron Hubbard was never featured as a topic of the Firesign Theatre. Although he was waiting for an electrician, I think. The writings of Hunter Thompson would be far more suitable an analogy, ever glanced through, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Some of the scripts were altered by insecure manipulators of Doctoring for Stereo. Try listening for alternate words like, The Orange Bird, raises legs in the air? Orange you glad I did not say banana? Ltttle if anything is played backwards, though, it is all done with mirrors. |
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