Jeremy Braddock

Best day:
-Browsing for hours to find the album worth spending my meager babysitting fund.
-The clerk who got me to buy a Firesign Theater album by acting out his fav bits.
-Sliding my fingernail along the plastic wrapper to take out the record.
-Reading the cover while listening to the music.

Very New Year, Jane

everywhere it's Christmas the Beatles Christmas records and the Beatles-Firesign connection

"Happy Chrimble and a Very New Year!"
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B-17 Bomber Intellivision Intellivoice Game Gameplay YouTube video by The No Swear Gamer

Was reminded the other day that the barely-recognizable processed voices for the pilot and the bombardier in this game were Phil Austin and Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM1E...

Photo of a magic 8 ball with a 'goatse' version of the OpenAI logo and the words ChatGPT on it, next to a white box that says "ChatGPT offline version". Inset are photos of the 8-ball responses such as "That's a great question", "You're 1000% right" and "Too many requests try again later" and then another photo from the back of the box of a holographic authenticity sticker that says FAKE.

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Man in all the times I've heard that song I never allowed myself to hear "sweet banana"

Trailing Clouds of Glory vernacular Firesign Theatre scholarship of 1974

Found this very late in the game -> an early and great stab at describing @firesigntheatre.bsky.social via the Situationists. Fun to read and not pedantic; fans who listened to the records, read some theory and did their own thing.

The Firesign Theatre's radio sources 9 short essays on the sources for How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All

for the occasion I also pulled together the full series of audio posts that I wrote about Firesign and radio history this fall. These spoke more and more about the contemporary sitch as they went on.
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Thanks, @bartona104.bsky.social for inviting me onto her great Continuous Wave newsletter. This week's installment features an excerpt from the radio/How Can You Be in Two Places at Once chapter of Firesign (with color photos). @firesigntheatre.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

Outer Perimeter, by Presage 4 track album

An excellent idea. Do you know this one? Sort of the opposite of Tangerine Dream, but a pretty great appropriation of EYKIW mrdibbs.bandcamp.com/album/outer-...

(unintentionally sanctimonious post, above ^)

Satire is complicated in ways that the satirists sometimes don't consider. Kind of amazing that the Onion has stayed strong all these years (or is once again strong)

v. sorry to hear it - I don't mind the ramble

consider it done

Unless it *is* flying in places we wouldn't look for it. In any case, I agree some of that stuff is great, but I couldn't stop thinking that it's actually them pointing the gun at the dog, and telling you you're responsible for the dog.

Thanks, @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social baja cranberry whatever! The Lampoon story is vast and deserves someone from the outside to take it on (i.e. not fanboys or themselves). Looking (listening) back to that stuff I kept thinking how it would never fly today .

history of the rock-comedy 7", part two comedy and airplay in the 1970s — the game Cheech & Chong won (and then got tired of winning)

includes discussion of Sonic Youth's Martin Mull cover:

Art by Mahendra Singh from the book/DVD reissue "The Firesign Theatre Live at the Magic Mushroom", depicting Wile E. Coyote with mushrooms growing out of his head standing in front of a trompe l'oeil tunnel, holding a sign saying "LAST TUNNEL TO FRESNO"

Yes, ripped from the maw of the historical void—or more specifically from an open reel tape marked simply "Claypool"!We've uploaded WAV and MP3 files to the Internet Archive where they'll be saved for posterity and free to all comers. Now FINALLY this great art by @mahendra.bsky.social can pay off

history of the rock-comedy 7", part one comedy and radio airplay in the 1970s — the game Cheech & Chong won

Beginning of my reckoning with Cheech and Chong (but not only them). C&C's records always sounded great, and there was a reason for that.
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WAP! V.1.0 unsold pilot, Messina Baker Productions YouTube video by Firesign Theatre

One from the vaults: Lost NBC Pilot "WAP! V.1.0" (2000), featuring Scott Adsit, @blainecapatch.bsky.social, @gregproops.bsky.social, @philproctor.bsky.social and @mariabamford.bsky.social

youtu.be/9sDz3AT0mtY

Sorry, @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social only just seeing this now. V glad you like the interview: there's a few more things like that coming.

Tom Lehrer at a rave is a pretty good idea. I assume you know his immortal letter (scribed at age 84) granting 2 Chainz permission to sample "The Dope Peddler"?

Firesign sources #8 / FDR Pearl Harbor address radio sources for the Firesign Theatre's *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All*

Final ep of an 8-part series on radio sources for the Firesign Theatre's *How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.*. This last installment felt eerily up-to-the minute. @firesigntheatre.bsky.social
[Links to all 8 episodes at the bottom of the post]

I mentioned a while ago that I was obsessed with the Firesign Theatre's comedy LPs as a teen. I just got a copy of Jeremy Braddock's Firesign, which deconstructs the technical and cultural composition of these albums. Talk about a treasure trove!

Eggs To Market (1964) YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films

"Eggs to Market: The Story of Automated Egg Processing" (1964, Film Associates of California), featuring uncredited narration by our own David Ossman (who says "I think I did a half dozen voiceovers for these guys"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRH...

Allen Ginsberg's 1965 In my last post (see above), I was writing about Allen Ginsberg’s audiotape experiments, which he began in late 1965 and produced one of his greatest poems the following year, “Wichita Vortex Sutra.” ...

part two of my trip into Ginsberg, audiotape, war, rock, &c.

Great news. Good luck with the book!

There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute | Los Angeles Review of Books Colin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”

The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social had a long piece about Jeremy Braddock's book about the @firesigntheatre.bsky.social. Now available through @ucpress.bsky.social.

Link in replies.

We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.

Your podcast was a great thing, and not only the Firesign episodes.

Ginsberg goes electric }}}}{ poetry and audiotape in the year of revolver and blonde on blonde

I wrote about the audiotape Allen Ginsberg used to compose his great Vietnam-War-and-media poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
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Media Objects 06: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2 In the previous episode, we heard how so-called artificial intelligence is being sold to the public as a revolutionary, inevitable technology that is going to completely transform society. This claim

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 6 // Artificial Intelligence, as reality //

with Steve Jackson, Mendi and Keith Obadike, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and The World According to Sound @mendiandkeith.bsky.social