A reminder for tRump...

The musicians were key members of the famous session group known as the Wrecking Crew: Earl Palmer (drums), Plas Johnson (saxophone), Tommy Tedesco (guitar), Bill Pitman (guitar), and Jimmy Bond (bass). youtu.be/ZP9CPq-zimA?...

𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟿 𝙳𝚞𝚔𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙼𝚊𝚍𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚜 #GoldenEgoRadio #FiresignTheatre jmp.sh/5CSw0ckD

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 7) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2012 - Super Tuesday ▪︎ Makana - We Are The Many ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2012 - Occupy Yourself (Peter's farewell) #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/TtJl8dJO

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 6) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2010 - Slick Shrimp ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2011 - My Midterm Nightmare ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2011 - RFoZ 45th Anniversary, Part 3 #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/e53qveyB

Metallica pay tribute to Elton John and Bernie Taupin with cover of 'Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.' John and Taupin were recipients of the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song on March 24, 2024. youtu.be/CUI24ZZ4ksA?...

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 5) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ WHYY - Fresh Air ▪︎ KBOO Radio 2011 - Firesign Theatre, Part 3 ▪︎ Proctor & Bergman - TV or Not TV #FiresignTheatre jmp.sh/qC6hvdZ1

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 4) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 1967 - Night of the Provos, Part 2 ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2010 - Podcast News ▪︎ Proctor & Bergman - Give Us A Break #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/wiV9MAOr

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 3) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ KBOO Radio 2011 - Firesign Theatre, Part 2 ▪︎ Firesign Theatre 1970 - Pants The Bourgeoisie ▪︎ Jewels - Keep Your Feet On The Floor #FiresignTheatre jmp.sh/KO3SQryr

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 2) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ Proctor & Bergman - TV or Not TV ▪︎ Dennis Miller - Proctor & Bergman #FiresignTheatre jmp.sh/zMiPdf6L

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 1) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟶 (2012) ▪︎ The Coasters - Poison Ivy ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 1967 - Night of the Provos, Part 1 #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/JG6a4ekb

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 6) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟸𝟿 (2012) ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2011 - RFoZ 45th Anniversary, Part 2 ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 1967 – Amsterdam #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/0t1dVjbl

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 5) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟸𝟿 (2012) ▪︎ KBOO Radio 2011 - Firesign Theatre, Part 1 ▪︎ Firesign Theatre 1970 - Balliol Bros. #FiresignTheatre jmp.sh/LiFZQUrz

𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟿𝟷 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝙴𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙸𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 jmp.sh/p21phlgT

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 4) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟸𝟿 (2012) ▪︎ Rev. Ivan Stang's Hour of Slack - The Late Saint Peter Bergman (Additional material [RFO 2012/Attention Convention 1956] from Tom Gedwillo collection) #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/uuGWjh9C

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 3) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟸𝟿 (2012) ▪︎ Firesign Theatre 1970 - Giant Toad ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 2011 - RFoZ 45th Anniversary, Part 1 ▪︎ Johnny Otis - It's Good To Be Free #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/4GK4RhKz

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 2) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟸𝟿 (2012) ▪︎ Penn Jillette - Penn's Sunday School ▪︎ Firesign Theatre 1971 - Things Bergman Said ▪︎ Phil Proctor Remembers Peter #FiresignTheatre jmp.sh/BSSkHhSV

There was a beautiful land called Fuh And in this land there was a king And everybody called him the Fuh King And the Fuh King did what he wanted to do I said the Fuh King went where he wanted to go Wo oh mighty, mighty Fuh King All hail the Fuh King youtu.be/4NuaQetsDbk?...

Need a break from the chaos? Let's dance. Dit-dit-dit... youtu.be/AnW2WNHiTPw?...

Tribute to the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman (Part 1) Excerpted from 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙴𝚐𝚘 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟸𝟿 (2012) ▪︎ The Drifters - Zundoko Bushi ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 1967 - Personal God ▪︎ A Child's Garden Of Grass - Creativity ▪︎ Radio Free Oz 1967 - Oz Firesign #FiresignTheatre #RadioFreeOz jmp.sh/BtkGAkhJ

Reverend Ivan Stang's "The Church of the SubGenius" owes a lot to the Firesign Theatre... #FiresignTheatre #SubGenius open.substack.com/pub/jeremybr...

Woody Guthrie

Originally titled “God Blessed America For Me,” Woody Guthrie debuted “This Land is Your Land” on his 1944 radio show. His 1951 recording omitted two controversial verses from his original manuscript that accused the American business system of greed and disregard for the needy.  #Resistance

"I’m the dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, his dudeness, duder, or El duderino if you’re not into that whole brevity thing." youtu.be/zUjGMq-2K_g?...

𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝙷𝚞𝚍𝚜𝚘𝚗 August 2, 1937 - January 21, 2025 Hudson was the greatest virtuoso talent in that stellar cast of musicians known as the Band. His Lowrey organ, from which he could coax a variety of sounds, from gospel to classical, was a centerpiece of the Band's sound.

The only people happy right now are bigots, the rich, and stupid people.

Brilliant.

𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚡𝚝 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝙾𝚠𝚗 #FiresignTheatre Recorded in 1975 at Burbank Studios, with the same engineer and facility used for Nilsson's "Pussy Cats". Cover art by William Stout. Deborah and I were there when they did the "P.J. Proby wine display" bit. Over the Edge jmp.sh/6hZhHvy7

𝙳𝚛. 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝙹𝚛. – 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝙰𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜, 𝙶𝙼-𝟿𝟸𝟿 (𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟾) • March On Washington, August 28, 1963 • Ebenezer Baptist Church, February 4, 1968 ▪︎ Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968

"If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?" ~ Steven Wright

Here's a little reminder for Bible grifter Drumpf, who hasn't read one page of it...

I'm in this kind of mood today... "Canadian Mounted, baby Police force at work Red and Black It's their color scheme Get their man In the end"

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🫤🇺🇸

Jayne Mansfield – Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me – MGM Records "ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ-ᴏᴅᴅ ᴘᴏᴇᴍꜱ ɪɴ ᴀ ʜᴜꜱᴋʏ, ᴜʀʙᴀɴ, ʙᴀʙʏ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇ....ᴍɪꜱꜱ ᴍᴀɴꜱꜰɪᴇʟᴅ ɪꜱ ᴀ ʟᴀᴅʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀᴘᴘᴀʀᴇɴᴛ ᴄʜᴀʀᴍꜱ, ʙᴜᴛ ʀᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ ᴘᴏᴇᴛʀʏ ɪꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇᴍ." --ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ʏᴏʀᴋ ᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ, 1963 youtu.be/qbdbLPZmlTw?...

"Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before." ~ Steven Wright

I'm quite comfortable being a disobeyer of the incoming regime...

Monday the 20th - I'll be listening to all of my #FiresignTheatre albums. "This is the Hour of the Wolf News. Big Light in Sky Slated to Appear in East. Sonic Booms Scare Minority Groups in Sector B. And there’s Hamburger All Over The Highway in Mystic, Connecticut..." youtu.be/1A5DftXzIqs?...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin objected to the creature being chosen to represent the country, calling it a "bird of bad moral character". bbc.com/news/article...

On my playlist

The Outsiders (Netherlands) never released a record in the United States, though they wrote and sang in English. Their eponymous debut album was released in 1967. Many of their singles reached the Dutch Top Ten. All available on Strange Things Are Happening. That's Your Problem jmp.sh/f7s4r9Iq

Radio commercials voiced by Ossman and Proctor of the Firesign Theatre in 1968 for A-1 Slacks. The six tracks are included on the "Jack Poet Loves You" collection (radio ads by Firesign, 1968-2000) from Bandcamp. #FiresignTheatre Lower Half of Your Body jmp.sh/aD37b78C

At least we know one thing for certain about the next 4 years: Anything that happens in America that is good, Trump will take credit for it. Everything that happens which is bad, Trump will blame Biden or some other Democrat. I think we’ve got that one figured out.

“If you want to raise a crop for one year, plant corn. If you want to raise a crop for decades, plant trees. If you want to raise a crop for centuries, raise men. If you want to plant a crop for eternities, raise democracies.” ~ Carl A Schenck, German-born founder of the Biltmore Forest School

“Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.” ~ Albert Moravia, Italian novelist and journalist

Thelonious Monk Genius Of Modern Music Compilation of singles recorded in 1947 and 1948 – released by Blue Note in 1951 on 10" LP Misterioso jmp.sh/4AQu6O32

“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy, educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.” ~ Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic