The Big Decision is now yours!
Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death,
the new Firesign Theatre recording on
Rhino Records, hit the streets
9/8/1998 - less than 500 days before "The Big To Do", The Millennial
Meltdown, Y2K, etc. etc. So don't blame a bunch of monks sitting around
tables drinking Benedictine and makin' up numbers and dates for all our
problems. Don't babble on about Babylon. Don't revel in Revelations.
Don't rank on Nostradamus for quacking out those quatrains. The
Millennium is really virtual and real virtually in every computer and
time-coded chip stashed in every appliance in virtually every home,
office and military industrial complex. We're talking survival here! So
by all by any and all means do not hesitate to bunker down, scout out
and acquisition every copy of "GMIOGMD" before it and your CD player
goes zeros or ...(?). We virtually don't know, really.
The 4 or 5 Krazy Guyz thought that this would be the perfect opportunity
to re-unite, record a new album and save the world. Also perhaps to make
a few bucks before the cascading computer crash zeros their bank
accounts. Rhino Records submitted and set the boys up at Sunburst Studio
in LaLa Land, to record a new fool blown El Nino mind bending album.
Firezine has been following and reporting all of the action from before
the beginning. We've posted notices and exclusive photos as we get them;
from the first writing sessions, meetings with the Big Suits at Rhino,
recording studio happenings, mastering, photo shoots, listening
parities, all the way to the release date and beyond. Firezine staffers
have also revitalized our sister website
www.firesigntheatre.com
as a creative cyber pallet for Firesign Theatre activity. Firezine will
continue to be the gateway between the group and the fans and will keep
everybody up to date with our Currant News and published magazine.
"INSTANT REVIEW"
Give Me Immortality
Or Give Me Death
Firesign Theatre
Rhino Records R2 75509
"It's actually funny", says Firezine head cheese Fred Wiebel, Jr. better
known to his legions of fans and small rubber insects as the "Freditor".
When asked for further details it responded, "It doesn't mean a hill of
beans what I have to say! You better go out and buy the CD yourself or
if you're like me, and you better hope you're not, you're going to have
to spend 4 or 5 years hounding the 4 or 5, pound them with phony phone
calls, put out their official official magazine and website, bug them
with beggings for material and photos, worm your way into their hearts
and demand an advance copy or you'll spill the beans on the whole deal."
Unfortunately, Mr. Wiebel spilled the beans on his nice clean kitchen
floor and ruined his meal. "I don't usually bother to heat them up but
this is a special occasion.", Wiebel garbled as he injected himself with
cranberry juice. "It keeps my kidney beans so stoned I don't have to
stand on my head to whiz, like Benjy Franklyn", a fellow historical
publishing maggot, also once struck dumb by lightning. Wiebel was then
struck dumb if not dumber by getting a bean stuck up his nose. Further
comments by the Freditor are not printable, if this is printing, or are
at least unspellable to your slightly dyslexic typist.
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OK, that out of the way, we can finally get to the Firezine's detailed
"Digital Diary" tracking the entire process of this project. RightHere
you'll find the latest details and photos siphoned off the cyberwaves, jet
streaming at you in SideRealTime form FiresignWorld. Always never forget
to check out our
Currant News: Herded From The Grapevine for
additional pix and clix. Don't be LeftOut, come RightBack, and do it
everyday!
Timeline
6/23/98: Foto Shoot Et Cetera: News From Proc
6/19/98: USA Today!
5/26/98: Musical Titles
4/24/98: Masters Of Now & Preliminary Album Credits
3/26/98: Mixing It Up
3/17/98: Home Stretch
3/3/98: Pull My String
3/2/98: Needledrops
2/28/98: Just A Quick Update
2/22/98: Phil and the Theremin
2/21/98: Four Old Hippies
2/14/98: Phil & Phil
2/7/98: It's - ALIVE!
2/5/98: From The Top
1/29/98: A Verifiable State of Actuality
1/24/98: Meeting With Rhino
1/23/98: Phone Interview w/Austin
1/21/98: Ossman
Visuals
Pix From Proc - 4/13/98
Pix From Proc - 3/18/98
- Rocky, Rhino Mascot Reads His Favorite Magazine
- The Hats Make The Men
- The Master Of The 44 Pokes Fun
- Professor Austin Gives A Lesson On Wearing Silly Hats
- Two Phils Eyeing One Another
- Ossman Gropes A Reel Intern
- Apple Master Bergman Mashes Up Some Sauce
- Pete & Dave Check The Results
- The 3 Or 4 Or 5 Tweaking
- Ossman's Kung-Fu Recording Method
- Dave Kisses Off Another Bit
- Proctor Tries Out His New Ventriloquist Act
- Rhino President Harold Bronson Listens To Playback (#1)
- Rhino President Harold Bronson Listens To Playback (#2)
- President Bronson Gives His Morning Press Conference
- Proctor Helps Doug Fieger Get The 'Knack' Of Computers
- Producer Sam Longoria Stops By
- Soundman Peter Stenshoel, A Welcome Helper
- The Bergmans Meet The Ossmans, Patricia, Lily, Judith, Preston, Orson
- The Joe Camel Chorus Croons
- The Ossman Family, Judith, Preston, Orson
- Kids Love 'em - And We Do Too
Pix From Peter Bergman - 3/12/98
First Batch Of Pix
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