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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 12/03/2012 : 20:40:01
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Peter Bergman dies at 72; comedian in Firesign Theatre troupe
March 10.2011 by Elaine Woo-LA Times
Peter Bergman, top right, and his Firesign Theatre cohorts, clockwise…
Peter Bergman was a founder of the comic quartet that channeled the absurdist sensibility of the countercultural 1960s and '70s into a popular radio show and a series of cult-classic albums.
Peter Bergman, a founder of Firesign Theatre, the comic quartet that channeled the absurdist sensibility and chaotic impulses of the countercultural 1960s and '70s into a popular radio show and a series of cult-classic albums, has died at 72.
A longtime Los Angeles resident, Bergman died of complications of leukemia Friday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to his former wife, Maryedith Burrell.
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2012 : 20:42:33
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Firesign Theatre-Top Secret Government UFO Warning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V6z0OxuAzY
Share your faves!
We used to get daily doses on early 70's underground radio!
RIP Peter...
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 13/03/2012 : 04:48:58
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Porgie Tyrebyter
Hes a spy and a girl delighter!  |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 13/03/2012 : 13:10:14
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| heheh..these guys were a riot...my sides still split hearing their routines after all the years!...very unique comedy, eh?... |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 13/03/2012 : 19:27:40
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Shoes for Industry is a great comp for the combo
Dwarf is probably their best, Bozos their worst.
And the Shakespeare parody (Anything you want to) is just absolutely strange, like Fighting clowns, Electrician, Immortality, Boom dot bust, and all the rest! |
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sometimesmylifeissoeerie
Fourth Love
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Posted - 18/03/2012 : 20:55:08
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This land has lots of houses
This land has lots of mouses
and *****cats to eat them when the sun goes down.
Student at Commie Martyrs High School: "Eat it Raw!!!"
Principal: "That's the old school spirit, Rah,rah,rah!"
Student: "What is reality!?"
Soldier:"Heyjoeyousosmartwhowonthesecondworldwar?
Reply: "Not Responsible!" |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/03/2012 : 21:45:25
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| They did a show on BBC Radio 4 a few years back. And I think that I'm right in saying that they provided the all too eerie sound effects of war on The Doors' Unknown Soldier and The Byrds' Draft Morning. |
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Bergman of Firesign Theatre dies at 72
