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And Everything You Know Is STILL Wrong
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On Friday, Peter Bergman died, and I was able to post an obit at Net News but not here. Bergman was 1/4 of Firesign Theatre, and I can't overstate how influential their albums were to an impressionable kid in the 1970s. And I wasn't even a stoner or dropping acid, which, on the surface, was to whom their albums seemed aimed. What got me were the incredible layers of throwaway gags, parodies of TV and radio shows and commercials that were light years ahead of SNL or anyone else, and casual intellectualism combined with surrealism. Listening to "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers," which is jaw-droppingly dense and brilliant -- one man's entire life played out as he changes channels on TV and "stars" in movies ("honest stories of working people as told by rich Hollywood starrrrs!") -- is still a revelation. (Los Angeles Times)
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