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Santoro, Gene | February 8, 1999 issue

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The author says that the disc "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death" is a wonderfully wide-ranging satire that brings back Firesign Theatre, the performer who translated radio and comedy into the anarchic mix-and-match aesthetic of the sixties counterculture. Firesign Theatre has released twenty-two albums, seven radio series and several videos. Some of their early, frenetically groundbreaking discs are "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him," "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?" and "Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers."

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FIRESIGN Theatre (Performer); MUSIC; GIVE Me Immortality or Give Me Death (Music); CULTURE; WIT & humor; CULTURAL industries
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