Firesign Theatre
I Think We're All Bozo's on this Bus is a narrative and is actually the fourth album by Firesign Theatre in a tetraology. This is quoted from wikipedia:
"The piece opens as a special bus appears carrying a group of tourists along a typical suburban street. When the bus stops, the vegetable-shaped holograms appear out of thin air and begin singing a song to entice more people to board the bus to the Future Fair, a free Worlds Fair-like exhibit comparing the past and future.
"Once there, Clem joins other tourists in interactive exhibits. The automated exhibits finally lead to the President of the United States (sounding like Nixon) which is a computer. Clem knows how to break the computer by asking questions the computer can't answer. When this fails, Clem creates a holographic image of himself to electronically confront the master computer, "Dr. Memory". Clem is one of the first computer hackers mentioned in pop culture."
Priceless and insightful comedy considering that in 1971 computers were still using punch cards. Interactive technology didn't exist at the time. Liner notes defined the use of the term of bus as being "a circuit in a mixing board which carries signals from one or more inputs to any output". The Bozos were traveling through the medium of electronically recorded sound rather than vehicles.
Boom Dot Bust chronicles life in the fictional small midwestern town of Billville ("The Town That Nature Forgot to Hate"), where every male resident's first name is some form of Bill or William. The Bill theme is constructed as a reference to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and broader uses of the name Bill, such as "billionaire".Chorus from the "Sound of Billville"
"Let's move - shake your organs, Granny
Walk out - we're doing the Bill
Fat feet - shake your willie, Will
Move out - we're footing the Bill
Billville! Just call us Bill"
Everything You Know is Wrong ... (cont'd part 2)





3 comments :
Nice post, Chucko!
If you have "In The Next World, You're On You Own", please please *please* post with all haste.
There's several I wish I had.
Thank you! Ah to once again ride the bozo bus and realize that everything I know is wrong...
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