Records

Firesign Theatre, "Everything You Know is Wrong, "Columbia KC 33141.

Feeling out of it? Confused? Ever read or watch the "news" and wonder what the hell is really going on? Well, take heart! "Don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute." And the Firesign Theatre are counting on your curiosity, seeker. They hope that that curiosity, born out of a dissatisfaction with the seedy film projected before you by the Bureau of Western Mythology ever since you were a sprout, will finally bring you to a point where you'll begin to create your own myths, and life-affirming, liberating myths at that. These four or five crazy guys are somewhat like the electrician for whom you've been waiting for so long, hoping he/she will pull the plug and release you from their soft machine.
"Everything You Know is Wrong" is the F.T.'s latest multi-media assault on our rarely-challenged assumptions about the nature of things. If you're a F.T. fanatic you've already been studying this communique for two or three weeks. However, if you've never investigated these incredibly talented buffoon/prophets, this particular disc may be just the one to kick your cogs loose.
It's all rather topical and, among other things, re-examines Rebus Knebus' jump into that hole; sheds more light on the origins of the dead extra-terrestial beings discovered recently in the desert in the Southwest that the United Snakes government is trying to hush up; lushly, persuasively applies some of sorcerer Don Juan 's visions to our fevered brows; and offers some wry speculations about the Very Last Day.
The Firesign Theatre graciously and humbly offer, yet again, to drive any willing alien to the edge of the New World Freeway. Of course, you have to decide for yourself whether or not you're gonna jump off.

-- Bill Adler