The Firesign Theatre

1998 Press Release: First off, it's not a theatre at all-- at least it doesn't have four walls -- but the fiery foursome that created it: Phil Austin, Phil Proctor, Peter Bergman, and David Ossman, have managed to make theatre wherever they go and over the years they have sold between over four million albums. Indeed, this year, they were chosen among the "Fifty Greatest Acts of All Time" by Entertainment Magazine. Firesign first became widely known in 1966 at L.A.'s listener-supported KPFK (where Austin and Ossman were on staff), and when Proctor came West with the musical The Amorous Flea they started performing together on Peter "The Wiz" Bergman's Radio Free Oz, rapidly evolving from doing put-ons and live original half-hour comic plays before ecstatic crowds into the multi-media production and performance entitity we know today. And remember ... we're all Bozos on this bus!