We're All Bozos on This Bus: Eliza and the Firesign Theater

by abrax3141on 12/24/2024, 5:36 AMwith 5 comments

by TomMaszon 12/26/2024, 1:59 PM

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by PopePompuson 12/26/2024, 3:26 PM

This album is why the username "UhClem" has already been taken every time I sign up for a new account somewhere.

by csourson 12/26/2024, 3:25 PM

See also Disney's Animatronics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk

You can start at minute 39 to skip background info

by abrax3141on 12/24/2024, 5:36 AM

Jeremy Braddock just (well, in October) published a scholarly yet extremely enjoyable book about The Firesign Theater, the brilliant 1970s-ERA audio improve group. Firesign often rolled technologies into their humor. In particular, the album "We're All Bozos on this Bus" has a long intricate piece that spins in and out of Lisp and ELIZA jokes (among many many others). The Firesign folks had had a demo of ELIZA, probably on a PDP-10. That would almost certainly have been Bernie Cosell's Lisp ELIZA, and we (ElizaGen.org) provided an image of the listing of that ELIZA, which appears as a figure in the book! (I'd tell you which figure and the page, but I loaned my copy of the book out. But if you are a Firesign fan, the book is, IMHO, fantastic throughout!)