RIP Peter Bergman, 72, of the Firesign Theatre

[urth]

Can't find any confirming reports on the web, but a FB friend who's in a position to know these things says that the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman has passed. RIP.

[RGMike]

Can't find any confirming reports on the web, but a FB friend who's in a position to know these things says that the Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman has passed. RIP.

found it on boingboing (and Wiki says he's died) but nothing from a major news outlet yet

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/09/firesign-theaters-peter-berg.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)

Shoes for Industry! Guess Beulah the Buzzer said his time was up.

[Wayback]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/firesign-theatres-peter-bergman-dies-at-72.html
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http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/09/peter-bergman-rip

[ggould]

There was a time when perhaps the Firesign Theatre was the most constant influence in my life.  I'm sure I was totally insufferable then, constantly riffing on their albums.  I did get to see them some years ago at the Berkeley Community Theatre, but not sure exactly when.  15-ish years ago?

http://firesigntheatre.com/peterbergman/index.html

[RGMike]

There was a time when perhaps the Firesign Theatre was the most constant influence in my life.  I'm sure I was totally insufferable then, constantly riffing on their albums.  I did get to see them some years ago at the Berkeley Community Theatre, but not sure exactly when.  15-ish years ago?

It was a golden age for countercultural comedy, generally. Besides FT there was Credibilty Gap, Congress of Wonders, Conception Corporation... and of couse the Monty Python crew put out LPs of their best bits -- not TV soundtracks but stuff prduced specifically for records, like little radio playlets.

And FM freeform radio stations actually *played* these albums (as well as LPs by George Carlin, Robert Klein and others) on the air as a regular thing!