I was anticipating a great album when I finally gave this a listen. After all, I've been told for years how great these guys are. I even remember reading my old used copy of Rolling Stone's first record guide 25 years ago and it's glowing 5 star reviews of this and the other early Firesign albums. But I was shockingly disappointed. What a tediously unfunny waste of time. I didn't laugh once. I didn't even come close to laughing once. How could I when this is the caliber of sketch comedy on display?:
"Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain...
He died in Washington, D.C."
Really? Are you 12 years old?
Or how about this groaner:
"You can sit in the waiting room or you can wait in the sitting room."
And it doesn't get any better either. Everything else here is equally lame. Who thinks this weak-ass shit is funny??? Maybe if I were stoned on cheap dirt weed, this might elicit a chuckle. But I doubt it. Of course a Firesign fanboy might argue that I "just don't get it". They'd be wrong. Oh, I get it alright. I get that it sucks.
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