Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him

Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him Artist: Firesign Theatre
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 696998577329
EAN: 0696998577329
ASIN: B00005T7K3


Release Date: 2001-12-04

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Tracks:

  1. Temporarily Humboldt County
  2. W.C. Fields Forever
  3. Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde
  4. Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Nice Paisley Horsie.......2006-06-21

I remember listening to "Waiting for the Electrician" when it came out. Earphones. Sunshine LSD. What's not to like. I lost my vinyl of all the Firesign guys and got replacements recently. Listening 38 years later, it has excatly the same effect. Must be flashbacks. Satire is beyond time. Each self standing one act play defines the language of the piece so that the 60's and 70's lingua via is accessible. The title auditory show is more powerful now than then because they got it all right.

5 out of 5 stars Best Firesign performance ever BUT BEWARE..........2006-04-13

For those of you who know and loved this originally as an LP, you will be disappointed to learn that sony messed up the remix BIG TIME by deleting important dialog at the beginning of the second side of the album (of course, on the cd it would be the second segment). The beginning of the second side IS CRITICAL to the subject of the performance and as best as I can recall, should have begun something like this:

"Welcome to side 4. Please follow along as we learn 3 new words in Turkish.
Towel, Bath, Border...may I see your passport please..." ...
(someone could please tweak this for I know this is not EXACTLY the dialog).

Anyway, you get the idea. The beginning is suppose to be as if you were listening to one of those "Berlitz" language records. Just wish/ hope sony would rectify this REAL SOON!

4 out of 5 stars Eastern Europe: Home of Your Inner Child!.......2005-08-18

Oh - it's the Ice Show!

The spy has been in deep cover behind the Iron Curtain. He has just received his hurried direction in clipped sentences, has checked into the Hotel Kafka, and has been intercepted, probed, scoffed at, ignored, and wiretapped.

Then for no reason at all, he goes through a door, and is on the ice at the Berlibber Ice Palatz, to see the Gunatzis Brothers, Hans and Junni, shoot it out with weapons of increasing caliber and fierceness...

It was their first album, and thus one of their more transparent. But side two (sorry, Side Five), remains a masterpiece.

5 out of 5 stars Good Stuff!.......2005-08-04

This is one, if not my favorite of the Firesign I've listened to. If you like history you'll love this one. And if you don't, no problem, you'll still get a kick out of it. Lots of great lines, word play and sound effects. A must have!

5 out of 5 stars Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him.......2004-03-01

A BASIC ESSENTIAL FOR YOUR HEAD.

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