Hello and welcome Dear Friends to the Audio Wing of the Mindless Fellowship Pavillion. Here you will find little audio snippets culled from the many Firesign Theatre albums, recordings and such - donated by both Doc Technical and others.

The latest sound files submitted to this archive by Tim Nixon in MPEG Layer 3 WAV format. Thanx for being patient, Tim!

This is the first in a projected series of audio files culled from the Firesign Theatre's Dear Friends radio series from the early '70s. No, these are not from the double-album Columbia release - these are from the actual shows, and were selected precisely because they are not available on the albums. They are encoded in Microsoft ADPCM 4-bit Mono format for faster download, smaller file size and to eliminate the possibility of some enterprising soul taking them off this site and attempting to sell them.

They are meant to be a teaser, to give you a little taste of the wonderful material these guys used to manufacture on-the-fly. The original recordings of the twelve one-hour Dear Friends shows must exist somewhere... perhaps these teasers might generate enough interest to coax the powers that be into releasing them as a 12-CD set, or as 12 individual volumes. This may be just a pipe dream of mine - than again, who knows?

This group of files were submitted by N. K., a 16-year-old budding firehead who was kind enough to forward this generous batch of audio files culled from Nick Danger and How Can You Be... for your enjoyment. We welcome him to the fold and thank him very much for sharing. To get the file sizes down a bit, we converted them from 22kHz Stereo to 11kHz Mono. Email me if you would like to obtain copies of the master files.

So far, the only Firesign he's heard is HCYB and the Dear Friends compilation. What will he make of Don't Crush That Dwarf... or Bozos? The mind reels at the thought.

The next group of files you see here were submitted recently by a Mr. UhClem who lists his address as "The Shadows." We greatly appreciate his willingness to share these with us, and apologize for taking so long in getting them up on this site. Here they are, in all their fiery glory:

Here's a second batch of audio files from Uhclem. Rather than just sit on them until hell freezes over, we thought it wise to get them all normalized (Are You Normalized? Have You Ever Been Normalized? I Have!) and up on the size ASAP:

Finally, here's the first batch of sounds Doc put together for this site. Since first putting them up on this page, he has since re-encoded them to reduce the file sizes without sacrificing too much in the way of sound quality. Hope ya like 'em, and there are bigger deals to come!