Everything You Know Is Wrong Paul_kirchner

Infobox Album |
Name = "Everything You Know Is Wrong"
Blazon = Anthology
Artist = The Firesign Theatre

Released = 1974
Recorded =
Genre =

One-act
Length = 42:00
Label = Columbia
Producer = The Firesign Theatre
Reviews = "The New Rolling Rock Tape Guide" Rating|5|5
Concluding album = "The Tale of the Behemothic Rat of Sumatra"
(1974)
This album = "Everything You Know Is Wrong"
(1974)
Next anthology = "In the Adjacent Earth, Yous're on Your Own"
(1975)
:"This is also the name of a "Weird Al" Yankovic song on the Bad Hair Solar day album, and a Chumbawamba song on the Un album. It is besides the name of three different books, by Paul Kirchner (1995), Lloyd Pye (1997), and Russ Boot/Disinfo (2002). It is also a bulletin on the Silly level of Marble Madness"

"Everything You Know Is Incorrect" is a one-act album past the Firesign Theatre released in October 1974 on Columbia Records.

Detailed rail data and commentary

Like the group'due south other albums, "Everything You Know Is Wrong" is made up of a series of surreal skits that make satiric comments on contemporary topics. This album addresses and parodies pseudoscientific behavior of the mid-1970's. The skits are connected to, or occurring in, "Nude Age Enterprises", the recording studio inside the trailer home of "Happy" Harry Cox in the fictional boondocks of Hellmouth, California. Cox (played by Phil Austin) records seminars and assorted reports, similar to books by such authors as Erich von Daniken, which he calls his "mind-breaking records", to promote the "New Age" and other counterculture beliefs ("Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs invented the vacation! Our forefathers took drugs! Your brain is not the boss! Yeah! That's right! Everything you know is wrong!").

Other notable characters include:
*Nino Savatte, the psychic mind-bender (Philip Proctor) — a parody of Uri Geller, the psychic spoon-bender.
*Daredemon Reebus Caneebus (Austin), pronounced "ca-NEE-autobus" — a parody of daredevil Evel Knievel.
*Don Brouhaha, a Native American shaman with a knowledge of natural psychoactive drugs — a parody of Carlos Castaneda's fictional shaman Don Juan Matus.
*Gary the Seeker, a well-significant if annoying member of a group of New Age experimentalists who travel on what Gary describes equally "The Heavenly Bus".
*Doctor Firesign, in a cameo appearance, selling "Inca Hell-Oil Tonic" in his medicine show. Cox plays a wire recording containing part of an adventure in which Dr. Firesign encounters Don Brouhaha.
*Art Holeflaffer; caretaker and groundskeeper at the trailer park where Harry Cox lives.
*Buzz and Bunny Crumbhunger; A married couple who recorded their abduction, murder and resurrection past extraterrestrials on their habitation pic camera (They narrate the footage on a seemingly normal travelogue Telly show).
*Pat Lid, a parody of sportscaster Howard Cosell
*Harold Hiphugger and Ray Hamburger (pronounced "ham-bur-ZHAY"): The "Where It's Happy" idiot box news team of Channel Six, "The Hot One for the Loftier Desert". Their manner of reporting news largely past talking between themselves, rather than directly to the audience, parodies the Happy talk boob tube news format which came into fashion about this fourth dimension.

Miscellanea

After it was recorded, a flick version was fabricated, with the group lip-syncing to the anthology. The cinematographer for this was Allen Daviau, who later filmed "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". The film was released on a VHS format videotape in 1993 by The Firesign Theatre. (UPC barcode 735885 100131. Currently bachelor from the Lodestone Catalog / SKU# MSUG001.)

the grouping showed the film at Stanford University and took questions and answers.

Ii of the characters introduced on this anthology, Ray Hamburger (pronounced Ham-ber-jer') and Harold Hiphugger, reappear on the grouping's after album "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Expiry".

The "Official stolen authorities training flick of the hush-hush plan to bargain with an ailen insurgence" is a parody of, among other things: General Curtis LeMay'due south statement that the Communists of North Vietnam should be "bombed dorsum to the stone age". LeMay is also noteworthy for having furiously informed Barry Goldwater that he was not permitted to access rumored undercover UFO data supposedly existence kept at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, leading UFO-philes to suspect that LeMay knew of the beingness of alien spacecraft and was hiding information related to First Contact.

The album's title was appropriated by Russ Kicking for a collection of writings for his "Disinfo" series.

Noteworthy quotes

*"Yes, I'1000 Dr. Happy Harry Cox, and telephone call me happy because I am!" "Now don't be agape, here in the 'Nude Historic period,' considering there is a seeker born every minute.":This is a paraphrase of the well-known aphorism, commonly attributed to P.T. Barnum, that '"in that location's a sucker born every minute."
*"I was correct near the comet!":This is a reference to Comet Kohoutek, which many people in 1973 had falsely predicted would be spectacular.

*"He's "been there"...and you lot probably don't even know where you are.":Dr. Cox, commenting on a dog whose ancestors (he claims) came from outer space millions of years ago to rule the Earth.

*"Benjamin Franklin: The only President of the Usa, who was never President of the United States.":Narrator (Ossman) in a classroom film on the Founding Fathers.

Rail listing

ide one

#"Side 1" – 20:45

ide ii

#"Side two" – 21:15

Issues and reissues

This anthology was originally released simultaneously on LP, 8 Track, Quadrophonic LP, and quadrophonic eight track cartridge.
*LP - KC-33141
*8 Track - CA-33141
*Quadrophonic LP - CQ-33141
*Quadrophonic viii track cartridge -

Information technology has been re-released on CD at least once
*2001 - Express joy.com LGH1077

References

*Firesign Theatre. "Everything You Know Is Wrong". Columbia Records, 1974.
*Firesign Theatre. "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Paw Me the Pliers". Express mirth.com, 1987.
*Firesign Theatre. "Firesign Theatre". 19 Jan. 2006 .
*"FIREZINE: Linques!." "Firesign Theatre FAQ". 20 Jan. 2006 .
*Marsh, Dave, and Greil Marcus. "The Firesign Theatre." "The New Rolling Rock Record Guide". Ed. Dave Marsh and John Swenson. New York: Random House, 1983. 175-176.
*Smith, Ronald L. "The Goldmine Comedy Record Toll Guide". Iola: Krause, 1996.

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