Back From the Shadows: The Firesign Theatre's 25th Anniversary Reunion Show Associated album Back From the Shadows Start date April 24, 1993 (1993-04-24 ) Legs 20
Back From the Shadows twenty-fifth anniversary reunion tour of the comedy group the Firesign Theatre , performed at twenty cities across the United States in 1993. A live video CD recording of three performances was released as the group's nineteenth album in 1994 by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab .
The performance material was loosely adapted and updated from four albums originally issued by Columbia Records : Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus Gene Autry 's signature song "Back in the Saddle Again " for I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus . The final scene, "Toad Away", is a parody hymn the group wrote to the tune of The First Noel Dear Friends radio programalbum of the same name .
Performance venues [ ] The reunion concert opened in Seattle, Washington on April 24, 1993. The audience numbered 2,900 and included comic actor Harry Anderson .[1] [2]
Holbrook, Arizona ( Austin, Back From the Shadows liner notes)Denver, Colorado Auditorium Theatre
Omaha, Nebraska
Chicago, Illinois -- McCormick Place
Erie, Pennsylvania
Bennington, Vermont Rockland, Maine
Springfield, Massachusetts -- University of Massachusetts Amherst
Boston, Massachusetts -- Orpheum
New York City -- Beacon Theatre
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Keswick Theatre
Washington DC -- Warner Theatre
New York City -- Paramount Theatre
Somerset, Pennsylvania Galesburg, Illinois North Platte, Nebraska
Salt Lake City, Utah
Reno, Nevada
Tiburon, California Los Angeles, California -- Wiltern Theatre Track listing [ ]
All tracks are written by the Firesign Theatre.
1. "At The Border" 4:49 2. "Beat The Reaper!" 3:22
3. "He Walks Again By Night" 10:47 4. "The Old Same Place" 6:09 5. "Hold It Right There!" 3:02
6. "Ralph Spoilsport Motors" 3:44 7. "On The Antelope Freeway" 3:17 8. "The American Pageant" 9:19 9. "Bringing The War Back Home" 5:33
10. "On the Funway" 6:40 11. "The Breaking of the President" 3:13 12. "Doctor Memory" 5:15
13. "Tirebiter Wakes Up Hungry" 5:17 14. "Pastor Flash" 5:23 15. "High School Madness" 8:32 16. "Parallel Hell" 4:05 17. "The Court-Martial Scene" 2:25 18. "George Gets a Wakeup Call" 2:15 19. "Toad Away" 4:36
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