Give Me Immortality
Or Give Me Death
This one took the longest time to figure out
where I was going to place it.
It's probably the most open cache in this series.
It's quite possible that several hundred cars will pass by you
while you look for this gem.
To hear a little bit of “Give Me
Immortality Or Give Me Death”
copy and paste the following URL into the address bar of your
browser:
http://montywolf.tripod.com/cgi-bin/sounds/immortality.mp3
CACHE NOTES
You're just going to have to swallow your pride on this
one. Traffic is so heavy here, there won't be any opportunity
to make your GPSr look like a cell phone or any of the other
typical geocaching distractions. Just bite the bullet and get
out there and find it!
If you can't reach the cache
send me an email and tell me where the cache is located and why
you couldn't reach it. You can also send me a picture.
This is one in a series of caches based on recordings by the
Firesign Theatre.
There were 17 caches in all. You can see
the Bookmark List here to check out the original caches.
Initially, these caches all held clues to find the final cache,
The Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys but since so many of
them have been archived, the puzzle is now impossible. I
(NevadaWolf) am removing the puzzle portion of this cache page. If
you are working on the final cache, email me through my profile and
I'll send you the coordinates to the final until I can figure out
something to make of it.
The Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre have won three Grammy nominations, two of
them for Best Comedy CDs in 1998 and 2001. Both these works, "Give
Me Immortality or Give Me Death" and "The Bride of Firesign," take
place on-the-air, combining a mastery of audio production with the
entertainment techniques of radio's historic "golden age."
Firesign got its start on the surprise "underground" hit, "Radio
Free Oz" in 1966. Within a few months, the "Oz" boys landed a
record contract with Columbia and began writing, producing and
performing a series of LP's (currently reissued on CD by laugh.com)
that would strike the psychedelic funny bone of a generation. By
the time they sold out Carnegie Hall in 1974, they had gone past
cult status and were entering the language.
Favorite bits from Firesign's 1970 radio series were collected
on the best-selling LP (later CD), "Dear Friends." Collectors have
scoured eBay for rare copies of the later "Let's Eat!" series and
many other unreleased radio shows and broadcast performances.
Long-time NPR listeners may remember Firesign's unconventional
"Campoon Chronicles" coverage of the 1980 Presidential election for
"Morning Edition."
The quartet may be seen performing some of their classic
sketches, including "Nick Danger" and "High School Madness," on the
recent Rhino DVD, "Weirdly Cool." Some fifteen CDs, collecting
their work from 1967 to 2001, are currently in print, several of
them on labels from Australia and the U.K.
You can learn more about the Firesign Theatre at www.firesigntheatre.com.
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the Silver State and California.
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Cache you later.
Monty Wolf