The Tale Of
The Giant Rat Of Sumatra
On this outing, the Firesign Theatre tackle Sherlock
Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle is turning over in his grave trying to get
out to congratulate these 4 or 5 Crazy Guys.
This one took a while for me to figure out where I was
going to place it.
There just aren't that many big rats in northern Nevada.
Eventually, the location revealed itself.
To hear a little bit of
“The Tale Of The Giant Rat Of Sumatra”
copy and paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser:
http://montywolf.tripod.com/cgi-bin/sounds/giant.mp3
Sorry, Tripod won't allow remote downloads from their site via links.
CACHE NOTES
When I hid this cache, there were several
people parked in the area, all sitting in their cars watching me walk around
gathering waypoints. Yes, you need to be stealthy!
This is one in a series of caches based on
recordings by the Firesign Theatre.
There are 17 caches in all.
- 16 of them carry the clues that will lead you to “The
Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys”
- 15 of the 16 will have letters that need to be
converted to numbers
- 1 of the 16 will tell you how to convert the letters
into numbers
- You must find all 16 caches to find “The Firesign
Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys”
- You will need to be at least 5’7” to reach one of
the caches.
- The 15 “clue caches” are in Altoid’s Stip tins.
They contain logs and a letter written on the bottom. DO
NOT FORGET TO GET THE CODE!!
- The 16th cache is the “code-breaker
cache.” This one is an AOL CD tin with a web site
extension written on the base and lid. The web site is: http://montywolf.tripod.com
The extension will look like /website.extension
- The final leg of this series, “The Firesign Theatre:
4 or 5 Crazy Guys,” is in an ammo can.
I’m not telling you which cache is the AOL tin and
which caches are in the Altoids Strip tins as it would be rather easy to figure
out the location of “The Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys.” My
advice: Think Altoids Strip tins and don’t be surprised if you find an AOL
tin.
If you are traveling through the area don’t worry.
You can work these caches individually without the fear of “missing
something.”
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.