I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
This was the first Firesign Theatre recording I ever
heard.
Choosing the location for this cache was a pretty easy one.
To hear a little
bit of “I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus”
copy and paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser:
http://montywolf.tripod.com/cgi-bin/sounds/bozo.mp3
Sorry, Tripod won't allow remote downloads from their site via links.
CACHE NOTES
I really wanted to put this at the downtown
bus station, but decided against it. If this were a stand-alone cache I
wouldn't be worried about it getting grabbed-up by a non-cacher-type.
However, with every leg of the Firesign Theatre series being important to
finding “The Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys” cache, I decided to
put it where it waits for you, now.
As I was grabbing a half-dozen
waypoints to average-out one for the cache page, a civilian walked up to the
area of the cache. Since I had placed the cache in its secure hiding place
I wasn't concerned with him finding the cache. But, I'm sure I gave him a
little mystery to solve while he, just another Bozo, waited for his bus to
arrive.
Make sure you return the cache to its
exact hiding place. As you will see when you find it, the hiding location
is very important.
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. To learn more about the Firesign Theatre, surf over
to www.firesigntheatre.com.
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geocachers in this part of
the Silver State and California.
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Cache you later.
Monty Wolf