Shoes For Industry

This is another best of recording of the Firesign Theatre's past stories and bits.
Hey, your loafer's untied!

A new variation on an old trick.

To hear a little bit of “Shoes For Industry”
copy and paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser:
http://montywolf.tripod.com/cgi-bin/sounds/shoes.mp3
Sorry, Tripod won't allow remote downloads from their site via links.

CACHE NOTES

This cache hide just came to me right after placing one of the nearby caches in the FST series.  I was driving down the street and suddenly the big shoe in the sky made its presence known to me.  As has been the case with many of the caches in this series, hiding the actual cache was quite easy.  Getting the coordinates was a different story.  I guess after geocaching for a couple of years you get so you just ignore all the weird looks people give you.

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 16^th 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.  

There's a whole lot more on the Firesign Theatre at www.firesigntheatre.com.

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