This is mostly material from the 90's of what was called 'The Subgenius Show' or 'More Than an Hour Less Than a Show' which features incredible collages mixed with extemporaneous trance spout-riffing, psychedelic bulldada and surreal improvised comedy.
This set brings you rare audio of the 'Doktors of the Air' and their very strange radio show ('The Show') which eventually became (some 20 years later) 'The Puzzling Evidence Show' (which is still on KPFA in Berkeley, CA). Callers include Phineas Narco, Frank Bent, 'Serious Business'.
Sprinkled throughout are Narcollages, Aunt Bertha sketches (with Hal's Brother), The Dinosaur Kid, Subgenius Parade, Subgenius songs and much more.
'The Show' which was broadcast live at 4:30 on Saturday Mornings for the longest time, and offered some of the most frenetic, breakneck, and weeeeird live mix barrage mix radio before, then, or since in the same vein as Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Firesign Theater, but with certainly it's own realm, sound and sensibility.
Think Morning Zoo on acid.
This is a companion piece to 'The Best of the 80's' 5 part series which is available here:
nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-of-the-subgenius-show-the-80s-volumes-1-5
For more information on The Subgenius Church please feel free to visit
www.subgenius.com.
See the attendant credits for a list of the original members and performers for 'The Show', a great comic effort which had a tremendous influence on The National Cynical Network (NCN) much later on.
Don't worry, it's just a show.
from
The "Best" of the SubGenius Show - (the 90's) - Volumes 1-5,
released June 18, 2011
D. Woodman Atwell (aka Doug Wellman aka Puzzling Evidence), Gary G'Broagfran (Gary Hughes), The Band That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Moebius Rex (Bob Nelson), Paul Mavrides (LIES), Don Joyce (of Negativland), Glasmadness.
Cover art by Hal Robins.
Edited and compiled by Phineas Narco, with some editing by Puzzling Evidence.