Firesign Field Guide: Listening to the Future from the Past A guide for the bewildered, the bozos, and the brave The Firesign Theatre were not just a comedy troupe—they were sonic alchemists, cultural critics, and prophets of media overload. Active from the late 1960s through the early 2000s, they created surreal, densely layered audio dramas that challenged perception, satirized authority, and gleefully twisted the American psyche into knots of laughter and confusion. Listening to Firesign isn’t passive; it’s an act of exploration. The group consisted of four core writer-performers: Peter Bergman, Philip Proctor, Phil Austin, and David Ossman. Bergman was The post How Firesign Theatre’s Albums Twisted The American Psyche appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.