March 10.2011 by Elaine Woo-LA Times
Peter Bergman, top right, and his Firesign Theatre cohorts, clockwise…
P[/size=6]eter Bergman was a founder of the comic quartet that channeled the absurdist sensibility of the countercultural 1960s and '70s into a popular radio show and a series of cult-classic albums.
Peter Bergman, a founder of Firesign Theatre, the comic quartet that channeled the absurdist sensibility and chaotic impulses of the countercultural 1960s and '70s into a popular radio show and a series of cult-classic albums, has died at 72.
A longtime Los Angeles resident, Bergman died of complications of leukemia Friday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to his former wife, Maryedith Burrell.
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Firesign Theatre-Top Secret Government UFO Warning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V6z0OxuAzY
Share your faves! We used to get daily doses on early 70's underground radio!
RIP Peter...