This week, Jason does his usual stellar job of keeping the show on track. No, seriously, it gets worse. Why? Because Taylor Jessen is not only Firesign’s archivist, but he restores comedy vinyl. All those pops and hisses that can kill a joke or a pause? Yeah, he can smooth those over and then tweak the cover so it looks like it did the day the original owner bought it in the store. He does it all out of a desire to get it out there, so as you can imagine I was waiting with bated breath to have him on to nerd out, even if he far out nerds me. We also talk about a great Credibility Gap album, “Floats,” and the clips I play in the show are from his restored version.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Taylor Jessen
Taylor’s Insanely Amazing Archive (our name for it, not his)
Give “Floats” a listen/look via the archive
Buy “Floats” on Vinyl
Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples played in these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts are used without permission under the provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy. Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.
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I’ve been waiting years to speak with David Ossman, co-founding member of The Firesign Theatre, and I’m excited to be able to talk with him about his career, and Firesign’s first vinyl in decades, Dope Humor of the Seventies, out now from Stand Up! Records!
