4 Or 5 Crazy Guys:
The Firesign Theatre
Before
After
This is the only cache in the series that is
not dedicated to a particular recording by the Firesign
Theatre.
This is the Mystery Cache of the series. This
is the one you've been gathering clues for.
4 or 5 Crazy Guys is the name they gave their
publishing company. I've always thought it described them
perfectly.
To hear
alittle bit of The
Firesign Theatre copy and paste the following URL into your
browser:
http://montywolf.tripod.com/cgi-bin/sounds/4or5crazyguys.mp3
CACHE NOTES
The coordinates listed on the top of the
cache page is not the actual location of the cache.
Until I can get the coordinates verified and the type of cache
changed -
email me for the actual
coordinates.
This one is off the beaten track. I've hidden the 4 or 5
Crazy Guys cache where I did for a couple of reasons:
1) It's my belief that caches beget caches. So, take an ammo
can with you and give me a reason to head back out
there.
2) The area needs a good cache since there are none presently.
3) I thought the final cache in this series deserved to hide in an
area that is not frequented by many adventurers.
You'll want to take at least half a day to go after this one
because of ingress and egress. I suggest coming in from the
south as the view near the end is quite nice. However, you
can do just as well by going in from the north. There is also
a road that comes in from the east but, I know nothing about that
road.
The trip will take you on a road that you would not want to
bring your Jaguar XK8 on, but any high clearance vehicle can handle
the trip. During the winter you may need 4 wheel drive in the
high country. The road out, or in,depending on your method of
approach, will take you through a historic mining district.
This is one in a series of caches based on recordings by the
Firesign Theatre.
There were 17 caches in all. You can see
the Bookmark List here to check out the original caches.
Initially, these caches all held clues to find the final cache,
The Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys but since so many of
them have been archived, the puzzle is now impossible. I
(NevadaWolf) am removing the puzzle portion of this cache page. If
you are working on the final cache, email me through my profile and
I'll send you the coordinates to the final until I can figure out
something to make of it.
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.
You can learn more about the Firesign Theatre at www.firesigntheatre.com.
We've started a forum for geocachers in this part of
the Silver State and California.
If you geocache in the Great Basin or Eastern
Sierras
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Cache you later.
Monty Wolf