Westerns Uncorked & Electrified! Don Johnson! Fess Parker! with Firesign Theatre's Philip Proctor
Happy birthday, Philip Proctor! Our special guest who recalls a western with Bob Dylan and Brigitte Bardot written by a counter culture comedy troupe? What could go wrong? Well, according to Firesign Theatre's Philip Proctor, a lot could happen…and did. What was left was ZACHARIAH, a 1971 rock and roll cult western starring Broadway's PIPPIN, 25-year-old John Rubinstein, and 21-year-old Don Johnson, in only his 2nd film. They were trippy cowboy pals in the psychedelic Old West. Very loosely based on Herman Hesse's SIDDHARTHA, the script by Joe Massot and the Firesign Theatre's Proctor, Davis Ossman, Peter Berman and Philip Austin, follows the two young wannabe gunslingers, one good and one bad, as they meet up with various outlaw musicians and odd balls, before having a final confrontation.
Even with an outlaw gang played by Country Joe and the Fish, a fast-draw drum-slinging bad guy, Elvin Jones, a soothsaying fiddler in black (the legendary Doug Kershaw), and a foot stomping rock number from Joe Walsh and the James Gang that opens the film, ZACHARIAH was a unique studio funded flop.
Find out what happened during development and during the filming south of the border from Proctor, who regales a packed house of western fans with hysterical drug fueled memories.
Phil blows the audience away with his memory of another acting gig with Fess Parker on the popular series DANIEL BOONE. That’s followed by the origin story behind the award winning Firesign Theatre. It was a revolutionary group of brilliant comics, writers, voice artists, actors and...storytellers whose audio fantasies created over a dozen albums. The zany, hysterical LPs were bestsellers that created trippy storytelling for the psychedelic 60's and 70's. Learn how a Sunset Strip riot became the meeting place and inspiration of the thought provoking comedy troop of performers known as The Firesign Theatre. They were embraced on college campuses everywhere and became darlings of the media.
Following his cowboy misadventures, Proctor became a much in demand voice artist in animation (TOY STORY, MONSTERS, INC.) and video games (ASSASSIN'S CREED) racking up over 200 roles. Phil shared his amazing adventures with producer and host Rob Word for this special episode of A WORD ON WESTERN recorded at The Autry Museum, January 20, 2016.
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