Hollywood Nightshift

An Impromptu Weekly Radio Show

With Phil Austin, Michael Guinne, and Frazier Smith
KLOS-FM Los Angeles

October, 1980



01. Introduction
02. Getting Started
03. Wet Stockings and Fish advert
04. Victor's House of Bar-B-Q Bats advert
05. The Boys Visit Des Moines, Iowa
06. The Duck
07. Dirk Schlong the Producer
08. Dumb Guy Beer advert
09. The Hollywood Nightshift
10. Des Moines Girls Meet Our Guys
11. We're Only Interested in Sex
12. No Check
13. The Midwestern Jewish Associating Meeting
14. Lowbrow Beer advert
15. Military Toothpaste advert
16. The Mailbag
17. Harlan's House of Video Toys advert
18. The Car Radio
19. Johnny Hunkmaster
20. Tuxedoes Painted On Your Body advert
21. Johnny Hunkmaster
22. Victor's House of Bar-B-Q Bats advert
23. Mr. Buddy Newhart
24. Write to Us
25. Johnny Hunkmaster
26. KLOS DJ comment
27. Fantasy Ghetto
28. Bullets Matsimato
29. Hello Test Beer advert
30. Fantasy Ghetto
31. Bob's Shark Chevrolet advert
32. Fantasy Ghetto
33. Touch Me Cream advert
34. The Panty Shack advert
35. Little Wild Panties Have Vanished
36. Gary Coleman
37. Little Puppy
38. Call My Tumor
39. KLOS Station Identification
40. The Nuclear Family- Born To Die
41. Angus McClaren House Of The Plaid Weiner advert
42. A Scottish Festival on Hollywood Nightshift
43. The Address If You Didn't Get It Before
44. The Baffler
45. Preview Of Next Week�s Episode
46. Hollywood Nightshift Signing Off
47. Closing comments and credits
[48:13]

(Most KLOS station identification and all official commercial breaks removed)


Famed Los Angeles weekly radio show "The Hollywood Nightshift" with Frazier Smith (D.J. and comedian), Phil Austin (of Firesign Theatre) and Michael C. Gwynne (Character actor and D.J).
An hour of inspired improvisation featuring characters The Duck, Johnny Hunkmaster, Fantasy Ghetto and quite a few satirical advertisements.

Air Date: October (unknown Sunday night) 1980
This was just after the Hollywood Nightshift moved to KLOS-FM from their original home on KROQ


Source: FM > unknown receiver and cassette deck (Allen Tarzwell)

Transfer: Nakamichi CR7-A (azimuth aligned to tape) > Korg mn-2000s (1 bit DFF @ 2.88 MHz) >
Audiogate (24-96) > Audacity (clean up) > Audiogate (16-44) > CD Wav > Flac (Level 8) > Stamp ID 3 tag editor

Clean up included cleaning up tape deck stop and starts, removing some small dropouts and repairing some loud pops and clicks from the sound effects records they played.


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FYI: I found another episode of (note spelling for search purposes) "The Hollywood Nite Shift" at the Live Music Archives (archive.org)
No ratio downloads and streaming audio if you just want to check it out.

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2015-06-21

Phil Austin, a co-founder of the influential Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Thursday of complications from cancer at his home on Fox Island in Washington state. He was 74.

Austin was dubbed the �official lead guitarist� for the outfit known for its out-there radio broadcasts and albums from the late 1960s and early �70s.
The group�s most popular albums include �How Can You Be Two Places at Once When You�re Not Anywhere At All� (with its famous cover image of Groucho Marx and John Lennon), �I Think We�re All Bozos on This Bus� and �Don�t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.�

Austin was known for playing the group�s enduring character Nick Danger, a spoof of hard-boiled fictional detectives a la Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
Nick Danger often stated his name backwards � �Regnad Kcin� � as if he were reading it off the glass pane of his office door from behind his desk.

Austin�s death was confirmed on the Firesign Theatre�s website:

�Nick Danger has left the office.

Our dear friend and Firesign Theatre partner for over 50 years succumbed to various forms of cancer early this morning at his home on Fox Island, Washington, with his wife Oona and their six beloved dogs at his side.
It is a tremendous and unexpected loss, and we will miss him greatly; but in keeping with his wishes, there will be no public memorial.

Rest in Peace, Regnad Kcin.�

Born in Denver in 1941, Austin grew up in Fresno, Calif. He attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (reportedly to get as far away from Fresno as possible), and also at Cal State Fresno and UCLA but never graduated.
By the mid-1960s he was working as an apprentice at Los Angeles� Center Theater Group and also as a director of drama and literature for public radio station KPFK.

At KPFK Austin met like-minded writers and performers Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Phil Proctor and soon the Firesign Theatre was born. Bergman died in 2012.

In 1974 Austin released a solo comedy album, �Roller Maidens From Outer Space.�

In later years, Austin did voice-over work for TV commercials and worked as a development exec for Lorimar Telepictures.
He also wrote screenplays and published a book of short stories, �Tales of the Old Detective and Other Big Fat Lies,� in 1995.

Survivors include his wife, Oona.

June 19, 2015

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