| Arizona Bay | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | February 25, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | November 22, 1992 – June 1993 | |||
| Venue | Laff Stop, Austin, TX | |||
| Studio | Fossil Creek Studio, Austin, TX | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 65:56 | |||
| Label | Rykodisc | |||
| Producer | Kevin Booth | |||
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| AllMusic |  [1] |
Arizona Bay is an album by American stand-up comedian and satirist Bill Hicks, posthumously released in 1997. Both this album and a similar album of new material, Rant in E-Minor, were released posthumously by Rykodisc on February 25, 1997, marking three years since Hicks' death.[2]
The album's title refers to the hope that Los Angeles will one day fall into the ocean due to a major earthquake.[3] Hicks contends that the world will be better off in L.A.'s absence:
Ahhh, ha ha ha, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone. Oh, it's gone. All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fucking wind are dead, I love it. Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called...Arizona Bay. That's right, when L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away, all that it will leave...is Arizona Bay.
On April 28, 2015, Comedy Dynamics released a new version of the album in the digital format called Arizona Bay Extended, featuring "a raw and uncut show that comprised the original Arizona Bay album."[4]
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ "BILL HICKS' LEGACY OF THE PROFANE AND THE PROFOUND OUT ON CD - Chicago Tribune".
- ^ Map of America, showing "Arizona Bay", video shot and narrated by Bill Hicks at Fossil Creek Studio in Austin, Texas, during the Arizona Bay recording sessions (music elements), November 1992 (SacredCowProductions, uploaded to YouTube on Feb 26, 2014).
- ^ "Arizona Bay Extended". Comedy Dynamics. Retrieved 8 February 2019.