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Posted: Feb 18, 2008 6:32 p.m. - Subject: Larry
Well, I haven’t posted a review in quite a long while, but I thought this one was more than worth it.
For those of you who have never heard of "WILDMAN FISCHER", it’s about time you do. His career started right after he got out of a mental institute in 1964. He played on the streets of L.A., wild hair, one flip flop, loud, abnoxious, original, for a dime per song. He dreamed of a career in the music industry to impress his family. In 1967 Frank Zappa befriended him on the sunset strip, Hollywood, Ca. Frank told Wildman that he would help him create his first album, which he did, and it was released in 1968. "An evening with Wildman Fischer". The album did rather poorly, but it was very unique, so he gained a small following of crazy fans. When the album did poorly Wildman had an episode, and his and Frank Zappa’s relationship crashed and burned.
He disapeared for most of the early seventies, and made a single in 1975 for Rhino Records. In 1977, Rhino Records signed him, and made yet another album.
This was called, "Wildmania". This one did a bit better than his first, but still didn’t sell many copies. His third album "Pronounced Normal" was realeased a couple years later. Wildman’s paranoia greatened, he believed the record label had put subliminal messages into his music, and thought that everyone was trying to circumsize him, and throw his penis in the ocean. Which ofcourse wasn’t true, but he believed it nonetheless, and disapeared again for quite a while. When he calmed down some months later, he returned to Rhino Records to record yet another final album with Barnes and Barnes. This one was called "Nothing Scarry", because that was the one request he had asked of Barnes and Barnes, so that was what the Album was logically named.
Since then he has decided to no longer be in the music business. He believes it is a back stabbing, un-fair industry. He hasn’t really done any shows since the early 90’s, and he stays out of the view of the public as much as possible. Since his desicion to quit his dream of being a "rock star", he has become not only that, but a legend, and inspiration to the few that know of him. If you are interested in his mind, or his music, I would suggest watching his documentary "Derailroaded". His records are now out of print, and scarce, so they can only be found in used record shops, on-line, or in collector’s magazines.
