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AN EVENING WITH WILD MAN FISCHER 2 LP SET MUSIC RECORD
RARE 1968 Frank Zappa's Bizarre label NOT RELEASED ON DC
RARE ORIGINAL 1968 DOUBLE LP ( GATEFOLD ) ON THE REPRISE LABEL. STEREO
RECORD AND COVER ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
An Evening with Wild Man Fischer is a 1968 double LP album by Wild Man Fischer released on Frank Zappa's Bizarre record label. The copyright is owned by the estate of Frank Zappa, but his widow Gail Zappa has chosen to not release it on CD, to the ire of the small but dedicated Wild Man Fischer fan club. Original vinyl copies have been sold for high amounts $$$$$$ on the internet.
a mentally disturbed street singer discovered by frank zappa. he recorded a double album for zappa's bizarre label, some of it with zappa and the mothers of invention, the rest of it solo, giving full vent to nonmetrical original material. he recorded again for the rhino label in 1977. an acquired taste to be sure, fischer may surface again. ~ cub koda
a certified paranoid schizophrenic and acid casualty, larry "wild man" fischer was one of pop music's most unlikely and most disquieting cult figures. born in los angeles in 1945, little is known of fischer's formative years; by the mid-'60s, he had become a fixture along l.a.'s famed sunset strip, where he embraced the burgeoning hippie culture in full. jobless and homeless, fischer's stock-in-trade was to harangue passers-by for small change, rewarding their charity with an impromptu musical performance sung in his crazed vocal style; his behavior produced his 1968 debut an evening with wild man fischer.
from the outset, consensus on fischer was split; some felt his music was a valid form of artistic expression, while others criticized zappa for taking advantage of his protege's clear lack of mental stablity. a collection of autobiographical monologues, free-form rants and experimental soundscapes, an evening with wild man fischer -- complete with a jacket bearing the ominous image of a maniacal fischer holding a knife to the throat of a cardboard cut-out woman -- won the singer a small but intense following; although he made several subsequent live appearances with zappa's band the mothers of invention, the two soon suffered an irrevocable falling-out, and fischer largely disappeared from sight for a number of years.
in the mid-'70s, fischer resurfaced, making a handful of club and television appearances which proved that his grasp on reality had grown even more tenuous in the intervening years. after cutting a single advertising the rhino records shop on westwood boulevard, he signed to the rhino label for a three-lp deal; wildmania appeared in 1977, and its primal intensity found support among members of the punk community. beginning with 1981's pronounced normal, he began working with the novelty duo barnes & barnes, who couched fischer's vocals in appropriately odd electronic backing tracks and sampled soundbites. nothing scary followed in 1984; upon its release, fischer visited the rhino shop and attempted to bully customers into purchasing his albums. he was ejected from the store, and his contract was not renewed; no other recording deal was forthcoming, and he again slipped into the ether. -- jason ankeny
Tracks
Disc 101. Merry-Go-Round (1:56)
02. New Kind of Songs for Sale (7:21)
03. I'm Not Shy Anymore (0:58)
04. Are You from Clovis (1:00)
05. The Madness and Ecstasy (7:49)
06. Which Way Did the Freaks Go (1:51)
07. I'm Working for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1:21)
08. The Leaves Are Falling (0:56)
09. 85 Times (0:56)
10. Cops and Robbers (1:44)
11. Monkeys Versus Donkeys (2:03)
12. Start Life over Again (2:01)
13. The Mope (1:51)
14. Life Brand New (1:39)
15. Who Did It Johnny (1:48)
16. Think of Me When Your Clothes Are Off (1:01)
17. Taggy Lee (0:37)
18. Rhonda (0:59)
19. I Looked Around You (1:31)
20. Jennifer Jones (4:55)
Disc 2
01. The Taster (3:12)
02. The Story of the Taster (1:27)
03. The Rocket Rock (1:05)
04. The Rocket Rock Explanation and Dialog (0:49)
05. Dream Girl (3:16)
06. Dream Girl Explanation (0:52)
07. Serrano (Sorrento) Beach (1:37)
08. Succes Will Not Make Me Happy (1:49)
09. Wild Man on the Strip Again (7:22)
10. Why I Am Normal (2:43)
11. The Wild Man Fischer Story (5:35)
12. Balling Isn't Everything (1:17)
13. Ugly Beautiful Girl (1:14)
14. Larry and His Guitar (2:46)
15. Circle (2:54)
Larry "Wild Man" Fischer is a Los Angeles resident who suffers from manic depression and paranoid schizophrenia. But more importantly, he suffers from ROCK 'N ROLL PNEUMONIA!!!!! He was originally discovered by Frank Zappa in the 1960's as he wandered around the Sunset Strip offering to sing songs to people for a dime. He was then re-discovered by Rhino Records in the 1970's as he wandered around Dodgers Stadium selling peanuts and singing songs to the crowd. The reason that everybody kept discovering Wild Man Fischer is because he writes and sings exuberant songs (novelty, children's music, doo-wop, pop) in a gruff, ridiculously excited voice that sounds like a caveman. He apparently is very difficult to communicate with, veering constantly from jovial pride to intense depression to delusional self-importance to inconsolable paranoia, but his records present the best possible side of him and are often an oodle-boat of fun. He's best known for his a capella recordings, but - no matter how funny it is to hear him 'sing' his musical changes (ex. "Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round DOOT! DOOT! DOOT!") - I personally think his talents shine most brightly when backed by musicalness.
Say, here's an idea. If you find a homeless, mentally ill man screaming songs on the street, DON'T RELEASE A DOUBLE-ALBUM BY HIM.
Frank Zappa had a great idea: release a diverse, entertaining snapshot of Wild Man Fischer's universe, including a solo studio singing session, a couple of tracks arranged for full band, tape snippets of a Sunset Strip performance, segments of dialogue to provide insight into his frazzled mind, and even a funny little roast-song performed for him by Kim Fowley and Rodney Bingenheimer. And that's great stuff,- all well-intentioned, humorous, fascinating and concise. But not if you drag it out for four fucking goddamned sides!!!
I apologize for cursing. Blue words indicate a small mind, and should only be used when absolutely necessary or funny. Which reminds me of a little conversation I had with my wife this morning:
ME: (looking at Henry The Dog asleep in his chair): "He's such a little angel."
MY WIFE: "I don't think angels are quite so gassy."
ME: "Then how do they float around like that?"
Yes, we're quite the Comedy Pear, my wife and me. But my point is that if that little conversation were 80 minutes long, you'd hardly want to listen to the whole thing, would you? Indeed NONE of us would! Which is why An Evening With Wild Man Fischer is such a bittersweet pill of a medication. And not only just because of its length: Frank also saw fit to cover the entire first side in stupid percussion noises clearly recorded after-the-fact and having no stylistic connection to the content at all!
But there's a larger problem too, and it's this: it apparently didn't occur to Frank Zappa that Wild Man might actually prefer some instrumental backing to support his shouty vocals. As much I love Wild Man Fischer, I don't necessarily want to hear him shouting a bunch of a capella songs in a sterile, empty recording studio. (For that matter, I wouldn't want to hear Mark E. Smith or Joey Ramone doing so either!) Just because Fischer can't play an instrument doesn't mean he envisions his music as a capella, and it's embarrassing that (aside from a few "novelty" exceptions) it took until his early '80s collaborations with Barnes & Barnes for somebody to realize this.
At any rate, Wild Man's songs at this point relied heavily on doo-wop convention - or maybe he just knew that Frank liked doo-wop so he chose to perform mostly in that style. But he also throws some other influences into the wrenchworks, including the bluesy "I'm Working For The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics," swingin' "85 Times," children's sing-songy "Merry-Go-Round" (which appears in whole or part about six thousand times during the course of the record) and hilarious Psych Workout "Circle," one of only two instances where Frank provides him with backing music. This song is probably the highlight of the entire album, with Larry gruffly shouting "How can I walk around your house like a circle without you knowing? I AM INVISIBLE!!!! YOU CAN'T SEE ME, BAY-BAY!!!!!!" as Zappa and cohorts play wah-wah drug music behind him. But enough about me, and my music.
But it's not all shits and giggles: a few pieces make it sadly clear that a good deal of psychic pain lies beneath Mr. Fischer's excited man-boy exterior. "The Wild Man Fischer Story" is a particularly harrowing track, as he (jokingly!?) recounts the key events of his young life, including his mother having him committed to a mental institution -- twice. The final track, "Larry Under Pressure," provides a further disconcerting glimpse of the manic singer as he suddenly falls into a depressive funk. Having witnessed this troubled side of the artist, it's difficult to understand why Frank Zappa would have posed him on the cover holding a knife up to an old woman portraying his mother. He obviously knew that Larry's first stint in the institution was a result of his threatening his real mother with a knife; his decision to make light of this psychological breakdown was something that Larry has questioned (and regretted) ever since.
Basically, there is one hell of a brilliant "outsider artist" album buried within this pile of tiresome, repetitive muck. Fischer's good humor doesn't always result in actual "good humor" (for example, the epic-length "Jennifer Jones" is a particularly uncomfortable 'comedy song' about a murder spree), but when he's just being himself, he can be surprisingly witty for a FRUITBAG NUTJOB PSYCHOTIC WEEOO WEEOO INSANES-A-LOT WEIRDO WHO'S A FEW BRICKS SHY OF A BRICK!!!
Reader Comments
SavageMoocows@aol.com
Whatcha cookin'? Around the same time that this album was released, Fischer made an appearance on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." If memory serves me correctly, he sang "Merry-Go-Round" and "The Leaves Are Falling," the latter tune to a puzzled Dick Martin. Martin seemed to sense that Fischer was crazy--he was a bit startled at Larry's "mmm-mmm, mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm-MMMM" sounds! But yeah, AN EVENING WITH WILD MAN FISCHER probably would have worked better as a single disc, although it did have some classic Fischer material (the two songs I mentioned above, as well as "I Looked Around You" and "Monkeys Vs. Donkeys"). As far as I know, Gail (Frank's widow) owns the rights to this album, and I don't imagine that she'll reissue it anytime soon. PEACE!
steve.robey@mindspring.com
LARRY!!! Glad to see you got around to reviewing one of my all-time favorite guitarists. Instrumentals can get boring after a while, but man, that technique! Seriously though - "The Taster" (full band version) is a kickass song, and I always find myself singing "Merry Go Round" (also referenced in Zappa's "Lumpy Gravy") and "Cops and Robbers". This album' a neat artifact, but nowhere near as good as I'd hoped it would be after searching for it for 10 years. The dialogue bits with Kim Fowley and Rodney "Get off the Air" Bingenheimer are pretty tedious, and I like spoken word stuff. I gotta go back and listen to "Circle" again - for the life of me I can't remember that tune. But you know what they say about Wild Man Fischer - if you can remember one of his songs, then you probably weren't there.
munsey3@comcast.net
Gotta love ol' Frank Zappa. Man, was he on a tear during this period. The Mothers had just released Uncle Meat. He'd just produced Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. And along the heels of all that he stumbles upon Larry and figures let's do a double album of the whack job! So there ya have a total of 12 sides of insanity. It should tell us something about the late 60's, for good and for ill, that any of these albums ever saw the light of day.
If you think about it, this is a pretty disturbing recording. I always like The Taster, with it's early 60's throwback I-VI-IV-V chord structure and nice pop beat. Merry Go Round and Working for the FBN are other favorites here. But basically it's probably not mentally healthful to listen to this too often. That may have worked back in the day, but They will eat you alive for it now.
An Evening With Wild Man Fischer
(LP) Bizarre/Reprise 2XS 6332
Released:April 28, 1969
Prior to the album's release, the ever industrious, avowed anti-commercial spokesman, Frank Zappa, first released a 45 single of the 2 most likely commercial cuts from the obvious non-commercial 2 disc LP, just 6 months after his arrival at the Log Cabin.
- Wild Man Fischer The Circle/Merry-Go-Round (45 single) Bizarre/Reprise 0781, October 9, 1968)
Album Liner Notes by Frank Zappa
An Evening With Wild Man Fischer
Wild Man Fischer is a real person who lives in Hollywood, California. He used to be very shy. He didn't have any friends. One day he decided to be more aggressive. He would write his own songs and sing to people and tell them he wasn't shy anymore. When he did this, everyone thought he was crazy. His mother had him committed to a mental institution twice.
The material for this album was recorded live in the street (with Larry's knowledge and consent) in front of the WHISKY A GO GO and THE HAMBURGER HAMLET on Sunset Strip, by DICK KUNC, on a UHER portable stereo tape recorder. The percussion effects were added later in Studio 2 at SUNSET SOUND by ART TRIPP, engineered by JERRY HANSEN. Larry's unaccompanied songs were recorded at Sunset and in the basement of the LOG CABIN. The monologues were recorded at Sunset. THE TASTER and CIRCLE are accompanied by multiple over-dub tracks which I manufactured. MERRY-GO-ROUND and SERRANO BEACH are accompanied by THE BIZARRE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE. The MADNESS AND ECSTACY of the second half of SIDE ONE was a spontaneous recitation (he was making it all up in the studio, believe it or not) by MR. KIM FOWLEY and MR. RODNEY BINGENHEIMER, assisted in spots by the GTO'S (Girls Together Outrageously). The girl's voice at the end of side one belongs to MISS JOHNA, who was, at one time, Larry's girl friend. The percussion was added later on another session.
Please listen to this album several times before you decide whether or not you like it or what Wld Man Fischer is all about. He has something to say to you, even though you might not want to hear it.
-Frank Zappa
'Wild Man' seemed to think that this insert would clarify much of his original material appearing in the grooves of this double disc album.
WARNING: Don't waste too much time attempting to find any sense in it. Instead of clarification, it provides the same scattered nonsense as Fischer's "songs".
Whether it's Mr. Zappa's inability to spot, or his refusal to promote, commercially viable talent, this album surpasses the GTO's "Permanent Damage" album in terms of nonsense, raising the obvious question:
"Was Frank Zappa just finding projects that were obviously done as low-budget 'write-offs' for his Bizarre Records label, perhaps to cover expenses he previously owed the parent label?
Or perhaps...Did he think that the low -but not bad- sales of "Freak Out" signaled a new "freak" market eager for such nonsense? Only Herb Cohen really knows!
Whatever the case, a click on the above thumbnail for a clarification of Wild Man Fischer's mind set & thought process, will save the reader hours of wasted time spent listening to this album.
He originally stayed with a number of his old friends, but his aggresive behavior, violent mood swings, and tendency to throw things in fits of frustration, often resulted in very short stays, and he soon ran out of his short list of tolerant friends.
Fischer was now a 'bona-fide' street person, who tried to avoid pan handling by making up songs that he would sing for tourists and other passerbys for 10 cents. It was during this period that Frank Zappa 'discovered' him, singing outside Canter's Coffee Shop in the wee hours of morning. The big record company tycoon signed him up and 'Wild Man' found a career.
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