His Name Is Larry

This is my tribute to a Paranoid Schizophrenic/Manic Depressive demigod of rock named Larry "Wild Man" Fischer. 

Larry originally started his music career in the mid sixties, soon after being released from the Camarillo State mental institution, he wandered the streets of Los Angeles, with only one shoe offering is original songs for ten cents each. He was discovered by Frank Zappa in 1968, who he later recorded the his first album with in 1969 called "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer." His career with Frank Zappa ended abruptly a couple years later after in one of his many fits of insanity threatened Franks life. He hid for several years... selling songs, and staying with his aunt Josephine... until he re-emerged in 1978 to record the first song to be signed to Rhino Records... appropriately titled "Go to Rhino Records". He recorded several more gems with comedy music producers Barnes and Barnes (famous for their song "Fish Heads") and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo... (which the recordings I can't find to this day, nor can I find anyone whose heard them other than Mark himself).  In 2005 an extremely funny/sad documentary directed by Josh Rubin  made about the Wild Man, titled "Derailroaded". Soon after the Masterpiece was completed, Larry was finally given medication for his mental illness and s finally somewhat normal. The sad pat is that he has lost all of his musical inspiration or "pep" as he calls it.

 

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