WILD MAN FISCHER
In 1968, a street-singer from the Sunset Strip named Larry Fischer made his vinyl debut, An Evening With Wild Man Fischer. A decade later, he was rediscovered and made three more albums on the Rhino label. More than thirty years after he was thrust into the limelight, he remains a cult figure, known by a small but enthusiastic few.
I apologize for the lack of updates to the site. Lots coming soon!
Derailroaded is complete, and now showing in theaters. Check it out - it's quite good! www.derailroaded.com
I recently was able to acquire a limited number of autographed Wild Man Fischer photos! These are authentic, and I'm selling them for $20 each (plus $3 shipping) and the proceeds are going to Larry. If you'd like a photo, and would like to send some support Larry's way, please contact me here. Again, supplies are limited so get one soon!
Some great news! THE LEGEND OF WILD MAN FISCHER by Dennis P. Eichhorn and J.R. Williams is now available from Top Shelf Productions. You can order it by clicking here.
Hey folks - some news from Jay Allen Sanford:
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On 8/5/88, Larry made an unannounced appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con, at a post-award-banquet party, to perform with Bill Mumy's band Seduction Of The Innocent (comprised of comic guys like Max "Dick Tracy" Collins and others). I have a videotape and audiotape of the entire set, made by myself and a friend at the gig! This was one of the first times I ever sat down with Larry at length and we hung out for days thru the con. Anyways, Larry did three songs and I gave a pristine audio and video copy to Josh, for excerpt in the documentary.
You know how rare footage of Larry performing is - as far as I know, no copies of this have circulated outside of me, one other person and now Josh, tho Bill Mumy's wife shot the gig with their own camera and they presumably own the footage still. It will be used at length in the film.
Larry was very excited to hear that I kept this archive of what turned out to be a terrific and well received performance, and in fact he recently got to hear the audio tape for the first time since he left the stage to a rousing round of cheers (everyone singing along to Merry-Go-Round) 16 years ago. As far as I know, this is the last time Larry performed onstage with a band other than a fleeting appearance onstage in LA at the Roxy (around 1996) introducing a band (I think the Rugburns). RE the Rugburns, Larry narrated an unreleased long form video about the Rugburns, around the time of their Taking the World By Donkey LP, when Larry lived in San Diego and hung around them a lot, when he wasn't at my place anyways...I have a copy of that Rugburns video too, with Larry talking endlessly about how he met them, seeing them live, what he thinks of them and how jealous he is that their parents support them when his mom put him in a mental institution. Larry was going to sing that night in LA but fled the venue in a panic after spotting two perceived enemies in the crowd, one being ex-Zappa cohort Herb Cohen who always cruelly teases Larry and tries to get his emotions worked into a lather for his apparent amusement.
Larry also sang at a party with an ex-penetrators member he befriended and hung out with at a San Diego record store. More on that some other time...
Larry will hopefully soon be able to view the video of the gig for the first time, and I hope to talk to him after that. He's living in a supervised environment in LA at the moment with no VCR access. He's doing very well and is thrilled about the devotion the documentary guys are showing in telling his entire, true tale.
Jay Allen Sanford, Publisher, Re-Visionary Press
There's a couple of new tales in Tales of the Wildman.
Thanks to an alert reader, a translation of the Fluctuat article is now available. It's a great read.
Another Wild Man mystery solved: Larry's collaboration with Mark Mothersbaugh was apparently aimed at soundtrack work. Here's an mp3.
A Google search dug up an interview with Ray Davies containing an interesting Wild Man anecdote.
This site is unofficial and is maintained by Jim Pierron (jpierron@new.rr.com). Special thanks to Brian Belovarac, Bill Lantz, Jeff Morris, Annie Sattler, Patrick Neve, J.R. Williams, Dennis P Eichhorn, Robert Carlberg, and everyone else who has sent in information, and of course to Larry himself.
NOTE: As there is very little information on Wild Man Fischer available, this site depends greatly upon the personal contributions of others - thus, if you have any anecdotes, reviews, stories, or comments regarding Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, I'd be more than happy to hear from you and put your information up on the site. Also, if you find any typos, broken links, or grammatical errors (or just plain bad writing), please let me know.