1968 AN EVENING WITH WILD MAN FISCHER -Zappa RARE PSYCH

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1968 AN EVENING WITH WILD MAN FISCHER -Zappa RARE PSYCH

DESCRIPTION
Description
ARTIST    :WILD MAN FISCHER
TITLE       :AN EVENING WITH WILD MAN FISCHER
FORMAT :VINYL 2LP RECORD
LABEL     :BIZARRE/REPRISE 2XS 6332

COVER   :VG++
VINYL      :NEAR MINT

COMMENTS :

Much sought after by an ever-increasing body of dedicated fans, this is the famous first album by an unforgettably unique and tragically misunderstood vocalist. Recorded and released in 1968, this album tells as much about the producer -- Frank Zappa -- as it does about the singer himself. Cal Schenkel's cover art ties it in with Zappa's own releases from that period. Considering the fact that Fischer appeared with the Mothers of Invention on several occasions, it is a shame that only two selections allow listeners to savor the interesting combination of Zappa's guitar and Wild Man's total-release vocalizing. "The Taster" sounds a bit like Paul Anka's "My Home Town," while a very psychedelic tantrum called "The Circle" has Zappa's best lysergic fuzz guitar up in front alongside the screams of the Wild Man. When he sings his theme song "Merry-Go-Round," Fischer is accompanied by the Bizarre Percussion Ensemble. Their expertly executed clunks and clangs and rattles and squeaks were also layered over live location recordings of Wild Man Fischer on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, as he sang songs for loose change in front of the Whisky A Go Go and the Hamburger Hamlet. There is also a humorous poetry performance ("The Madness and Ecstasy") by Kim Fowley and Rodney Bingenheimer, who rant about the historical and social importance of Wild Man Fischer. But the real gold in this album is an extended series of unaccompanied short songs. These are masterpieces of private whimsy. "I'm Working for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics" ends with a wonderful emotional outburst, as Fischer runs around the room screaming "stay away from me!" His surrealistic magnum opus, "The Leaves Are Falling," sounds almost like "Papa Oo Mow Mow," but employs a strange noise that Fischer seems to have made by clucking his tongue against his upper palette. Other highlights include "Think of Me When Your Clothes Are Off" and "Jennifer Jones," an outrageously funny epic tale of competitive serial killing. Fischer periodically describes his own life, what it was like to be different, how he thought up original songs and tried to share them with the world. Especially powerful is "The Wild Man Fischer Story," whereby the singer carefully reenacts his adolescence, describing how his mother actually had him committed to a mental institution twice for singing in his room. It is a mean story, a succession of misunderstandings that set the stage for a lifetime of being misdiagnosed, misrepresented, and misunderstood. Fischer quarreled with Zappa, frightened the Zappa family, and plunged this amazing record into limbo, as none of the surviving Zappas want anything to do with him. Negotiations are underway, and true Fischer devotees are wistfully waiting for the day when his first album will make its first legitimate appearance on compact disc.

SONG TRACKS

1 Merry-Go-Round
2 New Kind of Songs for Sale
3 I'm Not Shy Anymore
4 Are You from Clovis
5 Madness of Ecstacy
6 Which Way Did the Freaks Go
7 I'm Working for the F B N
8 Leaves Are Falling
9 85 Times
10 Cops and Robbers
11 Monkeys Verses Donkeys
12 Start Life over Again
13 Mope
14 Life Brand New
15 Who Did It Johnny
16 Think of Me When Your Clothes
17 Taggy Lee
18 Rhonda
19 I Looked Around You
20 Jennifer Jones
21 Taster
22 Story of the Taster
23 Rocket Rock
24 Explanation and Dialog
25 Dream Girl
26 Explanation
27 Serrano Beach
28 Success Will Not Make Me Happy
29 Wild Man on the Strip Again
30 Why Am I Normal
31 Wild Man Fischer Story
32 Balling Isn't Everything
33 Ugly Beautiful Girl
34 Larry and His Guitar
35 Circle
36 Larry Under Pressure


PERSONNEL

Art Tripp
Kim Fowley
Rodney Bingenheimer
Frank Zappa
Larry Fischer
The G.T.O.'s
Wild Man Fischer
          

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