Lawrence Wayne "Wild Man" Fischer was an American street performer known for offering erratic, a cappella performances of "new kinds of songs" for a dime on the beaches of Los Angeles County and the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Most of his life was spent homeless or institutionalized, and he later became regarded as "the godfather of outsider music". Born in Los Angeles, Fischer was repeatedly sent to mental institutions as a teenager, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In 1968, he began performing on the Sunset Strip. He recorded a single at UCLA and later met Frank Zappa, who produced his debut album, An Evening with Wild Man Fischer for the Bizarre label. Fischer has been described as associated with the Los Angeles freak scene by music journalists. Fischer was the opening act for the Byrds, Iron Butterfly, Solomon Burke, and Bo Diddley. His relationship with Zappa came to an abrupt end after Fischer threw a bottle that nearly hit Zappa's daughter Moon. Fischer later collaborated with Smegma, Barnes & Barnes and Rosemary Clooney. He appeared in a 1973 live recording in the film New York Dolls: All Dolled Up. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Ma...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
