Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, who has died of heart problems at the age of 66, was one of rock's true outsider artists. Signed in 1968 to Frank Zappa's Bizarre label, he enjoyed a brief renaissance in the late '70s, when Sandy Robertson interviewed him for Sounds--Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages
The first time I met Larry Fischer was early one Sunday morning in the shadow of the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, at the fabled once-monthly "swap meet," where record-collecting crazies of Los Angeles get up at 5 a.m. to wander round the parking lot and cream their jeans over Kinks B-sides and hard to find albums like Debbie Harry's Wind In The Willows epic and Rick Nielsen/Tom Petersson young and long haired in a pre-Cheap Trick band called The Fuse.
The folks from Rhino Records introduced me at my own risk to a frizzy-haired and bearded fellow clad in a brown leather coat, who spent the next twenty minutes or so pacing, rolling his eyes, gesticulating and generally
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