No, the legends, man. Print the legends. I can do an hour on the ultralight incident leading up to oar and all that weird stuff. Just read about him, not on the internet. Everything isnt on the internet, rather, everything's in the waback machine

Spring, 1968. Senior in high school. Me & 3 of my friends used to go to the Strip on Saturday nights to hang out, check the action, chase the Hippie girls &/or high school girls. One Saturday night, in the vicinity of the Whiskey, a couple of guys got into a fight. Real blows were being thrown. One of the guys? Wild Man Fischer. Fast forward to the mid 70's. I'm working for Capitol Records at the famous round building. I worked in the recording department. One day when I was coming back from lunch, I'm accosted in the parking lot behind the building by this disheveled guy. He asked me for a quarter. I said, "I know you. You're the Wild Man." He looked at me, eyes widened, incredulous. "You know who I am?" "Hell, yeah. I saw you get into a fight on the Strip back in the day." He beamed, big smile on his face. I guess I must have made his day. I gave him a dollar.

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Throbbing Gristle frightened me as a teen, but I was fascinated by them. I still listen to them and watch their terrifying live performances and documentaries

Outsider music= no talent incompetance.Not always,but mostly

i'm absolutely mystified by this song right now, it is one of those songs which perfectly recreates the feeling of watching a horror film alone in a dark room, love it.

I had the vinyl album of NOTHING SCARY when I was 12 because my older brother left it behind when he moved out of the house. Now I am 35 years older than back then and I own the CD versions of all 4 of Larry's albums, but it's the simple beauty, frankness, and pure existential angst of NOTHING SCARY which makes it Larry's perfect album i.m.o.

Schizophrenia is often a double edged sword bringing creativity and chaos in equal measure. One of my favorite artists is Walter Anderson, who was also diagnosed with schizophrenia; he was incredibly lucky to have a family and community that sheltered him and allowed him to thrive. Very few with this condition have been so lucky, though medications have seriously improved over time, so maybe there will be a balance had where the chaos is controlled but the creativity can still blossom. Thank you for an excellent video.

I'm having Dr. Demento flashbacks.

Sorry, but I think calling anyone "The Godfather of Outsider Music" reveals quite a narrow view of music-making in the history of humankind and about the term "outsider" itself. What about the thousands upon thousands of incredible self-taught amateur musicians we've never heard of - all throughout the world for centuries and centuries before our time? If we go with Irwin Chusid's definition that you quote, there has been "outsider artists" for millennia, most probably on all continents. "Outsider music" is not a style and Larry "Wild Man" Fischer did not pioneer it. There is simply zero stylistic similarities between him, Lucia Pamela and Moondog, for instance.

A tiny tiny tiny of this goes a long way.

I enjoyed the video but it makes the same dangerous mistake that many fall into with maverick and eccentric artists who were severely debilitated with mental health problems i.e. it implies that the mental illness was the muse that deserted the host when their medication/treatment kicked in. The likes of Wild Man Fischer, Syd Barrett, Graham Bond, Thelonious Monk and Roky Erikson were creative in spite of their mental illness not because of it.

He had a near Brian Wilson experience where he thought Phil Spector was going to do him in.

Wesley Willis it great BTW and I high suggest looking up his song on here. "Batman Kicked My Ass" is only one of many greats.

PIPCO!

Rhino Records was just a store when that promo 45 being made. The first release was that 45.

A thoughtful, empathetic and sensitive video. Thank you.

My high school buddies and me all bought copies of An Evening with Wild Man Fischer. Because we were Zappa fans.

Thanks to medical advances ? I've always been afraid of people who would keep me alive if I was in a state like this

If the outsider musician doesn't care what people think of them, why do they try to get their music heard? Shouldn't they, by definition, be completely unknown? A true outsider is obscure and their music cannot be found on any platform. Why? Because they are outsiders.

nice picture of Rhino Records Montclair at 7:03 ! Not affiliated with the record label (not since the 1970's). But it is a local institution. I worked there for around 12 years when it was located in the Claremont Village.

Wild Man Fischer was the man!

moondog

Thank you! I didn’t know any of this even though I’ve got a couple of his records. I became interested in outsider music about 40 years ago, and collected mainly Swedish and European albums. In the mid 80’s I stumbled over The Rhino Brothers' Greatest Flops and realized there was people in the states who cherished this cultural inheritance as well. However, on the The Rhino Brothers' Greatest Flops album there’s a song called I'm The Creature From Outer Space by Wild Man, Jr. I haven’t been able to figure out if this in fact is Wild Man Fisher or someone completely different. Any one who knows here in the comment section?

David Bowie quoted this guy as not playing with a full deck. I remember reading a MOJO magazine outsider special that had a sort of musical fugazi deck of cards of the most involuntary disturbed artists who had abit of screw loose in their genius. Vince Taylor was one as well , and Roky Erickson as well i think, maybe John Fahey as well as other oddballs.

The Futurists graced the early 20th century; they were certainly experimental outsiders. Syd Barrett created great music as well right around the same time as Fischer. A group called the Residents started around that time as well. Have you heard of Daniel Johnston? It's amazing encountering people that have a wide open ray of light to their unique creative source. Look forward to seeing more.

super! Wild Man! his songs make make guffaw and sob in equal measure. That's an artist.

Amazing video my friend! I never been this happy since I filed the divorce papers! :)

Very insightful video! Nice

Poggers he's back! UWU LET'S GO! Now all i need is for my dad to come back from getting milk and i'll have everything back.

hes BACk baby!!!

“Very Friendly” is another TG dark song based on a real life event.

By far the most disturbing Throbbing Gristle song is “Slug Bait”.

I was just commenting on another Manics related video, and if you haven't heard it, a great view into Ritchie's mind (at the end, sadly) is The Holy Bible. The bands 1994 album. It's an experience. It's not a "good time" album 😅 but a MUST hear. The most harrowing lyrics about anorexicia ever.

G.I.S.M are the most unhinged punk band

I met Skip in Soquel, CA. He was friends with my then-girlfriend. He had stayed at her apartment occasionally, burn marks on the couch arms as testimony. He didn’t say a whole lot, but was friendly. It appeared that he had a caregiver with him. The last time that I saw him was on a bus in San Jose (early '80s). I told other riders who he was, but they didn’t believe me.

AMAZING DOCUMENTARY. DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT SKIP. THANKS FOR POSTING 👍

You should read up on Craig Smith/Maitreya Kali. He was a quintessential 60’s psych rock acid casualty.

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I think this song was actually in a recent movie called V/H/S/85 but I’m not sure

this video is beautifully done!! hearing this song (and afterwards the full holy bible album) is what introduced me to the manics, and they've become very important to me. this video seems very well researched and i actually watched it the whole way through despite my comically tiny attention span haha x

277 likes. Let's get moving.

Coil when?

Dude, just create videos because you love creating videos. Nothing will drive viewers away like begging for views and making your passion for this hobby their responsibility. Nothing says “I would rather do anything else“ like pulling this viewer/like count ultimatum.

I really slept on a lot of music my dad listened to, its just growing up listening to this album especially was such a creepy eerie feeling when driving in the car. Especially that back then my Dad wasn't in the best place and was kinda abusive af.

Speaking of hamburger lady and the burned nurse. There is an album similar to that. It’s called transformalin by diagnose lebensgefahr which is a side project of DSBM band member nattramn who is part of the band silencer. You should definitely check it out and know about the band.

@2:30 that’s Jack Cassidy you zoom in on. Spence already departed The Jefferson Airplane by that point (replaced with Spencer Dryden (second from left)) though original vocalist Signe Anderson appears to still be in the group so that pic was taken in a very short time frame of only a few weeks.

One of the saddest albums of all history yet still arguably one of the most beautiful. Well done.

'Decline of the West'....Oswald Spengler...

"In the bottom left we have John Cale looking like Anton from No Country For Old Men" 😂😂😂 John Cale was the real source for their sinister and menacing sound on their first two seminal albums. Remember, his father was a coal miner and he transfered those endlessly deep abysses of the black mines, which threaten to suck you in and burry you forever, into noise and sound.