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(/entertainment/feature/view-from-the-id/) Let’s Merry-go Merry-go Merry-Go-Round with Recent Music Features Wild Man Fischer on March 22 (/entertainment/music/feature/jazzed-up/) Jazzed Up Author: Bob Etier (/people/missbobetier/) All Music Features Published:Share March6 (http://w 21, 2011 ww at .facebook.com/sharer.php? 1:16 pm (/archive/2011/03/) (/entertainment/music/features/) u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnorati.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Farticle%2Flets-merry-go-merry-go- merry%2F&t=Let%E2%80%99s%20Merry-go%20Merry-go%20Merry-Go- Round%20w ith%20Wild%20Man%20Fischer%20on%20March%2022%20-%20Technorati%20Music&src=sp) 10 retw eet Latest Music Articles PR Master's Degree 100% Online Master's Degree Prgm @ The George Washington Sir Bob Geldof Returns With ”How To University! Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell”. Will They? (/entertainment/music/article/sir-bob- geldof-returns-with-how/)

On Your Side Tour: A Rocket to the Moon Wild Man Fischer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Man_Fischer) . with Valencia, Anarbor, Runner Runner and There’s a name I haven’t heard in many years. In the opening of a Go Radio (/entertainment/music/article/on-your- documentary (now on DVD) that chronicles his life, Derailroaded: Inside side-tour-a-rocket/) the Mind of Larry “Wild Man” Fischer Art of Dying Debuts Vices and Virtues with a Free Download of "Die Trying" (/entertainment/music/article/art-of-dying-debuts- vices-and/)

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All Music Articles (/archiv e/2011/03/29/? Fischer is a manic-depressive paranoid schizophrenic who spent his miserable childhood channel=music) isolated in his room, making up songs and singing them. When he was sixteen, his mother had him committed to a mental hospital because he was too dangerous to keep at home (he had attacked both his mother and brother with knives). After his release in the late sixties, he sang original songs on the street for a dime, becoming “LA’s Godfather of Outsider Music.”

technorati.com/…/lets-merry-go-merry-… 1/3 3/29/2011 Let’s Merry-go Merry-go Merry-Go-Rou… With songs like “The Taster,” “Merry-Go-Round,” and “Which Way Did the Freaks Go?” and an association with Frank Zappa, Fischer showed great potential, but his personal “demons” would keep him from achieving the success he craved. Introduced on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (/entertainment/tv/article/discover-the-best-of-laugh-in/) ” as the “choir director of the beautiful downtown Burbank glee club,” he made several appearances, much to the puzzlement of viewers.

Director Josh Rubin and crew followed Fischer, interviewing him, listening to his paranoid rants, and capturing his continued self-imposed isolation from the world. His illnesses and various treatments robbed him of many memories, and he often didn’t want to talk about particular past occurrences. Also interviewed for Derailroaded were Gail Zappa, Weird Al Yankovic (http://www.weirdal.com/) , Solomon Burke, Dr. Demento, Barnes and Write for Technorati Barnes (http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/barnes_barnes/artist.jhtml) , Mark Mothersbaugh Bob Etier writes articles for Technorati. If you're a (Devo), and other industry insiders, friends, and relatives. Frank Zappa is heard and seen in writer, find out how you can too! archival clips. Find out how to become a writer for Technorati. (/write-for-technorati/)

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by Daphne Wotherspoon Derailroaded is an absorbing study of a tortured man who spent his life chasing one dream—to (http://technorati.com/people/daphnewotherspoon/) be a rock star—a goal that was always just out of his reach. DVD release date: March 22, 2011.

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