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An Evening with Wild Man Fisher (1968)

Lawrence Fisher, a Jew better known by his chosen name "Wild Man Fisher" was a homeless man known among the Sunset Strip crowd for making songs on the spot for a nickle. In the later-half of the 1960's Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention discovered him and offered him a record deal. This is his first record.

Wild Man Fisher was a known Schizophrenic who wanted to murder his mother for sending him to a mental institution. On this record's cover, he is depicted holding a life-sized cardboard cutout of a photograph of his mother, holding a knife to its neck.

This album yo-yos between studio produced tracks with Frank Zappa (including his classic song Mary-go-Round) and street recordings of him doing his "act" on the Sunset Strip.