VLVL Tiny Tim and Wild Man Fischer

[Dave Monroe]

Wm. Hung's more of an underdog, everyman type.  W.M.
Fischer and T. Tim (R.I.P.) were more acts which
refused to break character, and maybe, esp. in the
later case, became entrapped within.  W. Willis
(R.I.P.), on the other hand, was an artiste in the
outsider/art brut sense.  Not to mention
in-effing-sane.  And then there were The Shaggs ...

http://www.shaggs.com/

http://home.flash.net/~tomj/shaggs/

http://www.susanorlean.com/articles/meet_shaggs.html

http://www.lookingglasstheatre.org/productions/index.html#philosophy

Zappa was an early fan.  See, e.g., ...

Chusid, Irving.  Songs in the Key of Z:
   The Curious Universe of Outsider Music.
   Chicago: A Capella, 2000.

http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Latter-day "artists" like William Hung or Wesley
> Willis respectively fall into much the same
> category(/ies).

Rock over London, rock on, Brisbane ...


	
		
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