Treasure Man
Barely saved from obscurity by a series of chance events, John Fizerâs only recorded album Treasure Man finally sees the light of day. Forty-five years in the making, while for the last twenty-nine years Fizer has been âliving roughâ couch surfing, sleeping in play structures, friendâs backyards and more recently his old Volvo station wagon. Fizer is currently residing in a nursing facility in Northern California. Below is the story of how this never before heard album came to Scissor Tailâs attention. âI used to walk my daughter to school and passed the original Peetâs coffee every day. Across the street was Berkeleyâs beloved John âTreasure Manâ Fizer playing chess, doing crosswords and waiting next to the treasure tree which he had filled with gemstones and various magical trinkets. To this day any child passing by is welcome to choose a treasure. Over many stops with my daughter I got to know John, a fountain of love, intelligence and humor and as quirky and feisty as can be. We became friends. Eventually he showed me a few old cassettes of cassettes of cassettes in poor condition of him performing and asked if I could make them sound better. I agreed to take a listen. Such amazing songs! âSo I proceeded to remaster the cassettes while continuing to ask John at least four times over several months if he had the original master studio recordings. The answer was always no. About the time I finally had his cassette sourced recordings sounding as good as they could be and he popped up with a 15 inches per second 1/4â half track, state of the art analog master reel-to-reel recorded at the legendary Mountain Ears recording studio in 1977 with some very fine studio musicians including Ray Bonneville, Brad âHoneyboyâ Hayes, Erik âBoboâ Johnson and Brian âSluggoâ Brown. John had found the original reel! âIt had been residing for decades in the bowels of Johnâs old 1980 Volvo station wagon, which also serves as his home, and was covered in strangely beautiful mold but that was the day I knew the world would hear Johnâs music the way it was meant to be be...big, fat, analog. The next few years were spent cleaning and remastering the album with some of the worlds finest restoration specialists.â â James Johnson (producer).
Treasure Man
Barely saved from obscurity by a series of chance events, John Fizerâs only recorded album Treasure Man finally sees the light of day. Forty-five years in the making, while for the last twenty-nine years Fizer has been âliving roughâ couch surfing, sleeping in play structures, friendâs backyards and more recently his old Volvo station wagon. Fizer is currently residing in a nursing facility in Northern California. Below is the story of how this never before heard album came to Scissor Tailâs attention. âI used to walk my daughter to school and passed the original Peetâs coffee every day. Across the street was Berkeleyâs beloved John âTreasure Manâ Fizer playing chess, doing crosswords and waiting next to the treasure tree which he had filled with gemstones and various magical trinkets. To this day any child passing by is welcome to choose a treasure. Over many stops with my daughter I got to know John, a fountain of love, intelligence and humor and as quirky and feisty as can be. We became friends. Eventually he showed me a few old cassettes of cassettes of cassettes in poor condition of him performing and asked if I could make them sound better. I agreed to take a listen. Such amazing songs! âSo I proceeded to remaster the cassettes while continuing to ask John at least four times over several months if he had the original master studio recordings. The answer was always no. About the time I finally had his cassette sourced recordings sounding as good as they could be and he popped up with a 15 inches per second 1/4â half track, state of the art analog master reel-to-reel recorded at the legendary Mountain Ears recording studio in 1977 with some very fine studio musicians including Ray Bonneville, Brad âHoneyboyâ Hayes, Erik âBoboâ Johnson and Brian âSluggoâ Brown. John had found the original reel! âIt had been residing for decades in the bowels of Johnâs old 1980 Volvo station wagon, which also serves as his home, and was covered in strangely beautiful mold but that was the day I knew the world would hear Johnâs music the way it was meant to be be...big, fat, analog. The next few years were spent cleaning and remastering the album with some of the worlds finest restoration specialists.â â James Johnson (producer).
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Barely saved from obscurity by a series of chance events, John Fizerâs only recorded album Treasure Man finally sees the light of day. Forty-five years in the making, while for the last twenty-nine years Fizer has been âliving roughâ couch surfing, sleeping in play structures, friendâs backyards and more recently his old Volvo station wagon. Fizer is currently residing in a nursing facility in Northern California. Below is the story of how this never before heard album came to Scissor Tailâs attention. âI used to walk my daughter to school and passed the original Peetâs coffee every day. Across the street was Berkeleyâs beloved John âTreasure Manâ Fizer playing chess, doing crosswords and waiting next to the treasure tree which he had filled with gemstones and various magical trinkets. To this day any child passing by is welcome to choose a treasure. Over many stops with my daughter I got to know John, a fountain of love, intelligence and humor and as quirky and feisty as can be. We became friends. Eventually he showed me a few old cassettes of cassettes of cassettes in poor condition of him performing and asked if I could make them sound better. I agreed to take a listen. Such amazing songs! âSo I proceeded to remaster the cassettes while continuing to ask John at least four times over several months if he had the original master studio recordings. The answer was always no. About the time I finally had his cassette sourced recordings sounding as good as they could be and he popped up with a 15 inches per second 1/4â half track, state of the art analog master reel-to-reel recorded at the legendary Mountain Ears recording studio in 1977 with some very fine studio musicians including Ray Bonneville, Brad âHoneyboyâ Hayes, Erik âBoboâ Johnson and Brian âSluggoâ Brown. John had found the original reel! âIt had been residing for decades in the bowels of Johnâs old 1980 Volvo station wagon, which also serves as his home, and was covered in strangely beautiful mold but that was the day I knew the world would hear Johnâs music the way it was meant to be be...big, fat, analog. The next few years were spent cleaning and remastering the album with some of the worlds finest restoration specialists.â â James Johnson (producer).
