In 1977, Gary Wilson recorded his bizarrely brilliant album, YOU THINK YOU REALLY KNOW ME. In performance, he played his jazz/rock/sound-collage masterpieces while clad in just his underwear, or wrapped in duct tape, writhing on stage and destroying female mannequins. Then, suddenly, he simply vanished - leaving friends and fans mystified. This documentary explores the life, disappearance and re-birth of a funny and fierce American original.

“Indie-rock enthusiasts will find much to appreciate. Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates, as his band was known, do for used-record stores what R. Crumb and Harvey Pekar do for used comic-book stores.”
- The New York Times

 

“A film that is as informative, complete, and seductive as a great Ken Burns work.”
- musicangle

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