- Fier played and recorded on the John Zorn-led album Locus Solus in 1983. They recorded a live album for Zorn's 50th birthday celebration: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3 of the 50th birthday series on Tzadik Records.
- He played with bassist Jack Bruce and Japanese guitarist Kenji Suzuki on the 1987 album Inazuma Super Session - "Absolute Live!!".
- The 1978 Pere Ubu EP titled Datapanik in the Year Zero was dedicated to Fier.
- In 1984 he played on Laurie Anderson's Mister Heartbreak.
- He was an American drummer, producer, composer, and bandleader.
- He was in The Lodge (with John Greaves), worked with Pere Ubu, was briefly in the Voidoids, and founded The Golden Palominos.
- Fier also produced several albums, such as the 1988 album of Drivin' N Cryin', Whisper Tames The Lion, a 2009 album by guitar virtuoso Jim Campilongo titled Orange, and Lianne Smith's Two Sides of a River, on which Fier also played drums.
- Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies.
- Fier collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and also toured and recorded with Hüsker Dü guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Bob Mould.
- Syd Straw, a member of the Golden Palominos, posted on Facebook on 11 October 2019 that Fier was no longer playing drums.
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