Originally posted April 24, 2014 and August 7, 2016
Wall Of Voodoo - Live El Mocambo
Toronto, Ontario
June 2, 1983
Live BBC College Concert
aka - Dance Of Death
June 2, 1983
Live BBC College Concert
aka - Dance Of Death
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Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, an unsuccessful film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and synth player for Wall of Voodoo. Acme Soundtracks office was across the street from the Hollywood punk club The Masque and Ridgway was soon drawn into the emerging punk/new wave scene. Marc Moreland, guitarist for The Skulls began jamming with Ridgway at the Acme Soundtracks office and the soundtrack company morphed into a New Wave band. In 1977, with the addition of Skulls members Bruce Moreland (Marc Moreland's brother) as bassist and Chas T. Gray as keyboardist, along with Joe Nanini, who had been the drummer for Black Randy and the Metrosquad, the first lineup of Wall of Voodoo was born.
The band was named Wall of Voodoo before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Berardi, a friend of Ridgway's and member of The Fibonaccis. Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo", and the name stuck.
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Track List:
01 Call Box (1-2-3)
02 Animal Day
03 Lost Weekend
04 Call Of The West
05 Factory
06 On Interstate 15
07 Cant Make Love
08 Tomorrow
09 the Passenger
10 Longarm
11 Ring Of Fire
12 Mexican Radio
13 Back In Flesh
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