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  • Wall Of Voodoo
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  • Wall Of Voodoo
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  • The_Skulls_(American_band)
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  • Musical groups established in 1977
  • Musical groups disestablished in 1989
  • I.R.S. Records artists
  • American New Wave musical groups
abstract
  • Formed: 1977 // Los Angeles, CA, United States Disbanded: 1988 Members:Stan Ridgway (vocals, 1977-83)Andy Prieboy (vocals, 1983-88)Marc Moreland (guitar, 1977-88)Bruce Moreland (bass, 1977-82)Bill Noland (bass, 1982-88)Chas T. Gray (keyboards, 1979-88)Joe Nanini (percussion, 1979-83)Ned Leukhardt (drums, 1983-88) Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, a film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and harmonica 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 %22wall of voodoo%22, and the name stuck.
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  • Wall of Voodoo was an American new wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit %22Mexican Radio%22. The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based new wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone.
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  • 1988
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  • 1977
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  • 3834
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  • 148393
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  • Wall Of Voodoo
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  • A&M Records
  • I.R.S. Records
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  • New Wave
  • Post-Punk
  • Synthpop
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