From the FBS Archives
September 25, 2008
Wall of Voodoo- Whisky A Go-Go
February 14 , 1981
Hollywood, CA
Great Audience recording @320
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. [2]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. 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.
More at Wiki
Track List:
00. soundcheck
01. Invisible Man
02. Can't Make Love
03. This Way Out
04. Animal Day
05. Call Box
06. unknown
07. Tomorrow
08. Struggle
09. Ring of Fire
10. Longarm
11. Morricone Themes
12. The Passenger
13. Back in Flesh
14. unknown
pass = fbsvw
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #