The following messages were posted between 08/01/2002 and 12/31/2002.
Date:
12/29/02 16:29:05 PST
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Wow! I never knew so much bootleg Wall of Voodoo stuff was out there.
Does anybody have some of these concerts on CDR? I have some non-Voodoo related bootlegs I could trade... or two blank CD-r's for one copy... res1fhb1@verizon.net
Date:
12/29/02 08:59:57 PST
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Before you ask dumb questions like the one to Stan why not ask y'self how you would feel if someone close who was an important figure in your life died? Yep, it's a no-brainer..
Date:
12/29/02 08:57:53 PST
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It was black humour
Date:
12/29/02 01:13:55 PST
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Hey Stan, Do you miss Marc? Do you still think of all the music that could have been?
Date:
12/28/02 18:50:15 PST
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well I'm assuming Bruce has these problems under control now??? What's he doing now?
Date:
12/28/02 08:39:41 PST
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this is the gift for christmas??
Date:
12/27/02 10:48:01 PST
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As a Christmas gift,here is a list of known WALL OF VOODOO bootleg shows taped. With the exception of shows with "*" beside of it, these are in audio form only. If it has a "*" after it, it means it is in video form. I do not believe this to be a completed list. There is more out there. At least with this list, you can check off what you have & what you need.
If you have any bootleg dates not listed to add, please do so. Also tell if it is in audio or video form.
WALL OF VOODOO
1. 1978-79 DEMOS (A.K.A "TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER")
2. 11-22-79 RIVERSIDE, CA., THE BARN (COULD BE '80)
3. 04-19-80 LOS ANGELES, CA.
4. 09-21-80 SANTA MONICA, CA., CIVIC THEATER
5. 10-11-80 SANTA MONICA, CA., BLACKIE'S
6. 11-08-80 SAN FRANCISCO, CA., CALIFORNIA HALL
7. 02-00-81 LOS ANGELES, CA., KNAC FM INTERVIEW
8. 02-14-81 LOS ANGELES, CA., THE WHISKEY
9. 04-04-81 LOS ANGELES, CA., HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM
10. 08-01-81 LOS ANGELES, CA., THE WHISKEY
11. 09-29-81 LOS ANGELES, CA., CLUB LINGERIE
12. 10-14-81 EDINBURG, SCOTLAND
13. 11-19-81 SAN DIEGO, CA., BACCHANAL
14. 03-27-82 LOS ANGELES, CA., VALLEY COLLEGE
15. 09-18-82 LOS ANGELES, CA., COUNTRY CLUB
16. 11-03-82 LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, CLUB SPIT (A.K.A. SPIT OUT THE WINDOW)
17. 11-15-82 TORONTO, CANADA, EL MOCAMBO (A.K.A. DANCE OF DEATH)
18. 11-17-82 EAST LANSING, MI.
19. 11-20-82 MILWAUKEE, WI.
20. 11-22-82 MINNEAPOLIS, MN.
21. 00-00-83 USA, ON TV INTERVIEW *
22. 01-22-83 LOS ANGELES, CA., BEVERLY THEATER
23. 02-09-83 NEW ORLEANS, LA.
24. 03-01-83 HOUSTON, TX., NUMBERS 2
25. 03-12-83 VALENCIA, CA., MAGIC MOUNTAIN (EARLY)
26. 03-12-83 VALENCIA, CA., MAGIC MOUNTAIN (LATE)
27. 05-00-83 CLEVELAND, OH., THE AGORA
28. 05-11-83 HOUSTON, TX., NUMBERS 2
29. 05-28-83 DEVORE, CA., US FESTIVAL
30. 05-28-83 DEVORE, CA., US FESTIVAL *
31. 11-05-84 ENGLAND, PRESTON CLOUDS
32. 11-08-84 EDINBURG, SCOTLAND
33. 11-12-84 NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, PALAIS
34. 11-13-84 FOLKESTONE, ENGLAND, LEA'S
35. 11-18-84 LONDON, LYCEUM THEATER,
36. 01-24-85 NORTHRIDGE, CA., KCSN FM INTERVIEW
37. 02-00-85 LOS ANGELES, CA., UCLA CAMPUS
38. 11-19-85 ALBANY, NEW YORK, JB SCOTT THEATER
39. 12-26-85 HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA.
40. 00-00-86 WEST GERMANY, BRUCE MORELAND INTERVIEW
41. 01-00-86 SAN DIEGO, CA., BACKSTAGE PASS INTERVIEW
42. 01-04-86 SAN DIEGO, CA., GOLDEN HALL
43. 01-05-86 PHOENIX, AZ.
44. 02-10-86 LONG BEACH, CA., BOGART'S
45. 02-19-86 SACRAMENTO, CA., CLUB CAN'T TELL
46. 03-04-86 NEW ORLEANS, LA.
47. 03-15-86 LONDON, MARQUEE CLUB
48. 03-16-86 MUNICH, WEST GERMANY, ALABAMAHALLE
49. 03-19-86 BOLOGNA, ITALY, QBO
50. 03-22-86 ROME, ITALY, TEATRO ESPERO
51. 03-23-86 FLORENCE, ITALY ( A.K.A."SHADOWOV")
52. 03-24-86 TORINO, ITALY, BIG CLUB
53. 03-26-86 BASEL, SWITZERLAND, TOTENTANZ
54. 04-03-86 RENNES, FRANCE, UBU CLUB
55. 04-05-86 BORDEAUX, FRANCE
56. 04-07-86 FRANKFURT, WEST GERMANY, BATSCHKAPP
57. 04-08-86 KOLN, WEST GERMANY, LUXOR
58. 04-09-86 BIELEFELD, WEST GERMANY, PC 69
59. 04-16-86 OSLO, NORWAY, THE CIRCUS
60. 04-21-86 BERLIN, WEST GERMANY, THE LOFT
61. 04-23-86 HANNOVER, WEST GERMANY, SOXS
62. 04-24-86 BOCHUM, WEST GERMANY, ZECHE
63. 05-04-86 BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, POWERHOUSE
64. 05-07-86 LEEDS, ENGLAND, WAREHOUSE
65. 05-09-86 LONDON, HAMMERSMITH CLARENDON
66. 05-24-86 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
67. 05-25-86 LYON ENTPE, FRANCE
68. 09-12-86 SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA., COACH HOUSE
69. 09-19-86 LOS ANGELES, CA., PARK PLAZA HOTEL
70. 12-31-86 SAN DIEGO, CA., SPORTS ARENA
71. 00-00-87 ROUGH PLANET ("HAPPY PLANET" ROUGH MIX)
72. 00-00-87 ROUGH PLANET 2 (remaining "HAPPY PLANET" DEMOS)
73. 03-16-87 HOLLYWOOD, CA., LATE SHOW *
74. 05-04-87 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
75. 05-10-87 BRAUNSCHWEIG, WEST GERMANY, JOLLY JOKER
76. 05-13-87 BOCHUM, WEST GERMANY, ZECHE
77. 05-14-87 BONN, WEST GERMANY, BISKUITHALLE
78. 05-17-87 FRANKFURT, W. GERMANY, VOLKSBUILDINGSHEIM
79. 05-18-87 MUNICH, WEST GERMANY
80. 06-03-87 OSLO, NORWAY, CHATEAU NEUF
81. 06-26-87 HOLLYWOOD, CA., LATE SHOW *
82. 10-03-87 SANTA MONICA, CA., MADAM WONG'S
83. 10-17-87 WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA., STREET FESTIVAL
84. 11-07-87 LOS ANGELES, CA., PARK PLAZA HOTEL (SCREAM)
85. 00-00-88 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, PALACE THEATER
86. 00-00-88 LOS ANGELES, CA., KROQ FM INTERVIEW
87. 04-08-88 SAN DIEGO, CA., KCR FM PHONE INTERVIEW
88. 04-08-88 SAN DIEGO, CA., RIO'S
89. 06-04-88 SANTA MONICA, CA., MADAM WONG'S
90. 06-15-88 RENNES, FRANCE, UBU CLUB
91. 07-05-88 AACHEN, WEST GERMANY, METROPOL
92. 07-07-88 VETO, WEST GERMANY, SALAGITTER-LEBENSTEDT
93. 04-08-89 LOS ANGELES, CA., USC CAMPUS
94. 04-08-89 LOS ANGELES, CA., USC CAMPUS BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW
Date:
12/26/02 14:23:00 PST
Comments:
I'm confused - is all this name-calling a little black humor amongst friends and/or are we seeing some pissing matches? I would rather hear what Chas is doing these days or if Sheldon's going to release any nuggets for us. Mazda's Record-Producer memories were a hoot. Stop the name-calling, you fucks, or at least sign your name and be adult about it. I have seen 2 Killing Joke boards ruined with this juvenile nonsense. I'm sure your posts would be much more welcome on a Limp Bisket board somewhere. Piss off.
Pantherboy
Date:
12/25/02 18:44:50 PST
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YOU'RE NOT FIT TO FELCH ME
Date:
12/25/02 18:44:02 PST
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fuck everything and everyone of you voodoo doo doo heaDS
Date:
12/25/02 17:17:25 PST
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I've just stumbled over this website and...wow...the memories came flooding back.
WOV were very much unknown here in Australia but the first time I saw their video clip for Call Box 123 I was hooked.
I have their first two albums which I still listen to from time to time and I also have some Stan albums too.
WOV were cutting edge for their day.
The word "brilliant" is well deserved for these boys.
Date:
12/24/02 12:11:38 PST
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and quite probably Bulimic
Date:
12/24/02 02:35:50 PST
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At the time Bruce was chasing the dragon......
Date:
12/23/02 01:59:31 PST
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another "sonny" site...
http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/420059
Date:
12/23/02 01:48:44 PST
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sonny the movie....
http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/420059
Date:
12/23/02 01:43:59 PST
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Drama
This is the story of a young man, Sonny (Franco), living
in New Orleans and trained to follow the family tradition
as a paid male prostitute for wealthy women, and he
hates it. He wants to free himself from this
predetermined life and find something for himself
outside the business, perhaps even in the Army, but
his family won't hear of it.
Release Date: December 27th, 2002 (LA/NY).
Date:
12/23/02 01:38:43 PST
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"SONNY" movie trailer w/ WOV'S RING OF FIRE!
"Ring of Fire" in new Nic Cage Flick "SONNY"
If you go out to see a movie over the holidays, you just might run into a trailer for "SONNY", the new directed by Nic Cage movie.
Wall Of Voodoo's RING OF FIRE is heard along with Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side".
Anybody seen it yet?
Date:
12/22/02 19:00:33 PST
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Hi I'm a old fan of Wall of Voodoo... I was lucky enough to see them in Brisbane Australia in 1989 (I think...lol... brain don't work too good) and I saw Andy twice when he toured here with Concrete Blonde a few years later... I got to meet Andy Chas and Marc in 1989.. but not my Bruce who was the one I really wanted to meet being my favourite (cmon I was only 21)... ha! Anyway when I asked the guys why Bruce didn't make it on that tour they all sort of laughed and mumbled and sort or side stepped the question and said "Bruce had some personal problems... blah blah" I've been wondering for all these years why he didn't make it to Australia in 1989... anyone here a Voodoo expert with encyclopedic knowledge???
Date:
12/20/02 14:11:27 PST
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"I really liked" -> "I really liked it"
Date:
12/20/02 14:10:21 PST
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Hey Sheldon,
Just listened to the Lucky Two Dollar... I really liked, but seriously how could you suggest to put it in instead of Oh-Oui Ann, that's one of my favourites!
Graeme Qewe
Date:
12/20/02 13:28:33 PST
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Ok, I just read through the last three months of postings on the wallhere , and thought I could help out a little.
1. If you're looking for rare CD's/vinyl/singles try searching GEMM -http://www.gemm.com/
2. Yes, Marc Moreland played guitar and Patricia Morrison played bass for the Bags. They played at the Masque Benefit at MacArthur Park, Los Angeles around February 1978. This is the same Patricia Morrison who later was a member of the Gun Club and the Sisters of Mercy. Marc also played in the Skulls, along with Chas. T. Grey at the same concert.
- res1fhb1@verizon.net
Date:
12/20/02 12:47:20 PST
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CD For Sale: The Weirdos - Weird World Volume 1, 1977-1981
Features Bruce Moreland on Bass guitar on several tracks.
email res1fhb1@verizon.net for offer/more info.
Date:
12/17/02 18:39:48 PST
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to the guy making fun of Joe: shut up!!!
Date:
12/17/02 17:34:31 PST
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hello. i like the wall of voodoo. do you too? i do. me too. wall of voodoo.
rip, joe.
Date:
12/16/02 12:55:46 PST
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Say, has anybody managed to get his or her hands on the studio version of Fine Line?
Greetings by Hungerhahn
Date:
12/15/02 17:05:22 PST
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no helen x I haven't
Mazda
Date:
12/15/02 08:52:24 PST
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An URL for that picture please
Date:
12/15/02 06:55:06 PST
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HELLO RICHARD, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT PICTURE OF YOURSELF ON THE MPC WEB SITE? HELEN X
Date:
12/14/02 04:39:54 PST
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Toby here -
aging Gothic Pretty boy??? Where do you get your information? When you don't sign your posts, that's what happens.....
Date:
12/13/02 12:55:39 PST
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Will the real Slim Shady please stand up!
Date:
12/13/02 10:06:26 PST
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FYI - oh, aging Gothic prettyboy - it's "aussie,", not "yankee."
Date:
12/13/02 08:46:27 PST
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T.V. Watchin', Jesus Cheese, Sweet Black Potato, There's a Hole in the Pope, Get Off the Phone ... the list of unreleased WOV Household Hits goes on and on.
Date:
12/12/02 23:28:10 PST
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Sheldon - are you still working on compiling Marc's old WOV demos with the intent of eventually releasing them to a WOV starved public?
Robert
Date:
12/12/02 23:17:49 PST
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Chas - do you still play music?
Robert
Date:
12/12/02 23:09:28 PST
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Chas did work at Caltrans, somewhere around 1977-1979. I can't remember exactly. Freeway Operations, Traffic Operations, Personnel, and Public Information were the dpartments. Hope this helps.
Date:
12/12/02 17:35:52 PST
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I think I'm 'Bohica-Phobic'
Date:
12/11/02 21:03:23 PST
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Toby here -
"Toby my friend? ...yo!......what do you do for a "livin'".....just curious yellow. And do you live in Calif.? and do you have an ID card...?
bob the happy swag man"
Some would say that I hardly work for a living. I do however, clock time designing video boxcovers for "lowbudget shot on video feature films". Then sometimes I also direct said "lowbudget shot on video feature films". I do live in Cali, and I just got my id card stolen... was that you Bob? Give that shit back man!!! So yes, I do have an ID card, a brand spankin' new one. And what does this have to do with anything, Bob?
BTW a fellow Voodooite, Robert Brammer, has fowarded me the whole Joe Nanini album Bohica, and asked me to host it... so I did... here: http://www.smutzine.com/nanini/
Date:
12/11/02 17:00:05 PST
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Wow mr. Hitler, can I ask you, what do you think of that Andy Prieboy used your voice for his song "That was the voice"?
Date:
12/11/02 12:59:08 PST
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MORE RESPECT FOR JESUS!!!!!!!!!
A.HITLER
Date:
12/11/02 10:29:44 PST
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So Chas had sex with the virgin Mary. Wow!
Date:
12/11/02 04:10:38 PST
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i meant that the music fullfilled me and left no other room to my emotions
Date:
12/11/02 00:46:17 PST
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just got marc moreland mess. it is so great that i have absolutely no emotions
Date:
12/11/02 00:17:51 PST
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chas is god...
signed -
jesus - his son
Date:
12/11/02 00:15:50 PST
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Toby my friend? ...yo!......what do you do for a "livin'".....just curious yellow. And do you live in Calif.? and do you have an ID card...?
bob the happy swag man
Date:
12/10/02 16:43:37 PST
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE EMAIL ME THE TAB FOR "MEXICAN RADIO"!!! asshole28152@yahoo.com
Date:
12/10/02 08:47:38 PST
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Aw gee...
Da Limester
Date:
12/10/02 04:30:27 PST
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so it was even better to credit all the stuff to wall of voodoo like in the good old times of Ridgway-Nanini Era
Date:
12/10/02 04:07:36 PST
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Toby here -
Andy had this to say about Busniess of Love etc.
"I was being sued by Polymedia. We didn't want the others to get imbroiled in the suit. Sammystown was coming out and things hadn't settled yet... so my name was left off. As it was on Courage, and Big City. Big City I spruced up,added a second verse...so, I don't know if that constitutes a writers share...but, you get the idea."
Mazda... I love ya fella... I was just responding to a earlier post.. by a (probable) yankee fuckwit tosser!
Date:
12/09/02 01:45:00 PST
Comments:
so.
far side (prieboy)
business of love (gray/prieboy)
mona (b.moreland)
room with a view (prieboy)
blackboard sky (prieboy)
big cities (gray/b.moreland/m.moreland)
museums (m.moreland)
vaudeville (b.moreland)
courage (gray/m.moreland)
IS THIS RIGHT AT LAST?
Date:
12/08/02 22:36:31 PST
Comments:
I am sorry to hear about your posters, they were very cool.
You have however, inspired me to create this
BRAND NEW BANNER:
Anyone with a website is more than welcome to use this to link to my WOV feature.
If you need help, email me:
napalmzappa@astound.net
NZ
Date:
12/08/02 13:08:49 PST
Comments:
"Steven" posted the following to this bulletin board:
> Date: 11/06/02 07:30:40 PST
>
> Hello all:
>
> I am looking for a copy of a very special flyer
> from a show that I attended at the Starwood in 1980....
> It has a very special sentimental meaning to me and
> I know someone out there has a copy of it! Please Help!!!!!
> The date was Sept. 9th with the B-People and the art was really cool.
> It's a pyrimid with an all seeing eye at the top and
> the band names were in bone writing!!!!
> Tom Recchion has it but will not take time to copy it for me,
> so I decided to see anyone else has one.
> I have tried to get it through mutual friends and
> Stan I know you donnot have it, although you said you
> remember the show really well! Please post a contact e-mail here
> and i'll respond so we can work something out..
> I would at least like to have a copy of it..
> Thanks for everyone's help in this matter!
>
> Steven...
Hello.
I'm a long time fan of Wall of Voodoo, having been fortunate enough to see them repeatedly, as early as 1979, at the AntiClub, Blackies and the Starwood, here in LA. I was also involved within, and made & remain friends within, the music scene at the time (with such bands as BPeople, Human Hands, Monitor, Shadow Minstrels, and many others).
I am one of the "mutual friends" to which "Steven" refers in the aforementioned posting.
Regarding Tom Recchion:
Recently I got word from Tom that he had been mentioned on a bulletin board, regarding the desired flyer. (Using Google, I was able to find this bulletin board, and the above posting from "Steven".)
At the time, it is true, Tom did not come thru with a photocopy of the flyer for "Steven". And, at the time, I was very disappointed with Tom. After all, I thought "Steven" was a friend of mine, and this flyer was important to him.
However, now I'd be VERY wary to deal with "Steven".
You see, back in November 2001, "Steven" stole posters and flyers (and a couple of CDs) from me, valued (I believe) in the hundreds of dollars, but also of "very special sentimental meaning to me".
To view the stolen items, go to this link:
http://community.webshots.com/user/stolenproperty
... then click the link "Posters & Flyers, stolen November 18, 2001".
Luckily I had the brains to take pictures of the items, prior to loaning them to "Steven", who was SUPPOSED to either photocopy & return certain items (like that New Order/BPeople poster), or sell them outright for me (as I was, and still am, unemployed and BROKE). Instead, "Steven" disappeared. His phone number: disconnected. Repeated email attempts: ignored.
Just look at some of these items. That WOV poster, for instance. And that Devo poster, for a Starwood appearance. This stuff had "very special sentimental meaning to me". Now I'll never see it again.
I was such a fool.
SO...
If you're planning to deal with "Steven", all I can say is: BEWARE.
Date:
12/08/02 10:26:56 PST
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Limey fuckwit wanker
Date:
12/08/02 10:13:48 PST
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Yeah Toby but like my mentor 'I murdered a rock, I wrestled a whale, I made medicine sick, I put thunder in jail'....blah blaH..sIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING! Ahm a lean mean limey machine and....I got no hair. HaH! Beat that with your wedgey mullet.
Chester...thanks for your comments, incidentally I never trained as an engineer, just smoked some pinecones, rubbed myself all over with a whole nutmeg then chewed some banana skins and hey pesto....it was all pasta, punk and pure goo goo muck from there on...
Mazda
Date:
12/08/02 00:28:45 PST
Comments:
"p.s. - Does anyone know where I can get the CD or download the remaing tracks. Boom Shanka (May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman) "
Jamie
chester@iweb.net.au
Why yes, Jamie
CLICK HERE
NZ
Date:
12/06/02 23:39:58 PST
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"what i want to know is where is Pietra? Fuck Mazda...he's a limey fuckwit"
Toby here -
I'm a lover not a fighter... and I have at least 150 pounds on you... what's that in stone?
Andy wrote some of Business of Love, but there was a issue to some publishing deal he had that was not ironed out by the time he got into Voodoo so he gave Chas all the credit... I can't remember the whole story... And I might have it all wrong... Chas? Wanna chime in?
Date:
12/06/02 19:36:50 PST
Comments:
Hey Mazda,
As a fellow sound engineer, I'd like to say that Happy Planet is the finest piece of the craft I have ever come accross (even though my vinyl copy has been played to a literal death, my tapes' been nicked, I was stupid enough never to buy it on CD and I'm missing the last 3 tracks on my computer because they closed down Audio Galaxy during my downloads) and remains my favourite of all time thanks to your brilliant production with a very talentent group of musicians. I used to use the tape to help tune a room before gigs due to the fantastic dynamics and also so I could turn on the musos and punters to WOV (which happened often). Thanks Richard for your gift of an amazing piece of work and for an inspiring talent that always kept me aiming higher.
cheers and thanks,
Jamie
chester@iweb.net.au
p.s. - Does anyone know where I can get the CD or download the remaing tracks. Boom Shanka (May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman)
Date:
12/06/02 16:38:36 PST
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Uh a fight, I'll put 20$ on Mazda
Date:
12/06/02 14:02:10 PST
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What do you mean might?...you and me Toby outside right now...
mazda
Date:
12/06/02 14:02:06 PST
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What do you mean might?...you and me Toby outside right now...
mazda
Date:
12/06/02 09:20:17 PST
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Hey, does anybody know what the Dj is actually saying when he comes in at the beginning of "Mexican Radio"? I've always wondered what it was in english.
Date:
12/06/02 00:04:35 PST
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hm... it seems i've always underestimated Bruce Moreland as a musician and a songwriter.
Date:
12/06/02 00:00:18 PST
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So if i've got it right.
far sides of crazy (prieboy)
business of love (gray)
mona (b.moreland)
room with a view (prieboy)
blackboard sky (prieboy)
big city (gray/m.moreland/b.moreland)
museums (m.moreland)
tragic vaudeville (b.moreland)
courage (gray/m.moreland)
any corrections?
Date:
12/05/02 15:23:21 PST
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I have it on good authority that Pietra and Richard are the best of friends. They once won a salsa dancing competition together at the Hollywood Palladium back in the early '80s.
Date:
12/05/02 07:40:02 PST
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Toby here -
Another way to go to get the video into your computer, is to record it onto a mini dv tape through a camera. Any one that has a reversable in/out port will do. Then use any number of the free video capturing programs that usually come with new computers nowadays. I know that Mac's come with iMovie that is really good and easy to use. You just Firewire your camera into the computer and capture away.
Mazda might be a fuckwit, but we love him anyway!
Date:
12/05/02 05:09:45 PST
Comments:
There are basically two ways to go.
1. Invest in the hardware and software required for this.
This is fine if you will ever be using it again, and have the Dinero$ to spend.
2. Send or bring it to YesVideo, and they will transfer the video footage onto a DVD for, I believe $29.95.
(not sure on that amount)
Link 1: Synthetic Aperture - This place has all the goodies and tons of quality advice.
Link 2: YesVideo - They have all the info, including a store locator.
Hope that helps, and if you have some good stuff, I will be the first to donate to help cover some expenses!
NZ
Date:
12/04/02 23:10:20 PST
Comments:
I would like to put the wall of voodoo videos i have online, but I do not know how to get them from a VHS tape into my computer. If someone here has any ideas on how to do it...please let me know. My e-mail address is: countchocula@forpresident.com
Thanks
Date:
12/04/02 21:43:45 PST
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I heard Mazda was in L.A.directing a new film with Miramax. Has anyone heard of this film called The Boom Slap Murders?...
Date:
12/04/02 21:41:05 PST
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what i want to know is where is Pietra? Fuck Mazda...he's a limey fuckwit
Date:
12/04/02 21:39:44 PST
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is richard mazda in L.A.?
Date:
12/04/02 19:21:46 PST
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I attended a Wall of Voodoo concert around 1982 at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT. I went with my girlfriend and a bunch of my cross-country team members. I recall during the show Joe Nanini ranking on Yale, which was nearby, asking, "Where are all the khakis?" and "anyone want to pop my zits after the show?" We were fascinated by the pots and pans he played. (None of us went to Yale by the way -- we went to State U. We did, however, crash Yale parties and pretend to attend Yale.) After the show, somehow we ended up downstairs with Stan and Joe Nanini and WOV. We told Nanini we wanted to name our track club after him. Joe told Stan, who asked, "What? A frat club?" We hung out for a while and traded humor with Nanini. As Stan and WOV were leaving outside Toad's, our track team ran past them screaming: "JOE NANINI TRACK CLUB!!!!!!!" Nanini laughed and Stan looked confused.
Shortly after, at the college, one of our group anonymously posted throughout the school meetings for Whale Watches at the university pond hosted by the Joe Nanini Track Club.
Shortly after, I ended up in the dean's office who was threatening to expel me and my friends for something I can barely remember. I remember him threatening us with expulsion, then leaning over, in his smarmy manner, and, in all seriousness, ask: "And just who IS this Joe Nanini?"
I now wear a suit to work, drive a Volvo and live in the Midwest. I have three children who listen in the backseat while I play "Mexican Radio." My four-year-old loves it.
I sometimes leave messages at work using WOV names for old college friends to this day. Listening to WOV takes me back to a great time in my life.
Thanks Stan and the guys.
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12/04/02 19:18:23 PST
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i recently caught a little debbie comercial on the tele featuring gary numans' "cars " being played.. take no offense,.. i am a large fan of his music and i understand musicians need to make a living at their craft.. but it somewhat bothers me to see that happen and sell out the music like that, especially for a snack cake..
its nice to know that " room with a view" wont pop up for a century 21 ad, or "on interstate 15" for ramada inn..just a thought
decay
Date:
12/04/02 09:46:35 PST
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My cd of Sammystown claims "Mona" to written by Bruce, so I tend to stick with that, until I hear something else from the persons inplied.
Oh and as long as we are at the subject, I remember that my old vinyl of Happy Planet had "Elvis Bought Dora" to written by Prieboy and Marc and not just Andy as stated here, and the half-hidden track "Love Is A Happy Thing" is credited to Marc on my LP, and not Andy (besides it is at the start of side B, just before Country Of Man, and not at the very end). And as far as I remember then it was just one of the songs "Chains Of Luck" and "Grass Is Greener" that was written by Chas/Andy/Ned & Marc, the other was just written by three them, although I'd have to check which song it was, and who that was lacking.
Graeme
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12/04/02 01:57:20 PST
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"Моna" is credited here to Andy Prieboy, and on Allmusic it's said that it's written by "one of the Morlands' family". So where is the truth? Out there?
Date:
12/03/02 22:17:58 PST
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Was that date the first time you and Barry Manilow were, you know, "close?"
Date:
12/02/02 05:37:13 PST
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All:
Does anybody have a list of Wall of Voodoo tour dates and cities from the early 1980s? I heard and met the band at Vig's in Madison, Wisconsin in November 1982. I need to know the precise date. This has great personal significance to me. Thanks for any help.
Jim Kobielus
jkobielus@yahoo.com
Date:
12/01/02 21:43:04 PST
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Thanks a lot!
Date:
12/01/02 15:37:31 PST
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According to the single I have, credit for the writing of Dance You Fuckers goes to Chas T. Gray.
A question I have about the song itself is that sometime near the middle to end, there's a voice that says, "Son, can I ask you something. Could you spare a few dollars? I'm a little short this month. I'd like to buy something for the kids." It just seems out of place to me, and I was wondering if anyone knew anything about it.
Nick
Date:
12/01/02 10:59:55 PST
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And if someone would tell the drunken russian guy, where to get the Dep of Crooks album...
Anton here was - have\had been
Date:
12/01/02 10:57:08 PST
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Steven Soderberg just presented a new movie - Solaris (upon Stanislav Lem). When Andrew Tarkowsky made Solaris - it was 25 years ago and thay said that he was deeply influenced by mr Cubrik's "2001". Now Hollywood is making a new version.
As for me - Shining is a great movie. Jack is great. But who ever seen "The dead of Winter"?
And - are there here Jim Jarmush fans?
Date:
12/01/02 10:49:41 PST
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It was Anton
Date:
12/01/02 10:48:47 PST
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Hey guy! Do not worry (as they say)! It's a boogie style in the song - and it's said in the song - it is a metaphore i used (i hope you know the word).
Whatever - mr Graeme - if you have ears - you will listen to and comprehend.
Dr.Richard Mazda is actually the best of all sound eng., ever been.
Date:
12/01/02 00:54:56 PST
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The here's Johnny comment could also be a reference to the Johnny Carson show opening....not sure though.
Date:
11/30/02 18:52:47 PST
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Not to neglect Anton's questions, though this page says "Back In Laundromat" was written by Prieboy, never heard of a "boogie" version though. But I'm glad that my LP of Happy Planet doesn't have the song on it, I never liked it. And to comment on Anton's comment, I would say I clearly find Sammystown better than Happy Planet, although Happy Planet is still a great album. I think that CoTW is what shows Mazda's great skills, that snare drum on Mexican and the tambourine on On Insterstate 15 which both he has mentioned here to be his idea are truly great, the album would have lacked such genius ideas!
What I wanted to ask it actually regarding Happy Planet, in the beginning of The Grass Is Greener Prieboy sings: "Here's Johnny!", I saw some time ago the movie "The Shinning" and here Jack Nicholson said "Here's Johnny!" in the excact same way, and when the movie was quite new when the album Happy Planet was made, I want to ask if there is any connection?
Graeme Qewe
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11/30/02 10:05:10 PST
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Anton here -
BTW, who wrote Dance you fuckers and Laundromat boogie?
And one more. Listened through Seven Days in Sammystown and Happy planet once again. It's clearly seen on which album the real Master worked (i mean sound engeneering and producing). Though in terms of music material i prefer Seven Days, Happy Planet has a perfect deep and full sound. Thanks, mr.Mazda! ;))
Date:
11/27/02 22:34:09 PST
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And a special thanks to all the Voodudes for so many years of killer music. Love ya all!
Rock on,
Ms. V
Date:
11/27/02 07:43:52 PST
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IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR TURKEY DAY BETTER!!!
1. As an opening act before everyone sits down to eat, stick your hand up the turkey & put on a puppet show for the kids.
2. Start drinking about an hour before meal time.. That way, you can tell Uncle Bob how you really feel about his "20 years younger girlfriend".
3. Foodfights are always a plus.
4. While eating your turkey, freak everyone out by taking the large turkey bones and put on the left side of your plate. Take the small turkey bones and put them on the right side. Suddenly move your chair over to the left side and start laughing at the small bones.
5. Ask to carve the turkey. Everytime you cut it, start to cry and say "I'm sorry fluffy" or what ever the name of your family pet is.
6. That night,to get your lady in the mood, come in the bedroom covered in cranberry sause & make turkey gobble sounds.
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!
I. TATTOO
Date:
11/26/02 23:01:19 PST
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A while back ,there was a mention by Stan of Luther Perkins and his influence on Marc Moreland. This is a quote by Luther when he was asked why he didn't play more elaborate guitar parts like other players, just the bare bones licks that he was known for, he said "Those folks are LOOKIN' for it. I FOUND it." I think this quote would apply to Marc too.
Date:
11/26/02 00:37:46 PST
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Anton here -
Thanks! So he was a sort of guest star on Ugly Americans
Date:
11/25/02 08:18:13 PST
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STAN YOU COULD COME AND PLAY IN ATLANTA !
Date:
11/25/02 05:13:43 PST
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Hey Anton
Roger Mason was the keyboard player in an Australian band called 'MODELS' who were sort of popular in the '80s.Now he's doing jingles or some such thing...........
Date:
11/24/02 23:35:18 PST
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hey ya know, joe's pub was super cool for us from the city. we got there at 9, stood in line and then sat in real super comfortable chairs by 9:30 when Stan came out, acoustic guitar and harp rack, and played probaly the best show i've ever seen him do. and i've seem wall of voodoo in the 80's at the peppermint lounge and the ritz and all the solo tours here at the mercury and the old mud club too. Joe's had some great lights, GREAT sound! 30 foot ceilings, great service and booze was a flowing. Stan;' voice was in top form and he sang in a basso profudo manner that was super cool and real intimate and right to you. he did some songs by pianist and singer mose allison - hello there universe (had not heard it before) and monster's from the id (heard it) that were very jazzy and fit his voice perfectly. wow. Pietra and Hayden bass-man and Bruce drum-man were right there in the pocket for some stuff i heard but alot i've not.The band rocked. new songs - wake up sally, the cops are in town, riding on that train were new ones that were as good as anything Stan has ever done. can't wait for the new record. also mission in life for closing and mexican radio kinda bloozey and sloppy good, ( the zydeco version Stan said) and loved the "good ship ridgway" rap when he added the band on stage. stan continues to grow and evolve like the rest of us and me and my peeps are digging it. we clocked the show at an hour and 10..wished he could have played more but there was a dreaded disco staring up and he let us know. fuck the disco. more stan. after the show we were stoked and it was an auesome show. right on stan and come on back to nyc soon soon soon. aftger the show we went to carnegie deli and ate pastrami sandwhiches and then headed to the DBA baer on 1st street, a cool place for all different kinds ogf beer and brands...thanks stan for coming to ny again.
drowing in the tide,
jeff and the new brooklyn group via
Bloomfield NJ...(the WOV Dirt Club gigs)
Date:
11/24/02 22:24:10 PST
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Who else saw Stan and Pietra at Joe's Pub in NYC? We gotta get the low down. Thanks Bill L and ? for giving us midwest folks a view of the show. Sure wish he'd play Chicago soon. Shuba's last time was killer.
following the trail -
geddy - not from rush
Date:
11/24/02 18:03:59 PST
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I saw Stan at Joe's Pub on Saturday night. First, let me advise you that Joe's pub sucks. They told me doors opened at 6:45 for Stan's show, well when I got there they told me they opened at 9. After coming back at 9, Stan fans were lining up outside. It was damn cold and our friend Joe kept us waiting outside for quite a while, while Howard Fishman finished up. So, screw you Joe's pub! Anyway here's the songs I can remember that he played: Gone the Distance, Police Call, Wake up Sally the cops are here, Train of Thought, Mexican Radio (though a much different version from anything I've heard before), Mission in Life, Big Dumb Town, Peg and Pete and Me, and two covers: Houses of ticky tacky (this title may not be correct) and Monsters of the Id. He probably played a few others as well, but that's all I can recount from memory. His voice sounded great and he was his usual charming self, sounding very much like an old style balladeer country player. Despite that, I was a little disappointed that he didn't play more Wall of Voodoo (replace all songs with Longarm) and that the show lacked the crazy electro sound that I have come to love from my Wall of Voodoo records. That said, it was a great show, and you should catch him if you can.
Now if only he would play somewhere in the south....like say, New Orleans?
Date:
11/23/02 04:42:01 PST
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Toby here-
Wendy is a real person. She lived in the town that Andy and his brother grew up in, in Indiana. I believe he knew her. Concrete Blonde covered his song as did a techno group called system syn. And of course it's on his first solo album.
Date:
11/22/02 22:12:55 PST
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Saw Stan at Joe's Pub in NYC tonight -- man, can he still put on a show -- previewed lots of new stuff -- even did a Drywall song! This is about my fifth Stan show in sixteen years or so, and even though he was getting rushed to finish by a certain time, I think this might have been my favorite. Stan's voice sounded great, and his guitar-picking is seriously underrated (I guess we were all watching Marc too closely all these years and never noticed). Pietra's keyboards were as haunting as ever. Definitely a show worth checking out.
Bill L.
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11/22/02 18:44:51 PST
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Wendy is a prostitute dying of Aids. I don't know if she is a real person or not, and if she is real, whether Andy had a relationship with her. If you want a thorough answer to your question, the most knowledgeable folks on this topic can be found at an Andy Prieboy discussion list, located here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jazzcrowd
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11/22/02 09:56:49 PST
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hello all my name is paul and i have a ? about andy prieboy. supposedly he wrote a song called "tomorrow wendy" which of course was performed by "concrete blonde" now i am sure that someone has already asked this ? here but unfortantly due to time constraints i am unable to look through the entire message board. anyways that being said who was wendy and what relation ship did "wendy" have with him thanks for all the help i can get
Date:
11/21/02 19:10:34 PST
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Oh geez....give it a freakin' rest already!
Ms. V
Date:
11/21/02 17:16:00 PST
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It comment to be understood in the remembering of the "Chas is gay" comment????
Date:
11/21/02 14:13:33 PST
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"Me and my Chas/We got a good thing goin'"
Pantherboy
Date:
11/20/02 18:43:55 PST
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Anonymous wrote:
"Are WOV doing any concerts soon?"
Boy, do you need an update. We wish.
Chas, you rule and you shall be my next
write-in candidate for...
uh whatever it is I am voting for.
NZ
Date:
11/20/02 18:34:00 PST
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Are WOV doing any concerts soon?
Date:
11/20/02 11:03:26 PST
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oops - I menat to add that I'm.....
Pantherboy
Date:
11/20/02 11:02:18 PST
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I can honestly say that Chas has had an effect on my psyche like no other (with his music, of course). Unless he can explain my addiction to buying vinyl
Date:
11/19/02 17:59:56 PST
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I'd give Chas my vote anytime
Date:
11/19/02 15:31:21 PST
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Chas is our ruler now? When was the election?? Damn...no one ever tell me anything!
Ms. V
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11/19/02 09:59:17 PST
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Hey Chas...you do rule but not on yer answerphone
Mazda
Date:
11/18/02 23:05:41 PST
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From an interview found here: http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/dt/V127/N32/veteran-rocker.32v.html
Stan claimed to be working on a follow up to Lost Weekend. Was it ever released? Here's the text of the interview:
"SR: Yeah, I've thought about things like that. I tried some things like that once; I once thought maybe this is what happened to that couple in "Lost Weekend." In fact, I have a song I'm working on that is actually those two people, and they're still on the move--it's called "King Sized Drag."
Date:
11/18/02 17:57:50 PST
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Chas-
You rule! Have you seen the new lineup of The Skulls yet? Pretty damn good and Billy Bones (AKA: Steven Fortuna) is still goin' strong!
S.......
Date:
11/18/02 09:03:35 PST
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just ordered Marc Moreland Mess. hope they will send it to me. not the way they fucked me up with the index masters
anton
Date:
11/17/02 15:07:00 PST
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To clarify something - Marc and I wanted to do the Sammystown album with Richard. We thought the demos of certain songs we did with him were the besst things we had recorded. Still do. There was a problem with record company interference. Same problem as led to our disbamding. Andy's inclusion in the band hd to do with the fact that he had some great songs that Marc and I thought we could elaborate on and the fact that we could actually get along with him as a person. Marc and I wanted to start a band with Richard Mazda and John Parrish, but were again shot down by the record company There you have it- Chas
Date:
11/16/02 06:51:35 PST
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My extra copies of BOHICA have been spoken for.
JtL
Date:
11/15/02 13:51:00 PST
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Puddin'tate, VERY COOL. Thanks!
NZ
Date:
11/15/02 09:34:57 PST
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The SIENNA NANINI disc has the following songs:
1.BOHICA
2.CALLING MR. RA
3.DOES MOMMY KNOW?
4.CORNER BAR
5.W.I.W.T.F.R.R.(INTRUMENTAL)
6. WHY I WANT TO F@#K RALPH REED
7.BOHICA CATHOLICA
Date:
11/14/02 22:35:13 PST
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Hello folks! Puddin'tate here with a link to the "long ago" promised photo I bought at Shop Suey a coupla' months back,enjoy!:
http://members.aol.com/jtrippersnuts/images/wov.jpg
Sorry bout' the dee-lay!Nice to know the info flows here, I hope it never stops!I just got Call of the West on CD and feeling the love again!I can't help but share this photo.
Thanks, to that band who's parents musta' breathed in too much L.A. smog!
Date:
11/14/02 22:10:38 PST
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Index Masters used to be readily available at Barnes and Noble and Borders in Tampa, FL. They had lots of copies...I haven't been in there in a year or so, but I doubt they are being overwhelmed with demand for WOV.
Date:
11/14/02 16:24:24 PST
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how about some mp3's????????
Date:
11/14/02 15:25:31 PST
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I have some extra copies of the BOHICA CD if anyone is interested.
Email me at jtl@wallofvoodoo.com
Date:
11/14/02 13:48:40 PST
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Thanks, Andi, and welcome!
I knew of that place, but forgot the name.
I just ordered me up a copy.
Invisible.. Invisible MAN/ Invisible...
NZ
Date:
11/14/02 08:46:39 PST
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Hi. This is Andi from Switzerland. Just found out about this forum recently. If someone is still looking for the Index Masters - check www.gemm.com
You'll find there a lot of Wall of Voodoo stuff.
Good luck. Andi
Date:
11/14/02 03:52:30 PST
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Anton here again
And who is Roger Mason?
Date:
11/14/02 03:38:03 PST
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Anton here -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003BFB/103-4380292-1582263
third review... we all had to communicate with the guy two years ago... we are late.
Date:
11/13/02 14:17:11 PST
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"Index Masters is widely available on cd in retail stores last I checked. "
I beg to differ.
I have had Tower and Amazon serching for this for the last 2 months.
They have failed to even locate a USED copy, and Amazon has just emailed me to admit utter defeat.
If you know where this can be readily bought, KICK DOWN!
I have wanted a copy for nearly ten years now, since my CRACKhead brother STOLE it for more CRACK.
NZ
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11/13/02 03:53:33 PST
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Index Masters is widely available on cd in retail stores last I checked.
I'd like to hear the BOHICA demos as well...if someone figures out how to get a copy, please post mp3s!
Date:
11/12/02 19:07:57 PST
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O.K.....Due to the kind responses of select individuals on this website,I have finally obtained copies of both "Dark Continent" and "Call of the West"........thank you all very much!! Now.....to complete my quest I am officially appealing to all WOV fans .....does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "The Index Masters" ? I have the album but would like to get a copy on CD........I don't care if it's a burned copy from a CD burner.....anyone w/ Info please E-mail me at BStiffxyz@aol.com.......thanx, Don Sivard Jr.
Date:
11/12/02 13:34:21 PST
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It was meant symbolically, it's just a thing you say, when there's something you really want. Jez!
Date:
11/12/02 13:26:58 PST
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DON'T KILL ANYBODY FOR IT. Just ask around. I would love to hear details about SIENNA NANINI. There are 3 people on here that can tell about it. First, I would hope that GAIL NANINI could tell us. What the rest of us could say is nothing compared to what she knows.
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11/12/02 05:50:27 PST
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BOHICA= "Bend Over Here It Comes Again"
Date:
11/11/02 16:39:52 PST
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Now that's a bootleg I want to kill for!
Date:
11/11/02 13:44:37 PST
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yes, Joe did do some demos before he died. This is what I have been told. These where done starting the last few years before his death to right before he died. It was under the band name Sienna Nanini. It was to be a release on Dangerhouse records as I understand. He got alot of his friends to help. A bootleg is out there of the first 5 demos. The cd is called BOHICA. on the linernotes it tells more detail. Hope that helps.
I. TATTOO
Date:
11/11/02 08:15:21 PST
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Toby here -
I'm just gonna shut up now. I'm spreading more dis-info than info.....
Date:
11/11/02 07:42:56 PST
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I always thought his name was Conny Plank, I remember I read when I started to know WoV that "Ugly Americans" was dedicated to Conny ("who died in Köln in 87), and remembered the name from his great work with Czukay (of Can)
Date:
11/10/02 16:33:49 PST
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Toby here-
Me and my big mouth... Sorry Richard. I thought that you had worked on Deep in The Jungle along with other things when Andy first joined the band. I guess i just assumed that you were busy when they came around to recording Sammy's Town. But you know what happens when you assume....
The guy you are thinking off is Conrad Plank. They were going to record with him in his studio in Cologne and the funding for the records got dropped the day before they were going to go. He even offered to do it for much less and it still didn't happen. And by the time they got it all figured out, he had died. Check out a bio for him here http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bysjx7i58g72r
Date:
11/10/02 16:16:59 PST
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"Patsy Cline would have been proud." But what about Bob Wills ?(original version 1950) -macfarb
Date:
11/10/02 14:10:54 PST
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As I was to understand it...........
The guys worked with Ian Broudie because of the sound that Echo and The Bunnymen had on there records at that time. Much to Marc's surprise...Ian Broudie was more interested in playing his guitar in another room and showing up really late to the recording sessions. Gil Norton was doing much more than engineering on Sammystown. Gil was able to work with the guys helping to further his desire to be a producer. And thank god for that....He would go on to produce most of the Pixies best work. Including a great re-mix of Gigantic. Back to the Sammystown record. Another thing was that the guys in Wall of Voodoo had rehearsed the songs for that record so much that the recording sessions were pretty smooth. Some of the songs had been written during the Call of the West days giving the guys a lot of time to re-tool each song over and over again. Marc always talked of good things when it concerned Richard. Marc had an affection in his voice when it came to the times he and Richard worked together. Marc told me that he felt that there were similarities between the sounds of WOV and the Bunnymen and he felt this would work with the new WOV. And at one point.....the guys of WOV went after the guy that produced Kraftwerk...I can't remember his name. But the poor guy got bit by some bug and passed away before they could start work on the record.
Anyway....I have a headache.....too much coffee.
bye
-sheldon
Date:
11/10/02 14:05:01 PST
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whatever
Date:
11/10/02 13:45:26 PST
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sign that last one NZ
Date:
11/10/02 13:42:57 PST
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Ahhh but there IS at least one Waltz in WOV's repertoire...
One of my favorite tracks, even though it was just a tease:
"...It was in/ the springtime/ that you said goodbye/
I remember our faded love..."
"Faded Love", from Sammystown.
(I am thinking... is this also their only cover song other than 'Do It Again'?)
Anyway, there has GOT to be a longer version of that sucker SOMEWHERE.
I just love what Marc & the guys did with that one.
Patsy Cline would have been proud.
Date:
11/10/02 06:36:46 PST
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Actually, I do believe "End Of An Era" off of Index Masters is a waltz.
Date:
11/10/02 05:27:57 PST
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For the same reason they didn't do 16/3 unless you count there's nothing on this side..
Mazda
Date:
11/10/02 05:23:32 PST
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Waltz is 3/4! Why did Voodoo never do a waltz
Date:
11/10/02 03:52:44 PST
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To Put the Record Straight:
1. I was not on Sammystown and never claimed to be.
The only albums I was involved with were 'Call of the West', 'Happy Planet' and some tracks on 'Granma's House'. Furthermore I dont think the band wanted me on 'Sammystown', I would have never refused them. Perhaps Andy, the label or band felt that Broudie was more 'pop'.
I don't know I never asked them, it would have been undignified.
[note to Toby how did you get the idea of other committments?].
2. No as far as I'm concerned the chorus rhythm is based on a reggae 'one drop' beat, as you as aware no doubt all common time signatures can be interpreted as 2/4 or 4/4.
mazda
Date:
11/09/02 16:36:28 PST
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Wasn't the snare actually on 3 rather than 2 & 4 in Call ?
Date:
11/09/02 12:08:11 PST
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Thanks for the correction, Toby. What ultimately ended up killing the "solo project renaming," did WOV just put their foot down and the record company backed off?
Date:
11/09/02 10:47:32 PST
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Toby here -
Mazda was not on Sammy's Town persay. He was hired to work on some demos with the boys when Andy first entered the band. One of which was Deep In The Jungle. Then he had other commitments and they got Ian Broudie to produce, after a few sessions with Miles in the Producers chair. The Miles sessions are what are on the first single with Andy, which was release just before they went to England to support Echo & The Bunnymen, I think.
As far as them going with Andy as a solo artist and canning Wall Of Voodoo, I think the thought process was that Andy would be easier to manipulate and he obviously had some great demos that got him the job in Voodoo in the first place. At the time the solo thing was brought up, there was a lot of dicention in the ranks and Marc was actually MIA. No one knew where he was. He was gone for about three or four days. The record company was still not sure that they wanted to support Voodoo. They knew that the fans might not buy anything from this new concoction. So starting from scratch with Andy seemed possibly better at the time.
Date:
11/09/02 09:03:45 PST
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There are quite a few good articles that when pieced together would form a decent overview of WOV's history.
I can give you the URL to my feature, which has links to many articles of this nature, as well as other WOV resources.
Just keep in mind that this 'Sam Umland' guy is a huge Stan fan, but seems to underestimate the significance and durability of WOV's Music, which bothers me a great deal.
You will see what I mean when you get there.
Here is the feature:
Wall of Voodoo
Click
NZ
Date:
11/09/02 08:31:44 PST
Comments:
Is there any place where I can read an complete history of WOV ?. I would like to understand more about the history of the band & members and what they're up to now. There's not too many bands like WOV these days.
Date:
11/09/02 05:56:47 PST
Comments:
Are there several versions of Seven Days In Sammystown? My copy doesn't feature Mazda on it.
Graeme Q
Date:
11/08/02 22:47:11 PST
Comments:
Hi Mazda, if you're willing I'd like to hear about your experience producing Seven Days in Sammystown, as that is my favorite WOV album (that and Index Masters...but I realize you weren't around for that). Can you clarify the situation that might have dropped the Wall of Voodoo name in favor of an Andy Prieboy solo project...I still don't understand why that would have been done, because Andy was (as far as I know) an unknown, while Wall of Voodoo was still a recognized name.
As always I appreciate you sharing your WOV experiences with us,
Robert.
Date:
11/08/02 22:05:49 PST
Comments:
Oh Ok...No offence taken or intended but I am not aware of anything specific in terms of songs that Joe 'wrote'. His was not that kind of talent. However he was extrememely creative in terms of working along side drum machines which was a a rare thing in those days and his rhythm ideas and sounds were 100% fresh. I really enjoyed working with Ned on Happy but it was a very different band and it would be fair to say that losing Joe was as big a blow to the band as Stan leaving. Happily they survived it. Incidentally if you take 'Mecican Radio' as case in point it's true that Marc came up with the idea and chorus but the bulk of the verses were written by Stan,the 'crazy' Oberheim sequencer may have been Chas and Joe's wholly unique drum parts were his own. So I call that song a co-write.
Mazda
Date:
11/08/02 19:42:35 PST
Comments:
Hi Mazda,
It's not I need it all spelled against me, but I do remember that mentioned some time ago an other point, where you were "battling" against Joe (I think it was about the tambourine in "on interstate 15", and I think that it as well as the snare beat on Mexican Radio is perfect. So I didn't mean it as an attack on your production (it couldn't be better!), but it's just when I first bought Call Of The West, I thought about who wrote what. And now I hear that Chas wrote that, Bruce wrote Me And My Dad etc. Marc wrote Mexican and They don't want me and Stan wrote a lot too. But I never hear of a track that Joe wrote. I love his percussion, just take a track like Back In Flesh on Index Masters. But I never hear of a single thing that waqs his idea. And that's all I want to hear a single thing which was Joe's idea!!! He must have some ideas, didn't he????
Date:
11/08/02 15:02:09 PST
Comments:
Listen, lil' buddy nobody ever said Joe was against everything. Just Most Things plus if you read my posting you'll see that I used the word crucial in relation to his contribution.
Perhaps you need to have it spelled out to you.
Joe's drumming and style was probably the most original that I had the pleasure of working with. I am not afraid of a challenge and Joe
was certainly that.
I'm English, we're big on irony you see.
I think I can honestly say that even if Joe drove us crazy he also was universally loved by by all of the band members and yes, by me.
I have no regrets but Joe's life had no sugar-coating and you know what? Neither does mine...there were some issues towards the end of Joe's and Stan's time in the band but then stakes were high. We all pushed our substance abuse beyond what was acceptable then and now. Now some of us are 'happy' drunks and others are shall we say a little more voilatile.
But ..y'know what? Life ain't grey/gray but it also ain't paisley coloured/colored either and if you add abuse in too it goes of the scale y'know?
Still we miss Joe and Marc...what does that say?
Go figure then keep it to y'self
Mazda
Date:
11/08/02 10:37:48 PST
Comments:
I have heard that Joe worked on some solo demos before he passed away. Anybody have any further info?
Date:
11/08/02 05:52:19 PST
Comments:
It seems, all that people mention concerning Joe, is how he was against all. Joe got 1/4 credit, didn't come up with anything at all? This can't be true
Date:
11/07/02 16:04:11 PST
Comments:
OOps
Date: 11/07/02 15:58:04 PST
Signed NZ
Date:
11/07/02 15:58:04 PST
Comments:
Richard Mazda...
Stories like that is the reason we all still come here.
With all due respect to Joe and his opinion, that snare bit is what makes the song happen.
It achieves a flow during the chorus that would not have been possible without it.
And thank God you stopped the engineer, because Joe's Rant at the end of the record is one of the defining moments of the work as a whole.
I wish to God that the concept that included "Funzone" had become an album, because over the course of the last year or so, it has become one of my favorite songs, by ANYONE.
And to the CalTrans Guy, I could picture any of these guys in that trademark orange suit, including Mazda. ;)
I hope we can get to the cold truth of this matter.
Date:
11/07/02 13:04:46 PST
Comments:
Bad Joe coming soon............
Date:
11/07/02 13:02:53 PST
Comments:
Postscript to my last posting:
Re:the famous 'I coulda been somebody,Damn You speech':
subjects
This rant at the end of the 'Call of the West' track is a genuine unscripted moment. The track as anyone who has listened to it knows is a monster epic. It was not easy to record and Joe's parts were both crucial [the miltitary snare] and complicated there were obviously many moments of tension.
At the end of the tune Stan's very presence seemed to be upsetting Joe [not hard to do]he launched into his tirade without warning and I was so amazed by it that I rushed over to stop the engineer from stopping the recording. I LOVE THAT MOMENT! There were other crazy drug fuelled moments some of which decended into pure farce and others which contained heartrending pathos such as that one.....
And do you know what the best thing is? ...Joe really was Somebody
Somebody special and unique
[By the by because it and 'Funzone' were/are both epic albeit on very different subjects it was felt that we couldn't put them on the same record]
MAZDA
Date:
11/07/02 12:47:38 PST
Comments:
Ok ....Joe Stories...Well when we were working on 'Call' joe was especially cantankerous and difficult. He got his album nickname Mr Negative [check reference on 'Spyworld'] from his unflinching habit of saying 'No' at least six times as if this would win the argument. For example when we recorded 'Mexican Radio' I explained to the band that I felt that some distinction between the verse and chorus rhythms was necessary.Joe immediately launched into his trademark mantra..."no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!" Being very patient and impressed by the veracity and clarity of his argument I naturally caved in. NOT.
I patiently and carefully explained the theory of Pop production as defined by the 'Greats' [Phil Spector, George Martin and Brian Wilson]. I presented my argument with the poise and wit of the Captain of the Debating Society on the question."This House believes in the sanctity and sacrosant nature of the importance of differential sonic qualities between versification and the climaxual Chorus,discuss". His response? "NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO, NO!!!!!!!
Yep, one extra NO and much louder.
What was the suggested musical part that was driving him mad?
A snare drum hit on the 2 and 4 of the bar. Who won? Well me, the band and the audience. Like two rutting stags Joe and I clashed many times and thankfully we usually broke off before goring each other to death....besides I was the limey interloper whose countrymen were addicted to butter and bad teeth. I would always be the butt of the jokes during the session......
But then again revenge is a dish best served cold.....with lashings of butter don't you think?
MAZDA
Date:
11/07/02 10:48:22 PST
Comments:
Which one of the band members worked for CALTRANS?? I have a bet with a friend that one of WALL OF VOODOO worked here.
Caltrans Employee, Los Angeles
Date:
11/07/02 09:08:41 PST
Comments:
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! One Rhythm Ace mochine on sale at e-Bay right now - lasts for another 8 days. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=920112805
Pantherboy
Date:
11/07/02 01:42:42 PST
Comments:
ALL hail The GENIUS - JOE NANINI - THE original drummer for WALL OF VOODOO -
"I used to be somebody god damn you!...don't walk away!!!"
All and anyone who have stories of our pal JOE chime in HERE....we wanna here it ALL..good and bad...he was JOE!
A truly funny and brillantly dangerous man..who gave all he had to give to the WALL OF VOODOO. WE Thank you Joe.
Stories of Joe!!?
Write them HERE!!!
Groucho the Sloucho
joe's friend..(and i miss him...the shit)
Date:
11/06/02 20:17:58 PST
Comments:
When they did the show in NYC, the bass player had a fake hand resting on top of the Moog. More bands should have their sence of humor.
Date:
11/06/02 20:10:34 PST
Comments:
WOV came up on the H.Stern show this morning. It made me remember the show I saw in NYC at the Paladium. They were promoting "Call of the West". This was possibly the best rock show I ever saw. I've seen a lot. It seemed like they were fairly worn out. I wasn't very familiar with "Call..", when they did the part at the end of the title track ("... I USED TO BE SOMEBODY, COME BACK HERE GODDAMM YOU!!, I USED TO BE SOMEBODY"), it really looked like the drummer was going to kick someone's ass. He was pissed. They were fantastic. The Moog bass, the kitchen percussion, the abstract set with the strange door. I'll never forget it.
Date:
11/06/02 07:30:40 PST
Comments:
Hello all:
I am looking for a copy of a very special flyer from a show that I attended at the Starwood in 1980.... It has a very special sentimental meaning to me and I know someone out there has a copy of it! Please Help!!!!! The date was Sept. 9th with the B-People and the art was really cool. It's a pyrimid with an all seeing eye at the top and the band names were in bone writing!!!! Tom Recchion has it but will not take time to copy it for me, so I decided to see anyone else has one. I have tried to get it through mutual friends and Stan I know you donnot have it, although you said you remember the show really well! Please post a contact e-mail here and i'll respond so we can work something out.. I would at least like to have a copy of it.. Thanks for everyone's help in this matter!
Steven...
Date:
11/05/02 23:50:10 PST
Comments:
to all voodoo fans out there...i'm trying to locate a copy of "happy planet" to buy. am willing to pay up to $25US. please contact me asap if you can help me out.
andrearobin@optusnet.com.au
Date:
11/05/02 19:13:53 PST
Comments:
WALL OF VOODOO ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i learned of them through a leading snowboarding video
Date:
11/05/02 06:45:32 PST
Comments:
Ebay is the only place to find those albums on cd. Your other option is to just download the songs off of a file sharing service and then burn your own cd's (which won't hurt Wall of Voodoo because as far as I know of no Wall of Voodoo albums are available commercially except for Index Masters and Call of the West).
Date:
11/04/02 19:30:48 PST
Comments:
Hi, does anyone know where I can get the WOV albums on CD (apart from Call of the West)?
Btw my 5 favourite WOV songs are
Big City
Museums
Good Times
Tragic Vaudeville
Full of Tension
Thanks to whoever set up this site!
Date:
11/04/02 12:27:21 PST
Comments:
From: http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=wall_of_voodoo
"Los Angeles' Wall of Voodoo made junk music that can be extremely entertaining as long as you don't expect too much from it. "
What uh...kind words from the Trouser Press. I guess every review can't be a good one....though I'm still left wondering what junk music is and how I get in on the ground floor of it.
Date:
11/04/02 02:12:16 PST
Comments:
This is pretty difficult for me... I was responding to e-mails on the discussion group from my own band, when someone brought up my dear friend Marc... I grew up with the brothers in West Covina and we became fast friends. I was backstage at a Voodoo show at the Country Club when Savage Republic was the opener. Marc told me they were good and I should check them out. a year later, I was in Sr and 18 years later, I'm going on a reunion tour. Bruce, if you're out there? I miss you.... You know what a great soul you're brother was. God bless..
thom f.
Date:
11/03/02 14:32:01 PST
Comments:
Some of the tricks of messin' with the brains of the 'lectrics actually were influenced by circumstances and Peter Gabriel. By circumstances I mean that Ace didn't have all the high falutin' inputs and outputs of today's computers and drum machines so naturally microphones and treatments through amplifiers came about as a natural part of the process. The DX drum machine came much later and was arguably not as much of a crucial part of the sound as the Ace and Roland 808,it came designed for the chips to be substituted since onboard ram or rom was v low. Once again substitution thru necessity. During 'Happy Planet' i found the DX to be a bit 'clunky' . But what the hell do i mean by PG?..........hmmm answers on a postcard please
MAZDA
Date:
10/31/02 18:05:52 PST
Comments:
Thanks, Sheldon. I really love hearing these tales of Ace.
Are you telling me that nobody has a picture of this musical icon/ entity for inclusion in my WOV Tribute?
NZ
Date:
10/31/02 11:04:08 PST
Comments:
Sheldon Here........
The lesser known drum star for Wall of Voodoo was the Oberheim DX7. I think the poor over looked drum machine's brightest day was during Blackboard Sky. This same drum track showed up on the Department of Crooks CD in the song Whiskey and Cadillac's. The DX7 was often subjected to the Wall of Voodoo tradition of "what happens when you do this?" Marc would show me how Chas would take out the chips and swap them around then put them in backwards just the hear what the thing would do.
When ever I talked to Marc about the things that WOV did to elctronics, he'd always give me a little insight as to what they were thinking...(or not thinking) Marc once said, "So many bands were using the same equimpment those days. How we used it was what set us apart. You had to give everything a little bit of the Voodoo."
- Sheldon
Date:
10/30/02 17:43:05 PST
Comments:
Chas does not have a Rythm Ace. He wishes he does. He alternated between our most comforting friend and our cruelest sabateur. Sheldon - I hope you have them locked up tight.Stan - As always, you have a flair for good stories. Can't get enough. Chas
Date:
10/30/02 00:19:22 PST
Comments:
sr lyrics...
http://www.midwinter.com/beyond/lyrics/
Date:
10/29/02 00:07:26 PST
Comments:
Short Cut for Stan Tix in NYC:
https://www.telecharge.com/eventlist_frame.asp?Event=APUBJO&Modifier=163&Source=000&EVENT_LOCATION=O&Detail=YES
Date:
10/28/02 23:24:43 PST
Comments:
STAN and BAND play a weekend @ JOE'S PUB in NYC
Friday, Saturday- Nov. 22 and 23.
solo acoustic and w/ quartet
Do you have your tickets yet?
For ticket purchase and reservations
please call:
Joe's Pub @ 212-539-8778,
or, for Telecharge:
you can call 212-239-6200.
Email Joe's Pub @:schedule@JoesPub.com
Joe's website:
www.joespub.com/
Joe's Pub Location:
425 Lafayette Street, NYC
between East 4th St. & Astor Place.
Take N train to Broadway & 8th St.
or 6 train to Astor Place.
.....another shameless plug from sr dis-information
Date:
10/28/02 11:44:23 PST
Comments:
and did you know, lest we forget... that Wall Of Voodoo's name was inspired by genius producer Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound?
Date:
10/28/02 10:58:54 PST
Comments:
Does anyone have mp3's of these pre-WOV bands?
Date:
10/28/02 09:56:54 PST
Comments:
Does anyone know of an MP3 file-sharing site like Audiogalaxy once was? I could download ANY song I wanted to on that site. Now we're left with sites like Grokster and Kazaa. They're ok, but I want a site where I can download more Wall Of Voodoo stuff...
Date:
10/28/02 04:44:49 PST
Comments:
And Ned was a Flesh Eater before joining Voodoo.
Date:
10/28/02 02:34:22 PST
Comments:
And Ned was a Flesh Eater for a year before joining Voodoo.
Date:
10/26/02 21:40:58 PDT
Comments:
FYI
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/flesh_eaters/bio.jhtml
Date:
10/26/02 16:40:48 PDT
Comments:
Lest we forget-
Stan was once a Model Citizen and Flesheater, and Chas & Mark were Skulls! Joe was all Metro Squad and Bruce Barf, oooops, Bruce Morland was a wierdo. Which makes Wall of Voodoo one of the best bands EVER to exist ever! Plus, they were amazing live!!!!!
Date:
10/26/02 11:59:12 PDT
Comments:
Don Sivard:
I think that Dark Continent is impossible to obtain on CD, I've tried for years without luck. If you ever find a way to obtain it, then let me know!
Graeme Qewe
Date:
10/25/02 21:21:21 PDT
Comments:
Hi Everyone-
I am looking for a (VERY) special flyer from a show that WOV played @ the Starwood, Sept 9th, Tues, with the B-People in 1980... The art work is a pyrimid with an all seeing eye at the top with the band names written in bone writting... It has a very special meaning to me! I'd like to purchase it or a least get a copy of it... The original was done on light brown paper and Tom Rechion was the artist... You can reach me @ big.frosty8@ntlworld.com
Thanks!
SPR
Date:
10/25/02 19:41:11 PDT
Comments:
I will attempt this again.......I want to purchase any EARLY WOV CD that is available....I have "Call of the West" and have been told that "Dark Continent" is available but am unable to find someone willing to direct me to a site where I can buy it........I recieved E-mail from www.mindspring.blah blah blah ....but when I showed interest, I could never get a follow-up response..........PLease somebody tell me where I can get my hands on any WOV CD !!! Thanx........Don Sivard ........My Address is BStiffxyz@aol.com
Date:
10/25/02 02:48:29 PDT
Comments:
TONITE! Fri. Oct 25th
Stan Ridgway and Band o' Spooks
A Special pre - Halloween Show
at the Coach House in San Jaun Capistrano, CA. - Friday Nite Oct. 25th
@
http://www.thecoachhouse.com/
Stan Ridgway and Band of Spooks
Songs - Ghost Stories - Frightening Behavior
Stan will also read from Edgar Allen Poe, William Burroughs, the N'Sync
bio and other blood curdling literature appropriate to the occasion.
its a' gonna be pretty scary folks -
http://www.thecoachhouse.com/
33157 Camino Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano
CA, 92675
Tickets & Dinner Reservations (949) 496-8930
Clark and Agatha Price @ dis-info
Date:
10/25/02 02:38:57 PDT
Comments:
Stan to Sheldon -
hey paly!...are your "Ace's " flat and about 1 foot by 3 foot, wood box, kalamazoo?
inputs high and low?...do they contain "western" beat?..that's the one fer Granma's House....
stanny
Date:
10/25/02 02:34:03 PDT
Comments:
Chas T. Gray = the "original" Slim Shady....
dr drool
Date:
10/24/02 22:01:48 PDT
Comments:
Isn't a variation of that how most of us met Chas? It all had to do with bars, drinks and shady friends. Oh, the humanity!
**snicker**
Ms. V
Date:
10/24/02 21:54:15 PDT
Comments:
Stan was hanging with Ace at a club, and in walks Ace's friend Chas. Well Ace bought Chas a drink and introduced Stan to Chas and the rest is history.
Date:
10/24/02 20:21:45 PDT
Comments:
Stan,
Would you please tell how you met Chas? It is my final wish, for I am dying. Well, not really. But still, tell us tell us tell us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date:
10/24/02 02:48:26 PDT
Comments:
I NEED a pic of "The" Ace.
The Legend... The Sidekick...
The Cyborg...
The International 'Man-Machine' of Rhythm.
I bet CHAS has one.
NZ
Date:
10/23/02 21:27:49 PDT
Comments:
So...........since ACE wan original member ........could he put out his own Wall of Voodoo album or tour?
Date:
10/23/02 21:26:05 PDT
Comments:
This has been the best week on this forum page in ages!
Date:
10/23/02 12:34:29 PDT
Comments:
Loving this Rhythm Ace history lesson!
Check this out:
http://www.audiopervert.com/detail-analogue_drum_machines.htm
John in Montreal
Date:
10/23/02 12:01:38 PDT
Comments:
Ace of Ace's
Sheldon here - When I first hooked up with Marc, I asked him about the Ace. It was like asking to see the Holy Grail. Marc walked out of the room to return with this old blue gray box with the words Wall of Voodoo on it. It was THE ACE. He plugged it in and showed me all the beats that I would then name the song they were used for. That was the same week Marco caught the Wall of Voodoo question/answer on Jeopardy.
You can hear the same ACE on the Department of Crooks CD. And Marc also used it on his Marc Morelands Mess record. ANYWAY...... when we were working on the DOC record....Marc and I found and bought a few ACE's to back up the old one so it wouldn't get banged around when we played live. So I have 2 of the same ACE's that Wall of Voodoo used and 2 others that are later models. The FR2 (a flat book shaped version of the WOV ACE) and the FR3 (a totaly different version. Smaller and different sounds) When I get the chance I will take pics of them for those who would like to see what they look like inside and out.
Date:
10/23/02 10:18:12 PDT
Comments:
Hey Stan, how'd you meet Chas?
Date:
10/22/02 22:56:03 PDT
Comments:
This shit is really getting good now...........for cartoon trivia buffs ,another voice guy was Paul Frees who happened to also be an undercover DEA agent . When Frees showed his badge to one Elvis Aron Presley ,the jump suited King of R&R was so green with envy ,he got all fulla them Doctor Nick specials and made his infamous flight to DC to have a little talk with Nixon about getting his own badge. There is a definite link between rock & roll and Hanna Barbera. Hell, The 13th Floor Elevators were even on HBR Reords for a while.
Date:
10/22/02 14:09:14 PDT
Comments:
P.S.
Ace should be in the Smithsonian
(unless he's ever gonna get used again ;)
Date:
10/22/02 13:54:15 PDT
Comments:
Stan, that was really f-ing cool.
I need a pic of Ace.
Here are 2 more links, showing the resume and bio of June Foray, who's voice was a huge part of my childhood:
(she did Rocky of Bullwinkle and a shitload of other classics)
Link 1
Link 2
NZ
Date:
10/22/02 13:09:19 PDT
Comments:
A p.S. from Stan:
Daws Butler passed away over a decade ago. I attended his funeral with Charlie and the family. Franco as there too. All the voice people from everywhere were there and everyone he helped. He was a great teacher and artist. I don't think I ever thanked him enough for what he gave me.
Thanks again Daws.You'll never know what that machine did for us and how many miles it traveled and how many oceans it crossed.
here are some Daws Butler Links folks...check them out. Daws was true original, made ONLy in America...
a big hearty "boom slap" to all
-stan
http://www.comedyorama.com/daws/daws.htm
http://www.comedyorama.com/daws/Daws-article.htm
http://povonline.com/COL327.htm
http://members.aol.com/GCarras/freberg.html
Date:
10/22/02 12:50:10 PDT
Comments:
Stan to Chas: Hey there! You're right about all this Chas...get smart and espeacially Yogi Bear's Rhythm Ace...I am compelled to tell the whole story here for our readers.
In 1975 I met drummer Charlie Butler and we played some gigs together in Whittier at a dive bar (i think it was called the Three Little Pigs..kinda of a barnyard decor...) with another guit player friend Franco Landi, who was a virtual jukebox of songs. Most of the time we just follwed Franco's lead and played covers for a crowd of drunks and crooks...
Charlie's father turned out to be THE Daws Butler, partner to Stan Freberg.from Bennie and Cecil..(Daws was Bennie..) Daws Butler was the voice of all the Hanna Barbera cartoon characters too like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and even Capt. Crunch. Also he worked with Jay Ward on The Bullwinkle series and did so many voices and stuff along with his writing its hard to say it all here.
Ok...now here we go..
It was my habit at this time to go over to the Butler's house and visit with Charlie and play music in his father's VO studio. (footnote: Daws also taught voices and acting at this time in his house and his prize student was li'10 year old Nancy Cartwright...now.. ta dah!...Bart Simpson...) anyway....
I would kinda slide quietly into the living room when it seemed cool.. where Daws had an old wurlitzer organ there... and sitting on top of it was THIS BOX with the name RHYTHM ACE - KALAMAZOO, MICH. emblazoned on the front, with buttons on it with names like MAMBO-SAMBA-WESTERN-BOSSA etc... I'd turn it on and whoa!...RYHTHMS and BEATS...and with a knob to make them go REAL FAST..almost faster than you could take it in...I'd press three buttons at once and get a MAMBOSSAROCKINBEGUINEZOOT! beat...???? huh??!...cool..Clickty Clackety CLICKITY CLACK!!!! boom slap!.
On one of these days Daws caught me! and got real pissed at me..(he could be fairly testy with the kids..) He shouted angrily,..
"Stan..STOP!STOP!!PLEASE!!.I cannot STAND this anymore! You are driving me crazy with that thing! Why don't you TAKE it home and get it outa here. Its yours. Just please STOP NOW! and Stay out of MY LIVING ROOM!!!"...
I was pretty startled and apologized but ...hey...he meant it so I took it. ACE had now been passed to a new generation. Re-born and re-plugged into a world of BIG AMPS and STOMP BOXES...when I got home and plugged that ACE into my twin reverb...WHOA! it shook the walls!
The next year when I had made some demos of some new ideas with it..WARGASAM, INVISIBLE MAN, BONGO BEATNIKS, LIGHT YOUR HAIR ON FIRE, and stuff from my soundtrack experiments and failed employment in this fiels at the time..(i.e. "acme soundtrax") etc..I MET MARC..and played him my stuff with ACE. this was 1977 i think...BRUCE jumped on and then CHAS and then JOE. We was all tight with ACE!
WELL..Wall of Voodoo got going that year and Ace stayed with us for the whole time through the next several years. SO....
When you hear Mexican Radio etc.....listen for a bit of Yogi, Huckleberry and Bennie, Freberg and Butler and Cecil the sea-sick sea serpent......cuz that's the very same machine.
Long live ACE! hey Chas do you have him? Where is he?...
Long winded and blabbermouthing as usual -
Stan
Date:
10/21/02 21:44:48 PDT
Comments:
Stan - Just now read your comments from August on Wall of Voodoo's forming. They seem to be very accurate. I think I could only add non-musical influences such as Get Smart, coolorful sports figures, Hollywood Blvd., Sony 2-Tracks, and cartoons - especially Daws Butler's Rythm Ace. Chas
Date:
10/21/02 21:38:08 PDT
Comments:
pantherboy, Raul - If you are going by information from Michael Guttierrez as fact you could be quite mistaken I would deem that unauthorized - chas.
Date:
10/21/02 21:35:08 PDT
Comments:
jtl - check with john parrish fir the most excellent "automatic dlamini" cover of Mexican Radio, The best, - Chas
Date:
10/21/02 21:34:54 PDT
Comments:
jtl - check with john parrish fir the most excellent "automatic dlamini" cover of Mexican Radio, The best, - Chas
Date:
10/20/02 13:53:26 PDT
Comments:
**reaching over to hand Mazda his pill and a glass of water**
Everything will be fine once you swallow this....I promise :)
**snicker**
Ms. V
Date:
10/20/02 13:19:23 PDT
Comments:
Fuckin' fuck the fuckin' fuckers!
(Dr. Demento? I think that's who said it.)
Date:
10/20/02 06:57:16 PDT
Comments:
Dissin' fuckin' fucks is wat I fuckin' like to fuckin' do 'cos i fuckin' like it you fuckin' fuck [say this in a Dick Van Dyke accent]
Mazda
Date:
10/20/02 06:56:22 PDT
Comments:
Dissin' fuckin' fucks is wat I fuckin' like to fuckin' do 'cos i fuckin' like it you fuckin' fuck [say this in a Dick Van Dyke accent]
Mazda
Date:
10/20/02 02:15:59 PDT
Comments:
Toby here -
Hey Chas,
I have a copy of two different version of In My Night... great song! Any chance we will ever see any other Chas T. Grey demos see the light of day? We're all dying to hear them. In My Night is so good... it would be a shame to have those gems collecting dust.
Date:
10/19/02 18:59:29 PDT
Comments:
Get OVER it, people!
Date:
10/19/02 18:46:35 PDT
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Chas is gay? No fair, he was hot!
--a female fan
Date:
10/19/02 04:40:14 PDT
Comments:
Oh, MAN
What hath I wrought?
What manner of sub-terranian shenanigans will be the result?
This may get UGLY, pray for me, WOV-ites.
NZ
Date:
10/19/02 01:00:01 PDT
Comments:
the horror...the horror...
MB
Date:
10/19/02 00:58:55 PDT
Comments:
Aammy the "scalp of mazada" + big time "wiseguy" ...says..
Hey!...don't dis me me babe ...or we make you play da tamborinbe with da Jay Boberg guy...... (the fuckin' fuck..!)
it won't be pretty...
you do not know me
Date:
10/19/02 00:55:19 PDT
Comments:
hey wow! is Stan in the Mafia?...
cool....
teddy the chin
Date:
10/19/02 00:50:40 PDT
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Stan's "people" to NZ -
Hello our very good friend NZ!
May we poke you with the past.... You have agreed and a "friendly arrangemnet" was struck between us..(thanks alot, a whole lot... by the way)...Let us review:....
1.) NZ pays a penny per collage, in $1.00 increments.
2.) PLUS an agreement to fund and build a large swimming pool in Stan WOV's and Mazda's name
3.) AND....an agreed deal to polish "jackie "teak" lazar" to a fine shine in the sun..and then strangely and intimately "engage" him in front of Gray Davis.....
DONE DEAL if yoo can do this!
Now remember this!...MAZDA AND WOV MUST have the same deal or Stan will NOT OBLIDGE on your venture
...on second thought...
CHAY GRAY to this in equel measure...and he must ghave a MILLLION DOLLARS on porch by next Friday.....or there is NO a big fat DEAL BABY!....' fer yoo!...
P.S. CHAS the T. ?...contact stanridgway.com...? its urgent...
"tonight we take care of all family business.....
"
and NZ will "sleep with the fishes...."
SR DIS-INFORMATION
http://mindspring.com/~drywall2/
Date:
10/18/02 16:02:49 PDT
Comments:
If there are enough fans to justify this website, how come the only old WOV CD available is Call of the West?.....I have the albums but would really like to obtain all the early WOV stuff on CD's. Surely I can't be the only one who wants this........can anybody help me ?....E-Mail me @ BStiffxyz@aol.com.........Thanx
Date:
10/18/02 11:19:48 PDT
Comments:
Hey,
Here's a page from an old Keyboard Magazine from June 1982,
in which Chas Gray and Stan Ridgway talk about their uses of the sequencer and synthesizer. Other bands from that era talk about it too. It also shows what kind of keyboards and synthesizers Wall Of Voodoo used when you scroll to the bottom of the page. They talk about Dark Continent too. Here's the link!
http://www.synthpunk.org/units/keyboard2.html
A Wall Of Voodoo Fan
Date:
10/17/02 23:57:57 PDT
Comments:
Yeah right ...backpeddling is never attractive. I want a penny too NZ whether I'm funny or not. PS Check out video director on www.frankenskippy.com
Mazda
Date:
10/17/02 22:37:56 PDT
Comments:
One more:
Is there a Picture of "Ace", the rhythm machine floating around anywhere?
NZ
Date:
10/17/02 22:19:15 PDT
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Boy, has this place become confusing.
Hey Richard M; Stan and I traded emails and he wants a penny per collage, in $1.00 increments.
I had to think about it long and hard:ok, I'll do it.
Stan is a righteous and funny man.
He reminds me of ... well, a Stan Character!
A big hello to Chas, gay or not.
Have you been making any music lately, or thinking about it, Chas?
You guys had an amazing chemistry, to say the least.
Thanks for the few years you gave us.
NZ
Date:
10/17/02 20:37:08 PDT
Comments:
I meant "Chas is gay" in the meaning of gay as beautiful, I'm not up with american slang!
Date:
10/17/02 12:13:04 PDT
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As for "rights to the name" of Wall of Voodoo....This is what Marco told me. As long as 2 of the members who were on the contract were still together...they could use Wall of Voodoo. So, I asked him, if Bruce played bass for Stan and they wanted to use the Wall of Voodoo Name.......Could they? He then said. "It wouldn't surprise me if Miles let 2 Wall of Voodoo's on his lable. If it ment more money."
-sheldon
Date:
10/17/02 01:40:05 PDT
Comments:
anyone have any links to the story that johnette wrote "joey" with Marc in mind? I saw that mentioned on here before
damn, i still wish i could see my favorite guitar player again. No one will ever be nearly as interesting a musician to me. i don't even wanna see any concerts anymore- except maybe if leonard cohen pulls one more tour out before he joins marc
RIP guitar dude- you were the best. Nothing can top that red light roxy show, or later with Andy at the scream. Hollywood the second time with the dry ice machine in overdrive and andy hopped up on something good and marc's ethereal twang are such treasured memories
Rich
galaimpter@aol.com
variouspositions@aol.com
Date:
10/17/02 01:10:48 PDT
Comments:
Elizabeth I'm hooked up thanks. As for Chas T Gay [see, just remove the r you fuckhead the clues are everywhere!And Paul McCartney has been replaced by an imposter] I'm with Liz if you have problem shut up, if you don't, what's your point?
Mazda
Date:
10/16/02 23:12:29 PDT
Comments:
Mazda & Gayle Nanini,
If you don't know how to get in touch with Chas, email me and I'll connect you up. Email address is: vieuxdo@earthlink.net
Rock on,
Elizabeth
(a.k.a. Ms. V)
Date:
10/16/02 22:40:44 PDT
Comments:
Juat took some time to read this site. Does no one have anything better to do? Thia band is gone. Wake up. On a more friendly note. I would like to get a hold of Gayle Nanini. If someone can help. Chas
Date:
10/16/02 22:26:40 PDT
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Whomever was asking, I can tell you all about Chas T. Gray, for I am he. Chas
Date:
10/16/02 22:24:59 PDT
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Hey Mazda - I've tried to contact you many times, but have been unsuccessful. Would love to communicate. Elizabeth knows how. Chas.
Date:
10/16/02 22:07:21 PDT
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Don't ya just hate these boneheads who post things anonymously thinking they'll blow the lid off some supposed secret? Imagine me rolling my eyes and looking disgusted.
Ms. V
Date:
10/16/02 21:08:21 PDT
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Yeah...most of us know that already.
Date:
10/16/02 18:00:08 PDT
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And your point is?
Date:
10/16/02 15:59:13 PDT
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Chas is gay
Date:
10/16/02 00:03:49 PDT
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SEE...the strange and avantgarde "the DRYWALL INCIDENT" surrealist ..........drinks... RATED R for NUDITY AND LANGUAGE.
Jeez Stan, I know the economy is in a lull, but did you have to stoop to peddling smut to the kiddies? - Yer' pal, Jerry Falwell.
(psssst.....just kidding come over later....I'm wearing a little edible something, something for you know who)
Date:
10/15/02 07:47:25 PDT
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YES?....What is it Toto? The Wicked Witch is Dead?! The Oompa Lumpa's are actually dwarves in costumes, there is no Golden Ticket, The Flintstones movies really suck?
MAZDA...always online, always watching
Date:
10/15/02 00:29:06 PDT
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MAZDA MAZDA MAZDA say it three time fast....
Date:
10/15/02 00:27:43 PDT
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F.Y.I.
The Stan Ridgway Quartet LIVE! this week in San Francisco:
---------------------------------------------------
Tues. Oct 15th @
Great American Music Hall
http://www.musichallsf.com/calendar/index.html
---------------------------------------------------
Wed Oct. 16th @
Rancho Nicasio
http://www.ranchonicasio.com/
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New strange cd's and swag from
Bob the happy swagman
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& new cd's @ cdbaby.com:
http://www.cdbaby.com/group/ridgwaycds
And AT THE COACH HOUSE in San Jaun Capistrano, CA.
Fri. October 25th.....
(949) 496 - 8930 for tix
Date:
10/15/02 00:13:07 PDT
Comments:
25 handmade DRYWALL VIDEO CDs up @ CDBABY
Read all about it here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stanridgway12
Date:
10/14/02 11:26:21 PDT
Comments:
Anybody have any information on Chas T. Gray? Where he grew up? When he started playing keyboards and bass? Who his influences were? Ect
I'm sure a lot of WOV fans would like to know this!
Wall Of Voodoo Fan
Date:
10/12/02 20:23:09 PDT
Comments:
Does anyone have a good quality scan of the doll head 12" cover? I used to have one but can't find it and I need it for a project I'm working on. If you have one, email me at vieuxdo@earthlink.net and let me know if you're willing to email it. And please contact me before you email it so I don't end up crashing my email server with dozens of doll heads. Thanks in advance.
Rock on,
Ms. V
Date:
10/11/02 22:45:03 PDT
Comments:
Date:
10/11/02 15:14:21 PDT
Comments:
listen people it's not as simple as that...when you sign a record deal you sign over rights to names, likenessess etc. Marc would not have owned the name any more than stan would've. Certainly the surviving members and the estates of Joe and Marc would have some kinda claim. For example if Andy or Stan were to try and tour with a backing band that had nothing to do with Voodoo the other members would have a case in law since the rights to play gigs under a particular group name have never been 'owned' by the labels.
They usually own the rights to the name on recordings hence it is very likely that EMI have some rights to the name when used in conjunction with record releases especially with regard to the old recordings including unreleased material such as 'Funzone' since even these tracks would have been logged as belonging to them....phew hope that clears it up. Name and titles and who owns them have nothing to do with morals and everything to do with exploitation.i.e.making money
Jeez!
Mazda
Date:
10/11/02 06:38:52 PDT
Comments:
If Mark did own the name Maybe Sheldon can shed some light on this for you.
Date:
10/10/02 18:35:30 PDT
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About Wall of Voodoo licensing, my guess is when Stan left the band, he left the name too and he has nothing to do with the name now. Marc was the one who owned it I would guess. Good luck tracking anyone down who can help you. Obviously I didn't help...
Mal
Date:
10/10/02 17:05:46 PDT
Comments:
Due to some technical difficulties at my ISP the Open Forum was down for a while. That problem has been resolved and we now return to our regularly scheduled schtuff. Thanks to NZ for the timely heads up on this problem.
JtL
Date:
10/06/02 17:34:06 PDT
Comments:
re- Bags/Voodoo/Damned-
I have no recolection of Marc ever being in the Bags, but they did have a lot of lineup changes. But Joe was definately in The Bags. To quote from http://www.patriciamorrison.co.uk/ -
"Patricia and Alice then approached a childhood friend Janet Koontz to play guitar; the only vacant position was for a drummer. This came in the shape of Joe Nanini who had placed an advert in a publication called Recycler stating that a drummer into Ramones and Mahavishnu Orchestra was looking to join a band. With a drummer now in place and as Janet was only a budding guitarist, the girls decided that a twin guitarist approach was the way forward. The second guitarist to join was a friend of the newly recruited drummer, Joe Nanini. Geza X was the final member drafted in to complete the first of many line-ups. Patricia had told Joe that they had to wear bags over their heads on stage so no one would know who they were as a gimmick, Joe agreed and relayed the same message to Geza X which was met by the same agreeable reaction. So with Joe and Geza X now in place The Bags, one of the original L.A. punk bands had been created. This line up was short lived.
Joe Nannini went on to play drums in Wall of Voodoo and Gexa X various LA bands and production."
And Stan was NEVER in the Damned (They're a U.K. band people!)
If you want to check out The Damned's site - http://www.officialdamned.com
And you can listen to their new album "Grave Disorder" at - http://www.nitrorecords.com/
The Damned rock!!!!
But Wall Of Voodoo are the masters,
Jamie
Date:
10/06/02 12:31:36 PDT
Comments:
I'm doing my part to bury your post as quickly as possible
Date:
10/05/02 21:56:56 PDT
Comments:
Important!
Very often I will leave a post, and it gets buried before anyone replies. I have a licensing question that needs answering pertaining to WOV and Stan. Please, if you are Stan (and I know one of you is) or someone who knows who is in charge of licensing WOV's name and images, PLEASE PLEASE e-mail me:
napalmzappa@yahoo.com
I have tried your input thingy on your site Richard M., have you checked it lately?
Date:
10/05/02 17:38:19 PDT
Comments:
Oh sure, those rhythm machines can be fun until someone loses on eye...or a section of colon....
Ms. V
**snicker**
Date:
10/05/02 11:13:59 PDT
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I will scan , upload ,and link those photos here soon! Puddin'tate
Date:
10/05/02 08:37:56 PDT
Comments:
Hey that rhythm machine is the reason that there were no bastard demon anglo-american methedrine mutants!
When the lights were out Marc played the soundtrack to our love dontcha agree Stan? Remember the bathroom at Hit City West..I stuck the microphone up the S bend and hit record..damn it was good
Mazadoni
Date:
10/05/02 08:20:45 PDT
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Curses...that rhythm machine will get ya every time!
Ms. V
Date:
10/05/02 02:35:49 PDT
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Hey mazada...if i recall...i did more than kiss you....but then the lights were off...and the rhythm machine was on...
xxoox
stan
Date:
10/05/02 00:03:23 PDT
Comments:
You know..I used to think that nostalgia was a revolting mawkish thing. Then I got older. I hadn't listened to a lot of my old stuff including Voodoo, Surburban Lawns, and countless others but when I do get that playmistyforme feeling and dig out the original cassettes or vinyl it still sounds good...so good that occasionally [in the style of James Brown] i want to junp back and kiss myself. Bless you Cough Robert!
Mazda
Incidentally do any of you completist types know the connection between the Surburban Lawns' 'Baby' and 'Mexican Radio'?
I have
Date:
10/04/02 23:49:52 PDT
Comments:
Hey Mazda! I'm in the forgotten land of Lexington, Ky and currently there is an exhibit in the public library on early punk flyers that were circulated to promote shows in Lexington between 79-83. One of the bands prominently featured was the Fleshtones. Reminded me of you, isn't that sweet? Cough, Robert
Date:
10/04/02 18:16:38 PDT
Comments:
Puddin'tate...
scan them, pleeeeease!!!!
Hey, have y'all seen this site yet? It has downloads of 'Funzone (live),' 'Exercise,' and 'Invisible Man (live).'
http://www.tangento.net/downloads.html
Date:
10/04/02 05:58:41 PDT
Comments:
Bugger then. Does a gem fall out of the crown of the people posessing the songs if they would send them to us?
I would be extremely happy to have the songs.
Greetings by Hungerhahn
Date:
10/04/02 02:25:02 PDT
Comments:
OH MAN! What a cool story. Joe was somethin' else. I saw the Lonesome Strangers open up for WOV on the "Sammystown" tour. It was weird to see Joe on a normal drumset. That was when I met WOV, but Joe wasn't hangin' out after the show.
So what, are you gonna scan those things or what? We wanna see too!
NZ
Date:
10/04/02 00:23:43 PDT
Comments:
Hello WOV people,
Sunday My Girlfriend and I went to Chinatown in L.A.There's a little store there called Shop Chuey. Right now they are having an exhibit of early LA punk photos by Ann Summa.They have a couple of boxes of glossy Photos for sale, they range from $5-$10-$20.Well they had a few really nice Wall of Voodoo photos that I picked up. one is WOV live on stage and the other is a group photo at what looks like a truck stop.I was completely tickled and teary eyed!I hung one over my synth/sequencer/music PC.They had some others, one really good one of Joe smiling.I wish I could have bought them all but I'm not in good $ shape. I remember a show at the Anti Club to see the Lonesome Strangers. I was really drunk and I was trying to convince Joe(Marc was there too) to get Wall of Voodoo back together.He said "no way..won't happen" and gave us some tickets to see the Lonesome strangers again at the Palamino.The band really enjoyed our heckling! Puddin'tate
Date:
10/03/02 12:44:14 PDT
Comments:
Funzone - one word, yeah it exists nobody has it except....?
MaZda
Date:
10/02/02 01:33:50 PDT
Comments:
I asked the same question, Hunger.
Except that I also wanted a long version of "Faded Love".
If I remember right, Richard Mazda said that "Funzone" exists, but it would take God's Crowbar to pry it out of the asses of those in control of it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, guys and gals.
NZ
Date:
10/01/02 04:03:44 PDT
Comments:
Does anyone have Studio Versions of Fun Zone or Fine Line,
those two fine songs from the live gigs?
Greetings by Hungerhahn
Date:
09/26/02 23:57:09 PDT
Comments:
hey! where's andy and what is he doing now?
yours,
white trash wins lotto= goes to building on fire
Date:
09/26/02 21:29:13 PDT
Comments:
Holiday In Dirt the movie: A fan's perspective
Well, the big day finally arrived. The Oak Street Cinema had a good sized crowd on hand to view the world premiere of Holiday In Dirt, the
movie. A few of the film makers were on hand as well as Chris Strouth and Rick Fuller with Stan Ridgway and Pietra Wexstun sitting in the
back.
The Movie was laid out pretty much the same as the CD with a little extra added here and there in between the songs.
The first cut, Beloved Movie Star by Rick fuller was pretty good, I thought. A lot of imagery of Hollywood. Flashing around to the different
actress stars around Hollywood and vine. It kept pretty true to the spirit of the song.
Operator Help Me by Jim Ludtke was done with animation. Very good. A disturbing narrative of living in the big city. Fire outside the apartment,
a character in mental distress, it captured the spirit of the song very well.
Time Inside by Dan Brown was very thought provoking. A cowboy wandering around a bad part of town ending up in an empty roller-skating
rink skating around...
End of the line by Carlos Grasso... hmm well, it put a smile on my face. I think he struggled a bit with coming up with an idea. ;-) It did keep
with the spirit of the song in my mind.
Garage Band '69 by Hernan Barangan. I really liked that one. Faceless teenagers playing in a band, running around making trouble. I think we
all have experiences like that to remember. And of course, the old man next door...
Bing Can't Walk by Steve Hanft. I think he really did spend the $500 on paying off his bills and then had to wing it on the shoot. It was pretty
funny though. Most of the song was spent running from some imaginary hit man. The whole idea did pretty much keep to the spirit of the
song.
Brand New Special And Unique by David Moe. I think this one was the most involved. Based on the movie "Roma" by Felliniis. A fashion show
that grew more and more outrageous. Judging from the number of people in the credits, I think it was probably hard to stay within the $500
budget for this one. He did an excellent job of it though. It brought a smile to my face.
After the storm by Rudi Tuzla. Some very good imagery of the horrors of war. It fit right in with the song. I thought right way: no way did he do
this one for under $500. The W.W.I costumes were very real as well as the guns and artillery with lots of trenches and smoke, but when I saw
the credits, it apparently was some war association that donated their time and equipment for free. Score.
Floundering by David Roth. There was a toss up for my favorite cut between this one and Act Of Faith. I really liked this one. A narrative of this
guy on the edge. Hard to explain. You just gotta see it. It went well with the song.
Amnesia by Charles Bowe. Strange. Filmed locally here in Minnesota. Apparently in the cold. I think it was well done but I failed to see the
connection to the song. Maybe I'm too dense to spot it. Hula hoopers on the interstate, Adam and Eve on a stage, Passing an apple around a
table... hmmm Art.
Whatever Happened To You by Simon Blake. This one was good. A funny observation of strange things going on around a parked car in a
parking ramp viewed through the security cameras. Another one that didn't really have that close of a connection to the song but it was
entertaining.
Act Of Faith by Katherine Gordon. Maybe I'm biased. Act of Faith is my favorite cut on the CD, so maybe I just liked this one because of that,
but I think of all of the cuts, this one captured the spirit of the song the best. A man sitting in a laundry watching his cloths dry begins to
remember his lost love. The images of them dancing around on the farm, the giddiness of the woman, the happiness of the couple together,
then the return to reality at the laundry. An act of faith...
Beloved Movie Star Redux by Phil Harder. This one, I was the most impressed with. He did the whole thing on an old style hand cranked silent
film camera. All of the effects were done in the camera on 100 feet of film. A man visits his dead wife at the cemetery, then returns to his hotel
room with the framed picture of his wife. She comes alive in the picture frame and begins to talk to him. I loved it. Though I think 100 feet of
film was not enough to do the whole song so he ran it in reverse as well, but it worked.
Behind Closed Doors by Chuck Statler. This one got the most laughs from the audience. Very funny. Hardcore Dave (did I get that right?), a
local legend, playing the part of the ventriloquist. Lets just say... unbelievable.
Well there you have it, my perspective.
I'm no professional critic as you can probably tell, but I am a hardcore Stan fan. I think this "Thang" (as Stan put it) did his CD a great service!
It will go down in music history. As what, I do not know, but I am honored to have been there for the premiere.
Please forgive me Chris and Rick if I have left anything out or insulted anyone involved in the making of the film.
Andrew Olive
A.K.A. Major Mal
Date:
09/26/02 21:25:42 PDT
Comments:
from the stanridgway.com site: LARGO 9/17
Re: LARGO 9/17
I'll try my best. Yeah, Wayne and Dave were there to loan guitar support. I don't know if he's been getting special guests at previous Largo
gigs, so perhaps I picked the right night to see him there.
As has been the norm recently, Stan started off solo (which he could also easily do at a music store co-owned by one Pete Grasso...right,
Stan?). Then he switched to a duo with Pietra for two songs, and then had the full band out. I love the eyeglasses he wore. The prescription
on those things was deafening. I was in the back corner of the venue, and even back there it looked like his eyes were popping out of its
sockets. Hey look, it's our nerdy Uncle Stan playing a song for us........
This certainly isn't the full set list (my mind ain't the way it used to be and I wasn't gonna look like some dork scribbling song titles on a piece
of paper), and it's most definitely not in proper order. God help me, I may even have one of them wrong. A stressed-out day at work really
jogs the short-term memory.
Solo acoustic w/harmonica
-Train of Thought
-some song Pete Seeger sang that was written by some woman who wrote 500 songs or so after she turned 50
-Operator Help Me
There was at least one other song, and I think it was a cover.
With Pietra on keyboards
-Cool Water (cover)
-Gone the Distance
With the full band
-Big Dumb Town
-Luther Played Guitar
-Wild Bill Donovan
-Garage Band '69
-Amnesia
-Act of Faith
-Police Call (Drywall!!)
-some new song about carnivals
-I think it was called Monsters Of/From the Id (w/ Wayne
Kramer)--nice tune though