NEWBEATS
Surely you remember Wall Of Voodoo. You don’t? Back in ’82 they blew across the sugary wasteland of the Top 40 like a spastic tumbleweed with the odd and jolly “Mexican Radio.” That song and the big-selling Call Of The West (“It went tin,” says drummer Ned Leukhardt) kept these Los Angelanos in gambling money for a couple of years.
NEWBEATS
VOODOO CHILES
Surely you remember Wall Of Voodoo. You don’t? Back in ’82 they blew across the sugary wasteland of the Top 40 like a spastic tumbleweed with the odd and jolly “Mexican Radio.” That song and the big-selling Call Of The West (“It went tin,” says drummer Ned Leukhardt) kept these Los Angelanos in gambling money for a couple of years. Before they became semifamous, Wall Of Voodoo churned out soundtracks for porn flicks, student films, American Cancer Society TV commercials and whatever they could get their hands on. In 1983, WOV played the US Festival and then lost two original members, Stanard Ridgway (vocals) and Joe Nanini (percussion). Since then they have disappeared from the periphery of our collective consciousnesses.