http://www.mediafire.com/file/po7pnfwmgxeaxng/Wall_Of_Voodoo_-_Demos_78-79.zip/file“There is a lotta hiss goin' on, but these are the first demos of WALL OF VOODOO. First 6 songs were done by Stan & Marc and a guy who helped carry the drum machine in 1978. The remainder were done a year later in 1979 with the whole band. The song ‘You Do Anything You Want’ would become ‘Longarm’.” - Th’ Mystery Rippa
“Wall of Voodoo was an American new wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit 'Mexican Radio'. They had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based new wave music with the spaghetti Western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone. The band had its roots in 'Acme Soundtracks', a film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and harmonica player for Wall of Voodoo. Acme Soundtracks' office was across the street from the Hollywood punk club 'The Masque' and Ridgway was soon drawn into the emerging punk/new wave scene. Marc Moreland, guitarist for 'The Skulls', began jamming with Ridgway at the Acme Soundtracks office and the soundtrack company morphed into the band.
In 1977, with the addition of Skulls members Bruce Moreland (Marc Moreland's brother) as bassist and Chas T. Gray as keyboardist, along with Joe Nanini, who had been the drummer for 'The Bags', 'The Eyes', and 'Black Randy and the Metrosquad', the first lineup of Wall of Voodoo was born.
The group was named Wall of Voodoo before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Berardi, a friend of Ridgway's and member of 'The Fibonaccis'. Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple drum machine and Farfisa organ laden recordings to Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound', Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo" and the name stuck."
