I saw them in Boston in 1981 or 82. Toward the end of this song the guitarist, Mark Moreland , dropped his guitar on the stage, walked over to Chas Grey's keyboard stand and knocked it over, pinning Grey underneath. Moreland walked off stage. The roadies came out and extricated Grey from beneath his instruments. The keyboard no longer worked so Grey picked up Moreland's guitar and resumed playing. Very strange night. Very strange band. One of my all-time favorites.
I'm now just shy of 54 years old. I saw them at the US festival 1983. That put at at 14 years old. I was there to see Wall Of VooDoo. Still fucking love them.
Stan played this last night at Pershing Square in LA. It was awesome! Stan the man has still got it. Unbelievable that he can do a free concert in LA and have less than a 1000 people show. Y'all missed agreat show.
To all those who might think WOV were one-hit-wonders, I encourage you to check out Stan Ridgeway's solo work. This criminally underrated singer/songwriter's best work comes later in his career. Don't miss his side project Drywall, either.
@@nuke97 Someone in the crowd threw an half full bottle on the stage, Stan took a swig of it, spit it out on the person who threw it, than hell broke l;oose
OMG Stan...in this song, I see Stan convey Johnny Cash, Harry Dean Stanton, David Byrne and Kyle MacLaughlin all at once...oh and the bridge takes me to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion! Yay! Did I say that I LOVE this??
Very well put. I've thought this about Stan and his perfomances with Wall of Voodoo for about 30 years now (ever since I saw him do "Back in Flesh" on Urgh!). What still amazes me to this day is Burbridge's choice of groups to put on Urgh!, as many of them were far from famous when they performed their work on Urgh! (Stan, Jello Biafra, Klaus Nomi, Gary Numan, Sting.... the list just goes on).
Saw them at the Hollywood Palladium in 82 or 83.The guitarist got pissed and kicked an amp over for whatever reason and walked off stage.The band kept playing like it was nothing..A fucking cool weird group.They’re most unique .
Cool version! It is always better when someone puts their own spin on a song instead of trying to sound like the oroginal. If I want to hear Johnny Cash's version I'll listen to him rather than someone trying to sound like him and failing.
The drummer, Joe Nanini, died in 2000. The guitarist, Marc Moreland, died in 2002. They split up in 83, but Stan Ridgway, the singer, fronted a band called Wall of Voodoo, though he was they only original member in the band, as late as 2006.
I was a teenager when WOV did Mexican Radio. I hate when kids come here & mention knowing songs from GTA V, but last night my boyfriend was playing it & I could have sworn that I heard Stan Ridgeway's unmistakable voice. Anyone know what song it could have been? Sounded like country music, which I don't listen to.
A truly great band and rip Mark and Joe. way ahead of there time . Saw them loads of times in the 1980's in the UK. Andy P was just as good as Stan R as a front man but unlike Stan he was also a prolific composer and song writer (he has written a musical). never forgot the night in 1986 that Carlene carter ( J Cash's daughter) joined them on stage to sing co vocals with Andy P on this great song . A brilliant cover version and I loath cover versions normally. Note to Josephine below (cannot reply directly) the guys are still active. Stan R has had some commercial success. Bruce M is still making music with "ravens Moreland" dark heavy and swampy. Chas Gray is also still doing stuff. Apart from the Beatles WOV are still my fav band of all time . The best I have ever seen live ("the ugly Americans" live album is brilliant and includes this track) "wrong way to Hollywood" is my second fav track of the last 60 years ("the green manalishi" by peter Green's 1960's just edges it out but Bruce M is cool with that choice). nuff said !!
I was lucky enough to have met thes cats several times and hung out with them having a beer or two back in the day in between sets when u could do that at the small clubs they played all over from th OC to santa monica and of course hollywood if u ever seen them u were lucky what an experiance for sure there shows would put u into a hipnotic trans I think they were WAY ahead of there time music was very raw at this point xcept these guys the key board synth seen was not popular yet what a band
muzquiz sebastian, mate, who cares about that??? I don´t! And it seem´s that everybody´s that saw this, won´t give a dam for that. These guys, are the stuff that made rock´n´roll and not the silly thing that´s called music these day´s. I bet that you would like more of a playback... Crazy, but true guy´s, honest and awesome music!!! Cheer´s!!!
Really trippy version of the song before they got pissed off at the audience. They may not have been high on anything when they were performing it, but they definitely were when they arranged it. I thought the "Our Man Flint" theme music toward the end was a nice touch, although it seemed like he couldn't seem to remember how the end of the 3rd bar went, so he'd skip the 4th bar and go back to the first over and over again.
I actually heard this version of this song way before i heard the original, and when i finally heard the original i thought it was a bad cover of this song.
I think Ridgway is so intelligent that he's somewhat crazy. Many people with high intelligence can be like that. He fascinates the listeners. Sort of puts them into a trance.
just saw "night dreams"...one of the best scenes(80's hairy muff porn!) had this tune, so i came a looking. reminds me of burning love as covered by the residents : ) my new favourite saying "80's hairy muff porn"! all together now kids *_*
Wow, they were NOT liking that audience.Marc Moreland looks like he's trying not to puke.Either sick or drunk or both.The man drank himself to death. RIP,Marc.
I don't know if I was there that night---it was a big place in Hollywood that I saw them sounding and looking exactly like this. the guitarist looks tired or sickish, tho.
