This article voodoo spaghetti additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Wall of Voodoo was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, a film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and harmonica player for Wall of Voodoo. The band was named Wall of Voodoo before their first show 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. Wall of Voodoo released a self-titled EP in 1980 which featured a synthesizer-driven cover of “Ring of Fire. The second half of “Ring of Fire” features a dissonant guitar solo covering the theme to the 1966 film Our Man Flint. Bill Noland was added as a keyboardist soon after the release of Call of the West.

Wall of Voodoo opened for Oingo Boingo on their Nothing to Fear tour at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara in March 1983. The remainder of the band, Marc Moreland, Chas T. Gray and a returning Bruce Moreland, carried on under the name Wall of Voodoo. Soon after, Andy Prieboy, formerly of the San Francisco new wave band Eye Protection, joined as singer and Ned Leukhardt was added as drummer.

In 1987, the band released their fourth studio album, Happy Planet. The album, their second with Andy Prieboy as frontman, saw Call of the West’s Richard Mazda returning as producer. In 1989, a post-breakup live album entitled The Ugly Americans in Australia was issued, which documented their 1987 tour of Melbourne, Australia. Additional performances from a date in Bullhead City, Arizona, were also included. Stan Ridgway, Andy Prieboy and Marc Moreland all embarked on solo careers throughout the 1990s and 2000s.