This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. 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 voodoo spaghetti 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. 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.
