The video below features Andy Prieboy whilst fronting for Wall Of Voodoo. The song is 'Far Side Of Crazy' which follows shortly after a brief interview welcoming the return of the band. I personally believe this video portrays Andy's Western Gothic style beautifully as with his elegant songwriting skills.
Please sit tight through the interview - the video is very much worth your wait.
Andy Prieboy is a musician, lyricist, author, playwright and former morgue attendant. He is more famously known for replacing Stan Ridgway as the more charismatic lead singer of Wall of Voodoo after Ridgway left the band in 1983. Seven Days In Sammystown was the first Wall of Voodoo album containing Andy's talents. This was followed up by Happy Planet and finally Ugly Americans In Australia which was a live album recorded to fullfill their obligations to IRS Records.
After leaving Wall Of Voodoo, Andy signed to MCA as a songwriter and went to work on new material for his first solo record ...Upon My Wicked Son, which featured the hit song "Tomorrow Wendy" about a woman dying of AIDS. This song was later recorded by the band Concrete Blonde and appears on their album Bloodletting. It was also covered by the techno band System Syn in early 2000's. Andy then released an EP called Montezuma Was a Man of Faith which featured a hillbilly-fied recording of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepplin featuring an uncredited Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde. Andy's second solo creation was entitled Sins of Our Fathers released in 1995. Sins Of Our Fathers was the bearer of Andy's powerful, operatic but farcical 'Psycho Ex' and an expertly written 'Sins Of My Fathers'.
In the early 90's Andy played a slew of shows at the LA hipster club Largo where he worked on his ongoing musical about the rise and fall of an Axl Rose-like character called 'White Trash Wins Lotto'. Ultimately, the whole show, when finished, was performed at the Roxy on the Sunset strip for three sold out weekend-long engagements.
Andy is also the co-author (with Merrill Markoe) of the novel The Psycho Ex Game, inspired by his song "Psycho Ex".
Andy currently resides in L.A. working on new material for an upcoming album and followup novel.
Earlier in his career, Andy was in the San Francisco art band Eye Protection, which had one track on the compilation Rising Stars of San Francisco: "Take Her Where The Boys Are". They also recorded a 7-inch single called "Elroy Jetson" with a b-side of "Go Go Girl" on Aleph Records.
Whether writing and performing for Wall Of Voodoo or embarking on solo ventures, Andy's music has consistently carried themes of the Western Gothic idiom along with a sprinkling of Dark Cabaret and a dash of Film Noir storytelling. Thoroughly stylish in dress and performance and dripping with talent and wit, Andy Prieboy remains relatively unhailed - hence the tribute page...
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I want to make it crystal clear that this page is a tribute to Andy Prieboy and is in no way official or in any way connected with Andy himself. For those who do not take the time to read this you are responsible for your own misguided negligence ie - the fault does not lie in my deceiving you.
Thank you kindly for the add, sir! It is an honor to get a request from such an excellent musician! Expect to hear "Cannot Not" on my page. I believe it is one of my new favorite songs!
