Andy Prieboy
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Andy Prieboy (born April 17, 1955[1]) is a musician, author, and former morgue attendant. He was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in East Chicago, Indiana.
He replaced Stan Ridgway as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo after Ridgway left the band in 1983. Seven Days In Sammystown was the first Wall of Voodoo album featuring Prieboy. This was followed up by Happy Planet and finally Ugly Americans in Australia, which was a live album they recorded to fulfill their recording obligations to IRS Records.
After leaving Wall of Voodoo, Prieboy signed with MCA Records as a songwriter and went to work on new material for his first solo record ...Upon My Wicked Son, which featured the song "Tomorrow Wendy," about a woman dying of AIDS. The song featured a duet with Johnette Napolitano, whose band Concrete Blonde also recorded the song and released it on their album Bloodletting the same year. It was also covered by the industrial project System Syn in early 2000s. Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris covered his song "Loving the Highway Man" from the same album. Prieboy then released an EP called Montezuma Was a Man of Faith which featured a Country rendition of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin, featuring an uncredited Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde. Prieboy's second solo album was entitled Sins of Our Fathers.
In the mid-to-late '90s Prieboy played shows at the Los Angeles hipster club Largo with Rita D'Albert where they worked on an ongoing musical, White Trash Wins Lotto; a Gilbert and Sullivan-esque treatment of the rise and fall of an Axl Rose-like character. It was also performed at the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip for three sold out weekend-long engagements as well as two sold out weekends at New York's PS 122. Prieboy and crew also performed a medley from White Trash on the Conan O'Brien show.
Prieboy is also the co-author with Merrill Markoe of the novel The Psycho Ex Game, based on his song "Psycho Ex".
As of 2009[update], he resides in Los Angeles and released two CDs of new material, The Questionable Profits of Pure Novelty and Don't Tell That Guy Anything. He plans to write a follow-up novel, and has released several songs via his website for online purchase.
Early in his career, he 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 Eleph Records.
His Wall of Voodoo hit "Far Side of Crazy" is featured in the film Head Office[2]. His demo for the song "Man Talk", which would finally appear on the album ...Upon My Wicked Son, was featured in the early Brad Pitt film Cutting Class as well as other unreleased Wall of Voodoo demos. These same demos appeared in the film C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.. He also appears in the film Blood and Concrete along with a few of his original songs.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Upon My Wicked Son | Doctor Dream Records |
| 1995 | Sins of Our Fathers | Doctor Dream Records |
[edit] EPs
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Montezuma Was a Man of Faith | Hot Mustard Records/Doctor Dream Records |
