William D. Noland (born April 1, 1954) is an American musician, composer, and producer best known for his membership in the rock bands

Wall of Voodoo Wall of Voodoo was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States. Though largely an underground act for the majority of its existence, the band came to prominence when its 1982 single " Mexican Radio" became a hit on MTV and ...

and Human Hands during the late 1970s and '80s.

Human Hands

Noland was a founding member of Human Hands and was their keyboard player who wrote and produced some of the band's material.

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helped to break them by playing their music on

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. Human Hands split up at the end of 1981 and Noland went on to become a member of Wall of Voodoo.

Wall of Voodoo

Bill Noland joined the band shortly after the release of ''

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'' on

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. Noland played keyboards, trumpet and sang back-up vocals with Wall of Voodoo while touring extensively in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, and England. The culmination of the tour was Wall of Voodoo's 1983

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performance for an estimated crowd of 150,000 fans. Shortly afterward, Bill Noland,

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and Joe Nanini left the band.

Solo career

After Wall of Voodoo broke up, Noland became a sound engineer, mixer and producer. He produced tracks for Thin White Rope on Frontier Records, Field Trip for Slash Records, and produced and collaborated with Ridgway on his solo albums, ''The Big Heat'' (IRS, 1986), ''Mosquitos'' (Geffen, 1989), ''

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'' (Geffen, 1991), ''

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'' (IRS, 1992), ''Black Diamond'' (Birdcage, 1995), '' Work the Dumb Oracle'' (IRS, 1995) and ''The Way I Feel Today'' (Dis-Information, 1998). Noland also worked as a foley and ADR engineer and mixer for Bryan Singer's film '' Public Access'', and the films ''Wizard of Oz'', and ''Snow White'' as well as numerous television and cartoon features. Bill Noland composed and produced the scores for the 2001 film '' The Vampire Hunters Club'' and the 2003 film '' The Low Budget Time Machine''. Currently, Noland has two solo albums available, '' Mandala La La'', and ''

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References

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