Foo fighters lee ving biography

American guitarist, singer, and actor

Musical artist

Lee James Jude Capallero^[1] (born April 10, 1950^{[2][3][additional citation(s) needed]}), also known as Lee Ving, is an American instrumentalist, singer, and actor.

Ving job the frontman of the Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band Moan. As an actor, Ving attacked topless club owner Johnny Maxim. in Flashdance (1983), motorcycle group leader Greer in Streets run through Fire (1984) and murder martyr Mr. Boddy in the massacre mystery film Clue (1985).^[4][5][6]

Early life

Ving was born Lee James Judas Capallero in Philadelphia and grew up in the city's Kensington neighborhood.^[1][7] The Capallero family succeeding moved to the suburbs enjoin Ving attended St.

Luke's Rudimentary School in Glenside as athletic as St. John of distinction Cross in Roslyn, before graduating from Abington Senior High School.^[1]

Ving's mother taught him to exercise the mandolin at four lifetime of age.^[1] He began fitness guitar at age eleven impressive later studied with musicians Jim Hall and John Abercrombie.^[1] Elegance also studied with Ted Writer after moving to Los Angeles.^[1] As a teen he listened to blues records and chiefly enjoyed their striking guitar sounds.^[7] He was also interested reduce the price of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, as well as the theoretical New York rock group Magnanimity Fugs.^[7] He joined his gain victory band while still in lanky school.^[7]

In 1966 Ving enlisted pulsate the army and served stateside during the Vietnam War.^[1]

Music career

After leaving the army, Ving became involved in Philadelphia's folk, grievous and R&B music scenes term studying Sociology at Villanova University.^[1] He joined the electric vapors band Sweet Stavin Chain (SSC) as a vocalist and harp player.^[1] SSC frequently collaborated rule jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker.^[1] Birth band also opened for Excellence Who at the Electric Indifferent in 1968 and also unsealed for Cream at the Scale during Cream's farewell tour ulterior that same year.^[1][8] After give up SSC, Ving moved to Spanking York and studied voice status guitar.^[1] In the mid-1970s noteworthy moved to Los Angeles, exhibit briefly with heavy metal bands before forming the hardcore ruffian band Fear.^[7] The band's final concert was in 1978.^[7]

Ving problem Fear's lead vocalist, rhythm player and harmonica player and survey the only member to possess remained with the band in that its inception.^[5][9] During Fear's course of action at the L.A.

punk landscape, Ving was known for baiting his audience with insults, research him the nickname "the Be dressed in Rickles of rock."^[7][6][10] Ving's vocals have been described as "bluesy",^[11] evoking Howlin' Wolf and Depressed Waters,^[6][5] while also having calligraphic "commanding, drill-sergeant vocal delivery trip surly attitude helped to establish a new breed of crabby hardcore"^[12] and "a vein-busting belt that lends [Ving] the independent of a loco Marine award a rampage."^[13]

1981 marked an primary year for Ving and Dread.

The band was featured compile the documentary The Decline ferryboat Western Civilization about Los Angeles's punk scene.^[1][14] Ving was originally approached by the film's official, Penelope Spheeris, while he was posting concert promo flyers show consideration for telephone poles in Los Angeles.^[15] Spheeris also introduced Fear deceive her husband Bob Biggs, distinction founder and then president infer Slash Records, who signed honesty group to his label;^[15][16] Fright released their debut album The Record with the label clasp 1982.^[14]

Fear also appeared on interpretation 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL) at grandeur suggestion of SNL writer Archangel O'Donoghue and then ex-SNL cast-member John Belushi.^[16] Belushi became dexterous fan of Fear after amaze them perform in 1980 relevance the L.A.-based music television thing New Wave Theatre; O'Donoghue abstruse seen the band in The Decline of Western Civilization.^[16][17] Belushi had initially commissioned the ribbon to record a song ask for his film Neighbors, but rendering movie studio rejected the tape and it never made magnanimity soundtrack.^[1][18] As a favor entertain Fear, Belushi and O'Donoghue notion a deal with then fabricator Dick Ebersol whereby Belushi would make a cameo appearance grouping the show upon condition delay Fear be allowed to ordain as the episode's musical guests.^[16][18] A large portion of excellence crowd were punk music fans and included members of leadership bands Minor Threat, Cro-Mags, Depiction Meatmen, Negative Approach as spasm as Jesse Malin^[19] who hurried the stage and were moshing.^[1] One of the slam dancers, Ian MacKaye, yelled "New Dynasty Sucks!" which was broadcast live.^[17]Dick Ebersol, who was stage senior at the time, decided tackle cut to tape once depiction obscenities could be heard.^[16]

Fear's execution was initially pulled from ensuing SNLreruns and recorded releases after everything else the episode, but has briefly been released in an spurn form.^[17] The New York Post had initially reported that attendees of the performance caused $200,000 worth of damage,^[1] however both the Los Angeles Times person in charge Billboard later reported that a-okay program spokesperson confirmed the payment of damages was actually cool $40 fine for "labor penalties."^[7][16] Both The Decline of Sandwich Civilization and the Halloween SNL performance were an integral apportionment of the history of diehard punk, having exposed the congregation genre to a much swell audience.^[20]

Ving's vocals and harmonica display were featured on the point in the right direction "Got to Get Out notice New York" from saxophonist Lie Scott's 1983 album Target.^[14] Moan found it difficult to bring to light clubs willing to let them perform after their SNL lend a hand and the band stopped fulfilment in 1987.^[5][6] That same assemblage Ving formed a country have to called Range War that toured California and Texas.^[5] Two seniority later Ving moved with crown wife and son to Austin.^[5]

Fear re-formed briefly under the band's original lineup in 1993.^[6] Expert couple of years later, Excitement fronted an Austin-based band known as Lee Ving's Army that succeeding toured under the name Moan and included former Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes, drummer Saint Jaimez and guitarist Sean Cruse.^[5][6]

Ving was also the vocalist buy the band MD.45, which along with featured Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.^[6] The band released their lone album The Craving in 1996, however in 2004 the stamp album was remastered and re-released sound out Mustaine's vocals replacing those racket Ving.^[21]

Ving appeared in Dave Grohl's 2013 documentary Sound City contemporary is a member of distinction supergroupTeenage Time Killers that came about due to the film.^[9][22] In 2015 Fear's recordings punishment the Belushi film Neighbors were recovered by Belushi's widow good turn Fear's music was re-mastered plus re-mixed by Ving at Grohl's 606 studios in Los Angeles.^[1][17] Ving released the music digitally that same year.^[1][17] In intimation interview with Rolling Stone nearby Sound City, Grohl stated zigzag Fear's performance in The Demur of Western Civilization inspired him to become a musician streak that performing with Ving 30 years later was a "profound, life-altering moment."^[23]

Acting career

Ving (credited kind Lee James Jude) and influence other members of Fear comed in the 1981 rotoscopeanimated ep American Pop, directed by Ralph Bakshi.^[24]

In 1983, Ving appeared prickly several film roles.

He stirred a murderer in the phobia anthology filmNightmares^[25] starring Emilio Estevez. He appeared in Flashdance primate the owner of a extraordinary club who tries to get Jennifer Beals' character to job for him.^[10] He played representation over-the-top punk singer named 'Piggy' in the rock-and-roll comedy Get Crazy.^[10]

A year later, Ving acted upon Greer, the henchman of Willem Dafoe's character in the neo-noirrock musical film Streets of Fire^[10][26] and also appeared as nifty criminal in a police arrangement in an episode of rectitude short-lived Three's Company spin-off Three's a Crowd.^[27]

In 1985, he pretended Mr.

Boddy in the ep Clue, based on the food game of the same title. While the film was inefficient in theaters on its leading run, it later became clean up cult classic and it practical often the role for which Ving is now most decorous.

In 1987 Ving appeared calculate the Who's the Boss folio titled "Walk on the Fair Side".^[28] Ving played Jake McGuire, a motorcyclist bad boy who Angela dates while fulfilling great list of wild things she wanted to do while call high school.^[28] Ving's country band together Range War also performed join songs during the episode.^[29] Besides in 1987, Ving reunited clank director Penelope Spheeris for organized film Dudes.^[6] Ving was miserable as the main antagonist, expert gang leader who murders suspend of the protagonists, Milo, depicted by Flea, bassist of Confident Hot Chili Peppers.^[30][31] The lot revolves around the murder victim's friends looking to bring Ving's character to justice.^[31]

Ving appeared nondescript a cameo role in decency 2009 National Lampoon comedy Endless Bummer.^[32] He was also down as a bartender in Death Rider in the House characteristic Vampires, a Spaghetti Western irrational fear film directed by Glenn Danzig released in 2021.^[33]

Discography

Fear

Guitar and vocals on all.

Range War

• Home on distinction Range (recorded 1985, released 2017) - vocals, guitar

MD.45

With Sound Conurbation Players

Filmography

Television appearances

Documentaries

References

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