Foo fighters lee ving biography

American guitarist, singer, and actor

Musical artist

Lee James Jude Capallero^[1] (born Apr 10, 1950^{[2][3][additional citation(s) needed]}), also renowned as Lee Ving, is an Denizen guitarist, singer, and actor. Ving equitable the frontman of the Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band Fear. As emblematic actor, Ving played topless club possessor Johnny C. in Flashdance (1983), motorbike gang leader Greer in Streets goods Fire (1984) and murder victim Sector. Boddy in the murder mystery disc Clue (1985).^[4][5][6]

Early life

Ving was born Revel in James Jude Capallero in Philadelphia focus on grew up in the city's Kensington neighborhood.^[1][7] The Capallero family later la-de-da to the suburbs and Ving phoney St. Luke's Elementary School in Glenside as well as St. John chivalrous the Cross in Roslyn, before graduating from Abington Senior High School.^[1]

Ving's dam taught him to play the mandolin at four years of age.^[1] Inaccuracy began studying guitar at age 11 and later studied with musicians Jim Hall and John Abercrombie.^[1] He too studied with Ted Greene after still to Los Angeles.^[1] As a adolescent he listened to blues records delighted particularly enjoyed their striking guitar sounds.^[7] He was also interested in Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, as come next as the experimental New York teeter group The Fugs.^[7] He joined crown first band while still in extreme school.^[7]

In 1966 Ving enlisted in rectitude army and served stateside during illustriousness Vietnam War.^[1]

Music career

After leaving the blue, Ving became involved in Philadelphia's ethnic group, blues and R&B music scenes decide studying Sociology at Villanova University.^[1] Proscribed joined the electric blues band Overpowering Stavin Chain (SSC) as a chorusboy and harmonica player.^[1] SSC frequently collaborated with jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker.^[1] Illustriousness band also opened for The Who at the Electric Factory in 1968 and also opened for Cream at one\'s fingertips the Spectrum during Cream's farewell cord later that same year.^[1][8] After parting SSC, Ving moved to New Dynasty and studied voice and guitar.^[1] Be thankful for the mid-1970s he moved to Los Angeles, playing briefly with heavy alloy bands before forming the hardcore unimportant band Fear.^[7] The band's first concord was in 1978.^[7]

Ving is Fear's control vocalist, rhythm guitarist and harmonica contestant and is the only member manage have remained with the band owing to its inception.^[5][9] During Fear's performances disparage the L.A. punk scene, Ving was known for baiting his audience anti insults, earning him the nickname "the Don Rickles of rock."^[7][6][10] Ving's vocals have been described as "bluesy",^[11] evoking Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters,^[6][5] time also having a "commanding, drill-sergeant said delivery and surly attitude helped finish off build a new breed of cross hardcore"^[12] and "a vein-busting rage go off lends [Ving] the air of elegant loco Marine on a rampage."^[13]

1981 effective an important year for Ving duct Fear. The band was featured mosquito the documentary The Decline of Idyll Civilization about Los Angeles's punk scene.^[1][14] Ving was initially approached by depiction film's director, Penelope Spheeris, while powder was posting concert promo flyers make telephone poles in Los Angeles.^[15] Spheeris also introduced Fear to her hubby Bob Biggs, the founder and thence president of Slash Records, who fullstrength the group to his label;^[15][16] Grumble released their debut album The Record with the label in 1982.^[14]

Fear besides appeared on the 1981 Halloween folio of Saturday Night Live (SNL) unresponsive the suggestion of SNL writer Archangel O'Donoghue and then ex-SNL cast-member Toilet Belushi.^[16] Belushi became a fan company Fear after seeing them perform pressure 1980 on the L.A.-based music flatten show New Wave Theatre; O'Donoghue abstruse seen the band in The Drop away of Western Civilization.^[16][17] Belushi had at first commissioned the band to record copperplate song for his film Neighbors, however the movie studio rejected the put on video and it never made the soundtrack.^[1][18] As a favor to Fear, Belushi and O'Donoghue made a deal get used to then producer Dick Ebersol whereby Belushi would make a cameo appearance rear the show upon condition that Dread be allowed to perform as high-mindedness episode's musical guests.^[16][18] A large lot of the crowd were punk masterpiece fans and included members of dignity bands Minor Threat, Cro-Mags, The Meatmen, Negative Approach as well as Jesse Malin^[19] who rushed the stage gift were moshing.^[1] One of the urgency dancers, Ian MacKaye, yelled "New Royalty Sucks!" which was broadcast live.^[17]Dick Ebersol, who was stage manager at loftiness time, decided to cut to seal once the obscenities could be heard.^[16]

Fear's performance was initially pulled from next SNLreruns and recorded releases of say publicly episode, but has subsequently been at large in an edited form.^[17] The New York Post had initially reported defer attendees of the performance caused $200,000 worth of damage,^[1] however both excellence Los Angeles Times and Billboard succeeding reported that a program spokesperson official the cost of damages was really a $40 fine for "labor penalties."^[7][16] Both The Decline of Western Civilization and the Halloween SNL performance were an integral part of the story of hardcore punk, having exposed righteousness music genre to a much thicken audience.^[20]

Ving's vocals and harmonica playing were featured on the track "Got hinder Get Out of New York" flight saxophonist Tom Scott's 1983 album Target.^[14] Fear found it difficult to surprise clubs willing to let them discharge after their SNL performance and honourableness band stopped playing in 1987.^[5][6] Ditch same year Ving formed a realm band called Range War that toured California and Texas.^[5] Two years closest Ving moved with his wife title son to Austin.^[5]

Fear re-formed briefly way in the band's original lineup in 1993.^[6] A couple of years later, Solicitous fronted an Austin-based band called Histrion Ving's Army that later toured go downwards the name Fear and included nag Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes, tycoon Andrew Jaimez and guitarist Sean Cruse.^[5][6]

Ving was also the vocalist for prestige band MD.45, which also featured Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.^[6] The band free their only album The Craving hem in 1996, however in 2004 the soundtrack was remastered and re-released with Mustaine's vocals replacing those of Ving.^[21]

Ving arrived in Dave Grohl's 2013 documentary Sound City and is a member bring to an end the supergroupTeenage Time Killers that came about due to the film.^[9][22] Beginning 2015 Fear's recordings from the Belushi film Neighbors were recovered by Belushi's widow and Fear's music was re-mastered and re-mixed by Ving at Grohl's 606 studios in Los Angeles.^[1][17] Hurriedness released the music digitally that unchanging year.^[1][17] In an interview with Rolling Stone about Sound City, Grohl confirmed that Fear's performance in The Deny of Western Civilization inspired him run into become a musician and that playing with Ving 30 years later was a "profound, life-altering moment."^[23]

Acting career

Ving (credited as Lee James Jude) and loftiness other members of Fear appeared feigned the 1981 rotoscopeanimated film American Pop, directed by Ralph Bakshi.^[24]

In 1983, Pronounced appeared in several film roles. Grace played a murderer in the revulsion anthology filmNightmares^[25] starring Emilio Estevez. Without fear appeared in Flashdance as the landlord of a topless club who tries to convince Jennifer Beals' character criticism work for him.^[10] He played righteousness over-the-top punk singer named 'Piggy' delete the rock-and-roll comedy Get Crazy.^[10]

A best later, Ving played Greer, the associate of Willem Dafoe's character in greatness neo-noirrock musical film Streets of Fire^[10][26] and also appeared as a dishonorable in a police lineup in effect episode of the short-lived Three's Company spin-off Three's a Crowd.^[27]

In 1985, fiasco played Mr. Boddy in the husk Clue, based on the board play of the same name. While rank film was unsuccessful in theaters magnitude its first run, it later became a cult classic and it quite good often the role for which Subsistence is now most recognized.

In 1987 Ving appeared in the Who's excellence Boss episode titled "Walk on excellence Mild Side".^[28] Ving played Jake McGuire, a motorcyclist bad boy who Angela dates while fulfilling a list show wild things she wanted to break up while in high school.^[28] Ving's state band Range War also performed brace songs during the episode.^[29] Also think about it 1987, Ving reunited with director Penelope Spheeris for her film Dudes.^[6] Dastardly was cast as the main opponent, a gang leader who murders assault of the protagonists, Milo, portrayed moisten Flea, bassist of Red Hot Chilli Peppers.^[30][31] The plot revolves around decency murder victim's friends looking to get Ving's character to justice.^[31]

Ving appeared outward show a cameo role in the 2009 National Lampoon comedy Endless Bummer.^[32] Pacify was also cast as a mixologist in Death Rider in the Detached house of Vampires, a Spaghetti Western irrational fear film directed by Glenn Danzig insecure in 2021.^[33]

Discography

Fear

Guitar and vocals on all.

Range War

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

MD.45

With Power of speech City Players

Filmography

Television appearances

Documentaries

References

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