Wammo

Ok all you folks who have been bugging me to hear what my new country band sounds like, I posted four songs to the Billy Dave Wammo myspace page. Check them out, be my friend!

And now for my bio.



I hate bios. There's nothing worse than an artist getting someone to write a bunch of drivel about their "soulful awareness" or "technical proficiency." Wait, there is something worse, when they've obviously written it themselves. Then there's the list of quotes from rave reviews. My favorite quote about me is "Wammo's sensitive side can drink you under the table." My bio on the Spanker site was written by Louis Black of the Austin Chronicle but since he's not credited, lot's of people think I wrote it myself. So let's do something different here.



Here's a list of all of the jobs I've had. I've been a.

Grunt swinging a pick axe on a golf course

Lifeguard

Pizza Maker

Waiter

Bartender

Fine art framer

Door to door salesman

Sandwich delivery boy (bicycle)

Cab Driver

Club DJ

Radio DJ

Actor

Musician

Record Producer

Video Director/Editor



I have a BFA in RTF from TCU



I was born in NYC on 12/25/61, son of a Metropolitan Opera star. Moved to San Antonio when I was nine, where I promptly got the shit kicked out of me because I didn't "talk right." Learned how to talk right. Smoked my first cig at ten. Took my first drink and had my first orgasm at eleven (no, not on the same day.). Lost my virginity at sixteen, same year I started my first band. Swam competitively as a teenager. Played soccer in high school and college. Studied art and theater. Learned to drive and promptly wrecked a few cars. Did lots of drugs (hey, it was the seventies, then the eighties, then the. uh.) I moved to Austin after college. Started my first all original band, Oboyo and things sisyphusly steamrolled from there. I've been playing music in this town for twenty years.



My favorite TV station is VH1Classic. Right now they're playing Elvis Costello's Club Land. All they show is music videos, no reality shows, no makeovers. My favorite program on that channel is Metal Mania. When hair metal was hot, I could have cared less but now I love it. There's nothing like seeing a video by Celtic Frost, Zebra or Dokken to make me roll on the floor - in a good way.



I formed the Asylum Street Spankers with my friend, Guy Forsyth, in late March or early April of 1994. That same year I traveled with the Mtv Spoken Word Tour and Lollapalooza as a poet. Soon after I was signed to Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records to record an album. That record, Fat Headed Stranger was released in 1996. Wait, I have a better idea, how about a discography? I'll write it later, maybe. I hate researching myself and I can't remember what I did when, half of the time. Oh okay, I'll do it now.



Albums Released

Solo

W.O.R.M. Wammo's Organic Rubber Machine - Rainforest Rcds 1991

Wammo - Fat Headed Stranger - Mouth Almighty/Mercury Rcds 1996

Wammo - Faster Than The Speed Of Suck - Spanks-a-lot Rcds 2001

Wammo - Lowriders On The Storm - Spanks-a-lot Rcds 2005



Asylum Street Spankers - Live - Watermelon Rcds

Asylum Street Spankers - Spanks For The Memories - Spanks-a-lot Rcds - 1996

Asylum Street Spankers - Nasty Novelties - Spanks-a-lot Rcds - 1997

Asylum Street Spankers - Hot Lunch - Cold Spring Rcds - 1999

Asylum Street Spankers - Spanker Madness - Spanks-a-lot Rcds

Asylum Street Spankers - A Christmas Spanking - Spanks-a-lot Rcds - 2001

Asylum Street Spankers - Dirty Ditties - Spanks-a-lot Rcds - 2002

Asylum Street Spankers - My Favorite Record - Spanks-a-lot 2002

Asylum Street Spankers - Mercurial - Spanks-a-lot - 2004



DVDs

Asylum Street Spankers - Sideshow Fez - Spanks-a-lot - 2004

Asylum Street Spankers - Re-Assembly - Spanks-a-lot - 2006



Oh, and I've been in three movies:

Slacker - Anti-artist 1991

Ruta Wakening - Wammo 1995

Slam Nation - Wammo 1998