Name: | Bill Spooner |
Occupation: | Guitarist |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | August 16, 1949 |
Age: | 71 |
Country: | United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Leo |
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Before Fame
He played in a Beatles cover band called The XLs.
Biography
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Spooner was born and raised in Arizona with a few years spent in Lubbock, Texas. His family later moved back to Arizona, to Phoenix, where he began to play guitar. His first band was the XLs, a Beatles cover band. A band he started subsequently, the Beans, moved to San Francisco in 1970. Shortly after arriving the Beans merged with another group, the Red, White and Blues Band, to become the Tubes. He was guitarist, vocalist and principal songwriter for this group, known for their theatrical stage performances. The Tubes became a successful local and eventually nationally known band, and had a series of bestselling albums and hit singles in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Spooner left the Tubes for their temporary disbanding in 1985 and subsequently released his debut solo album, First Chud. After rejoining when the Tubes regrouped shortly thereafter, he would again leave the group in 1989, thus giving up use of a 24 track automated recording studio which the band had used.
Spooner then experimented with several bands, including the Sponge Mummies a satirical anti-environmental group, and SNAFU, a “paramilitary” rock band. Neither were very successful, although he began writing again during this period. Some of the songs appeared on the 1996 release Mall to Mars originally released on Visible Records, then on RDK Records. The record had outer space as a theme.
In 1998 Spooner teamed up with Alex Guinness to form the acoustic rock-folk group The Folk-Ups. They later added upright bassist Mark Skowronek. They now perform at Bay Area clubs such as Slim’s, Noe Valley Ministry, Cafe Amsterdam, and the Sweetwater. The Folk-Ups have opened for Dave Davies of The Kinks and Freedy Johnston.
Upcoming Birthday
Currently, Bill Spooner is 71 years, 11 months and 16 days old. Bill Spooner will celebrate 72nd birthday on a Monday 16th of August 2021.
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