Missing Persons

That's awesome.

You guys have been able to open for national acts like Tommy Two-Tone, the great Wayne Newton, Missing Persons.

I'm looking at Berlin.

Oh, my gosh.

Once the tour was completed, the group broke up and the posthumous, you know, after they're done, live album, Night After Night, was released shortly afterwards.

Following the disbandment of the group, Eddie Jobson became a member of Jethro Tull Terry Bozzio formed Missing Persons, and I've got a couple Missing Persons albums.

And John Wenton formed Asia with fellow progressive rock stars Steve Howell, Karl Palmer, and Jeffrey Downs.

Now the question I have is, do you guys know who this super group is?

I'm almost done.

Missing Persons, I think they were kind of overlooked.

They were like real hit makers in the 80s.

Terry and Dale Bozzio.

You're listening to Vinyl on Chrome, and I'm Dylan Stone.

Now, Missing Persons and Walking in L.A., a song that basically asks Los Angeles one very dangerous question.

What if we used our feet? The band was part of that early 80s L.A.

new wave explosion, and this song became a perfect little time capsule of the city.

So if you see somebody walking in LA, don't panic.

They're either in this song or their car broke down.

Here's Missing Persons.

This is called Walking in LA.

Crazy.

You know, this week, uh, the, the guest was Dale Bozzio from, um, Missing Persons.

Uh, and I forgot to tell Justin that.

Justin would be...

Because of Tool's touring schedule, Danny Carey couldn't do this tour, so they had to get another drummer, and they got Terry Bozzio.

Now, Terry Bozzio famously played with Frank Zappa, with Missing Persons, uh, and in the l- for the last 25 years has been kind of this solo percussive, percussion artist.

He, he has this insanely gigantic drum set that literally has 30 or 40 drums on it, 30 or 40 cymbals, and he does these solo drum pieces.

And they're very intricate, and they're, and they're designed for a single player to play.

To cast a new wave or punk-adjacent band in the Los Angeles of 1982, Coolidge had several homegrown choices.

Missing Persons, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo.

She recalled, The original band that was going to represent Hollywood, I had asked X to do it, but X was very concerned about alienating their fans in the Valley, so they turned it down.

And that's how it came to be the Plimsolls.

But I'm thinking about LA.

I'm thinking about, uh, driving on Mulholland Drive, and I'm thinking about how, uh, nobody walks in LA, and so I'm thinking about the Missing Persons song Walking in LA from 1983 with its refrain, "Nobody walks in LA." I, I feel like I've only really gotten to know this song recently.

The New Wave channel on SiriusXM plays this song all the time, and so I've really c- like, gotten to really like this song in the last couple of years.

And it's funny, I used to...

When I lived in LA, I called it the place where the sidewalk ends.

All I really know about Missing Persons is that Terry Bozzio is in this band, and so are some other dudes who played with Frank Zappa, and I think this came after their time with Zappa.

And I always found it interesting because this band sounds like exactly the opposite of what Zappa was interested in.

And I also know that Terry Bozzio's wife at the time, Dale Bozzio, who's the band's lead singer, sounds like Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs went back in time to sing lead in this song.