Career
Rodney Bingenheimer helped to break them by playing their music on KROQ-FM. Bill Noland joined the band shortly after the release of "Call of the West" on I.R.S. Records. Shortly afterward, Bill Noland, Stan Ridgway and Joe Nanini left the band. He produced tracks for Thin White Rope on Frontier Records, Field Trip for Slash Records, and produced and collaborated with Ridgway on his solo albums, The Big Heat (Internal Revenue Service, 1986), Mosquitos (Geffen, 1989), Partyball (Geffen, 1991), Songs That Made This Country Great (Internal Revenue Service, 1992), Black Diamond (Birdcage, 1995), Work the Dumb Oracle (Internal Revenue Service, 1995) and The Way I Feel Today (Impala, Disinformation, 1998).
Noland also worked as a foley and Alternative Dispute Resolution engineer and mixer for Bryan Singer"s film Public Access, and the films Wizard of Oz (short), and Snow White (short) as well as numerous television and cartoon features.
Bill Noland composed and produced the scores for the 2001 film The Vampire Hunters Club and the 2003 film The Low Budget Time Machine. Currently, Noland has two solo albums available, "Mandala Louisiana Louisiana", and "Red Naugahyde Clyde".