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Every self-respecting horror fan remembers the first time they saw Bill Moseley - grinning like a demented Cheshire cat with a mouthful of festering tombstone teeth; pale, peeling skin and sporting a foppish black Sonny Bono Wig screaming "Music is my LIFE!" At the same time, the twitchy weirdo is flicking a Bic to the end of a rusty coat hanger, absent-mindedly scraping his diseased scalp with the heated hook and eating the scabby spoils. This, of course, was Moseley as ChopTop, the madder than mad, larger than life and sicker than sick younger brother of cannibal chili king Drayton Sawyer in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2.

The jack-of-all-trades Renaissance man wrote, funded, and starred (as The Hitchhiker) in a wigged-out parody of one of his favorite films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, called The Texas Chainsaw Manicure. An impressively imaginative, dead-on rip on the original, the film eventually ended up in the mitts of Massacre auteur Tobe Hooper, who was so impressed he promised Moseley a role in a proposed sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that he had in the works. Two years later, reps from Cannon Pictures had him on the horn and within days the deal was sealed. Moseley, metal plate fastened securely to his clean-shaved bald pate, stepped into the bloody boots of The Hitchhiker's severely unhealthy twin brother, ChopTop, and a new horror icon was born.

In the years to follow, Moseley would work continuously in front of the camera, appearing in Chuck (The Mask) Russell's successful remake of The Blob, Clint Eastwood's Pink Cadillac, the anti-Christmas slasher sequel Silent Night Deadly Night 3, Tom Savini's remake of Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Sam Raimi's third entry in his Evil Dead series, Army of Darkness. And while the celebrated cult actor continued developing his professional career, his more intimate and personal career as father and family man was also blossoming.

Now a genre icon twice over, Moseley lives a quiet life in Hollywood with his two daughters, two cats, a cantankerous parrot named Mr. Hanky, and Lucinda, the love of his life. He's a hysterically funny, bright, approachable guy who also finds time to release full-length albums of experimental rock 'n' roll, with the likes of Guitar God Buckethead (CORNBUGS) and Rani Sharone (SPIDER MOUNTAIN.) Both CORNBUGS and SPIDER MOUNTAIN CD's are available @ www.choptopsbbq.com

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