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DOG Full Name: Tommy DOG a.k.a. Tommy DOG Prinz a.k.a. Captain Cheerful

DOG Birth: March 1st 1968

DOG Status: Married To Ducky Doolittle

DOG Parents: One of each

DOG Siblings: Dr. Jesse Prinz

DOG Current Job: Owner/Musical Director of CrawlSpace N.Y.C., and Stoned Turtle Productions / Sod Records. I do odd jobs in technology including sound design and record production as well as consulting in both areas of audio and internet. Despite all odds I am still a member of The Brain People (formed 1981).

DOG Current Projects: In my spare time I design instruments and occasionally paint. I am continuing to record with The Brain People who have just released the album Ugly Genius and I hope that it will gain the type of feedback the last album received. There are so many projects waiting to get finished or some cases get started that I am always involved in something.

DOG Former Jobs have included: Owner of The Boom Boom Room. Owner of Mega-Dog Studios. Teaching bass guitar. Vocalist and songwriter for The Wankers, Happy Warfare, La-Bas and The Tommy Dog Experience, also gainful employment as a video dubber, salesmen and shipping clerk.

DOG Education: Expelled from one high school (due to my exotic choices haberdashery), two additional years in "Special Ed", a month or two in college (left with zero credits and Hepatitis)

DOG Artistic Training: 1979-80 USDAN Center For The Arts: classical guitar and music theory. 1980-81 private lessons Joe Ravo: jazz guitar and music theory. 1981-83 private lessons Peter Best: electric guitar and electric bass guitar, 1982-83 New Lincoln School: studio recording and synthesizer programming, 1985 New School For Social Research: music theory and analysis, 1986 Guitar Study Center: modern recording techniques. During the 90's I studied through IRCAM Forum (synthesis dept.)

DOG Main Instruments: Bass, Guitar, Waterphone, Theremin, Chapman Stick and Synthesizer

DOG Feeding Habits: Donuts and Beer

DOG Hobbies: Collecting Musical Instruments, Records, B-Movies, Books and Toys.

DOG Musical Talisman: Parliament-Funkadelic, Motorhead, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Charles Mingus, Sex Pistols, The Germs, Fear, Rudimentary Peni

DOG Pets: DEAD