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Dogbowl

 
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Biography

Dogbowl (aka Steven Tunney) isn't ever going to be rich, and he'll probably never be famous. His biggest claim to fame was a brief stint as a founding member of a band who later become one-hit wonders (after he had left). And since his departure, none of his albums have sold over 20,000 copies. But those who enjoy his art do so religiously, making him somewhat of a cult hero for the few souls who know of him. His music combines a simple, catchy, almost pre-Beatles pop-writing style with esoteric, off-the-wall, practically post-modern lyrics. He started his career in the late '80s as the original lead guitarist of King Missile, who were then known as King Missile (Dog Fly Religion). He recorded two albums with King Missile and then, after finding the group's erratic, somewhat sarcastic musical direction unsatisfying, left to pursue his own erratic, left-wing endeavors. Dogbowl's individual efforts have been, by and large, more consistent musically than King Missile's. Although nothing he has written can claim to be as rip-roaringly hilarious as his former band's novelty hit "Detachable Penis," his lyrics are consistently clever. His most noteworthy moment as a solo artist came with the 1992 release of Flan, an outlandish concept album. Flan details the 21-track adventures of a protagonist, Flan, who, along with right-hand fish Ginger Kang Kang, treads boldly in search of his long lost love, Helen. It's extremely poppy and well done, but far too cerebral and particular in its humor to reach most pop audiences. Dogbowl's new label 62TV expects to release a greatest-hits collection in early 2001. ~ Kieran McCarthy, Rovi
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Dogbowl
Birth name Stephen Tunney
Genres Avant-garde
Instruments Guitar, vocals
Labels Shimmy Disc
Lithium Records
Eyeball Planet
62TV Records
Associated acts King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)
Kramer
Website Official Dogbowl website

Dogbowl (born Stephen Tunney) is an American artist and musician. He was a founding member of the avant-garde band King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) and has recorded many albums as a solo act.

He is also the author of two novels, One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, published in 2010 by MacAdam/Cage and Flan, published in 1992 by Four Walls Eight Windows. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy takes place on a terraformed Moon two thousand years in the future and chronicles the misadventures of sixteen year old Hieronymus Rexaphin, a boy who can see the fourth primary color, and the trouble he gets into after showing his unusual eyes to a teenage tourist girl from Earth. Flan is a long, fairly violent post-apocalyptic work containing some elements of surrealism.

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Personal

Stephen Tunney graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in 1982. He received an MFA from the City College of New York in 1991. He currently lives in New York City and Paris, France with his wife and two children

Writing

Stephen Tunney's novel One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, published by MacAdam/Cage in 2010 is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers Series" for the Holiday Season 2010-2011. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy will be translated into French and published France in Fall 2011 by the French publisher Éditions Albin Michel. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy is Stephen Tunney's second novel. He published Flan (1992, Four Walls Eight Windows) and on 2008 was re-published by Running Press. Flan was widely reviewed and appraised by magazines and newspapers such as New York Press, Boston Phoenix Literary Section, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Option, and the San Francisco Chronicle among others.

Discography

Solo

  • Tit! An Opera (Shimmy Disc, 1989)
  • Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (Shimmy Disc, 1991)
  • Flan (Shimmy Disc, 1992)
  • Project Success (Shimmy Disc, 1993)
  • Hot Day in Waco (Dogbowl & Kramer)(Shimmy-Disc, NYC 1994)
  • Dogbowl and The Peter Parker Experience: Nuage, Nuage (Lithium/Labels-Virgin France, 1994)
  • Live on WFMU (Lithium Records, 1995)
  • Gunsmoke (Dogbowl & Kramer)(Shimmy-Disc,NYC 1995)
  • The Zeppelin Record (Lithium Records, 1998)
  • Fantastic Carburetor Man (Eyeball Planet, 2001)
  • The Best of Dogbowl Volume II (62TV Records, 2001)
  • Le Chien Lunatic: Dogbowl Live in Bruxelles (Eyeball Planet, 2003)
  • Songs for Narcisse (Eyeball Planet, 2005)
  • Dogbowl Live At CBGB 1985-1986 (Eyeball Planet, 2007)

with Kramer

  • Hot Day in Waco (Shimmy Disc, 1994)
  • Gunsmoke (Shimmy Disc, 1995)

with King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)

Painting

Stephen Tunney, trained as a painter, works in the tradition of Renaissance artist who masters three different fields. He has exhibited widely in the United States as well as Europe, France, Switzerland, England, Belgium and Spain.[citation needed]

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Related topics:
Shimmy-Disc Compilation, Vol. 2 (1990 Music Film)
Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (1991 Album by Dogbowl)
Hot Day in Waco (1994 Album by Dogbowl & Kramer)

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