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Tommy Mars
real name Tom Mariano
Tommy Mars is credited on 715 releases across 125 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
715
Credits
125
Albums
6
Decades active
335
In collections
Biography
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Keyboardist who joined Frank Zappa’s band in 1977 and stayed until 1982. After that he collaborated with Steve Vai and The Band From Utopia with other members of Frank Zappa’s band.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
715 releases · 125 albums · active 1978–2025
- Performance · 2,660
- Other credits · 108
- Engineering · 1
Studios: UMRK · The Palladium, NYC · Hammersmith Odeon · The Ritz, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Sheik Yerbouti
1979
Joe's Garage Act I
1979
Zappa In New York
1977
You Are What You Is
1981
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
1982
Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
1987
Them Or Us
1984
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
1981
Flex-Able
1984
Jazz From Hell
1986
The Man From Utopia
1983
Tinsel Town Rebellion
1981
Guitar
1988
Orchestral Favorites
1979
Baby Snakes
1983
Halloween 81
2020
Have I Offended Someone?
1997
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3
1989
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Sampler)
1988
Halloween 77
2017
The Lost Episodes
1996
Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention
1985
Thing-Fish
1984
Flex-Able Leftovers
1984
Frequent collaborators
- Frank Zappa
- Zappa
- Jon Larsen
- Steve Vai
- Stuart Hamm
- Various
- Z
- Bob Harris
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