Tommy Mars (real name Tommy Mariano) is a keyboard player, best known for his work with Frank Zappa. Born in Connecticut, U.S.A., Mars began piano lessons at age six, and later his instrument range expanded to various keyboards and synthesizers. Mars graduated in 1972 from the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut. From there he struggled to hold a variety of musical jobs including choirmaster, church organist, movie accompanist and more. In a 1980 interview in Keyboard Magazine, Mars described one of the more unusual jobs he had as follows - "I was working in this revolving organ bar in Kodiak, Alaska, with Japanese and Russian fishermen kicking me in the back if I couldn't play an ethnic folk song to their drunken satisfaction". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Mars