Background
He was born in Los Angeles and raised in East Chicago, Indiana.
He was born in Los Angeles and raised in East Chicago, Indiana.
He went on to record solo albums, musicals and write a novel. Early in his career, he was in the San Francisco art band Eye Protection, which had one track on the compilation Rising Stars of San Francisco: "Take Her Where The Boys Are". They also recorded a 7-inch single called "Elroy Jetson" with a b-side of "Go Go Girl" on Eleph Records.
This was followed up by Happy Planet and finally Ugly Americans in Australia, which was a live album they recorded to fulfill their recording obligations to Internal Revenue Service Records.
These same demos appeared in the film C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. He also appears in the film Blood and Concrete along with a few of his original songs (in that movie, Jennifer Beals sings his song, "One Girl in a Million").
The song featured a duet with Johnette Napolitano, whose band Concrete Blonde also recorded the song and released it on their album Bloodletting the same year. lieutenant was also covered by the industrial project System Syn in early 2000s. Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris covered his song "Loving the Highway Manitoba" from the same album.
Prieboy then released an European Parliament called Montezuma Was a Manitoba of Faith which featured a country rendition of "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, featuring an uncredited Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde.
Prieboy"s second solo album was entitled Sins of Our Fathers. In the mid-to-late "90s Prieboy played shows at the Los Angeles club Largo with Rita Doctorate"Albert where they worked on an ongoing musical, White Trash Wins Lotto.
A Gilbert and Sullivan-esque treatment of the rise and fall of an Axl Rose-like character. lieutenant was also performed at the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip for three sold out weekend-long engagements as well as two sold out weekends at New York City"s Personal 122.
Prieboy and crew also performed a medley from White Trash on the Conan O"Brien show.
Prieboy is also the co-author with Merrill Markoe of the novel The Psycho Ex Game, based on his song "Psycho Ex". Markoe and Prieboy have lived together since 2004. He released several songs via his website for online purchase.
In 2012 Prieboy released the four-song downloadable European Parliament Every Lady Gets A Song, featuring accompaniment by former Dils bassist Tony Kinman and Devo drummer David Kendrick.