born in atlanta, georgia, bone began his professional musical career creating soundtracks and scores for several off-broadway companies working in experimental theater. in 1979, he released with his band bone the single "pirate the islands/headlines have it" before joining the new-wave band shox lumania in 1981. bone then recorded a solo 7" entitled "digital days/alien girl" on and was subsequently signed to survival records in the uk where he released several lps, eps, singles and contributed to various compilation albums. his 1983 single "joy of radiation" reached no. 1 on the hong kong dance chart.