Wolfgang (Stussi) Dios began his musical career in the mid-1960s, playing in a cover bands at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA. In 1966, he became a member of the psychedelic rock group The Brain Train in Hollywood CA, which ultimately morphed into Clear Light, the first band signed by Elektra records after the Doors.

Wolfgang wrote their first and only single, Black Roses, listed as #82 among the best 200 best psychedelic rock songs in the book 20th Century Rock and Roll Psychedelia (Bellmore Publishers, 2000). He also produced and recorded numerous of his songs with the Joint Effort and Instant Joy. In the fall of 1968, he worked as a record producer for Jamie records in Philadelphia on an album with folk/blues singers Mardi Rowley.

After relocating to Canada in 1971, he founded The Ferocious Wolfgang Band which released an independent album, White in Candlelight, in 1993. 

For more than fifty years,Wolfgang Dios worked as a newspaper and magazine entertainment journalist, specializing in music, theatre and film. Throughout, he also continued his musical explorations which have resulted in the 2018 recording for the EP When.