My daughter. Making music. The spiritual journey. Great food. Good friends and family. Traveling. Gaia.
Music
You are listening to "The Event Horizon" from the CD "Expatriate Blues" by Never Like Now
I love music. I am blessed to make my living making music. She is the queen of my soul!
Some influences include: Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Freddie Stone, Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, Al McKay, David T Walker, Wah Wah Watson, Jimmy Page, Dennis Coffey, Cornell Dupree, Terry Kath, Jeff Beck, Tommy Bolin, BB King, Muddy Waters, Phelps "Catfish" Collins, Ernie Isley, Paul Jackson Jr, Larry Carlton, Steve Cropper, George Benson, Robben Ford and Lee Ritenour among others.
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FunkThis returns with a new line up and another amazing CD. Paying homage to some of their favorite groups, this CD is at times funky, jazzy, rocking and holy rolling. Flavors range from FM Rock to classic R&B to gospel on this inspired sophomore effort.
FUNK THIS!: Size Does Matter (Retail)
Here it is... "Size Does Matter" by the great international group Funk This featuring Henrik EngQvist, Chris Clermont, Brian Ogawa, Fabrizio Mandolini, and Poul Reimann. This CD runs the gambit from jazz-funk to neo-soul.
NEVER LIKE NOW: Kindred Spirits
Never Like Now triumphantly achieves a highly listenable collage of world music from African, native and latin American rhythms to Middle Eastern and Asian textures to traditional jazz and American pop.
NEVER LIKE NOW: Expatriate Blues
Never Like Now returns with an edgier offering of old school funk, primal beats, and jazz textures demonstrating the remarkable flexibility of its members.
Movies
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Getaway (the Steve McQueen/Ali McGraw original), American Psycho, Freeway, Bladerunner, The Matrix trilogy, The X-Men trilogy, Behind the Green Door, Citizen Kane, LeMans, Buffalo '66, Montana, 70s disaster films, Good porno, Blaxploitation films, and anything starring Sidney Poitier, Bruce Lee, James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Christina Ricci, Natasha Lyonne, Christian Bale, Laurence Fishburne, Bokeem Fishbine, Sasha Grey or Marilyn Chambers!. Oh, yes, anything directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorcese, Sam Peckinpah, Clint Eastwood, Otto Preminger, Spike Lee, David Lynch or Michel Gondry.
Television
Don't watch it very much these days except for sports and news occasionally. A looong time ago, I used to dig Laugh In, The Mod Squad, I Spy, I Love Lucy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., M*A*S*H, Wild Wild West, Jonny Quest, The Green Hornet, and all variety shows. Bugs Bunny rules. Love Star Trek new and old. With all due respect to Curly, Shemp was the all-time funniest of the Three Stooges. Oh yeah, The Thunderbirds, baby!!
Books
The Diary of Anais Nin. 1984. The works of Edgar Allen Poe, "Tunesmith" by Jimmy Webb, The Great Gatsby, Black Like Me, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, A Clockwork Orange, Fatherhood, Catch Me If You Can. (I know I'm missing lots)
Heroes
My mom and dad. My daughter. My sisters. My wife. My ancestors real and imagined. Kaydee Zephyr. Boobooliscious. Lola. Purrlione. Sammy. Whisper the Medicine Cat. Saffire. Dissenters of tyranny worldwide. Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglas. MLK & Malcolm. The true and original Black Panther Party (not the one presented by mainstream media). Great songwriters. Vavoom the Eskimo & Alfred E. Newman.
Chris Clermont is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer and 20+ year veteran of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, California. On stage and in the studio, Chris has worked with the widest variety of artists ranging from Kashif, Barry White, Dr Dre, Steve Tyrell, Snoop Dogg, Christian Castro, Kelly Clarkson, Burt Bacharach, Rod Stewart, Lisa Stansfield, Alejandra Guzman, and CBS RockStar: INXS finalists MiG Ayesa and Deanna Johnston among others.
For 7 years, Clermont was a member of Brian Auger's Oblivion Express touring Europe and North America with the Hammond B3 organ giant.
Chris is a natural teacher and mentor, generous with patience and knowledge. His bands and projects reflect his love for music and humanity. For the past 4 years, he has been invited by the Danish Musicians Union (DMF) and the Arts Council for the Northern Part of Denmark to conduct vocal seminars as well as perform around the country.
Watch out for TRANSpHaT, a blues/funk/rock trio featuring Chris Clermont, Mark London Sims (Ben Harper, General Public), & Henrik EngQvist (Robben Ford, Justo Almario).
John Coltrane. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Wes Montgomery. My great grandparents. Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglas. Malcolm X. Winston Churchill. Gene Roddenberry. Siddhartha Guatama. Nichiren Daishonen. Jesus the Nazarene and Mary Magdalene.
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Hey Chris, I'm hosting a new open mic at Bugsy's on Jones and Sahara 9p till...every wed. Hope you can stop by. If you know some bands or individual players lookin' to jam this is perfect for them. I'm a blues/rock guy but my jams are always any style. So Punk, Jazz, Pig Squealers, whatever!
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