T.D. Clark

Bio:

T. D. Clark is a genuine artist who erases musical borders to create a genre unique to instrumental as well as vocal music. Clarks emotional guitar playing is the key that unlocks the passion behind each chord and riff, making his music universal to all ears, which is why he has sold over thousand's of CD's across the U.S and overseas!

Born in Chicago, Clark has been immersed in music since he was a child. His Grandfather played guitar and piano, his uncle who was (and still is) an accomplished pianist that graduated from Chicagos conservatory of music. Even Clarks mother played a bit of guitar. All of these factored in Clarks exposure to a lot of music early on. My mom had records from the Beatles to Alice Cooper to The Who to John Denver playing all the time, and my uncle loved Elton John, Styx, and all kinds of classical music. So whenever I write songs whether they be instrumental or vocal I think of what made all those artists great, and that is strong melody. He originally wanted to play piano but due to costs picked up his mothers guitar. He began learning from books and figuring songs out by ear and eventually began studying music theory at high school and then college.

As Clark began recording his first solo effort in late 1994, tragedy struck. His second and third fingers on his left (fretting hand) were crushed in a work related accident, completely immobilizing them. Playing guitar again seemed uncertain, but Clark was determined more than ever and continued writing songs with his first and fourth fingers while rehabbing his damaged fingers for many months.

To date Clark has played over a thousand shows all over the U.S. as well as in England and Spain and Portugal. He was found by famed attorney Stevens Weiss (Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Bad Co.) and subsequently became the support act for the 1996 Ted Nugent/Bad Co. playing 25 shows all over the U.S. He has also performed with Stephen Pearcy (Ratt), Michael Schenker, Blue Oyster Cult, Kings X, Lynch Mob, Pat Travers, Michael Angelo, Bill Dickens, Dave Uhrich, Tony MacAlpine, Rick Wills (Bass player for Foreigner, Bad Co., Peter Frampton) Gary Hoey, Chris Duarte, and Eric Gales. In 1997 Clark traveled to England to partake in an all-star jam with the members of Bad Co., Foreigner. In July 1998 T. D. performed at the Jim Dunlop/Dean Markley/Nady showcase party at summer NAMM as well as the Nady booth. In 1999 Clark invaded the famous L.A. strip for shows at the Whiskey a Go Go, The Key Club, and the Coconut Teazer wowing the crowds with his fiery guitar playing and wild stage antics. In 2000 T.D. attended the Grammy awards and subsequent Universal Music Party with members of Smash mouth, Sting, Lionel Richie, Howard Stern, Lisa Marie Presley, David Spade, as well as a host of other dignitaries. He was also chosen as the house Latin guitarist for the Copacubana, the number one Latin restaurant in the Chicago area as chosen by the Chicago Tribune. 2001 opened with a bang! Not only did Clark release his new CD PERSPECTIVE but played to a packed House Of Blues and Hard Rock Café Chicago with fellow guitarists Michael Angelo and Dave Uhrich. He just played 2 sold out nights with Michael Schenker at the Chicago House of Blues on November 26 and 27th.

T. D. played a 5-store mini clinic tour at the Guitar Center stores in the Chicago land area in the spring of 2001 and 2002 and will participating in more clinics across the country. T.D. recently appeared on Q101 (The number 1 rock station in Chicago) radios local show with Chris Payne where he performed live in front of an estimated listening audience of over 250,000 people. He has had his songs played on over 30 radio stations across the U. S.

www.tdclark.com currently receives over 15,000 hits a month and climbing. People can check out the latest photos and info on what has been going on, and, pick up tips on playing and the music business.

T. D. Clark is currently an endorsee and clinician for Rocktron, ESP Guitars, Nady wireless systems, Jim Dunlop mfg, Dean Markley strings, Sansamp/Tech21, Sabine, Mesa Boogie amplication and Seymour Duncan pickups. He has performed at several of their NAMM show booths over the years.

T. D. is also an in demand guitar instructor with over 40 students!

In summer 2001 T. D. performed live on Radio Vigo in Vigo, Spain, the number 1 top 40 rock station in the city of 400,000. He did a translated interview and played Avalanche, the single off his new CD PERSPECTIVE as well as goofed around with personalities Sal and Bea.

T. D. played for thousands of people at the Chicago Blackhawks Hockey teams season home opener at United Center on October 11th, 2001, where he was chosen from dozens of other applicants. The Blackhawks also are using Avalanche during their home games at United Center during intermission and play stoppages.

T. D. was back playing the strip in L. A. with clinics at the famous Guitar Center Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. on October 29th, and the G. C Fountain Valley (Oct 30) plus shows at the Cat Club (Oct 30) and the Famous Whiskey A Go Go on Nov. 2nd 2001

On November 11th 2001 95.5 KLOS (one of Los Angeles Californias top radio stations) featured 5 songs from T. D. Clarks PERSPECTIVE on their Local Licks program. Normally only bands from the L. A. area are featured but Bill Hartew, the shows Producer and L. A. Music Lifetime Achievement Award winner for his work promoting local and unsigned bands, thought the songs were really great and made an exception. He said, I love the disc! and Avalanche, the discs single, just plain rocks.

T. D. and Boardwild/International Sports Productions/Time Life have entered into a licensing agreement for the song The Fugitive for use in the 2002 film release Adrenaline Ride. He has also entered into and agreement with Mack Dawg Productions for the use of the song 12 String Thing in the September release PULSE. Go Pro Video productions also have licensed several songs for their new Windfest 2002 video.

T. D. was tapped to open for SANDFROG, the rock band fronted by the World Series Champion Anaheim Angels first Baseman Scott Spiezio in January 2003, for shows at the Grove Theater in Anaheim California, and at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood California.

In May 2003 T. D. sports affiliation continued when was contacted by Sports Giant ESPN to create music for their Sports Center program. T. D. was chosen along with Zack Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne) Marty Friedman (Megadeth) and Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) to create music for ESPNs programming.

Of the hundreds of tracks available from their library, ESPN picked music T. D. Clark made for them for their 2003 Marlins/Yankees World Series highlights!

In 2004 T. D. licensed the song Mary Love, from his Perspective CD, to Afraid of the Dark productions for use in their film, The Reeker, which will be released in spring 2005. This marked the 5th song from the Perspective CD to be licensed.

In 2005 Clark opened his own recording studio, Studio T, in Aurora Illinois fulfilling a childhood dream. He also began recording the first of several instructional DVD..s that will be avaible for purchase in early 2006. Also in early 2006 The Film REEKER will open in thousands of theaters in Europe exposing even more people to T. D...s Music T. D. kicked off 2006 by playing at the winter NAMM show in Annaheim where he demo'd a new amp line for Nady systems. As usual T. D. packed them in with his ripping playing and hiliarious insites in life! In late July 2006 T. D. released his 3rd disc Next Big Adventure which shot to the number 2 spot on www.guitar9.com shred category and has remained in the top 5 in sales since. Next Big Adventure not only showcases Clark's songwriting and excellent chops but his versatility as he tackles Latin, solo acoustic, and classical type stylings as well as the rock/shred style he is most noted for. It also showcases a bit of humor with a killer remake of the song Play That Funky Music that makes you laugh, as well and play the hell out of your air guitar! in 2006 T. D. again licensed the song Mary Love to the film Wedding Slashers which is available for rental at a Blockbuster near you this December. T. D also licensed several songs to the film short THE POWER OF ONE; Ken Perry's Ultra Run, which benefits the Wildland Firefighter foundation. T. D. contributed a solo to the DSG song The Voyage where T. D. will trade off solo's with shred gods Michael Angelo, Joe Stump and David Shankle T D was featured in Guitar Player Magazine January '08 For more information both legal and otherwise please contact T. D. at tdclark@comcast.net .. ..

Member Since:

November 22, 2005

Members:

Current Live band lineup T.D. Clark - Guitars,
Barry Klieber- Bass-- Vince Consolo- Drums-- Lineup for Shreddtime Stories CD T. D. Clark all guitars Jimmi Ward Bass Fred Bartolomeo Drums Mike Ault all percussion on Moroccan Bedtime Story and 5 Durhim David Shankle solo's 1,3,5 on Drop D Symphony

Influences:

Adrian Vandenberg, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Tony Macalpine, Strunz and Farah, Vinnie Moore, Elliot Easton, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Peter Frampton, Michael Schenker Nuno Bettencort and the BeeGees.

Sounds Like:

A variety of well crafted guitar songs. Combine the melody of Vandenberg Frampton and Satch with the fire of Gary Moore and the attack of Vinnie Moore and Tony MacAlpine, throw in some Michael Schenker and Barry Gibb and you have T. D. Clark.

Record Label:

Bison Music