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TODD TAMANEND CLARK (Vocal Phase)

About Me

TODD TAMANEND CLARK was born on August 10, 1952 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. His first book of poetry was published in 1974, and his first recording was released in 1975. He is an endorsement artist for Moog synthesizers and is a dedicated preservationist of Native American cultures. He has collaborated on projects with Allen Ravenstine (Pere Ubu), Cheetah Chrome (The Dead Boys), Chuck Moses, Cindy Black (John Cale), Dorothy Moskowitz (The United States Of America), Jim Shooter (Marvel Comics), Ken Cane (The American Indian Movement), Kevin Valentine (Donnie Iris), Steven Johnson Leyba, Tom Herman (Pere Ubu), and literary icon William Burroughs, as well as having befriended Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), Frank Zappa, Iggy Pop, Jack Kirby, Larry McClurg (Mind Garage), Laurie Anderson, Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Roy Loney (The Flamin' Groovies), Russell Means, Stiv Bators, Ted Nugent, The Residents, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), and Vaughn Bode (Cheech Wizard), among others. He is the divorced father of six talented offspring, two of whom are active in his band at the present time. X TECUMSEH CLARK was born on October 7, 1984 in Butler, Pennsylvania and is also a photographer. SACHEM ORENDA CLARK was born on February 21, 1988 in Butler, Pennsylvania and is a recent graduate of The University Of Pittsburgh with a double degree in music and philosophy and is now attending graduate school at Point Park. ================================================ NOW AVAILABLE: Nova Psychedelia (2-CD: Vocal, 1975-1985); Owls In Obsidian (CD: Instrumental, 2000); Staff, Mask, Rattle (2-CD: Instrumental, 2002); Monongahela Riverrun (CD: Instrumental, 2004). FORTHCOMING: Iron Alphabet (2-CD: Vocal, 2010); Dark Thunder (Book: Poetry, 2011); Dancing Through The Side Worlds (4-CD: Vocal, 2012); Translucent Third Eyelid (Book: Autobiography, 2013). ================================================ This is the MySpace site that promotes the vocal phase of Todd Tamanend Clark. For the instrumental phase, please click on the appropriate icon in the top friends area. ================================================

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Member Since: 09/03/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/all/primalpulse
Band Members: TODD TAMANEND CLARK: Vocals, Vocoder, Synthesizer, Sampler, Theremin, Ring Modulator, Electric Guitar, Electronic Percussion, Trap Set, Frame Drum, Water Drum, Rainstick, Rattle, Native American Flute, Ocarina, Whistle, Sequencer, Loops;X TECUMSEH CLARK: Keyboards;SACHEM ORENDA CLARK: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer.
Influences: Sun Ra, William Burroughs, The Fugs, The Mothers Of Invention, Captain Beefheart, The Byrds, Paul Revere And The Raiders, The Seeds, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Red Crayola, Love, The Music Machine, The Blues Magoos, The Electric Prunes, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Spirit, Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer, The Amboy Dukes, Ultimate Spinach, The United States Of America, Silver Apples, The MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper
Sounds Like: Jim Morrison, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, Philip Glass, Iggy Pop, The Residents, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Adrian Belew, Laurie Anderson, Reeves Gabrels, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Sonic Youth, Robbie Robertson, R. Carlos Nakai, Peter Buffett, Rage Against The Machine
Record Label: Primal Pulse / Anopheles
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CELEBRATING HALF A CENTURY OF COMIC BOOK COLLECTING

I was born on August 10, 1952 in Greene County, Pennsylvania in the southwestern corner of the state, and when I was a child, my severely epileptic mother and my assimilated-to-the-mainstream Lenape f...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:26:00 GMT

1960s AMERICAN RADICALS

In light of the recent controversy over Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers (something for which I actually admire him not condemn him), I have compiled a list of two hundred prominent artistic...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:27:00 GMT

MY SON -- THE SOLO ARTIST

My twenty-year old son Sachem (who is a music major at the University Of Pittsburgh) has just released his first solo album. He composed all the songs himself and played all the instruments and did al...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:23:00 GMT

IRON ALPHABET TRACK LISTING

Album: IRON ALPHABET Artist: TODD TAMANEND CLARK Label: Primal Pulse PP-0019 Projected Release Date: Late 2008       Disc One: Imprisonment 01. ARTIFACT  02. BONE 03....
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:00:00 GMT

MEXICAN FILM FESTIVAL

I'm having a private Mexican film festival in my home from September 15 to October 15, 2007. These are the films that I'm planning to show: ....DRAMA: ........09-15-07: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADR...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:26:00 GMT

SUMMER OF LOVE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY

[The following is excerpted from my forthcoming autobiography entitled Translucent Third Eyelid:]  My parents divorced in 1963, and my father remarried in 1964. I would spend summers, alternate weeken...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:52:00 GMT

TAMANEND'S DAY

MAY FIRST IS TAMANEND'S DAY!    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany   http://...com/2ge5ng     http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/letters/Tamanends_Day.htm l   htt...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:38:00 GMT

THE BEAT GENERATION

WILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS II (Kansas: 1914-1997) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs  HERMAN POOLE BLOUNT/LE SONY'R RA (Alabama: 1914-1993) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:51:00 GMT

THE POETS OF AMERICAN ROCK

TULI KUPFERBERG (New York: 1923-Present) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuli_Kupferberg CHARLES EDWARD ANDERSON BERRY (Missouri: 1926-Present) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry  PETER ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:04:00 GMT

CHEETAH CHROME GUITAR LESSON

Former Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome plays on three of the songs on my Nova Psychedelia CD. http://www.cdbaby.com/ttc4   Here he is at the Gibson website teaching the viewer how ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:14:00 GMT