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Clark 8

a charge to keep

About Me

- oh dang -

we just recorded some stuff and it sounds bangin!

One more acoustic show b4 I go to Houston, check out Keith with waterlaso while I'm gone -Rich

TAPE!

Click Kobe to get it!!

a folktale records release. schwing!

free noise jam out here:

Download a free 7 minute ambient (depending on your volume selection) guitar noise wash mp3: Da ma, xiao Mei guo (right click and select save as)

Be good to yourself, you deserve it.

Raised by sharks megamix exclusive download and mega old rarities for download here::

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/17/2006
Band Website: clark8.com
Band Members: Keith on drums, Dave on bass/vox, Rich on guitar/vox
Influences: Extended hospital stays, food, LA county, science and technology, my parents, chautauqua county ny, brooklyn, manhattan, the outdoors, WWII, vietnam, the global war on terror (WWIV)
oh but musically... I try not to copy Lee Ranaldo, Sterling Morrison, Mia Doi Todd, Ian MacKaye, Thurston Moore, Lou Barlow, Steve Malkmus, J Mascis, Tobin Sprout, Robert Quine, Bob Pollard, Elastica (1st band crush), New Order, A Certain Ratio, All of the Jamestown NY Bands that I learned from (summed up in the audience ), Mom, Dad, Peter Gabriel, The The (J. Marr era, but really any of it), Clinic, Gang of Four, the Pixies, Ikue Mori, o.blaat, lloop, dj olive, djrupture, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton, Badawi, Jason Forrest, Jim O'Rourke, Dosh, Sleater-Kinney, Buddy Holly, Talking Heads, what's played on WFMU umm... yeah... this is really just name dropping, so I'll stop. :-)
MTV 1984-1997, in store radio, lapd helicopters, kids who had good CDs, tapes and vinyl to listen to.
Sounds Like: we've been told: sebadoh, dinosaur jr., the police, calexico we think: FSOL, KMFDM, the KLF but seriously, we just wanna sound like we care. 'cause we care a lot.
Seriously though, we sound like bass, drums, guitar, and spastic singing.
Record Label: folktale records, mookie records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Most offensive Clark 8 demo ever.

Ok.So, this is it. "coping with modernity" the song, as it exists on this myspace page is ephemera. A product of 3-4 hours of late night fiddling and whatnot. It owes a debt to Cher, T-Pain, Akon, ...
Posted by Clark 8 on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:16:00 PST

Frat rock for the unpledged == Facebook Clark 8 page w/ new song

Actually I have no idea about the proper nomenclature for fraternal associations of the collegiate type. Needless to say, that’s sort of where Clark 8 resides. Frat rock for those of us who re...
Posted by Clark 8 on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:32:00 PST

good things of music

We are playing our next show at Whitman’s LP release party. That will be something else. That’s at pehrspace on the 31st. I (Rich) put a little cello down on something that he’s p...
Posted by Clark 8 on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:48:00 PST

Riverside... South Central... Houston, TX

So... today is my birthday. This is the first public forum in which I've announced it. I try to keep it low key otherwise... but yeah. One more year until I'm officially to old to rock and I'll have...
Posted by Clark 8 on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:14:00 PST

Violin, viola, cello

Ok... so I finally got Thurston Moore's (not that new) "Trees Outside the Academy"... I never had "Psychic Hearts", but I'd listened to it a lot... Anyway, I was instantly floored by the violin, play...
Posted by Clark 8 on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:04:00 PST

the final countdown

So yeah, we finished tracking on a few more songs with Piry of Family Tree Analog. These are 4 track fully analog versions, so way more stripped down than the protools action that graces 75% of what ...
Posted by Clark 8 on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:38:00 PST

semi-mixed feelings about making Andy Dick cry.

Story time!First off in band news, we got news songs and a new recording on the way... but it's always like that. We are gonna rock Oxnard pretty hard. Had some good shows at Old Town Pub and L'KEG ...
Posted by Clark 8 on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:09:00 PST

Starting the day right.

Fell off my bike this morning. It was wet from rain and/or sprinklers and my left shoe slipped off the pedal. I made eye contact with some guy right as I went down. He said "Are you OK?" I was.Yes...
Posted by Clark 8 on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:42:00 PST

our cassette’s out + futuresongs + etc etc

Oh my!We had our cassette release show the day before yesterday and it was totally invigorating. Got to see some fave bands: Family Tree Analog, Codpiece and Whitman Then we did our little rock thin...
Posted by Clark 8 on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:15:00 PST

post xmas blog

So... here's the deal we have a cassette tape coming out.  It has 13 solid gold megahits and instant classics on it.  Basically it's a must buy for 2008.  And it will be pretty f'n...
Posted by Clark 8 on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:39:00 PST