Orginal Inteview from http://www.mwe3.com/reviews/TDClark2011/
October 2011
mwe3: Where did you grow up and how and when did exposure to music impact your desire to learn to play guitar and what were some of the early experiences that inspired you to pick up and turn to the guitar in the first place?
T.D. CLARK: I have always lived in and around Chicago in the suburbs and still live in Aurora Illinois ha ha Wayne's World—I have a basement studio to boot—and my mother was always into music of all kinds The Who, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Alice Cooper, John Denver, ABBA, BeeGee's, Elton John just all kinds of stuff. Really quite melodic music. My uncle was an incredible pianist, studied at the conservatory here, and we hung a lot because he was only four years older than me oddly enough. So he was always playing piano and subsequently I got into it. But we could never afford a piano so one day I was digging around in my mom's closet and found a guitar and started fiddling with it. My mom yelled down the hall ‘what is all that racket?’ (lol) and I knew I had found my calling. I also remember ‘air guitar-ing’ to a lot of Bob Seger with a tennis racket when I was 10 or so. (lol)
mwe3: Is there a story behind the 2011 release of theShreddtime Stories album and how would you say it compares to your Next Big Adventure album from a few years ago?
