Clay Tarver is an American guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 and writer.

Music career

He first came to prominence as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the Boston hard rock/punk band, Bullet LaVolta

Bullet lavolta

Bullet LaVolta was a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts that was originally formed in January 1987 by four college disk jockeys: Clay Tarver , Bill Whelan , Corey "Loog" Brennan and Chris "Cruster" Guttmacher . The band later added singer Yukkie Gipe after he responded to an advertisement...

 in the late 1980s. They recorded a few records for Taang! RCA and Matador records before disbanding in 1991. He then formed Chavez

Chavez (band)

Chavez is an alternative rock/math rock band from New York, formed in 1993. After a period of inactivity, the band reformed in 2006. They released two independent non-charting albums in the mid-1990s...

 with Matt Sweeney, Scott Marshall and James Lo, a band that came to be known as one of the most progressive and hard rocking math bands of the 90's.

Movie career

Tarver has also worked as a screenwriter for television and film. He created the "Jimmy the Cabdriver" interstitials for MTV in the mid 1990s with friends from college. He has also written films like Joy Ride, with JJ Abrams and other projects with Mike Judge

Mike Judge

Michael Craig Judge is an American animator, film director, writer and voice actor, best known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head , King of the Hill , and The Goode Family .He also wrote, directed and in some instances produced the films Beavis and...

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