Clay Tarver

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Clay Tarver is an American guitarist and writer who was born in San Antonio, Texas on 8 November, 1965.

He first came to prominence as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the infamous Boston hard rock/punk band, Bullet LaVolta in the late 1980s. They recorded a few records for Taang! RCA and Matador records before disbanding in 1991. He then formed "Chavez" 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.

Clay has also worked as a screenwriter for television and film. He created the "Jimmy the Cabdriver" intersticials 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.