Clif Taylor attended the University of Arizona, where he studied Architecture and Media arts. Nearing the completion of a degree in Architecture he left to play guitar with the L.A. band Crash, Bang, Crunch, Pop fronted by Black Flag singer Ron Reyes. After recording a record (that has never surfaced) the band called it quits and Taylor went to work as a film editor. Sharing the same environment with
Mermaids composer and legend Jack Nitzche rekindled his interest in music.
Taylor returned to his native Tucson, where he immersed in the local music scene and becoming a founding member of The Friends of Dean Martin and later the instrumental Burlesque group Chick Cashman and his Countrypolitans. He has added score for Glenn O'brien's TV Party and scored the documentary Porn Star Pets.
Taylor has recently played guitar on Mike Kelly's art/opera Day is Done score and has done remixes for the Jon Spencer Bluse Explosion. His current musical project Blackwood And Co. provides much of the score for Fuzz.