I am survived by :

My parents: Gerald & Ruth Clancy

A brother: Dan Clancy

A sister: Shelia Clancy

My wife: Dawn Mason-Clancy

My children:

Travis, Kristen

Grandchildren:

Shaun, Willow

Shaun's memorial will be held on Sunday, August 31, 2014 at The Lions Den in Commerce,Texas. This date was chosen because we always had a party on Shaun's birthday - Sept. 1st every year. This will be a casual come and go event from 2-5 pm. Shaun wanted to have a simple life celebration get together for his family, friends and fans. This will be a time to come together and celebrate his life, a life well lived. To share stories and memories of Shaun.

The Lions Den

3000 Hwy 50

Commerce,Tx 75428

Contact for more info. # 903-439-8807

November 1975 I was 15 and I saw the band that changed my life forever, KISS. Those guys blew me away. I wanted to do that. Within a few days of seeing KISS for the first time I got my first electric guitar. I couldn't play it but it felt cool just to hold that guitar. I eventually sold it to a kid that could actually play.

When I moved out of my parents house I bought a bass guitar and a small p.a. head and two 4/10 speaker colums. I played every chance I could until someone told me I was playing the bass more like a rhythm guitar and suggested that I switch to a six string. Over time I learned to tune the strings to where I could make a coherent noise that sounded sort of like music.

My first band was called Chrome Wind. I was moving into a new apartment and this crazy guy saw my gear and asked if I wanted to jam. That crazy guy was Jimmy. I didn't know it at the time but he was later to play in the biggest band of my life. We hung out and jammed for a few months until the day I met my next band E-X.

The band E-X toured throughout Texas. We would go to the small towns and rent the local movie theaters after the last show on Saturday night. We would play to packed theaters of country kids who didn't get a chance to see many rock concerts. After a while I left that band and joined a southern rock band called Crisis.

Crisis played the local biker bar band circut along with groups like Texas Rock and Nothin Fancy. We played steady till we lost our drummer right before a New Years Eve gig. We played the gig with a fill in drummer. It wasn't long till I moved on. Thats when I joined the Ricksen Furre band.

The band "Rebel Soul" didn't last long. Kevin didn't like crowds of angry skinheads that seemed to really dig what we were playing. So he split fairly quickly and Ted and I just didn't have the heart or finances to continue. I didn't have a band and I decided to quit the music business.

I was thirty five and getting too old to play in the young mans game. So I drifted not really doing anything musical. Then phone rang one night it, was my old pal Jimmy. He wanted to put together a blues band. I told him I didn't want to do blues. I felt it was too confining a musical genre. Jimmy called me back a few weeks later and asked if I'd consider doing a classic rock band. Soon we had a drummer and a bass player.

We got together and jammed to see how it sounded. That is when I met Mark Carver a great power drummer. Mike Garza was a dangerous looking guy  that played bass. It was a lot of fun and we started playing some shows billing ourselves as "My Pet Monkey".

Jimmy and Mark had been playing in a all original band called "Ricky's on Fire". Jimmy is the greatest natural guitarist I have ever met and he comes up with the great riffs. "Ricky's on Fire" band needed a singer and lyracist. Jimmy and Mark  convinced me to join that band as well as do the "My Pet Monkey" band. We got busy writting songs and soon had enough to record a Cd.

Jimmy has been working as a sales associate of Mars music store in Plano. He met Manny Charlton who was buying some gear. They struck up a immediate friendship. Jimmy is just that cool. Manny was the original lead guitarist for the band Nazareth. Manny was a certified gold record rock star from the 70's.

Jimmy asked him if he would produce our band. He came and heard us perform at a gig and said he would be interested. So we started recording with Manny. Somehow he joined our band. Since he was the famous guy in the band I didn't have a problem with calling the band "The Manny Charlton Band". I knew it would open lots of doors. We soon worked out a set that was 50% Jimmy and my originals and then added some Nazareth hits. 

We did several tours with Manny. We played the Mars music store tour and also a Hard Rock Cafe tour. These tours were on weekends so we could keep our day jobs. Then Redsteel Records heard a song Jimmy and I had wrote. They signed us on the basis of that song and Mannys status. The song they flipped over was "Maggot I". Heavy riffs from Jimmy and lyrics from me. Jimmy and I wrote several songs- "Pushing Daisies", "Sweet Love", "Twisted" and many others. Another song they liked was one I had written years before called "Not Disappearing". I had written it as a country song. Manny had turned it into something else entirely. I would have never belived it when I heard it it was almost techno dance pop.

They released "Not Disappearing" as a single. My song was soon a hit in all the dance clubs in Europe and the Hot 100 pop/dance charts and was getting radio play. The record label financed a European tour. 

I never did like the deal. Jimmy and I wrote 90% of the album and Manny took all the credit. We weren't getting any credit for the songs we wrote or any of the money made off it. After that I decided I wasn't going to give the band any more of my archived material. I basically decided to write words to riffs that Jimmy and Manny provided.

I had a bunch of songs I had written that I wanted to record. So I called up my old band mates Ted, Brian, Kevin and Billy. When Manny found out I was working on a solo album he told me to chose one band or the other. So I quite the Manny Charlton Band. I had a great time with Manny. I learned the greatest lesson in life. Rely on myself and my talent. I don't need to ride on someone else's name or fame.

I was forty one and didn't have a band. My friends had recorded enough for two Cd's and it sounded great. So we decided to form the "Wakin The Nabors" "young country" band. The crowds went crazy. We got to tour and open for Kenny Chesney on his first tour. I was soon offered a recording contract. I knew the band wouldn't make it on the road due to band members personal habits. They said they would hire me another band. I knew the magic would be gone. So I was unable to take the deal. After that I fired the band.

I started offering recording time at my home studio. Then I met David Brown who was starting a publishing and promotion house in Nashville. David paid me good money to lease my cataloge for two years. He was going take my songs to Nashville and try and sell my songs to an established artist.     

In 2006 I decided to move out of Dallas. I had to get out of the house I was living in. There were too many memories there, and no room to make new ones. I began looking for a new place to live, some place I could hide from the world and drink myself to death slowly. I bought a 5,000 sq ft building on the town square of a small east Texas town and decided to hide from the world.That didn't happen. The best thing about moving to the middle of nowhere was meeting Dawn. She convinced me my musical career didn't have to be over.

As I sit here at the age of 53, I'm at the happiest point in my musical career. I met a fiesty brunette with an absolutely ruthless mind for business. After telling her the story of my musical career, she told me i needed to get off my butt and get on with my life. Dawn took over managing my career and being my publicist. The combination of determination and tenacity she posessed surprised me and she starting getting me good paying gigs. Little by little my confidence returned and I began to want it again.The thrill of performing and fun of meeting the fans. Another good thing was happening. After 40 years I was getting sober. I get to play dozens of charity and benefit shows every year. I have learned the joy of giving back.

At this moment I have songs playing world wide, some on top of regional charts. People all over the world are able to hear my music and see my videos. Good songs are no good if nobody hears them. Whatever sucess I have now I owe it entirely to her tireless efforts to promote me. I have finally found in her a person who belives in me more than I ever belived in myself. I owe her a debt I can never repay, and will be forever grateful.

Nowdays I play 120-160 shows a year everything from V.FW.'s to huge fairs and festivals. So I'm in a good place. I play the music I love, when I want, where I can to people who enjoy what i'm doing.

I guess that sums it up, my life has been a life lived, many happy moments. The highs have been incredibly high and the lows unbeliveable.

I went to a KISS concert with a friend. The opening act was a band called Wasp. Wasp blew me away. The sound was fifty feet tall and the volume was crushing. I remember thinking "I can do that". I went home and plugged my guitar and turned the amp up as far as it would go. I wrote 6-8 songs in one day.

Problem was I had no one to play them with. I dug through me old phone book and called the guitarist from Victim, Ted. I told Ted what I wanted to do and he was sold right away. Ted said he knew a bass player and a drummer who would fit perfectly. We all got together and jammed. The magic was back and Sin After Sin was born.

I had learned from other bands you needed to have the biggest loudest amps we can afford. Also needed large banners for the stage and promotion stuff to give out at the shows to promote the band. As soon as the band was tight I spent every cent I could scrape together and took us into the studio. We recorded nine songs in one session, came back the next day and mixed it down.

It was time to blitz the metal clubs and I knew someone this time. I had met Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott a few years before when The Suspects double billed with Pantera. He remembered me and gave us a shot opening for Pantera. Before you know it we were playing at the top of the metal circut. We would give away a few hundred dollars worth of swag at each show. We opened for a lot of touring bands. We opened for Pantera,Girlschool, Ace Frehly, Back In Black,and many more I can't recall right now.

The next year we went back into the studio and recorded nine more songs. We released both sessions on the same tape under the title  "Sick and Evil". We played every weekend for 4-5 years and we couldn't figure out what to do next.  It was to the point grow or die. We didn't so we did.

If we could have attracted the right agent we could have been huge. One by one band members left for personal reasons. Then it was just Ted and I left. We called the drummer from the band "Victim", Kevin. He fit but it changed the feel of the band so we changed the name of the band to "Rebel Soul".

Ricksen Furre band played the local circut but couldn't seem to make it to the next level. After a while we all got frustrated and called it quits. It was at that low point in my music career that I saw a band on t.v that changed my life.

I saw the Stray Cats national debut performance on a variety show called Fridays. They blew me away.That reved up rockabilly sound and the look and the energy I stood there with my mouth open. I went out the next day and cut off my long hair and went to an exaggerated rockabilly punk cut. I quickly put together a band called The Suspects. We got tight quick and started playing the local backyard/clubhouse party circut. That went well until some personal issues arose. Then some band members got into a fist fight that ended with everybody quiting the band. 

After that band broke up the bass player and I started looking for a guitarist and drummer to start a hard rock band. Thats when I met Ted, a guitar player that would become a big part of my life not right then but several years later. Enter Kevin, a dynamite drummer, and a guy who rescued me musically a couple of times. The bands name was changed to Victim. All we played was cover songs and I knew you only get so far doing that. I began searching almost immediatly for something with more balance between cover music and original music.

I answered a ad for an original band looking for a singer.They hired me and now I was in two bands Victim and Idol Rumors. The two bands actually played on a multi band bill and I sang for them both that night. That was the last time I played with Victim.

Idol Rumors was to occupy my musical career for the next five years. We played Deep Ellum for free and some really cool festivals. We weren't getting noticed and weren't going anywhere. The next rung on the ladder seemed impossibly high to grasp. Since the band wasn't playing much I got bored and decided I had time to start a side project.

Once again I changed direction. I answered a ad "Acoustic Guitarist Seeks Vocalist For Duo". That is where I met Wayne. Wayne did all the booking and soon we were playing steady 4-5 nights a week. I no longer had time to be in Idol Rumors. I decided that I would rather be a working musician than an aspiring rockstar, so I quit the band. Wayne and I called ourselves "Long Time Gone". Playing with Wayne was like going to show business school. He taught me stage presence and how to read and interact with the audience. He taught me how to pace a set and chose material. We played together for only a year, but I played more gigs in that year than I ever had before. We played 47 nights in a row once and I was exhausted. I was working a full time day job at Ecolab and playing every night. We both started using drugs to keep us going. I realized I was starting to have a real problem. I caught myself in time and quit on the spot. Wayne wasn't able to stop and I knew I had to get away from him or I would get dragged down with him. We got into a screaming fist fight at a gig and that was that. School was out.

I tried to keep the acoustic thing going but didn't have enough self confidence in myself in my guitar playing to pull it off. I hired two guitarist and formed a acoustic trio called Sideshow. One of the guys didn't like performing in front of a audience. So we became a duo. That didn't work out. So I was on my own. I concentrated on work and family. I wasn't playing and was miserable and I took it out on everyone around me.

These are Shaun's words, straight out of his autobiography: "Outlaw- Memories of My Life". Shaun wrote it a few months before he passed.

My name is Shaun Michael Clancy. Most people know me by my stage name Shaun Michaels. I chose to perform under my middle name to protect my family from any unwanted embarassment or publicity. 

I was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 1,1960. My parents moved to Dallas, Texas when I was around two years old. I am glad I was raised in the south because I think that people here are some of the finest in this country.

I have lived an awesome and incredible life. On some level I got everything I ever wanted and on other levels more than I ever dreamed or deserved.

My earliest memory is when I was between 1-2 years old standing in my crib and there was a record player playing a song about Little Tommy Turtle. Even at that age music is a big part of my memory.

I grew up in a house filled with music. My mom loved country music and we never missed a episode of Hee Haw. My dad liked pop rock of the time. He dug the Beatles,and folk groups like Peter, Paul and Mary. The Mamas and the Papas and stuff like that. When I was little I remember listening to pop and country music all day while my mom did housework. 

I have a brother who is five years older than me. Dan was a strong musical influence on me. The music he listened to was a eclectic mix of country and rock. The current rock of the time was the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones. as well as groups like the Eagles, America and off the wall stuff like Dr. Hook and Elvin Bishop. I was exposed to the music he was listening to. He took me to my first rock concert which was Chicago.

My sister Sheila was a brain. She always made high grades and the only one of us kids to go to college. My sister influenced me also, by her example as a avid reader.

As a little kid I built a small stage and played lead tennis racket while I sang Beatle songs. I was rehearsing even then, but I didn't know it at the time.