Clements' early childhood years were spent in Tanybryn in the Otway Ranges, near Apollo Bay.
He left high school after Form 3 (Year 9), and worked at a variety of jobs including apprenticeships to a butcher and a piano tuner.
[2] In the 1970s he spent much time over a couple of years in a small hut in Marysville, and made several trips to the rugged Cradle Mountain region of Tasmania.
Much later, in 1994, after separating from Larissa, he bought a small house in Beech Forest in the Otways.
He died in 1999 in Melbourne from complications related to his long term drug and alcohol abuse.