Early in his career, Todd was well known in and around Albany, NY for his muscular efforts fronting the Mr. Ferguson Band, a groove-rock outfit that achieved notoriety throughout the Northeast. The then 22-year-old Long Island native gained a considerable reputation for his songwriting and guitar playing. That reputation turned heads of the well-established Ominous Seapods when their guitarist, Max Verna, announced his eminent departure. On New Years Eve 98/99, Verna confidently and ceremoniously passed his guitar to Pasternack, inducting him into a jamband scene spanning far beyond the northeast. Todd carried that torch of Seapod legacy throughout a Rykodisc/Palm Pictures recording contract releasing "The Super Man Curse" with producer Glenn Rosenstein, while touring extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. Along the way, Pasternack shared the stage with moe., Mike Gordon of Phish, John Medeski, Butch Trucks, and Oteil Burbridge.

Pasternack later formed Marlow, releasing albums “White Out” and “The World Before It Ever Was.” After taking a hiatus to start a family with wife and bandmate Angela Ford, the couple reemerged as The Ford Family Band with their son Sam Pasternack on electric guitar. Reuniting with Glenn Rosenstein at legendary FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL, The Ford Family Band released “Cuts from FAME.”

Most recently, Pasternack released an EP entitled, “Process,” a collection of songs he recorded and produced himself.