The Music and Mythology of
Col. Bruce Hampton
A Basically True Biography - Jerry Grillo; foreward Chuck Leavell
What a scene! What a story! What a character! Wish I would have been hip to it. 1971-2017. Certainly was around, but I grew up in the northwest with its own scene.
Current drummer in my band is from Atlanta and turned me on to this book; his step dad played trombone (heavyweight Union guy - still very musically active) in Hampton's shows.
From wiki = Bruce Hampton (April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician. He was a key figure in the Atlanta, Georgia music scene, mentoring numerous other musicians who became national stars. His own musical style was avant-garde, combining elements of jazz, fusion, southern rockand jam band styles.
He first rose to prominence as the leader of the Hampton Grease Band. Adopting the moniker Colonel Hampton B. Coles, Retiredor alternatively Col. Bruce Hampton Ret., and sometimes playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a "chazoid", he later formed several other bands, some of whose names include The Late Bronze Age, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers, The Quark Alliance, Pharaoh Gummitt, and Madrid Express.
Good book. Fairly well written. A LOT of information and stories featuring some very heavyweight cats.
Col. Bruce Hampton
A Basically True Biography - Jerry Grillo; foreward Chuck Leavell
What a scene! What a story! What a character! Wish I would have been hip to it. 1971-2017. Certainly was around, but I grew up in the northwest with its own scene.
Current drummer in my band is from Atlanta and turned me on to this book; his step dad played trombone (heavyweight Union guy - still very musically active) in Hampton's shows.
From wiki = Bruce Hampton (April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician. He was a key figure in the Atlanta, Georgia music scene, mentoring numerous other musicians who became national stars. His own musical style was avant-garde, combining elements of jazz, fusion, southern rockand jam band styles.
He first rose to prominence as the leader of the Hampton Grease Band. Adopting the moniker Colonel Hampton B. Coles, Retiredor alternatively Col. Bruce Hampton Ret., and sometimes playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a "chazoid", he later formed several other bands, some of whose names include The Late Bronze Age, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers, The Quark Alliance, Pharaoh Gummitt, and Madrid Express.
Good book. Fairly well written. A LOT of information and stories featuring some very heavyweight cats.
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