Stuart Hamm

Stuart “Stu” Hamm (born the February 8th 1960) is a known Bassiste American to play with large artists like for its recordings in solo.

Beginnings

Born with New Orleans, Hamm passes its childhood and its youth to Champaign, in the Illinois, where he studies the low one and the piano. He plays in the principal group of the college of Champaign, and is selected for the group of Illinois. He off follows then the Berklee College Music to Boston, where he meets the guitarist Steve Vai and also, thanks to this last, Joe Satriani.

Stu Hamm played and recorded pieces with these two Guitar hero S , but also Frank Gambale, and many other recognized guitarists, but in fact the concerts of the round with Satriani brought its national fame.

Style

The first album solo of Hamm, Radio operator Free Albemuth , inspired by the novel éponyme of Philip K. Dick, leaves in 1988. Stuart Hamm shows its talents of composition there on several different styles (fusion, country, Classical music). This album includes also a resumption of the Sonate to the moonlight of Beethoven in Tapping with two hands.

At the beginning of its career, Hamm used Basses Factor, before the mark Fender kind of the Basses developed and signed by Hamm: the Is urgent Low and the Urge II Bottoms .

Its control of the techniques of Slap and Tapping to two hands which were worth partly its notoriety to him during its concerts and on its recordings are detailed in the teaching vidéos that it realized: Slap, Pop & Tap For The Low and Deeper Inside the Low .

Hamm currently lives with San Francisco with his wife and her daughter.

Discography

Albums Solo

  • Radio Free Albemuth (1988)
  • Kings off Sleep (1989)
  • The Is urgent (1991)
  • Outbound (2000)

With Frank Gambale

  • The Great Explorers (1990)

With Frank Gambale and Steve Smith

  • Show Me What You Edge C (1998)
  • The Light Beyond (2000)
  • GHS3 (2003)

With Joe Satriani

  • Dreaming #11 (1988) -- Tracks 1 to 3
  • Flying in has Blue Dream (1989)
  • Time Machine (1993)
  • Crystal Planet (1998)
  • Live in San Francisco (2001)

With Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Steve Vai

  • G3 Live in Concert (1997) -- Tracks 1 to 3

With Steve Vai

  • Flex-Whitebait (1984)
  • Passion and Warfare (1990)
  • Fire Garden (1998) -- Track 3

Other artists

Vidéos Teaching

  • Slap, Pop & Tap For The Low (1987)
  • Deeper Inside the Low (1988?)

Anecdotes

  • At the time of its solos in concert, its fans shout his nickname " Stu" , which gives the impression that he is hooted.

External bonds

  • Official site: http://stuarthamm.net

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