Jeffrey Hammond

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Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (1973)

Jeffrey Hammond (born July 30, 1946 in Blackpool , England ; occasional stage name Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond ) is a former British rock musician. He was the bass player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull .

Life

Hammond played from 1963 in the band The Blades with his then classmates Ian Anderson , John Evan , Barriemore Barlow and Michael Stevens. After graduating from school, he and Anderson began studying art in Blackpool, which Anderson soon dropped out of. But he remained friends with Hammond, which was reflected in song titles such as A Song for Jeffrey, Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square and For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me and the lyrics of Inside . All of these pieces appeared on long-playing records during this period. Anderson persuaded Hammond in January 1971 to take the position of bassist for Jethro Tull from Glenn Cornick . Hammond has appeared on the albums Aqualung , Living in the Past , Thick as a Brick , A Passion Play , War Child and Minstrel in the Gallery . Further recordings with him appeared in 1988 on the compilation 20 Years of Jethro Tull and in 1993 on the double album Nightcap. For the album A Passion Play he wrote the interlude The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles together with Anderson and Evan , which he also spoke and sang himself. In addition to the electric bass, he played the double bass , treble recorder and sang in the background . Occasionally he performed in black and white striped clothing and played a bass of the same kind.

Jeffrey Hammond jokingly called himself Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond during his time at Jethro Tull , as his mother's maiden name was like his father's surname "Hammond".

Hammond left the band in 1975 at his own request. He was succeeded by John Glascock . Hammond continued his studies and became a painter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Hammond's autobiography on the Jethro-Tull website , accessed on July 9, 2016
  2. Scott Allen Nollen: Jethro Tull: A history of a band, 1968-2001. McFarland & Co, Jefferson 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1101-5 , p. 94, online
  3. Scott Allen Nollen: Jethro Tull: A history of a band, 1968-2001. McFarland & Co, Jefferson 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1101-5 , p. 111, online