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Biography
BLP sources|date=January 2011Infobox musical artist|image=StuHamm.jpg| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| instrument = Bass guitar | name = Stuart Hamm| birth_date = birth date and age|1960|2|8| death_date =| alias = Stu Hamm| genre = Blues , Rock music|rock , jazz fusion | associated_acts = Joe Satriani , Frank Gambale , Steve Vai , Vince Neil | label =| notable_instruments = Fender " Urge Bass "| years_active = 1984–present| website = Stuart "Stu" Hamm (born February 8, 1960) is an United States|American bass guitar player,cite book|title=The Fender bass: an illustrated history|year=2001|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780634026409|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=rC2X0BiF2ZMC& pg=PA1999-IA19& dq=%22stu+hamm%22+bass#v=onepage& q=%22stu%20hamm%22%20bass& f=false|author=J. W. Black|coauthors=Albert Molinaro|accessdate=11 January 2011|page=109cite book|title=Scales & Modes for Bass: Handy Guide|year=1992|publisher=Alfred Music Publishing|isbn=9780882845463|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=VLS5OgpRAocC& pg=PA12& dq=%22stu+hamm%22+bass#v=onepage& q& f=false|author=Steve Hall|coauthors= Ron Manus|accessdate=11 January 2011|page=12 known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.
Beginning career
Born in New Orleans , Hamm spent his childhood and youth in Champaign, Illinois , where he studied bass and piano, played in the stage band at Champaign High School, and was selected to the Illinois All-State Band. Hamm graduated from Hanover High School (New Hampshire)|Hanover High in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1978 while living in Norwich, Vermont . Following high school, he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston , where he met guitarist Steve Vai and, through him, met Joe Satriani . Hamm played bass on Vai's debut solo album, Flex-Able , which was released in 1984.
Hamm has performed and recorded with Steve Vai , Frank Gambale , Joe Satriani and many other well-respected guitarists. It was playing live on tour with Satriani that brought Hamm's skills to national attention. Subsequent recordings with Satriani and other rock/fusion artists, along with the release of his own solo recordings (featuring a.o. keyboard player Tommy Mars ), solidified his reputation as a bassist and performer.
Style
Hamm's first solo album, Radio Free Albemuth (album)|Radio Free Albemuth , inspired by the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name, was released in 1988. On it, Hamm demonstrated his abilities on a number of original compositions spanning a variety of genres including fusion, country, and classical. On solo pieces like "Country Music (A night in Hell)," he demonstrates his slapping and two-handed tapping proficiency as well as the ability to make the bass imitate the sounds of a wide range of instruments; the piece has since become a popular live piece. On the same album, he performs an arrangement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Early in his career, Hamm was associated with Philip Kubicki's Factor basses. Later, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender musical instruments produced two signature model bass guitar|electric bass es designed and endorsed by Hamm himself, the first artist exclusive model ever made by Fender : the "Urge Bass" and the "Urge II Bass" upgrade with a D-Drop Tuner. Features include a sleek alder body, a graphite reinforced maple neck with a 2-octave rosewood fingerboard, a pair of dual-coil Ceramic Vintage Noiseless|Noiseless Jazz Bass single-coils (neck/bridge), a custom-wound split-coil Precision Bass humbucking pickup (middle) and a 3-band active EQ with 18V power supply. These basses were discontinued in 2010. Hamm has his own Washburn Guitars|Washburn signature models since 2011, the AB40SH acoustic bass and the Hammer, featuring EMG pickups, Hipshot bridge/tuners and a 3-band active EQ.
Hamm's slapping, popping and two-handed tapping techniques are demonstrated on his solo recordings as well as in his instructional videos Slap, Pop & Tap For The Bass and Deeper Inside the Bass . A popular part of his live performance often includes a two-handed tapping arrangement of Vince Guaraldi 's "Linus and Lucy" (from the animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas ).
Since mid-March 2011 Hamm has performed with "The Deadlies," houseband for KOFY-TV's "Creepy KOFY Movie Time."
In July 2011, Hamm accepted the position of Director of Bass Programs at Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA.
Discography
Solo albums
Radio Free Albemuth (album)|Radio Free Albemuth (1988)
http://www.bassguitarmagazine.com Bass Guitar MagazineStu Hamm front cover artist Issue 27
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Stuart+Hamm Discogs
http://www.mp3.com/stuart-hamm/artists/3776/biography.html mp.3 bio
http://www.favorednations.com/artists/sh/sh.html Bio at Favored Nations Entertainment
http://fender.com/products/search.php? partno=0191500886 Fender Urge II bass
http://youtube.com/watch? v=H8Q_J2fIKPI& search=stu%20hamm Youtube video
http://www.bass-musician-magazine.com/General/bass-musician-magazine-detail.asp? year=2009& month=10& article-id=123422716 Interview with Stu Hamm..., 10/01/2009
http://www.altguitarbass.com/interviews/StuartHamm/ Interview with Stuart Hamm at AltGuitarBass.com
http://guitarvideochannel.com/blogs/archives/interview-with-legendary-bassist-stu-hamm Interview with Stuart Hamm at GuitarVideoChannel.com
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