Jeffrey Hammond
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Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Jeffrey Hammond |
Born | Blackpool, Lancashire, England | 30 July 1946
Genres | Progressive rock, Folk rock, Hard rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Bass guitar |
Years active | 1971–75 |
Formerly of | Jethro Tull |
Jeffrey Hammond (born 30 July 1946), often known by his former stage name Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, is an English artist and former musician best known for being the bassist of
Hammond adopted the name "Hammond-Hammond" as a joke, since both his father's surname and mother's maiden name were the same.[2] He also joked in interviews that his mother defiantly chose to keep her maiden name, just like Eleanor Roosevelt.[3]
Musician with Jethro Tull
Hammond met
According to Anderson, it was Hammond who came up with a name for the "claghorn", a hybrid instrument Anderson made by attaching the mouthpiece from a saxophone and the bell of a toy trumpet to the body of a bamboo flute. The instrument can be heard on the track "Dharma for One" on the album This Was. According to Anderson, "clag" was a term Hammond used for feces, "so 'claghorn' presumably because it sounded shit!"[4]
In addition to playing bass, he narrated the surreal piece "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" on the album A Passion Play. He also received credit, along with Anderson and Evan, for writing the piece.
During his time in Jethro Tull, Hammond used to wear a black-and-white-striped suit and played a matching bass guitar; Hammond burned the suit in December 1975 upon his departure from the band.[5] According to Ian Anderson's sleevenotes for the 2002 reissue of Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Hammond "returned to his first love, painting, and put down his bass guitar, never to play again."[3] His replacement as bass player was John Glascock, a professional musician from the band Carmen.
Later appearances
Hammond made one attempt to rejoin Jethro Tull in the mid-1980s, as told by Ian Anderson during
Hammond attended Jethro Tull's 25th anniversary reunion party in 1994. He participated in an interview, along with Ian Anderson and Martin Barre, that was featured as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of Thick as a Brick.[3]
Discography
- Aqualung(1971)
- Thick as a Brick (1972)
- Living in the Past (compilation, 1972)
- A Passion Play (1973)
- War Child (1974)
- Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
References
- ISBN 978-0-7864-1101-6. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ISBN 0-946719-22-5, p. 40.
- ^ a b c d "Jeffrey Hammond". jethrotull.com. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ Webb, Martin (2018). "That Was Jethro Tull". This Was: The 50th Anniversary Edition. Chrysalis Records.
- ^ Rees, p. 70.