Jeffrey Hammond

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

Life

Hammond played from 1963 in the band The Blades with his former classmates Ian Anderson, John Evan, Barrie Barlow and Michael Stevens. After finishing school he started together with Anderson studied art in Blackpool, but soon broke off the Anderson. He remained friends with Hammond, which was reflected in song titles like 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 in this time on LPs. Anderson persuaded Hammond in January 1971 to take the place of the bass player in Jethro Tull by Glenn Cornick. Hammond worked on the albums Aqualung, Living in the Past, Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, War Child and Minstrel in the Gallery with. Other recordings with him appeared in 1988 on the compilation 20 Years of Jethro Tull and 1993 on the double album Nightcap. For the album A Passion Play, he co-wrote with Anderson and Evan, the intermediate piece The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles, which he himself spoke and sang. In addition to the electric bass he played bass, treble recorder and sang in the background. Occasionally he appeared in black-and- white striped clothes and played to just such a double bass.

Jeffrey Hammond called himself during his time with Jethro Tull jokingly Jeffrey Hammond Hammond, since his mother 's maiden name as the last name of his father " Hammond " was.

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