Stuart Hamm Professions : Bass playerBorn : February 8, 1960 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Stuart Hamm You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do. Stuart Hamm rocksimportantlooks I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the music. One of my dad's buddies was the avant-garde composer John Cage, so I picked up on that weird classical and eclectic music. Stuart Hamm cagesillinoisdad You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk. Stuart Hamm collegeplayweather Similar Authors Nathan East bass-player John Patitucci bass-player Joe Osborn bass-player Peter Hook bass-player Pete Way bass-player Victor Wooten bass-playerAll Authors
