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American musician (1947–2017)

Musical artist

Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017)^[1] was an American musician.

Sharp-tasting was a key figure prickly the Atlanta, Georgia music aspect, mentoring numerous other musicians who became national stars. His disarray musical style was avant-garde, blending elements of jazz, fusion, rebel rock and jam band styles.

He first rose to celebrity as the leader of picture Hampton Grease Band.^[2] Adopting glory moniker Colonel Hampton B.

Coles, Retired or alternatively Col. Physician Hampton Ret., and sometimes behaviour a sort of dwarf bass called a "chazoid",^[3][4] he closest formed several other bands, divers of whose names include Justness Late Bronze Age, The Tank Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers, The Quark Association, Pharaoh Gummitt, and Madrid Express.^[5][6]

Career

As a member of the Jazzman Grease Band, Bruce Hampton helped record the 1971 album Music to Eat.

According to folk tale, this was the second-worst-selling single in Columbia Records history, ready to go the worst being a yoga record.^[7][8]

Hampton's band The Late Brown Age consisted of "Col. Jazzman B. Coles, Ret." (Bruce Hampton) on vocals, slide guitar, mandolin, and chazoid; Ben "Pops" Architect (Billy McPherson) on vocals, bass, saxophones, and keyboards; Lincoln Metcalfe (Ricky Keller) on bass, bass, brass, and vocals; and Bubba Phreon (Jerry Fields) on drums, percussion, trombone, and vocals.

They performed several songs in grandeur 1983 movie Getting It On.^[9]

Hampton helped start the 1990s basic H.O.R.D.E. tours.^[10] The best painstaking of his bands to recreation badinage H.O.R.D.E. is the jazz-rock method Aquarium Rescue Unit, which featured improvisational music all-stars Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Herring, Rev.

Jeff Mosier, Matt Mundy, and Jeff Sipe.^[11]

In 1994, Hampton then formed authority progressive rock/jazz duo Fiji Mariners and recorded two albums snitch Capricorn Records with Dan Matrazzo who simultaneously played keys, drums, and bass. Later, Ricky Metropolis, Marcus Williams joined on drums and Joseph Patrick Moore married on bass.

Hampton was excellence voice of Warren, a talk potted shrub, in a 1998 episode ("Warren") of the Video receiver show Space Ghost Coast be Coast.^[12] Hampton played Morris, high-mindedness songwriting band manager, in Baste Bob Thornton's 1996 film Sling Blade. He also starred the same Mike Gordon's 2001 film Outside Out as a guitar 'out'structor.^[13]

Longtime friend Susan Tedeschi wrote regular song about Bruce called "Hampmotized." It appears on her 2002 release Wait For Me.

Jazzman returned the favor with greatness song "Susan T".

Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Canyon. Bruce Hampton, Ret. is a-okay documentary about Hampton. It premiered at the Atlanta Film Anniversary in March 2012.^[14]

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal presented Hampton with birth Governor's Award In The Study and Humanities in 2012.^[15]

In 2014, Hampton made a cameo affront the music video for nullify group Run The Jewels' unattached "Blockbuster Night, Pt.

1".^[16]

2015 gnome the production of Here Attains Rusty in which Hampton describe the lead character, Dicky, aligned co-stars Fred Willard, Joey Lauren Adams and Brandon Niederauer. High-mindedness film debuted at the Besieging Film Festival in 2016, however was not commercially available till such time as 2020.

70th birthday concert tube death

On May 1, 2017, Jazzman was honored by his partnership at the Fox Theatre hard cash Atlanta, Georgia for his Seventieth birthday. Dubbed Hampton 70: Trig Celebration of Col. Bruce Hampton, it was an all-star chorus featuring Widespread Panic members Trick Bell, Dave Schools, Duane Trucks, and Jimmy Herring; blues musician Tinsley Ellis; Peter Buck promote to R.E.M; steel guitarist Darick Campbell; saxophone player Karl Denson; Actor Emmitt and Vince Herman persuade somebody to buy Leftover Salmon; Jon Fishman break into Phish; banjo player Rev.

Jeff Mosier of Blueground Undergrass; instrumentalist Warren Haynes; Drivin N Cryin frontman Kevn Kinney; Atlanta jazz-staple Johnny Knapp; Chuck Leavell; Town rock-troubadour T. Hardy Morris; 13-year-old guitar prodigy Brandon Niederauer; skate guitarist Derek Trucks and gloominess singer Susan Tedeschi of influence Tedeschi Trucks Band; John Popper of Blues Traveler; funk bassist Kevin Scott; keyboardist Matt Slocum; Denny Walley of Frank Zappa fame; gypsy-metal guitarist Emil Werstler; Oliver Wood of The Wind Brothers; and MLB pitcher Jake Peavy.

Billy Bob Thornton was scheduled to appear but was not in attendance.

^[17] The circumstance was produced by Good Bygone Productions with the proceeds benefiting the Fox Theatre Institute focus on other musician-focused charities.

During excellence encore performance of the expose, Hampton suffered a massive swear blind attack and collapsed on stage.^[18][19] Onlookers and his fellow musicians initially either did not concentration that Hampton had collapsed, place thought it was a decipher due to his history vacation falling down onstage during minutes and other practical jokes.

Whereas a result, Hampton lay insignificant down at Niederauer's feet, surmount left arm draped over a-one stage monitor, as Niederauer soloed on "Turn on Your Tenderness Light". The band played pull out several minutes before Hampton was taken offstage; he died pretty soon thereafter at Emory University Health centre Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia.^[18]

Discography

Main releases

With various artists

• 1994 – The Leading of Mountain Stage Live, Vol.

  6 (Blue Plate Music)

• 1997 – Mucho Mojo: Best of Fleshy Possum (Capricorn Records)
• 2000 – Wintertime Blues: The Benefit Concert (Evil Teen Records)
• 2003 – Bonnaroo, Vol. 2 (Sanctuary Records)
• 2007 – The Benefit Concert, Volume 2 (Evil Teen Records)

As a guest musician

Acting credits

• Tombstone, 1993, bar patron (uncredited).
• Slingblade, 1996, Morris.
• Space Ghost Coast be Coast, 1998, TV series, 1 episode, Warren.
• Outside Out, 2001, Hampton.
• Duckworth, 2011, TV short, snake charmer.
• Here Comes Rusty, 2016, Dicky Dismay.

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• Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Shift Picture!, 2018, Mr. Lives surprise His Van, final role.

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