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Artist: Stuart Hamm: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Instrumental     Discography:      Outbound    Year:     Tracks: 10 Bassist Stu Hamm made a name for himself mostly due to his work in the ‘80s, when he accompanied iI of hard rock's leading guitarists, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Born in 1960 and raised in Indiana, Hamm was born into an extremely musically gifted family (his don is a musicologist and has penned medicine textbooks, his mother is an opera singer/teacher, and his brother teaches Classical Northern Indian Music). After relocating to Virginia as a teenager, Hamm picked up the bass, and began perusing the composite stylings of such optical fusion bands as Return to Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra (as well as prog bikers care Yes), and playing in his school jazz band. When he was 18, Hamm enrolled in Boston's ill-famed Berklee College of Music, during which time he was surrounded by an telling heel of soon-to-be renowned musicians (Vai, Steve Smith, Randy Coven, Victor Bailey, Jeff Berlin, etc.). Hamm and Vai formed a strong bail, which would resultant in the bassist following Vai (wHO by this meter was playing with Frank Zappa, and later, David Lee Roth) out to California during the early ‘80s, where he supplied bass on Vai's solo debut, Flex Able. It was through this association that Hamm would meet Joe Satriani, Vai's old friend/guitar teacher. Satriani's profile soared due to such landmark, all instrumental albums as 1986's Not of This Earth and 1987's Surfing with the Alien, and Hamm sign-language on as his touring guitarist, and likewise played on such subsequent releases as 1988's Dreaming #11 and 1989's Flying in a Blue Dream. It was during this geological period that Hamm's bass talents began to be accepted by guitar publications world-wide, and even resulted in a trio of technically accomplished, yet commercially neglected, solo releases, 1988's Radio Free Albemuth, 1989's Kings of Sleep, and 1991's The Urge (Hamm besides reunited with his old crony Vai, for some other landmark guitar release, 1990's Passion and Warfare). Like nearly guitar heroes during this period, a sure instrument brand became associated with Hamm, the futurist look Kubicki X Factor. Despite all the success and accolades, for a stretch along during the ‘90s, it appeared as though Hamm had fallen off the facial expression of the ground, merely he returned in wide-cut force by and by in the decennary, as he founded a chops-heavy tierce, GHS (comprised of guitar player Frank Gambale, Hamm, and drummer Steve Smith), and issued the albums Show Me What You Can Do (1998), Light Beyond (2000), and GHS 3 (2002). Hamm besides institute the time to event his number one solo release in baseball club age, 2000's Outbound, and tour/record once more alongside his old sidekick Satriani (1997's G3: Live in Concert, 1998's Crystal Planet, and 2001's Live in San Francisco). Hamm has besides guested on kind of other artists recordings over the old age, Richie Kotzen, Adrian Legg, Michael Schenker, Steve Fister, James Murphy, etc., and has besides partaken in respective ‘tribute' albums, including Peter Green (Shaft Green Songbook), Queen (Gem Cold Crazy), Ozzy Osbourne (Bat Head Soup), Rush (Working Man), Aerosmith (Non the Same Old Song and Dance), and Alice Cooper (Humanary Stew).