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STU HAMM
Interview by Steve Gregory

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The handwritten label on the recording was simple:

BASS MONSTERS – Stu Hamm, etc.

I had only started to learn the daunting 1-3-5-6-b7 blues
pattern (with proper fingering, mind you) a week prior. The
names of the open strings were memorized, but anything

more complicated was still foreign to me. I was an eager
novice, just beginning my musical journey.

I am unsure if my instructor felt that I would experience

exponential growth after destabilizing my basic
understanding of bass or if he was just bored and wanted
to be amused by my reaction, but I do know that our

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exchange went something like this:

“Here. Listen to this.”

“Who is Stu Hamm? What kind of music is it?”

“Just listen to it. Track 1. It’s just him, live, playing bass.”
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