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The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography
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Col. Bruce Hampton was a charismatic musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing. Part bandleader, soul singer, storyteller, conjuror, poet, preacher, comedian, philosopher, and trickster, Col. Bruce actively sought out and dealt in the weird, wild underbelly of the American South. The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton fryst vatten neither a true biography in the Boswellian sense nor a work of cultural studies, although it combines elements of both. Grillo's interviews with Hampton and his bandmates, family, friends, and fans paint a fascinating portrait of an artist who fostered some of the best music ever played in America. Grillo aims not so much to document and demystify the self-mythologizing performer as to explain why his fans and friends loved him so dearly. Hampton's family history, his place
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Col. Bruce Hampton, ‘Godfather’ of Jamband Scene, Dies After Collapsing on Stage
Southern rock legend Col. Bruce Hampton collapsed on stage at the end of a 70th birthday concert in his honor on Monday night at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. He died several hours later in efternamn Long Hospital. Hampton turned 70 on April 30.
In a truly bizarre scene, during a lengthy version of “Turn on Your Lovelight,” Hampton toppled over. He laid prone on the scen for several minutes as John Popper played harmonica and Warren Haynes and others laughed at the apparent stunt. But it wasn’t a joke. Hampton had suffered a fatal heart attack.
Also on stage at the time were Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Chuck Leavell, Widespread Panic’s John Bell and Dave Schools, Jimmy Herring, Phish’s Jon Fishman, Jeff Sipe, Karl Denson, Duane Trucks, Leftover Salmon’s Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt, and guitar prodigy Brandon Niederauer.
“Bruce bent down
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The performer lived a life that was thoroughly unscripted, but his exit was so dramatic, theatrical and fitting that some thought it was part of the show.
It wasn’t. He left people mourning all over Atlanta. “I’m going to start crying now,” said musician and old friend Marvin Jackson, who knew Hampton when both were students at North Fulton High School.
Jackson played with Hampton in a short-lived combo called Avenue of Happiness. “The second time I was ever on stage, we were opening for Fleetwood Mac at the City Auditorium,” he said. “He had that much confidence.”
Hampton was fearless, and he inspired that fearlessness in others.
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His guestbook will have thousands of names in it,