91 - Stuart Hamm

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Bass virtuoso and composer STUART HAMM gained instant renown worldwide in the late '80s, when his boss at the time, Joe Satriani, let him take over the stage for ten minutes each night on tour, during which the innovative bassist would consistently blow people's minds with his thunderous, contrapuntal, and funky solo pieces. Stuart is also a prolific solo artist, and his latest album, Diary of Patrick Xavier finds him playing several hypnotic solo electric bass compositions. Additionally, Stu, as his friends and fans often call him, has played with dozens of other great guitar players. Besides backing Satch on stage and in the studio, Stu has worked with Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Frank Gambale, Lorn Leber, Mark McGee, Eric Johnson, and Greg Howe. A particularly entertaining session Stu did was with Yngwie Malmsteen and the late, great singer Ronnie James Dio. (We'll check that out towards the end of the episode.) Heck, I'VE even had some thrilling adventures touring and tracking with my friend Stu. It was a pleasure to stop by his home studio and catch up with him, plug in our instruments and play, listen to samples from his discography, and be reminded by him to -- as the giant, hilarious, and intentionally misspelled tattoo across his forearm proclaims -- live life with "no regerts." --JUDE GOLD, host, No Guitar Is Safe podcast.

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0:00.0	Episode 91 of No Guitar is Safe podcast features the incredible bass virtuoso, Stuart Hamm,
0:06.5	and is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlayer.com.
0:10.8	Guitar Player, play better, sound better.
0:16.2	No guitar is safe. I was safe.
0:21.6	I was trying. You're listening to music from the great bassist composer Stuart Hamm.
0:50.1	Genius runs in his family.
0:51.4	His father was the awesome musicologist Charles Hamm. My name is Jude Gold.
0:57.9	Thanks for listening to No Guitar is Safe.
1:09.4	I got to ask you, have you ever been to a concert where someone just completely surprised you?
1:14.6	I'm not talking about like when I saw Herbie Hancock when I was 16 and yes, he surprised me with how awesome he was,
1:21.6	but I kind of knew I was gonna get my mind blown. I mean, at one point, all the other members left the stage
1:27.7	and he walked up to this white grand piano. And it was incredible. He took us on a journey
1:32.3	through the cosmos. There was like more drama in that 10-minute improvised piano piece than
1:37.5	in like eight seasons of Game of Thrones combined. But you know what? I wasn't completely surprised.
1:43.2	Or if you see Van Halen or something, you know there's going to be a big guitar solo that is going to blow your mind.
1:51.0	But there have been other times, like one time I saw yes. And this was like when I was 14 and the whole band, it was the 90125 tour, kind of a pop tour, you know, it was like
2:02.7	owner of a lonely heart.
2:05.1	All of a sudden, the whole band left the stage except for Trevor Rabin and a steel string
2:09.2	acoustic guitar.
2:11.1	He decapitated everyone in that audience, man.
2:14.6	He knocked us out of our 80s Air Jordans.
2:20.8	Man, I was even surprised by Joe Perry from Aerosmith when I saw him around the same time. Maybe age 14 for me, he had just rejoined
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