Jeffrey Hammond
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Jeffrey Hammond (born July 30, 1946, sometimes credited as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond) was a bass player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.
One of several band members from Blackpool, England, he met band leader Ian Anderson in school when he was 17 years old, eventually joining a band with Anderson and future Jethro Tull members John Evan and Barriemore Barlow. After leaving Grammar School, he opted to study painting rather than continue with music, but he was convinced to join Jethro Tull in 1971. During the time of Tull's dramatic stage costumes, Jeffrey started wearing a black and white striped suit and played a matching bass guitar, this became his trademark and a feature of Tull's Thick as a Brick stage performance.
Hammond burned the suit in 1975 on his departure from the band. He played on the following albums:
- Aqualung (1971)
- Thick as a Brick (1972)
- Living in the Past (1972)
- A Passion Play (1973)
- War Child (1974)
- Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
He then left the band to continue his career in art. According to Ian Anderson's sleevenotes for the 2002 reissue of Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Hammond "returned to his first love, painting, and put down his bass guitar, never to play again."
