Talk:Bruce Hampton

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[edit] The Quark Alliance

Col. Bruce Hampton is presently a member of Col. Bruce & The Quark Alliance (www.thequarkalliance.com)

[edit] Colonel

Can someone add some background regarding his military title? -- Bovineone 06:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Bruce Hampton is his family's first male descendant, in a very long line of distinguished militay titans, to NOT join the service. That must have taken a lot of guts, and he must have faced tremendous pressure, because he essentially broke with tradition and ended the esteemed family's proud heritage.

When Bruce was called in to interview with the selective service, in 1967 or 1968, I forget exactly, he arrived wearing one of the family patriarchs' decorated uniforms, complete with marine style crew cut. But Bruce had the barber carve a big capitol H in the center of the back of his head. He spent the entire interview discussing military history and strategies, successful and otherwise. Like each of the other members of the Grease band, Bruce was not called up for service, even though he insisted he had a family obligation to honor. This may have been Bruce's very first performance art piece. How do I know? I grew up with these guys. My childhood friend, Wayne Phillips, older brothers were original bass and guitar players in the Grease band, and they used to practice in Charlie and Glenn Phillips parents house. That big H made quite an impression. Bruce also went through another incarnation as, briefly, Hampton B. Coles, Ret.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.237.148.122 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Professional wrestling?

I stumbled across some references to Hampton being involved briefly with professional wrestling before becoming a musician, and that this influenced his proclivity for performance art, a la Andy Kaufman. I would be bold and add it, but there wasn't enough context to tell if this was real or just some weird in-joke. Anybody know about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by TravelingCat (talk • contribs) 06:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)