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judd hamilton
Judd Hamilton
Thanks for tuning in. The songs I post on this site are GarageBand demos (i.e. decidedly not-state-of-the-art recordings) of songs I'm working on for two albums , 'The Legend of Heaven' and '55' DreamMachine'. More information and lyrics can be viewed by clicking 'music' to the upper left, and then 'full song info'.
P.S. Sometimes when playing back tracks on this soundclick system, suddenly the track (song) disappears and the list goes to the next track, why I don't know. All you can do is go back and restart the interrupted track and more often than not the song in question will play properly.
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The enclosed picture is the last promo shot taken of The T-Bones, just before we headed to Japan in 1967. I'm the long drink of water on the left, southern boy Joe Frank Carollo is contemplating the conga, Brother Dan is clutching his Mosrite guitar (given to us by The Ventures), and Tommy Reynolds is the cool cat on the far right. Danny, Joe and Tommy went on to form Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds in 1970.
P.S. Sometimes when playing back tracks on this soundclick system, suddenly the track (song) disappears and the list goes to the next track, why I don't know. All you can do is go back and restart the interrupted track and more often than not the song in question will play properly.
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The enclosed picture is the last promo shot taken of The T-Bones, just before we headed to Japan in 1967. I'm the long drink of water on the left, southern boy Joe Frank Carollo is contemplating the conga, Brother Dan is clutching his Mosrite guitar (given to us by The Ventures), and Tommy Reynolds is the cool cat on the far right. Danny, Joe and Tommy went on to form Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds in 1970.
Band History:
I've had the good fortune to know and work with some great music artists in my time, including The Ventures, The Beach Boys, Crazy Horse (Neil Young’s band), Leon Russell, David Gates (Bread), Pat and Lolly Vegas (Redbone), and Darrel Dragon (Captain and Tenielle). As a session musician in the mid-sixties Liberty Records asked me to form a touring band called The T-Bones to promote an instrumental record, "No Matter What Shape'. I asked my brother Dan to play lead guitar along with three other LA session guys and to our amazement this TV jingle inspired single became a gold record, reaching No. 3 in Billboard's Top 100 in March, 1966.
The T-Bones toured non-stop over the next couple of years and went through several personnel changes before settling into a line-up that included Tommy Reynolds, Joe Frank Carollo, Danny, and myself. On our third T-Bones album, 'Everyone's Gone to the Moon', we were allowed to include the vocal/harmony sound we had polished on the road. Although this album and a final concert tour in Japan marked the end of The T-Bones, it established a vocal sound that went on (with brother Dan on lead vocals) to enjoy a few more hit singles as Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, including 'Don't Pull Your Love' in 1971 and 'Fallin' in Love Again' in 1975.
As the H, JF & R heyday began I exited stage right and moved to London where I signed a solo record deal with United Artist Records, while also pursuing a career in film/television. Over the past 30-years of ever-changing scenes, interests and non-showbiz adventures, I've continued to write songs and occasionally perform live. Based on encouragement from audiences, family, and friends I decided to post new material I'm working on as well as a few of the recordings I've made over the past 50-years that, for one reason or another, never before saw the light of day.
As a guy who has written, performed, recorded and produced music for a long time, I'm enjoying this artist direct to audience thing, i.e. posting homemade demos of new songs as well as long forgotten recordings that magically reappear (thanks to the Internet) via kind souls that cared enough to email copies to my present dream-scape. So this is where the music world I entered in 1961 was headed. Interesting... You know what, now I remember! We used to call this place the future!
All the best,
Judd 'GranDude' Hamilton
The T-Bones toured non-stop over the next couple of years and went through several personnel changes before settling into a line-up that included Tommy Reynolds, Joe Frank Carollo, Danny, and myself. On our third T-Bones album, 'Everyone's Gone to the Moon', we were allowed to include the vocal/harmony sound we had polished on the road. Although this album and a final concert tour in Japan marked the end of The T-Bones, it established a vocal sound that went on (with brother Dan on lead vocals) to enjoy a few more hit singles as Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, including 'Don't Pull Your Love' in 1971 and 'Fallin' in Love Again' in 1975.
As the H, JF & R heyday began I exited stage right and moved to London where I signed a solo record deal with United Artist Records, while also pursuing a career in film/television. Over the past 30-years of ever-changing scenes, interests and non-showbiz adventures, I've continued to write songs and occasionally perform live. Based on encouragement from audiences, family, and friends I decided to post new material I'm working on as well as a few of the recordings I've made over the past 50-years that, for one reason or another, never before saw the light of day.
As a guy who has written, performed, recorded and produced music for a long time, I'm enjoying this artist direct to audience thing, i.e. posting homemade demos of new songs as well as long forgotten recordings that magically reappear (thanks to the Internet) via kind souls that cared enough to email copies to my present dream-scape. So this is where the music world I entered in 1961 was headed. Interesting... You know what, now I remember! We used to call this place the future!
All the best,
Judd 'GranDude' Hamilton
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