- Albert Hammond Jr.( Albert Louis Hammond III )【 13 albums 150 lyrics 】
- Albert Louis Hammond Jr. (né Hammond III; born April 9, 1980) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer. He is most famous for his role as rhythm and lead guitarist, as well as occasional keyboard player and backing vocalist, in the American rock band The Strokes. He is the son of singer-songwriter Albert Hammond (best known for his 1972 hit single 'It Never Rains in Southern California'). Hammond Jr. released his debut album Yours To Keep in 2006 and followed up with ¿Cómo Te Llama? in 2008 and his EP, AHJ in 2013. His third solo album, Momentary Masters, was released through Vagrant Records on July 31, 2015. The Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Frank Black, Guided By Voices, John Lennon, Matthew Sweet and The Velvet Underground are often cited as his major influences.
Life and career
Hammond was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of British-Gibraltarian singer/songwriter/musician Albert Hammond and Argentine former model and beauty pageant winner Claudia Fernández. Hammond Jr. was sent to the elite boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland at the age of 13. While there, he met Julian Casablancas, who would go on to be a fellow band member.
In 1998, Hammond met up with Casablancas in New York City and joined The Strokes as the last member with Casablancas' former schoolmates Nikolai Fraiture, Nick Valensi, and Fabrizio Moretti.
His trademark is wearing formal three-piece suits, and has been said by bandmate Julian Casablancas to be the most influential on the band's style. Hammond is usually seen playing a 1985 '70s reissue Olympic White Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul Jr. that is sometimes used by bandmate Nick Valensi. On the majority of The Strokes' songs he plays rhythm guitar, and solos are played by Valensi. The songs in which Hammond does play solos are 'Last Nite', 'Trying Your Luck', 'Take It or Leave It', 'Under Control', 'The End Has No End', 'Ize of the World', 'Threat of Joy', 'Vision of Division', and 'Drag Queen'. His solos tend to focus largely on more emotional, 'bluesy'-type melodical work, and the guitar tends to have a cleaner, softer tone in comparison to Valensi's (with a notable exception found in 'Vision of Division'). He often holds his guitar in a high horizontal position, similar to Buddy Holly, which he says is so that he can dance better.
Hammond was set to release his own line of men's suits which he will co-design along with stylist Ilaria Urbinati. The suits were at first only be available at the soon-to-open Confederacy store in Los Angeles which Urbinati co-owns with actor/DJ Danny Masterson. Speaking about the designing endeavor Hammond Jr. told New York magazine, 'I want to make suits that I'm going to have for myself. They're for the person who needs his one suit for a wedding. He'd rather get something like this than go to Men's Wearhouse, pay the same amount, and look like an out-of-date parent.' Prices for his line start at $1,250 for the Urbinati-designed trench coat and the $2,000+ price range for his suits. Hammond told NME that the suits will be available in three styles with a new design every season and that he's aiming to keep the line classic.
Hammond married Polish restaurateur Justyna Sroka on December 23, 2013. He had previous relationships with British supermodel Agyness Deyn, as well as American musician Catherine Pierce of The Pierces.
Musical setup
Albert's main guitar is a Fender Stratocaster Arctic White 1985 Reissue of a 1972. He owns three white Stratocasters, a Gibson Les Paul special single cutaway, a Rickenbacker 325, and a Gretsch hollowbody. His amplifier is a Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12. His pedal board is made up of an old version of the MXR Micro Amp, a V1 Jekyll and Hyde Ultimate Overdrive and Distortion, and a BOSS TU-2 tuner. In later shows he adds another Micro Amp, and Jekyll and Hyde, and a Boss Digital Delay. He now uses a Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay pedal instead of the Boss Digital Delay. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Set To Attack
2018-03
1.Set To Attack -
Momentary Masters
2015
1.Born Slippy
2.Power Hungry
3.Caught By My Shadow
4.Coming to Getcha
5.Losing Touch6.Don't Think Twice
7.Razors Edge
8.Touché
9.Drunched In Crumbs
10.Side Boob -
AHJ
2013
1.St. Justice
2.Strange Tidings3.Rude Customer
4.Cooker Ship -
¿Cómo Te Llama?
2008
1.In Transit (Live)
2.Holiday (Live)
3.Hard to Live In the City (Live)
4.GfC5.The Boss Americana
6.You Wont Be Fooled By This
7.Feed Me Jack Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Peter Sellers
8.You Won't Be Fooled By This -
Yours to Keep
2006
1.101
2.Blue Skies
3.Bright Young Thing
4.Call An Ambulance
5.Cartoon Music For Superheroes
6.Everyone Gets A Star7.Hard To Live In The City
8.Holiday
9.In Transit
10.Scared
11.Back To The 101 -
Your World and My World
1.I'm a Camera
2.Memories
3.Anyone With Eyes
4.World of Love5.I Want You Back Here With Me
6.Experience
7.Take Me Sailing
8.By the Night -
When I Need You
1.Tangled Up in Tears
2.To All the Girls I've Loved Before (new version)
3.Kaleidoscope4.Rivers Are for Boats
5.When I Need You
6.Moonlight Lady -
Songbook 2013 (Live in Wilhelmshaven)
1.Everything I Want to Do (Live)
2.Down By the River (Live)
3.Careless Heart (Live)
4.Anyone Here in the Audience (Live)
5.99 Miles from L.A. (Live)
6.Rebecca - Live
7.The Peacemaker - Live
8.The Air That I Breathe - Live
9.I'm a Train - Live10.The Free Electric Band - Live
11.It Never Rains in Southern California (Live)
12.Give a Little Love (Live)
13.Smokey Factory Blues (Live)
14.To All the Girls I've Loved Before (Live)
15.When You Tell Me That You Love Me (Live)
16.One Moment in Time (Live)
17.Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Live)
18.When I Need You (Live) -
Legend
1.It Never Rains In Southern California (con Al Stewart)
2.When I Need You (con Ron Sexsmith)3.The Free Electric Band (con Courtney Taylor)
4.I'm a Train -
It Never Rains in Southern California
1.Anyone Here In The Audience
2.Brand New Day
3.Down By The River
4.Everything I Want To Do
5.For The Peace Of All Mankind
6.From Great Britain To LA
7.Half A Million Miles From Home
8.I Think I'll Go That Way
9.I'm A Train
10.If You Gotta Break Another Heart
11.Listen To The World12.Names, Tags, Numbers & Labels
13.Rebeccca
14.Smokey Factory Blues
15.The Air That I Breathe
16.The Day The British Army Lost The War
17.The Free Electric Band
18.The Peacemaker
19.The Road To Understanding
20.What's For Lunch Today (Provided)
21.Woman Of The World
22.It Never Rains In Southern California -
It Never Rains in Southern California - The Very Best Of
1.Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now ('89 version)
2.Moonlight Lady
3.I'm a Train
4.It Never Rains in Southern California
5.When I Need You
6.We're Running Out
7.Rebecca
8.New York City Here I Come9.The Peacemaker
10.Half a Million Miles From Home
11.Down by the River
12.Everything I Want to Do
13.The Free Electric Band
14.One Moment in Time ('89 version)
15.The Air That I Breathe -
Como Te Llama
1.Bargain Of The Century
2.In My Room
3.Lisa
4.GfC
5.The Boss Americana
6.Rocket
7.Victory At Monterey8.You Won't Be Fooled By This
9.Spooky Couch (Provided)
10.Borrowed Time (Provided)
11.G Up
12.Miss Myrtle
13.Feed Me Jack -
Miscellaneous
1.When You Tell Me That You Love Me
2.DOWN BY THE RIVER
3.EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO
4.GOOD OLD DAYS
5.I'M A TRAIN
6.It never rains in Southern Califonia
7.It never Rains In Southern California
8.Bargain Of A Century
9.THE PEACEMAKER
10.WHEN I'M GONE
11.Free Electric Band
12.Seems It Never Rains In Southern California
13.99 Miles From LA
14.Chame A Mi La Culpa
15.Little Arrows16.Your World And My World
17.Feed Me Jack Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Peter Sellers
18.Postal Blowfish
19.Well...All Right
20.It Never Rains In Southern California - 2000 Remastered Version
21.The Light At the End of the Line
22.I Don't Wanna Lose You
23.Dime Queen of Nevada
24.Air Disaster
25.Thirteen
26.I Don't Wanna Die in an Air Disaster
27.muted beatings
28.Far Away Truths
29.Under the Christmas Tree (Provided)
30.The Sweetest Thing
【Correction of errors in the album information】