Posts Tagged ‘covers’

I am super excited to be taking over as host of this awesome Tuesday night event at the Siesta Key Oyster Bar. From 7-11pm, bring your instrument, voice, ears and thirst for beer and good times to come rock with us! I am keeping this a very positive space where people are free to share [...]

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Ukulele and Nose Flute!

Ben Hammond Band Live at the Beach Club, Siesta Key, FL. Ben – Guitar, Vocals, Loop Pedal. Garrett Dawson – Percussion. Danny Berglund – Drums. Cort Farris – Synths. Dan Brock – Bass. Derek “Diamond D” Decesare on Video. http://www.benhammondmusic.com  

Footage from the Inlet on the Jersey Shore, featuring Cort Farris on steel pan and drumset. This tune is a cover medley put together by Sublime from their album “40 oz to Freedom”. I am using an OC-3 Octave Pedal for the Bass, and also a Boomerang Loop Station to live loop myself (vocal percussion). [...]

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Posted: November 25, 2011 in On-Topic
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Ben Hammond Band Live at 5 O’Clock Club, 5:30-7:30 Friday Nov 25, 2011

Early pre-dinner set at a highschool friend’s wedding at the Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, VT. I’m playing a Godin Multiac Nylon SA Guitar into my Bose L1 Model 2 PA System, using a Boomerang III Loop Station, BOSS OC-3 Octave Pedal, and 3 Excedrin (thanks Joe) for the worst migraine I’ve literally ever had. [...]

Late one Turkey Trot on Siesta Key, there existed a line-up far too long at the infamous Beach Club. Girls in uncomfortable shoes standing next to guys with uncomfortable hair-dos all simultaneously turned their gaze across the street to the Hub Baja Grill, where Ben Hammond, Danny Berglund and Steve Duerst were launching into a [...]

Host RJ Oreskovich invited me to drop by the studio and chat with him for an hour on his show “Center Stage”, of course bringing along the acoustic guitar and jamming out on a couple of tunes from both “[Reasonably] Honest” and my new disc “Solo at Stone Mt Arts Center”. We discuss the role [...]