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Col. Bruce Hampton: “The music of today is horrifying”

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Col. Bruce Hampton is more than a musician. He’s a rite of passage.

Since the early 1970’s, Col. Bruce has played with just about everyone, and the great southern soothsayer has influenced many more. From his early days with the Hampton Grease Band to the transformational Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit of the 1990’s to whatever band he dreams up next, seeing Col. Bruce on stage is to be simultaneously whisked away into both the past and the future.

Jarrett Bellini spent Christmas with the legendary improvisational rocker to discuss his hatred of (most) modern music, the art of practicing guitar, and his upcoming film “Here Comes Rusty.”

(Note: In Atlanta, it was 75 degrees on Christmas. The weather was delightfully weird. But the clouds were being total jerks. I should’ve shot this interview inside, but it was just so lovely out on the deck. Anyway, the lighting gets bad a few times because of the clouds. Meh.)

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49 comments

@larryhatfield7372 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Dot dot dot
@kozykarma7471 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
As a casual listener and not someone who was taught music theory in school, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Coltrane made some of the most boring, dull, uninteresting music I've heard. Maybe they are the best when it comes to technically making music, but I don't think that translates to the best or most appealing music to listen to.
@yourturn777 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Tedeschi Trucks Band ✊🏼
💘✊🏼🎶✌🏼😍🔥
@gumbly4174 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Why do boomers not realize that the stuff on the radio isn’t all “the music of today”.
@TheHonudiver November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
The Colonel is "The Dude"
@talpajam November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
love cbh - but guess he wouldn't have liked meshuggah.
@joeycarlson1631 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
I remember Louis Armstrong was 👍 great
@samh729 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Wow every detail of this interview is spot on. Great perspective
@DanKirchner5150 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
its the BEST time for music -not restricted as before its all there online for all to enjoy -all the time
@purushswaminathan5693 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Man! what great art would srinivas and the colonel have conjured if that jam had happened! RIP both!

I am guessing the colonel recently heard Chingaari- Bombay Makossa record
@stevepeters3961 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
He likes people who “put joy in music” Oteil is the most smiling motherfucker I’ve ever seen
@brownstonerecordings611 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Great interview, thank you!
@Angrymobs62 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
70 isn’t old
Anonymous November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
JARRETT I would love to be interviewed by you love what you do PEACE LORD BISHOP ---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5AmBQIo7E4
@alanmorris7669 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Incidentally, President Gerald Ford never played college football with no helmet. That rumor got started after President Lyndon Johnson made the wisecrack, “He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.”
@beachcomber4141 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Duane Trucks...........close!! LOL!!!
@samm4980 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
At 0:40 when it says they are at “Randy’s House,” I couldn’t help but imagine that Morris had finally come over to practice after all these years had passed. Doyle never wanted to practice and in fact said they didn’t have a band.
@cosmiccharly1 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
RIP Colonel....you're missed but we are forever grateful for all you've done
@JoshWitte November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
And now he's dead. That's what you get.
@carolsenor2850 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
I am into weird Al
@echoleaf9590 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
what a guy!
@paulkelly154 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Bruce was a good friend, and I miss him every day. He had tremendous insights on EVERYTHING. We used to go for Indian food about every two weeks. I'd learn something new every time.
@bcp5296d November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
mumford about as sexual as a brick. indeed.
@fredrikcarlstedt393 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Ford : the most honest President
of the U. S. A ever, and he did not
even want that office .
@petarticinovic2710 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
It's more like HIS music was horrifying.
@hankwedelmusic9965 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
His take on Gerald Forde
is so accurate...
Forde, unelected, presided
with VP Nelson Rockefeller,
also unelected, over the
1976 bi-Centennial celebrations
of US Democracy...
That was a clear signal to anyone paying attention that all is not what it seems to be or what it says it is
@michaellittlewood3032 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Latest hit... Little dog poop rhymes to a fart sound back beat. It's Gold!
@johnnyleewalker9872 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Did he play a part in sling blade?
@JSTNtheWZRD November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
The medulla oblongata - and like in poetry - I go - dot dot dot/ anyone get the reference 🍟
@musicneverstops5695 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Whoever disliked this video has no soul and needs to be punched in the kidney.
@jimmystevens8 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Technology is the culprit.
@LoudmanSpeaks November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Personally I feel that the music industry has been corrupted in every way possible!...It’s a travesty!
@jefflancaster4423 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
F,na Col. Bruce! Rest in peace and thank you for your music and being so kind to me being a young shit heel kid aspiring musician . and your mystery hallways of questions to determine my date of birthday. ...memories that will not be forgotten .Col. Bruce! Much love!
@jeremysanders7235 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
The Col. knows...
@gudgengrebe November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Just found your site and subscribed. Never heard of the Colonel until now and will be following up on him and his musical recommendations. Most of all, I loved your questions. Looking forward to watching some more. Thanks for this! All the best from the UK
@alanmorris7669 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Does anybody have a leaf blower? Or a broom?
@gregoryguitars6291 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
What even are lizards wearing camphophenique?
@mhco406 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Dave Wong...yes.
@danholm4952 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
GERALD FORD LMAO
@chuckthebull November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
The cycle wont end till we hang all the suits. RIP Col
@KingCrimson82 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
i hear after progressing of vocals i turn off the device.
@Bobby007D November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Pop music generally sucks. I saw " Hampton grease Band " in 1971 , NOLA outrageous.
@kevinronske9894 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
The youth of today rarely venture into music that is before their time.
@kevinronske9894 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
This is a long cycle of shit music.Over 30 years.
@zummo61 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Still waiting for that Cycle when new music won't be Horrifying!
@timothyturner3396 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
Saw him early 2000's with the Codetalkers at suwanee Florida. What a man. Helluva musician/entertainer/raconteur. Miss ya Colonel!
@curttuckfield5565 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
In 1996/1997, you could tell something was starting to go wrong with mainstream music. By 2001, it was basically dead, and ever since then, probably 40 percent of all songs are just the same I-V-VI-IV chord progression over and over again, melody has disappeared and somehow no one has noticed. Over 20 years of nonstop I-V-VI-IV with no melody. That is a musical apocalypse.
@blakewhittington4336 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
It's about image and not music anymore I blame technology
@bradconnell4346 November 10, 2024 - 2:02 am
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