The role of the bass player in a rock setting is critical -- you’ve got to lock up with the drummer rhythmically to establish the groove, and at the same time, ...
Through his innovative work as a solo artist and his contributions as a sideman to Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, Stu has firmly established himself as one of the most influential electric bassists of the past half-century. Hamm helped to reshape the contemporary concept of the bass guitar as a solor instrument with the utilization of polyphonic, two-handed tapping, slapping and popping techniques, chords, and harmonics.