Birthday related:
If Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond played for the early Jethro Tull; about the first 7 albums, that's a matter for researchers, then, he played the prominent bass-line in "Nothing Is Easy"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hammond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_xOl-I7Lc
He was a member of a pre-Jethro Tull group with Ian Anderson and John Evans. Evans came back into
Anderson's orbit by playing keyboards on
Benefit---which had the third and last of Anderson's
songs about or addressed to Hammond-Hammond, "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me." Original
Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick left the group after
Benefit---it was Cornick who played on the
first three Tull albums, including
Stand Up which featured "Nothing is Easy"---enabling Anderson
to invite Hammond-Hammond into the band and to make Evans a full member.
Hammond's earlier connections to Jethro Tull were either as song subjects ("A Song for Jeffrey" on
This Was, the debut album; "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" on
Stand Up) or a background
musician playing an odd instrument he created from a flute and a toy sax bell on
This Was's
"Dharma for One." If wiki and other sources are right, Hammond has something in common with
early Beatles bassist Stu Sutcliffe---leaving the band to return to his first passion, painting, the
difference being Sutcliffe leaving the Beatles before they got their big break and began their path
to international fame and Hammond leaving Jethro Tull in 1975, at a time when Tull's peak of
popularity began to decline gradually.
Meanwhile, happy birthday Buddy Guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgomfixKfqghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHbse5rIxY