Albert Hammond, Jr.
Albert Hammond, Jr. (born April 9, 1980, in Los Angeles) is a musician best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Strokes. Outside of the band, he has released four solo albums. The son of Gibraltarian-British songwriter Albert Hammond, Albert 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, Albert met up with Julian in New York City and together they formed a band with Julian's former schoolmates: Nick Valensi, Nikolai Read Full BioAlbert Hammond, Jr. (born April 9, 1980, in Los Angeles) is a musician best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Strokes. Outside of the band, he has released four solo albums.
The son of Gibraltarian-British songwriter Albert Hammond, Albert 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, Albert met up with Julian in New York City and together they formed a band with Julian's former schoolmates: Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.
His trademark is wearing formal suits, usually a different one for each show. Albert is usually seen playing an olympian white Fender Stratocaster, or bandmate Nick Valensi's Les Paul Jr. He is usually associated with the "rhythm" guitar portion of the majority of Strokes songs, and most solos are played by Valensi. The solos in which Albert does play are Last Nite, Trying Your Luck, Take It Or Leave It, Under Control, The End Has No End, Ize Of The World, and Vision Of Division. 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 noteable exception found in Vision Of Division). He often holds the guitar in a high horizontal position, similar to Bob Dylan and Ian Curtis.
Although vocalist Julian Casablancas is the major contributor to the songwriting process for The Strokes' music, Albert has been known to write a few pieces of his own. He has been credited to writing three mostly instrumental songs (Swiss Beats, Holland, and By The Way) for the bands' 2001 tour video entitled "In Transit". He had also written a song called "Elephant Song", in which Albert used when he was was required to record a song for his Sound 101 class in freshman year, using the school's recording equipment. The song was played at a few shows before the release of their first album. The Strokes were to later rerecord the song as a special giveaway for fanclub members.
Hammond released his debut solo album on October 9th in the United Kingdom. Entitled "Yours to Keep," the album features musical guests such as Sean Lennon, Ben Kweller, and even The Strokes' manager Ryan Gentles and lead singer Julian Casablancas. Bassist Josh Lattanzi and drummer Matt Romano serve as the backing band, with Albert the main singer and guitarist. It was produced by former Thin Lizard Dawn vocalist Greg Lattimer at the Electric Ladyland Studios.
Hammond played his first solo dates at the end of October in a few cities including New York City and Philadelphia. He is set to tour the UK and Europe in November and December 2006, and provides support to Incubus on their forthcoming US tour of January/February 2007.
Albert has finished working on his second solo album with the title "Como Te Llama?", which was released on 8th of July in 2008. The new CD gets 8/10 in NME! This 8th of July is incidentally the first date of his world tour, which kicks off at the Virgin Store in his hometown of NYC. Dates in LA, as well as Japan and Australia have been already scheduled. Cont.
The son of Gibraltarian-British songwriter Albert Hammond, Albert 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, Albert met up with Julian in New York City and together they formed a band with Julian's former schoolmates: Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.
His trademark is wearing formal suits, usually a different one for each show. Albert is usually seen playing an olympian white Fender Stratocaster, or bandmate Nick Valensi's Les Paul Jr. He is usually associated with the "rhythm" guitar portion of the majority of Strokes songs, and most solos are played by Valensi. The solos in which Albert does play are Last Nite, Trying Your Luck, Take It Or Leave It, Under Control, The End Has No End, Ize Of The World, and Vision Of Division. 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 noteable exception found in Vision Of Division). He often holds the guitar in a high horizontal position, similar to Bob Dylan and Ian Curtis.
Although vocalist Julian Casablancas is the major contributor to the songwriting process for The Strokes' music, Albert has been known to write a few pieces of his own. He has been credited to writing three mostly instrumental songs (Swiss Beats, Holland, and By The Way) for the bands' 2001 tour video entitled "In Transit". He had also written a song called "Elephant Song", in which Albert used when he was was required to record a song for his Sound 101 class in freshman year, using the school's recording equipment. The song was played at a few shows before the release of their first album. The Strokes were to later rerecord the song as a special giveaway for fanclub members.
Hammond released his debut solo album on October 9th in the United Kingdom. Entitled "Yours to Keep," the album features musical guests such as Sean Lennon, Ben Kweller, and even The Strokes' manager Ryan Gentles and lead singer Julian Casablancas. Bassist Josh Lattanzi and drummer Matt Romano serve as the backing band, with Albert the main singer and guitarist. It was produced by former Thin Lizard Dawn vocalist Greg Lattimer at the Electric Ladyland Studios.
Hammond played his first solo dates at the end of October in a few cities including New York City and Philadelphia. He is set to tour the UK and Europe in November and December 2006, and provides support to Incubus on their forthcoming US tour of January/February 2007.
Albert has finished working on his second solo album with the title "Como Te Llama?", which was released on 8th of July in 2008. The new CD gets 8/10 in NME! This 8th of July is incidentally the first date of his world tour, which kicks off at the Virgin Store in his hometown of NYC. Dates in LA, as well as Japan and Australia have been already scheduled. Cont.
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In Transit
Albert Hammond Jr. Lyrics
Free from it all
I'm not gonna change till I want to
And I'm free from it all
I'm not gonna change till I want to
By the way she looked, I should've calmed down
I went too far, oh, that's all I've got to say
By the way she looked, I should've calmed down
I went too far, oh, that's all I've got to say
Free from it all
I'm not gonna change till I want to
And I'm free from the world
Where I've built too many roads
By the way she looked, I should've calmed down
I went too far, oh, that's all I've got to say
By the way she looked, I should've calmed down
I went too far, oh, I went too far
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: ALBERT JR HAMMOND
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walter finocchiaro
Free from it all
I'm not gonna change till I want to
And I'm free it all
I'm not gonna change till I want to
By the way she looked I should've calmed down
I went too far
Oh thats all I got to say
By the way she looked I should've calmed down
I went too far
Oh thats all I got to say
Free from it all
I'm not gonna change till I want to
And I'm free from the world
Where I built too many walls
By the way she looked I should've calmed down
I went too far
Oh thats all I got to say
By the way she looked I should've calmed down
I went too far
Oh I went too far
The Breaks Inc.
One of the coolest moments in my life was seeing Albert perform at Brooklyn Steel in NYC back in March of 2018. He was touring the Francis Trouble album. We got there 4 hours early just to be up front by the stage. The show was fantastic, he played a lot from his new album but also played like half of Yours to Keep, which made me happy because In Transit was my favorite song at the time. I had just bought Yours to Keep on vinyl, and brought it along just in case. It may have been because I knew every lyric to every song, but after the show ended and he was walking off the stage, he glanced over at me, and I sort of held up my album and gave him a look that said "Would you please sign it?" and he came running over to sign it. He started laughing at me because I was freaking out and I couldn't remove the shrink-wrap from the record, and he just said "Here give it to me." He opened it and signed it along with my Francis Trouble LP. All I could do was look up at him amazed and say "Thanks man!" That memory always makes me smile.
Султанбек Малесов
Great story
The Breaks Inc.
@Purified drinking Water Thanks man. It's stuff like that that makes some musicians really awesome. Ever since that happened I swore that if I'm ever lucky enough to be able to make a career out of my music, I would sign anything for any number of fans. I know some people try to make money from selling signed things, but those albums have been hanging on my wall for 3 years and I'll never sell them. My grandkids are going to know this music.
Purified drinking Water
that's awesome dude
Static
This song always makes me want to go out and skate.
Evan Posey
it makes me wanna drive off into the sunset.
musa ibrahim
On god.
Future Boy
Makes me wanna go out and slap some moms
Static
@ManOpeace lol you right
ManOpeace
Don't forget to stretch old man. You ain't as young as you used to be.