Hamell not only records music, performs live, does independent writing, he also paints. All of the images below, and many you see as the accompanying artwork on the digital releases, are Hamell paintings. These vary in size and price, but are all acrylic on canvas. Hamell paints scenes inspired by the 'underground' and 'disenfranchised' of our society. Ed uses bold and bright colors in his paintings which contrast the darker subject matter, championing the underclass, drawing you into the characters he depicts, endearing you to them and sparking emotions one might not anticipate.Hamell is also available for specific painting commissions. For serious inquiries to purchase Hamell original art contact Emily at hamelltv@gmail.com
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That's big ol' guitar sound ain't it? God bless John Leckie, he was open to anything in regards to acquiring it. I had been experimenting in my little home studio, taking an SM-58 microphone, just the industry standard vocal mic, unscrewing the ball, (technically that would be a poor-man's 57 for you geeks), and putting it INSIDE the guitar...not even taping it, just kinda being still, (ahem) while I recorded. Then I would mic it as one typically would with a couple mics, maybe outside the soundhole up by where the neck meets the body and then either a bit behind it or way up by the fretting hand depending on the sensitivity, (once again, ahem) of the song. THEN I'd plug it into an amp and mic that...so, for those of you counting at home, that's 4 distinct channels of acoustic guitar to mess with in the hopes of getting the live Hamell sound. When I recorded my first album, Big As Life, the guitar sound for the songs like Sugarfree etc were recorded with a large P.A. set up in a warehouse room, that probably was the most representative of me live, then anyway. I can't remember if he used it or not, Leckie had a bunch of little tricks, cool mics etc, and he had this military issued 'throat' mic, something soldiers would wear around their necks while manning guns etc, it had a weird little sound and he was dying to use it so it might be on here as well. Other interesting sidenote: The New York Times, for whatever reason published Bruce Springsteen's Ipod list and this was on it which I thought was kinda cool. God bless Bruce Springsteen.
lyrics
Out on the street where the gutter crawl, with the neon shine at the dead man ball, with the moonlight shining in her hair, with the ballroom eyes that say beware.
With the leather boot on the pavement night, with the covert transaction haloed streetlight, with all my friends who could not be named, with all the saints who could not be blamed.
With darkness armor ghosts and jewels, pills and paintbrush six-string tools. Learning to fly before we can crawl, learning to lie before we can fall...
(CHORUS) you and me, we oughta go around....
With the subway ride that is rhythm bound, with the hearts on fire lost and found, with the 3 A.M. coffee stop, with the lower east side diner blow your top. With the glowing knife blade twinkling blue, with the first edition Howl stuck like glue, with the lose your heart on 6th and A, with the fall apart but baby that's okay....
(CHORUS)
I walk 47 miles of guitar cord, I use a Marshall stack for a necktie, I got a Graceland mansion with a Creem magazine Highway made out of old 45's, I got a tombstone chimney that sits on top, made up of car crash teeth, take a little trans-Atlantic flight with me honey and tell me, do you want to go around, I mean tell me, do you love me?
(CHORUS)
With every building calling embraceable you, I see no evil, and you don't too. I see mansions, I see dreams and in my head a carnival with joyous screams. Where are the tombstone New York Dolls? Where is the melody that never fails? Where is the vision that won't go away? Come on city give me your best right hook today!
(CHORUS)
credits
from TOUGH LOVE,
released October 7, 2013
Produced, engineered and mixed by John Leckie
recorded at Doghouse Studios, Oxfordshire, England
Hamell: Vocals and Guitar, Glen Diani: Bass, Eddie Stratton: Drums
Hamell on Trial is loud, fast music informed by politics, intelligence and a wicked sense of humor.
1995-Mercury
Records-Big as Life, The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword.
1997- Choochtown
2003-Righteous Babe Records-Tough Love
2005, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
2007-“The Terrorism Of Everyday Life,” (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Award)
2012-New West Records -The Happiest Man Alive....more
