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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When you are young, when you are young, when you are young you should have nothing more than fun! You should ravish every lover, you should swim in every gutter, you should torment every mother when you're young.
When you are young, when you are young, when you are young you should have nothing more than fun! you should snort until the sunrise, bleed through the whites of your eyes, you should never pause to disguise when you're young.
When you are old, when you are old when you are old a thousand stories to be told. Learning how to flop right, running every stop light, making every cop fight when you're young.
Now when I was 21 I had little time for fun, balancing the college with the band. Driving home one day, I saw along my way, two hitchhikers i picked up in my van. Oh, it seemed so very silly, they kept on saying 'chilly', instead saying 'cool' that was their word. Chilly that and chilly this, chilly hit and chilly miss, it seemed the oddest thing I'd ever heard. well, out came the cannabis, and let me tell you this, they rolled a joint ads bog as a Redwood tree, a shotgun on the menu, barely got them to their venue, lost in the cloud of smoke that consumed me. I was so high I was chilly blind, I almost lost my chilly mind, but I got them to the place they had to stay, I said "thanks boys it was chilly, but you nearly chilly killed me and I want you to have a chilly, chilly, day!"
When you are young, when you are young, when you are young you should have nothing more than fun! you should dance until the dawn, on the hotel lawn, all your clothes are gone when you're yound.
Now at 4 A.M. you lack, that substance known as crack, you've been smoking for three days and you are blind. And you fall down on your knees, scan the carpet and say, "Please! Just one more rock I'll leave it all behind!"...Well you know that it is gone, but then you stumble on, a small rock, how could you have missed it? Your heart goes patter pitter, you know it's kitty litter but you put it in your pipe you can't resist it. Now God has pressing matters the Middle East is in tatters and storms have washed cities down the drain, but you've been good all year, could he just see his way clear, to turn that litter into rock cocaine? And as you bend the flame, you call to God by name, "Lord God on high have you got my back?" Because in your fevered mind he's turned water into wine now could he just perform the miracle of the crack?
When you're young, when you're young, when you're young you should have nothing more than fun! Never doubting you can fly, never pause to wonder why, never thinking you will die when you're young!
I was trading toasts, on the Florida coast with a friend who told me quite the tale...although the fish weren't biting, he had an unusual sighting on a fishing trip when he set sail. Something caught his eye when, there on the horizon a suspicious box floated curiously, he glanced in each direction, and sensing no detection, he brought it home to open it and see. It was an amazing sight, all this powder just off white, he dipped a knife in, took a little snort. But much to his dismay, no reaction came his way, his cocaine was a dud, I must report. but he kept on sifting through, and what I tell is true, a crematorium medallion he did find, and he let out a great cry, see, he had snorted a dead guy, and to this day a ghost is wandering through his mind.
When you're young, when you're young, when you're young you should have nothing more than fun. Learning how to flop right, running every stop light,making every cop fight when you're young!!
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
Riding the line between indie pop and psychedelic folk, the songs on the latest from The Madeleines are as gorgeous as they are mysterious. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 22, 2022
