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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 two 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.
Albert is currently engaged to English model Agyness Deyn. 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.
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.
Albert is currently engaged to English model Agyness Deyn. 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.
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podlas00 wrote:
Albert makes greeat songs! :)
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bonemarrowe wrote:
i love this dude. :)
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elika_beth wrote:
(: freeeeeee from it all :)
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ar99 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vainSulVWlc
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nealioz wrote:
Albert make me a suitttt
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somussditsein wrote:
GfC sein bestes
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KeyaOfBrixton wrote:
yessss albertosss!
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polyesterrbride wrote:
Is anybody checking out Julian Casablancas this Thurs/Fri in NYC at T5?? The shows are going to be amazing! Has anyone seen him yet?
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best-indiemusic wrote:
Hi, for best indie music video live and acoustic go here: http://indie-music-video.blogspot.com/
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Enokii wrote:
Well Julian is a better songwriter , and that by far. Anyone saying albert > julian is stupid because who wrote 99% of the strokes songs by himself? Julian. Anyway In Transit is really good.
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jorgekasas wrote:
pure shit compares to casablancas
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iiingrid wrote:
Inside me there's a sad machine, wants to stop movin' <3
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Strokarlos wrote:
albert>julian
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riotvan93 wrote:
love him (:
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Ethaneeze wrote:
ahem.... fab (little joy) > strokes > the rest
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heystayyoung wrote:
so fuckin nice
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DavidLostInAcid wrote:
It's sad his overall play count is so severely split. 2 million for Hammond, Jr. (correct), but a whopping 1+ million for Hammond Jr. (incorrect). =/ Genius, though, either way.
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BritaBowen wrote:
The first.
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you_rocks wrote:
albert hammond, jr. or albert hammond jr.??????????????
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Crimzonite wrote:
Recent fan! I'm also listening to Nikolai Fraiture's solo project; I love how he's called it Nickle Eye.
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