Bruce Hampton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bruce Hampton

surrealist American musician

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1947

Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 02-May-2017

Profession: actor, musician, guitarist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician.
In the late 1960s he was a founding member of Atlanta, Georgia's avant-garde Hampton Grease Band.
Adopting the moniker Colonel Hampton B.
Coles, Retired or alternatively Col.
Bruce Hampton Ret., and sometimes playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a "chazoid", he later formed several other bands.
Some of those band names include The Late Bronze Age, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers, The Quark Alliance, Pharaoh Gummitt, and Madrid Express.