JON HAMMOND
*Jon is currently Host of daily CBS radio program HammondCast on KYOU & KYCY 1550 AM, 7 days a week at 4AM PST.
*Performing solo in Hospitals, Nursing Homes regularly. Bandleader for annual overseas dates for over 20 years.
*Musician: Jon Hammond is one of the premier B3 PLAYERS in the world. Played venues as diverse as Boston's "Combat Zone" in the striptease clubs during the '70's and the exclusive Wychmere Harbor Club in Cape Cod, where he was house organist with Lou Colombo.
Jon Hammond scores a wooden Motorola Visilite FM/AM Clock Radio from Jim Coleman Collection at CHRS Swap Meet at Radio KRE for his personal use seen here on Jon's 1965 Fender Band-Master Amp
Sounds Fantastic!
Some other choice radios in the museum of California Historical Radio Society housed at the old KRE Radio Station in Berkeley photos by Jon Hammond
Nice!
Some real nice Bakelite radios
CHRS California Historical Radio Society http://www.californiahistoricalradio.com/ President Steve Kushman interview with Jon Hammond on HammondCast KYOU Radio from studio of Radio KRE as seen on the 1973 George Lucas movie American Graffiti Wolfman Jack scene *WATCH VIDEO HERE
Jon Hammond Intro:
Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar
Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco
Languages: English, German
Jon is closely identified with the two main products of his career, the Excelsior Accordion and the Hammond Organ.