What is Bruce Hampton?
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Template:Infobox Musical artist --> | name = Bruce Hampton | background = solo_singer | image = Bruce Hampton.jpg | image_size = | landscape = yes | caption = Bruce Hampton in 2008, Blacksburg, VA Photo: Roger Gupta | birth_name = Gustav Valentine Berglund III | birth_date = April 30, 1947 | birth_place = [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2017|5|1|1947|4|30}} | death_place = [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] | genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Fusion (music)|fusion]] | occupation = [[Musician]], [[actor]] | instrument = [[Electric guitar|Guitar]] | years_active = 1960s–2017 | label = Brato Ganibe, [[Capricorn Records|Capricorn]], [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] | associated_acts = [[Hampton Grease Band]] <br> Late Bronze Age <br> New Ice Age <br> [[Aquarium Rescue Unit]] <br> The Fiji Mariners <br> [[The Quark Alliance]]<br> The Codetalkers <br> The Pharaoh Gummitt <br> The Madrid Express | website = [http://colbruce.com/ colbruce.com] }} '''Bruce Hampton''' (born '''Gustav Valentine Berglund III'''; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician.<ref>[[Robert Palmer (writer)|Palmer, Robert]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/21/arts/recordings-pop-eccentrics-revisited.html ''Recordings; POP ECCENTRICS REVISITED''], ''[[New York Times]]'', 21 June 1981. Retrieved on 03 March 2015.</ref> ==Career== In the late 1960s he was a founding member of [[Atlanta, Georgia]]'s [[avant-garde]] [[Hampton Grease Band]].<ref>Jarnow, Jesse. [http://www.jambands.com/features/2001/08/20/yes-and-ing-from-here-to-zambiland-a-surreal-conversation-with-col-bruce-hampton-ret ''Yes- And’ing From Here to Zambiland: A Surreal Conversation with Col. Bruce Hampton (ret.)''], ''jambands.com'', 20 August 2001. Retrieved on 03 March 2015.</ref> Adopting the moniker '