Page Hamilton

What draws me to Page Hamilton is the contradiction baked into his resume: a Portland-born guitarist with a master's in jazz guitar from the Manhattan School of Music who ended up fathering alt-metal with Helmet in 1989. To my ear that jazz literacy is exactly why Meantime and Betty still hold up. Those records aren't just loud, they're architecturally precise, riffs built like someone who studied harmony before he studied distortion. I tend to trust musicians who can cross genres without diluting either, and Hamilton's stubborn, methodical heaviness is the rare thing that influenced a whole movement while staying genuinely smart.

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Name (English)

Page Hamilton

Name (Japanese)

ペイジ・ハミルトン

Reading

ぺいじ・はみるとん

Born

May 18, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

Portland, Oregon, United States

Occupation

singer / composer / jazz musician / guitarist / jazz guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

High school

North Medford High School

• Official sitehttps://pagehamiltonmusic.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20Hamilton
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1347326

Tags

• Oregon
• singer
• composer
• jazz musician

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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