While attending Captain Shreve High School, he experimented heavily with production and engineering, and produced demos for local bands in Shreveport.
[1] After graduating from high school in 1988, Hamilton moved to Dallas, Texas and then to Austin to pursue music.
[4] The band, minus DeVille, ended up leaving Los Angeles, relocating to Dallas and Shreveport, and renaming themselves Joey C. Jones and the Glory Hounds, with Hamilton's hometown friend Craig Bradford replacing DeVille on guitar.
[10] In 1999, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz signed Joe 90 to his label E Pluribus Unum after frequenting their shows at the Hollywood club The Opium Den.
[7] Six different tracks from Dream This appeared in six different television shows: Party Of Five, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, Popular, Time of Your Life, and Sports Night.
After leaving Joe 90, Hamilton rejoined his former Joey C. Jones and Gloryhounds bandmate Craig Bradford for a one-off project entitled Needle Park.
[12] The resulting album, C'Mon Get Real, was released by Fastlane Records in 2002, and featured guest appearances from Donnie Vie of Enuff Z'nuff and Yogi Lonich of Buckcherry.
Guns live show recorded at Pennington's Nightclub in Bradford, UK on April 8, 2003 would later be released on CD and DVD under the name Hellraiser's Ball: Caught in the Act.
[8] Adam played guitar and drums in the infancy stage of Brides of Destruction with Tracii and Sixx when the band was going by the name Cockstar, but chose to leave the new project and stay with L.A.
The album features covers of songs by artists such as David Bowie, Hanoi Rocks, Rose Tattoo, and Iggy and the Stooges to name a few.
[1] Hamilton worked as production assistant to Don Was for the duration of the project,[1] but was not credited in the finished release.
[24] Hamilton chose to begin working as a producer and writer full time in 2006 due in part to his desire to marry and start a family.
Cleopatra Records founder Brian Perera teamed Shatner up with Hamilton for the project, and Shatner made Hamilton prove himself to him with the production of the hardest song on the prospective album, which was a cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
The album was recorded primarily in Pro Tools[27] and included many well-known guest performers, including Nick Valensi, Ritchie Blackmore, Candice Night, Lyle Lovett, Brad Paisley, Steve Miller, Ian Paice, Johnny Winter, Steve Hillage, Bootsy Collins, Patrick Moraz, Toots Hibbert, Peter Frampton, John Wetton, Wayne Kramer, Carmine Appice, Sheryl Crow, Michael Schenker, Ernie Watts, Edgar Froese, Dave Davies, Warren Haynes, Mike Inez, Zakk Wylde, and Steve Howe.
[28] The album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart[1] and received positive reviews from many publications and websites.
Hamilton's song "Army Of One" was featured in "Clash of the Tritons", an episode of the American television series Veronica Mars.